The U.S. Constitution failed to specifically prohibit and penalize the
government for violating its international lawful agreements.
On August 21, 1998, the U.S. launched bombing attacks on alleged
"terrorist" targets in Sudan and Afghanistan. Secretary of State
Madeline Albright said it was a "war on terrorism";
"This is unfortunately the war of the
future, and we have to understand the
importance of sustained operations
here."
International law and courts of justice were cast aside, along with the
United Nations Charter which the U.S. had helped write;
Chapter 1, Article 1 - "To maintain
international peace and security, and
to that end, to take effective collective
measures for the prevention and removal
of aggression or other breaches of the
peace, and to bring about by peaceful
means, and in conformity with the
principles of justice and international
law, adjustment or settlement of inter-
national disputes or situations which
might lead to a breach of the peace..."
Without U.N. sanction, military assaults, and the declared "war" itself,
went against the intent of the Charter to seek "peaceful settlement" of
the terrorist problem.
The attacks came less than two weeks after anti-U.S. bombings at its
embassies in Kenya and Tanzania that the U.S. said were linked to a
millionaire sponsor in Afghanistan, Osama bin Laden. The suspect had
been known to U.S. authorities six years earlier when he reportedly
admitted bombing U.S. troops in Yemen, but no effort was made to bring
him to an international court of justice in the manner of war-crimes
suspects from Bosnia in the 1990's.
While the U.S. offered $2.2 million for Mexican fugitive Vasquez Mendoza in a drug-related killing of a U.S. agent, and paid $1.9 million in taxpayers money to the family of a teenager killed by a Marine while herding goats, it offered no reward for the capture of Osama bin Laden in the years following his alleged confession.
Sudan charged that President Bill Clinton was a "war criminal" for the
bombing attack on its sovereign territory, and U.S. leaders seemed
vulnerable under the U.N. Charter and world precedents, but U.S. power
and influence made an international trial almost impossible. At the
same time, the U.S. strongly opposed establishment of a "permanent"
international court of justice that was overwhelmingly approved by most
other nations in 1998.
In March, 1985, Secret Government (Grievance 2) hatched a terrorist bomb plot that impacted the entire Islamic religion, detailed in the book "Veil" by Bob Woodward. With help from a British agent and operatives from Lebanon and Saudi Arabia, a bomb was exploded at the Imam Rida mosque in Beirut, Lebanon that killed 80 people and wounded 256. Violent fringe elements called for revenge, and three years later a Pan American passenger plane was blown out of the sky over Scotland, killing 270, followed by bombing of the World Trade Center in New York City in 1993, killing six and injuring hundreds.
U.S. policies gave the appearance of the "law of the jungle", ensuring
like-response from violent fringe groups among elements protesting
against intrusive and dominating U.S. influences. Without a shift in
policy to international peace machinery and adjudication of differences,
an endless cycle seemed guaranteed.
Ever-tightening security measures were leading to borderline
police-state conditions and potential marshal law, threatening basic
American freedoms.
Over many years preceding these events, Secret Government used terrorist
tactics in foreign countries, including guerrilla and paramilitary
operations directed by the CIA. Violent elimination of leaders of
opposing governments was successful in Chile, and attempted in Cuba,
Libya, Jordan and Afghanistan.
Prior to 1975, the U.S. had no prohibition against terroristic murdering
of foreign government leaders, and in 1998 it was openly debating wheher
to restore the practice and extend it to persons who were not heads of
state.
With an AUTHENTIC CONSTITUTION in harmony with the natural
Cosmic Laws of the universe, and producing High Moral Values and
Democratic Ideals, killing humans by any other name is unlawful for
government, as well as for individuals.
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