What other ignominious heights are there left to scale?

I signed it openly and proudly.

The al-Bashir indictment and arrest warrant last week put to rest many of the arguments that are often heard out here in blogland about jurisdiction: no, the Security Council does not have to initiate investigations, and yes, they can indict sitting heads of state in countries which have neither signed nor ratified the Rome Statute. A lot has to do with the fact that the crimes are also crimes under treaties those countries have signed. As for travel arrangements, there is one that people often overlook: the treaties require bilateral extradition for torture, systematic torture and all the rest.

At any rate, we put the letter, which has a click for signing enabled, up on Humanity Against Crimes, if people would like to add their names. There are provisions to sign privately, which means that your name would go on the hard copy that goes to the Hague, but not display publicly on the internet.

We are also hoping that those with more credentials, spec. lawyers and physicians and so forth, will write letters of their own. The last investigation opened on U.S. behavior (in Iraq) was the result of 240 requests. It was ended because there was no evidence of a “plan or policy”. That situation has now changed.

Pelosi had more than enough power to hold the line until the next Prez is elected. Instead, she and her minions (Hoyer, Reid) decided that there was practically not enough time to give Bush the biggest and best parting gifts possible. The Dem Congress started out in the shitter with “impeachment is off the table” and proceeded, in bursts of handle-grabbing, flush itself down into the sewer of craven collapse, obsequiousness, and collaboration.

She has a liberal voting record…perhaps she’s a closet fascist- I don’t know.

I frankly didn’t expect the dems to get any significant legislation passed between the gooper filibusters and the Clusterfuck vetoes.

To be fair, I didn’t expect her to pass a lot of new legislation but what I did expect was Pelosi and the Democrats to mount a credible opposition to Bush’s policies. For Iraq, this meant only funding our forces there to leave. Instead what we saw was a Congress that not only funded Bush’s war but the surge. One which went out of its way to pass the worst possible bills like the FISA Amendments Act. In addition to this, she attacked those as selise pointed out above who tried to do something. And of course, she attacked the Democratic base dismissing them as “advocates” and not “leaders” like herself.