It's Called Negligent Homicide

[leveymg]

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/9/8/103121/9138
by leveymg
Thu Sep 8th, 2005 at 07:31:21 PDT

Since taking power in January 2001, George W. Bush and his top aides have committed at least 10,000 counts of negligent homicide and related major felonies.

The counts are as follows:

Negligent Homicide -

3000 counts - 9/11/01 - Presidential malfeasance and unreasonable risks taken by Bush when he refused to order the round up of foreign terrorist cells known to be at large inside the U.S. planning mass casualty attacks with hijacked aircraft. Subsequent perjury and obstruction of justice.

1900 counts - Iraq War (March 2003-present) - Reckless endangerment of US forces committed to an illegal war under false pretenses. This set of crimes also involved lying to Congress, violation of the Espionage Act and unlawfully divulging the identities of intelligence officers, along with violation of the Hague Convention and Convention Against Torture in order to pursue an illegal, aggressive war.

5000 + counts (est.) - Hurricane Katrina (August 28, 2005 to date) - Negligent oversite of federal emergency response measures to a Category 4 storm that hit an urban area known to be at high risk of massive casualties. Withholding aid to state and local authorities as a means of blackmailing them to turn over control of the City of New Orleans to FEMA.

State and local district attorneys nationwide could convene grand jury proceedings to prosecute some or all of these offenses.

Copyright 2005, Mark G. Levey

[jim3775]

1. United States v. Riley defines negligence as:

"... an act or omission of a person who is under a duty to use due care which exhibits a lack of that degree of care of the safety of others which a reasonably careful person would have exercised under the same or similar circumstances"


Another definition:

"“Criminal negligence” means that a person acts with criminal negligence when the person ought to be aware of a substantial and unjustifiable risk that the alleged victim will be killed. The risk must be of such a nature and degree that the failure to perceive it constitutes a gross deviation from the standard of care that an ordinary person would exercise under all the circumstances as viewed from the accused person’s standpoint."

[TNOE]

2. I've been saying this all along

it is criminal - and negligence homicide is what its called. Thanks for post.

[ixion]

3. yep. Criminal negligence should be on the mind of every decent

individual out there.

Our government, supposedly by Us and for Us has just shown very publicly that they couldn't care less.

[Ganja Ninja]

4. This is our best hope.

If Bush and company are charged with real felonies by a state then his impeachment is a done deal.

[bigbrother05]

5. It's very simple

When a police kills a victim in the line of duty, the immediately put that policeman on LEAVE OF ABSENCE, it seems to me that this would definitely apply here.

[rwork]

6. Also maybe 100,000

innocent Iraqi women and children dead.

[opihimoimoi]

7. "Houston: Our Leader is Missing....."

Where was the Leadership when it counted???