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GUEST: Glen Ford, Black Agenda Radio (formerly with The Black Commentator)<\/em><\/p>\n Glen Ford is a writer and radio commentator, formerly with the Black Commentator. He is now affiliated with ‘The Black Agenda Report.’ This week’s commentary is about the 60th anniversary of the Nuremberg Trials on September 30th. <\/p>\n The Law Bush Ignores: Crimes Against Peace are Punishable by Death<\/strong><\/p>\n This month marks the 60th anniversary of the judgment at Nuremberg, Germany, when a dozen surviving Nazis were sentenced to death for crimes against humanity, war crimes, or crimes against peace, before and during World War Two. It was the beginning of modern interpretations of the scope of international law, and the obligations of both nations and individuals to respect that law. <\/p>\n The United States was firmly behind the Nuremberg trials of Nazis, and was also eager to punish the Japanese for crimes against civilians, soldiers, and world peace. The Americans put top Japanese military commanders and most of the Tokyo government\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s cabinet on trial \u00e2\u20ac\u201c and ultimately executed seven of them. The U.S. based its decision on the 1945 Potsdam agreement with Britain and the Soviet Union, which called for prosecution of those who had “deceived and misled” the Japanese people into war. Such deception was deemed a crime against peace, for which politicians and military men could be made to pay with their lives.<\/p>\n And here we are today, 60 years after the Nuremberg trials. The United States is ruled by a regime that wages war against peace as a matter of national policy. George Bush and his henchmen proclaim proudly their determination to commit acts of so-called preventive warfare \u00e2\u20ac\u201c crimes that were considered punishable by death when committed by Nazi and Japanese military commanders and politicians. <\/p>\n The indictment that fits the crimes of George Bush and his Pirates was introduced into international law 60 years ago. In a just world, Bush and his crew would plead for mercy before an international court. After all, the Bush regime\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s deceptions and lies leading to war against Iraq are even better evidence for an international tribunal than similar evidence at Nuremberg against Hitler\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s political and military henchmen. George Bush sent Secretary of State Colin Powell into the United Nations in an attempt to deceive and mislead the entire world about U.S. reasons for war. Bush himself addressed the UN General Assembly with a laundry list of lies and deceptions in September of 2002, creating the false rationale for the later invasion of Iraq. His regime\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s crimes are a matter of international record, and should be judged by the International Criminal Court. <\/p>\n But Bush does not recognize the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court. He and his Pirate crew have nothing but contempt for international law, itself \u00e2\u20ac\u201c or for the U.S. Constitution, as interpreted by the U.S. Supreme Court. Bush this week made misleading and deceptive noises about respecting the Geneva Convention on treatment of prisoners \u00e2\u20ac\u201c and then immediately demanded that the U.S. Congress give immunity to Americans who have violated both international law AND the U.S. War Crimes Act. He might as well have been immunizing himself.<\/p>\n When a government elected by the people of its nation commits horrendous war crimes, crimes against humanity, and crimes against peace, and that government is not rejected by the people of that nation, it is no wonder that much of humanity will hold the entire nation and people responsible for the crimes of its leaders. This is something to think long and hard about on the 60th anniversary of the Nuremberg trials. For Black Agenda Radio, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m Glen Ford.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" | the entire program GUEST: Glen Ford, Black Agenda Radio (formerly with The Black Commentator) Glen Ford is a writer and radio commentator, formerly with the Black Commentator. He is now affiliated with ‘The Black Agenda Report.’ This week’s commentary is about the 60th anniversary of the Nuremberg Trials on September 30th. 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