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Tony Blair must be Arrested under the Proceeds of Crime Act. The Paramount War Crime under NurembergNow consider the Proceeds of Crime Act. Blair conspired in and executed an unprovoked war of aggression against a defenceless country, of a kind the Nuremberg judges in 1946 described as the paramount war crime. This has caused, according to scholarly studies, the deaths of more than a million people, a figure that exceeds the Fordham University estimate of deaths in the Rwandan genocide.
In addition, four million Iraqis have been forced to flee their homes and a majority of children have descended into malnutrition and trauma. Cancer rates near the cities of Fallujah, Najaf and Basra (the latter liberated by the British) are now higher than those at Hiroshima. UK forces used about 1.9 metric tonnes of depleted uranium ammunition in the Iraq war in 2003, the Defence Secretary, Liam Fox, told parliament on 22 July. A range of toxic anti-personnel weapons, such as cluster bombs, was employed by British and US forces.
Such carnage was justified with lies that have been exposed repeatedly. On 29 January 2003, Blair told parliament: We do know of links between al-Qaeda and Iraq . . . Last month, the former head of MI5 Eliza Manningham-Buller told the Chilcot inquiry: There is no credible intelligence to suggest that connection . . . [it was the invasion] that gave Osama Bin Laden his Iraqi jihad. Asked to what extent the invasion exacerbated the threat to Britain from terrorism, she replied: Substantially.
The bombings in London on 7 July 2005 were a direct consequence of Blairs actions.
Voracious greed
Documents released by the high court show that British citizens were allowed to be abducted and tortured under Blair. In January 2002, Jack Straw, then foreign secretary, decided that Guantanamo was the best way to ensure that UK nationals were securely held......... MORE
http://www.globalresearch.ca/tony-blair-must-be-arrested-under-the-proceeds-of-crime-act-the-paramount-war-crime-under-nuremberg/5483500
John Pilger, renowned investigative journalist and documentary film-maker, is one of only two to have twice won British journalisms top award; his documentaries have won academy awards in both the UK and the US. In a New Statesman survey of the 50 heroes of our time, Pilger came fourth behind Aung San Suu Kyi and Nelson Mandela. John Pilger, wrote Harold Pinter, unearths, with steely attention facts, the filthy truth. I salute him.
merrily
(45,251 posts)After all, there is international precedent for that.
madokie
(51,076 posts)They destroyed a country and murdered the citizens of that country under false pretenses and should face the music for that, so to speak
How do any of these people sleep at night is what I wonder
Ichingcarpenter
(36,988 posts)then it might move the other prosecutions forward for the rest of the ring leaders as a precedent. Hopefully He might be the first domino to fall.
madokie
(51,076 posts)malaise
(268,968 posts)The 'collective pack' (to quote a friend) needs to be charged for war crimes.
This planet will not find peace until they pay.
YOHABLO
(7,358 posts)Ichingcarpenter
(36,988 posts)Blair has a complex web of structures involving 12 different legal entities handling the unprecedented millions he is receiving since he stepped down from office in 2007.
So mystifying are the former prime minister's financial structures which involve highly specialised limited partnerships and parallel companies that the Guardian today launches an open invitation to tax specialists and accountants to attempt to explain the motivation behind such structures. We have published the Companies House documents and other legal papers regarding the structure of the partnerships at guardian.co.uk and invite expert comment via our site at guardian.co.uk/politics/series/blair-mystery.
Tony Blair's insatiable greed exposed by his secret deal with Saudi Arabia
Jobs that helped Tony Blair amass a personal fortune
June 2007 Appointed Middle East envoy. Salary/fee - None
Jan 2008 Appointed adviser to JP Morgan. Salary/fee - £l million a year
Man 2008 Appointed adviser to Zurich International. Salary/fee - £500,000 a year
Aug 2008 Appointed adviser to South Korea's Ul Energy Corporation. Salary/fee - Unknown
Feb 2009 Appointed adviser to government of Kuwait on good governance. Salary/fee - £8 million a year
July 2009 Takes role with United Arab Emirates investment fund Mubadala. Salary/fee - £1 million a year
Jan 2010 Appointed adviser I to Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton. Salary/fee - Unknown
Nov 2010 Secret contract with a Saudi oil company headed by a member of the country's royal family. Salary/fee £41,000 a month and 2 per cent commission on any of the deals he helped broker.
Oct 2011 Appointed adviser to Kazakhstan government. Salary /fee - £8 million a year
Nov 2012 Appointed adviser to Sao Paulo state government. Reported salary/ fee - Unknown
July 2014 Appointed adviser to the consortium behind the gas line from Azerbaijan to Italy. Salary/fee - Unknown
Source: Mail Online
http://www.stopwar.org.uk/index.php/news/tony-blair-s-insatiable-greed-exposed-by-his-secret-deal-with-saudi-arabia
Tony Blairs fortune now stands at three times the amount he has previously claimed, at some £60 million which includes 10 homes
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/tony-blair/11670425/Revealed-Tony-Blair-worth-a-staggering-60m.html
Tony Blair is a psychopath
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1016134713
Scuba
(53,475 posts)Greedy little fuck, too.
Octafish
(55,745 posts)Bush said countries that didn't go along, wouldn't get any of the rewards.
Javaman
(62,521 posts)"if we lost the war, we would have been brought to trial as war criminals".
but we didn't.
and because george w. moron* and his poodle weren't held accountable for their crimes, nothing is going to happen.
if blair gets thrown into the clink, moron* should naturally follow.
but we all know full well that that is not going to happen.
our entire governmental system is corrupt. And corrupt in such a fashion that all players are involved. this is done purposely so they all cover their backs.
the systemic corruption in our world political process has now become the norm among those who hold the purse strings and those who make the decisions.
humanity is nothing more than the fodder for the ill gotten gains of the wealthy.
neo-surfism.