Give me your tired, your poor, Your fleeing war criminals yearning to breathe free...wha????

[Solly Mack]

November 14, 2007


Senator: U.S. has become haven for war criminals


"More than 1,000 people from 85 countries who are accused of such crimes as rape, killings, torture and genocide are living in the United States, according to Department of Homeland Security figures.

America has become a haven for the world's war criminals because it lacks the laws needed to prosecute them"



February 19, 2010


Accused War Criminals Make Home in U.S.


"Like citizens of other countries ravaged by brutal regimes, many refugees who survived Barre's rule came to America to start over and live quietly among the population.

But shockingly, along with refugees and victims of war crimes, some alleged war criminals themselves have emigrated to the United States, escaping retribution for the monstrous acts they may have committed at home.


Men accused of human rights abuses from Somalia to Venezuela have laid their own claims to the American dream and now enjoy the same freedoms they're accused of trying to take away from their own people. It may seem impossible, but one of these men -- some allegedly responsible for mass murder, torture and the destruction of entire populations -- might literally be living next door."


PHOTOS: The Monster Next Door?

Some didn't have to travel...

50 Top U.S. War Criminals

DOJ: No Misconduct for Bush Interrogation Lawyers

[leftstreet]

1. K&R

[Solly Mack]

13. Reckon they all get together and compare notes?

[arcadian]

2. I'm sure many are here merely for a better education.

and will return to their home countries once they have mastered how to be a war criminal..

[Solly Mack]

3. Technique matters, I suppose

Sophisticated methods for the discerning war criminal...

[CaliforniaPeggy]

4. K&R

[Solly Mack]

9. Hi, CaliforniaPeggy

Thanks.

How's your husband? Did the stone pass/dissolve with some help?

[CaliforniaPeggy]

14. Good morning, my dear Solly Mack!

We're still looking! No sign of it .........yet!

But he's no longer in pain, so I'm not too worried. Thanks for asking, sweetie!

[Foo Fighter]

5. Hell, why not? After all, we harbor Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and a whole

list of others too long to mention. It would be unfair to discriminate against various other war criminals just because they didn't happen to be born on American soil.

[Solly Mack]

6. One might even say that harboring war criminals is as American as

apple pie waterboarding....er...bobbing for apples while strapped to a board as water is poured over your hooded face...yeah, that's it. It's as American as enhanced bobbing for apples to make apple pie. :::waves flag:::

[Foo Fighter]

18. LOL! "Enhanced bobbing for apples."

With spin like that, you could easily be the next WH Press Secretary. ;)

[ChicagoSuz219]

7. No wonder Cheney feels so safe that he keeps confessing...

...if we waterboarded HIM, he'd probably confess to the Lindbergh baby kidnapping!

[Solly Mack]

8. America talks a good game about no one being above the law

and how much it respects and supports human rights...lot of hype and hypocrisy.

[ChicagoSuz219]

10. I just figure that the more Cheney confesses...

...the more they'll have to prosecute him with when he finally does get in front of The Hague.

[Solly Mack]

15. But would the U.S. extradite him?

[ChicagoSuz219]

16. ??

Not sure how it works. It originates at the UN...

[Joe the Liberal]

11. No surprise here, the US has become a cesspool of criminals, corruption, greed, and callousness n/t

[Solly Mack]

12. Not the least surprising

But it is telling...Well, I think it says a lot about us anyway.

Course, people will manage to forget it soon enough. Easier to not think about it.

[howard112211]

17. Puts me in mind of the USAs failed attempts to ban "terrorism" as a tactic internationally

it was simply not possible to craft a law that the USA was not in violation of.

[Toucano]

19. Thanks for posting this. n-t