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Asa

Asa

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Always searching for great books! I like most fiction, also spiritual, business and motivational reading. I am not interested in sales pitches, reading the works of amateurs on this site, joining your group, or becoming your Facebook friend! I am only interested in searching books, friending people I actually know or those who appear to have... more »
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  • somshivam

    somshivam says

    hey, just needed a heads up on "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" ]]

    posted 6 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Mohammad R

    Mohammad R says

    Dear friends,
    Kindly find herewith attached The Hague's acknowledgment of prof. Francis Boyle's filed complaint against George W. Bush, Cheney, Rice, Rumsfeld, Tenet and Gonzales for the war crime of 'Extraordinary Rendition'. Below also is prof. Boyle's filed complaint as well as his contact information along with those of the ICC's. Please demonstrate your support for this complaint by contacting the ICC prosecutor by letter, fax or email as indicated below. Professor Boyle is also looking for endorsements. Please respond if you'd like your group named as endorsing the arrest of George W. Bush, Cheney, Rice, Rumsfeld, Tenet and Gonzales for international war crimes.... + please distribute email widely so that we can get those war criminals behind bars!
    Thanks!
    Cherifa


    From: Susan Serpa [mailto:neimpeach@gmail.com]
    Sent: Monday, January 25, 2010 1:54 PM
    To: Sue Serpa
    Subject: BUSH TO THE HAGUE! The Hague acknowledges Francis Boyle today on his filing against Bush et al for the war-crime "Extraordinary Rendition"

    Dear Accountability Advocates and previous impeachment advocates, (all blind-copied above)


    The day of accountability is at hand.



    We need your help:

    Contact the Hague to insist they proceed an investigation of war-crimes committed by the accused (Bush, Cheney, Rice, Rumsfeld, Tenet and Gonzales) in the acts called "Extraordinary Rendition" as quickly as possible.
    Send me a reply (neimpeach@gmail.com) if you would like your group listed as endorsing Prof. Boyle's filing.
    Send this message to all your groups - this is the accountability we've all been working on for the past several years.
    Contact Eric Holder 202-353-1555 AskDOJ@usdoj.gov to tell him the International Community will prosecute even if he does not.
    I'll be setting up a Facebook group shortly (hopefully today) and Prof. Boyle has just engaged a webmaster who will be setting up a website this weekend. Any other ideas on how to get this moving forward is greatly appreciated.



    See the attached letter received today from the Hague.




    --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

    Below is Prof. Boyle's message and initial filing. He is looking for endorsements. Please respond if you'd like your group named as endorsing the arrest of Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice, Tenet and Gonzales for the international war-crimes.



    [From Prof. Boyle]:

    Thanks. I want to set up a worldwide grassroots campaign: BUSH TO THE HAGUE!



    The basis would be the Complaint I have filed with the ICC. I want everyone in the world to contact the ICC prosecutor as indicated and demand Bush’s prosecution. Once that is set up we use it to pressure all governments in the world to investigate, extradite and prosecute Bush et al., including our own. The principles of international criminal law that they have violated apply everywhere in the world. We need grassroots activists whom I can work with to put this together with experience doing it. We also need to get as many endorsements from NGOs as we can. I already have my first, as indicated below.



    Fab.



    INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT COMPLAINT FILED

    AGAINST BUSH, CHENEY, RUMSFELD, TENET, RICE AND GONZALES;

    INTERNATIONAL ARREST WARRANTS REQUESTED




    --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

    Demonstrate Your Support for this Complaint by Contacting the I.C.C. Prosecutor by Letter, Fax, or email as Indicated Below
    Champaign, U.S.A./The Hague, Netherlands (19 Jan 2010). -- Professor Francis A. Boyle of the University of Illinois College of Law in Champaign, U.S.A. has filed a Complaint with the Prosecutor for the International Criminal Court (I.C.C.) in The Hague against U.S. citizens George W. Bush, Richard Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, George Tenet, Condoleezza Rice, and Alberto Gonzales (the “Accused”) for their criminal policy and practice of “extraordinary rendition” perpetrated upon about 100 human beings. This term is really their euphemism for the enforced disappearance of persons and their consequent torture. This criminal policy and practice by the Accused constitute Crimes against Humanity in violation of the Rome Statute establishing the I.C.C.



    The United States is not a party to the Rome Statute. Nevertheless the Accused have ordered and been responsible for the commission of I.C.C. statutory crimes within the respective territories of many I.C.C. member states, including several in Europe. Consequently, the I.C.C. has jurisdiction to prosecute the Accused for their I.C.C.. statutory crimes under Rome Statute article 12(2)(a) that affords the I.C..C. jurisdiction to prosecute for I.C.C. statutory crimes committed in I.C.C. member states.



    The Complaint requests (1) that the I.C..C. Prosecutor open an investigation of the Accused on his own accord under Rome Statute article 15(1); and (2) that the I.C.C. Prosecutor also formally “submit to the [I.C.C.] Pre-Trial Chamber a request for authorization of an investigation” of the Accused under Rome Statute article 15(3).



    For similar reasons, the Highest Level Officials of the Obama administration risk the filing of a follow-up Complaint with the I.C.C. if they do not immediately terminate the Accused’s criminal policy and practice of “extraordinary rendition,” which the Obama administration has continued to implement.



    The Complaint concludes with a request that the I.C.C. Prosecutor obtain International Arrest Warrants for the Accused from the I.C.C. in accordance with Rome Statute articles 58(1)(a), 58(1)(b)(i), 58(1)(b)(ii), and 58(1)(b)(iii).



    In order to demonstrate your support for this Complaint you can contact the I.C.C. Prosecutor by letter, fax, or email as indicated below.



    Francis A. Boyle

    Professor of International Law

    Law Building

    504 East Pennsylvania Avenue

    Champaign, Illinois 61820

    Phone: 217-333-7954

    Fax: 217-244-1478





    The Honorable Luis Moreno-Ocampo

    Office of the Prosecutor

    International Criminal Court

    Post Office Box 19519

    2500 CM, The Hague

    The Netherlands

    Fax No.: 31-70-515-8555

    Email: OTP.InformationDesk@icc-cpi.int



    January 19, 2010

    Dear Sir:



    Please accept my personal compliments. I have the honor hereby to file with you and the International Criminal Court this Complaint against U.S. citizens George W. Bush, Richard Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, George Tenet, Condoleezza Rice , and Alberto Gonzales (hereinafter referred to as the “Accused”) for their criminal policy and practice of “extraordinary rendition.” This term is really a euphemism for the enforced disappearances of persons, their torture, severe deprivation of their liberty, their violent sexual abuse, and other inhumane acts perpetrated upon these Victims. The Accused have inflicted this criminal policy and practice of “extraordinary rendition” upon about one hundred (100) human beings, almost all of whom are Muslims/Arabs/Asians and People of Color. I doubt very seriously that the Accused would have inflicted these criminal practices upon 100 White Judeo-Christian men.



    The Accused’s criminal policy and practice of “extraordinary rendition” are both “widespread” and “systematic” within the meaning of Rome Statute article 7(1). Therefore the Accused have committed numerous “Crimes against Humanity” in flagrant and repeated and longstanding violation of Rome Statute articles 5(1)(b), 7(1)(a), 7(1)(e), 7(1)(f), 7(1)(g), 7(1)(h), 7(1)(i), and 7(1)(k). Furthermore, the Accused’s Rome Statute Crimes Against Humanity of enforced disappearances of persons constitutes ongoing criminal activity that continues even as of today.



    The United States is not a contracting party to the Rome Statute. Nevertheless, the Accused ordered and were responsible for the commission of these I..C.C. statutory crimes on, in, and over the respective territories of several I.C.C. member states, including many located in Europe. Therefore, the I.C.C. has jurisdiction over the Accused for their I.C.C. statutory crimes in accordance with Rome Statute article 12(2)(a), which provides as follows:



    Article 12



    Preconditions to the Exercise of Jurisdiction

    …



    2. In the case of article 13, paragraph (a) or (c), the Court may exercise its jurisdiction if one or more of the following States are Parties to this Statute or have accepted the jurisdiction of the Court in accordance with paragraph 3:



    (a) The State on the territory of which the conduct in question occurred …



    So the fact that United States is not a contracting party to the Rome Statute is no bar to the I.C.C.’s prosecution of the Accused because they have ordered and been responsible for the commission of Rome Statute Crimes against Humanity on, in, and over the respective territories of several I.C.C. member states.



    Consequently, I hereby respectfully request that the Court exercise its jurisdiction over the Accused for these Crimes against Humanity in accordance with Rome Statute article 13(c), which provides as follows:



    Article 13



    Exercise of Jurisdiction



    The Court may exercise its jurisdiction with respect to a crime referred to in article 5 in accordance with the provisions of this Statute if:

    …

    (c) The Prosecutor has initiated an investigation in respect of such a crime in accordance with article 15.



    Pursuant to Rome Statute article 13(c), I hereby respectfully request that you initiate an investigation proprio motu against the Accused in accordance with Rome Statute article 15(1): “The Prosecutor may initiate investigations proprio motu on the basis of information on crimes within the jurisdiction of the Court.” My detailed Complaint against the Accused constitutes the sufficient “information” required by article 15(1).



    Furthermore, I respectfully submit that this Complaint by itself constitutes “a reasonable basis to proceed with an investigation” under Rome Statute article 15(3). Hence, I also respectfully request that you formally “submit to the Pre-Trial Chamber a request for authorization of an investigation” of the Accused under Rome Statute article 15(3) at this time. Please inform me at your earliest convenience about the status and disposition of my two requests set forth immediately above.



    Based upon your extensive human rights work in Argentina, you know full well from direct personal experience the terrors and the horrors of enforced disappearances of persons and their consequent torture. According to reputable news media sources here in the United States, about 100 human beings have been subjected to enforced disappearances and subsequent torture by the Accused. We still have no accounting for these Victims. In other words, many of these Victims of enforced disappearances and torture by the Accused could still be alive today. Their very lives are at stake right now as we communicate.. You could very well save some of their lives by publicly stating that you are opening an investigation of my Complaint.



    As for those Victims of enforced disappearances by the Accused who have died, your opening an investigation of my Complaint is the only means by which we might be able to obtain some explanation and accounting for their whereabouts and the location of their remains in order to communicate this critical information to their next-of-kin and loved-ones. Based upon your extensive experience combating enforced disappearances of persons and their consequent torture in Argentina, you know full well how important that objective is. The next-of-kin, loved-ones, and friends of “disappeared” human beings can never benefit from psychological “closure” unless and until there is an accounting for the fates, if not the remains, of the Victims. In part that is precisely why the Accused’s enforced disappearances of about 100 human beings constitutes ongoing criminal activity that continues as of today and will continue until the fates of all their Victims have been officially determined by you opening an investigation into my Complaint.



    Let us mutually suppose that during the so-called “dirty war” in Argentina the International Criminal Court had been in existence. I submit that as an Argentinean human rights lawyer you would have moved heaven and earth and done everything in your power to get the I.C.C. and its Prosecutor to assume jurisdiction over the Argentine Junta in order to terminate and prosecute their enforced disappearances and torture of your fellow Argentinean citizens. I would have done the same. Unfortunately, the I.C..C. did not exist during those darkest of days for the Argentine Republic when we could have so acted. But today as the I.C.C. Prosecutor, you have both the opportunity and the legal power to do something to rectify this mass and total human rights annihilation, and to resolve and to terminate and to prosecute the “widespread” and “systematic” policy and practice of enforced disappearances and consequent torture of about 100 human beings by the Accused.



    Unfortunately, the new Obama administration in the United States has made it perfectly clear by means of public statements by President Obama and his Attorney General Eric Holder that they are not going to open any criminal investigation of any of the Accused for these aforementioned Crimes against Humanity. Hence an I.C.C. “case” against the Accused is “admissible” under Rome Statute article 1(complementarity) and article 17. As of right now you and the I.C.C. Judges are the only people in the entire world who can bring some degree of Justice, Closure, and Healing into this dire, tragic, and deplorable situation for the lives and well-being of about one hundred “disappeared” and tortured human beings as well as for their loved-ones and next-of-kin, who are also Victims of the Accused’s Crimes against Humanity. On behalf of them all, as a fellow human rights lawyer I implore you to open an investigation into my Complaint and to issue a public statement to that effect.



    Also, most regretfully, the new Obama administration has publicly stated that it will continue the Accused’s policy and practice of "extraordinary rendition," which is really their euphemism for enforced disappearances of human beings and consequent torture by other States. Hence the Highest Level Officials of the Obama administration fully intend to commit their own Crimes against Humanity under the I.C.C. Rome Statute – unless you stop them! Your opening an investigation of my Complaint will undoubtedly deter the Obama administration from engaging in any more “extraordinary renditions” -- enforced disappearances of human beings and having them tortured by other States. Indeed your opening of an investigation into my Complaint might encourage the Obama administration to terminate its criminal “extraordinary rendition” program immediately and thoroughly by means of issuing a public statement to that effect. In other words, your opening an investigation of my Complaint could very well save the lives of a large number of additional human beings who otherwise will be subjected by the Obama administration to the Rome Statute Crimes against Humanity of enforced disappearances of persons and their consequent torture by other States, inter alia.



    The lives and well-being of countless human beings are now at risk, hanging in the balance, waiting for you to act promptly, effectively, and immediately to save them from becoming Victims o

    posted 2 years ago. ( send a note )
  • Tara H

    Tara H says

    Ooo...do tell me about The Shadow of the Wind!

    posted 2 years ago. ( send a note )
  • Tara H

    Tara H says

    Write a note for Asa here"I see you everywhere" , by Julia Glass looks good. Saw it in the bok store today.

    posted 2 years ago. ( send a note )
  • Tara H

    Tara H says

    Love that we have the same likings for books.. so what should I read next? Definitely read Pillars of the Earth. It is long, but you won't be able to put it down! Mark says it's the best book he has ever read.

    posted 2 years ago. ( send a note )
  • flameboy

    flameboy says

    Hi Amy,
    Can you tell me which book should i recomend for a new reader..

    posted 3 years ago. ( send a note )
  • flameboy

    flameboy says

    Hi Amy you there?

    posted 3 years ago. ( send a note )
  • flameboy

    flameboy says

    hey you there?

    posted 3 years ago. ( send a note )
  • jaxson j

    jaxson j says

    yo you flameboy freind
    will you be freind plz

    posted 3 years ago. ( send a note )
  • Peter C

    Peter C says

    Dear Amy: What was your time on the marathon? Let me guess: 4:21:15? Close? Marathon running is like writing a novel. it has a beginning, a long middle and, hopefully, a wonderful end. My marathon was published in April. It's called HUNTING THE KING, and it stars a young woman whose pretty athletic herself. Her name is Molly O'Dwyer. Molly was five years old when she witnessed her mother die in a fire. She never knew her father. After her mother’s death, she was raised on the campus of a Jesuit college. Now an archaeologist, she has been recruited to participate on a dig in war torn Iraq. As a scientist she is compelled to discover whatever or whoever is buried under the sands of ancient Babylon. As an observant Catholic, she is scared that whatever she finds will have devastating consequences for her faith. There is a wonderful YouTube book trailer well worth watching if you have the chance. If you do get to see, please let me know what you think. Thanks. Peter

    posted 3 years ago. ( send a note )
  • flameboy

    flameboy says

    Hey thanks for been my friend. Tell me about ur self..

    posted 3 years ago. ( send a note )
  • flameboy

    flameboy says

    Hey Amy,

    How are you my name is Unni Nair. I am from India. Wanna be friends?

    posted 3 years ago. ( send a note )
  • Gullybogan

    Gullybogan says

    You don't read Atonement; it reads you.

    posted 3 years ago. ( send a note )
  • Snavas

    Snavas says

    How is the New Earth coming along? Are you enjoying it? I am almost done with his book the Power of Now. It is less spiritual then a New Earth. I have so many new books to read now, I don't know were to start. Guess it's not a bad way to spend the summer.

    I am still planning for July 22nd, that Wednesday. Let me know if any thing changes. I am here for my girl. Love!!!!

    posted 3 years ago. ( send a note )
  • Snavas

    Snavas says

    Brace yourself, it is profound. I love it!!!

    posted 3 years ago. ( send a note )
  • somshivam

    somshivam says

    I don't think you'll like Atonement.The book is about the scruples an author has to face and his responsibility towards the reader of his book.From my shelf and going by the last book you read,I would suggest you "The Romantics" by Pankaj Mishra.

    posted 3 years ago. ( send a note )

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