| Tuesday, January 27, 2009 11:21AM | | | | Open Letter to Members of Congress | Posted By: Robert Flynn
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| Tags: Constitution, treaties, law, duty | An Open Letter to Members of the Congress of the United States and to US Attorneys
Greetings:
I am not an attorney but I can read and Article VI of the US Constitution states: “This Constitution, and the laws of the United States which shall be made in pursuance thereof; and all treaties made, or which shall be made, under the authority of the United States, shall be the supreme law of the land; and the judges in every state shall be bound thereby, anything in the Constitution or laws of any State to the contrary notwithstanding.”
Ronald Reagan signed and the US ratified the “Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment.” Article 4 of that Convention states that “Each State Party shall ensure that all acts of torture are offenses under its criminal law. The same shall apply to an attempt to commit torture and to an act by any person which constitutes complicity or participation in torture.”
Article 7 states, “ The State Party in territory under whose jurisdiction a person alleged to have committed any offense referred to in article 4 is found, shall...if it does not extradite him, submit the case to its competent authorities for the purpose of prosecution.”
George W. Bush and Dick Cheney have separately and publicly confessed to authorizing torture. Article 2, paragraph 2 of the Torture Convention states, “No exceptional circumstances whatsoever, whether a state of war or a threat or war, internal political instability or any other public emergency, may be invoked as a justification of torture.”
Your duty is clear. You took an oath to uphold the Constitution. Therefore, I urge you to enforce the law and extradite those alleged to have committed torture or bring them to justice or have the honor to resign your office.
Sincerely, Robert Flynn | | | |
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