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WAR CRIME

"Making the clearly-recognized historic monuments, works of art or places of worship which constitute the cultural or spiritual heritage of peoples ... the object of attack"

Geneva Convention Protocol I
(also: U.S. Department of Defense, Law of War Manual, 5.18)
Let me put even a stronger point on this.

Any U.S. officials or personnel who followed through on this statement by President Trump would be liable under the U.S. War Crimes Act, 18 U.S. Code § 2441.
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Ryan Goodman
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I spoke with PBS @NewsHour's @hari:

"Every single trial that has been held in the Senate has had witnesses. And public sentiment seems to be strongly in favor of having witnesses."
@NewsHour @hari 2. On the first point (history of having witnesses in #SenateImpeachmentTrial)

Read @NoahBookbinder's piece in the Washington Post:

"The Senate has conducted 15 impeachment trials. It heard witnesses in every one."
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3. On the second point (public sentiment, including plurality of Republicans, in favor of witnesses)

Read these statistics from most recent Quinnipiac poll:

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Ryan Goodman
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For integrity of Congress, looks like #Nunes must resign.

Nunes' close aide Harvey clandestinely worked with Parnas/Giuliani to get (read: create) Ukrainian dirt on Biden.

Nunes was Ranking Member presiding over impeachment hearings, never disclosed and then lied about ALL this
The encrypted Harvey-Parnas messages corroborate reporting (by CNN’s @VickyPJWard Daily Beast’s @woodruffbets Washington Post’s @PostRoz @ColbyItkowitz CNBC’s @christinawilkie NBC’s @kwelkernbc) assembled in this Timeline.

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@VickyPJWard @woodruffbets @PostRoz @ColbyItkowitz @christinawilkie @kwelkernbc Rep. Devin Nunes question to Fiona Hill and David Holmes in impeachment hearings:

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Encrypted texts are evidence that's basically what Nunes was doing.
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Ryan Goodman
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My favorites: #5 and #6.

“15 Questions the Media Should Be Asking #Parnas”
(by @violagienger @lrozen)

Those two Qs get at missing element in Ukraine scheme—significant implications for whether Pres. Trump’s crimes include Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.

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Susan Simpson (@TheViewFromLL2) has been at her forefront of hammering these points about the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and the Ukraine scheme.

Link to her analysis:

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Fionna O'Leary, 🕷 #FBPE
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Opinion: Destroying cultural heritage sites is a war crime - Los Angeles Times

USA has nominated 25, Iran, - one sixth of the size of the USA has nominated 56, Iran being recognised as a cradle of civilisation.

The Hague Convention does not stop there.

latimes.com/opinion/story/…
A part of the Hague Convention of 1907, signed over a century ago, says that “all necessary steps must be taken” to spare “buildings dedicated to religion, art, science, or charitable purposes, historic monuments, hospitals, and places where the sick and wounded are collected.”
Similarly, the Geneva Convention Protocol I, signed in 1949 and amended in 1977, renders unlawful “any acts of hostility directed against the historic monuments, works of art or places of worship which constitute the cultural or spiritual heritage of peoples.”
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For those who still care about silly old-fashioned little things like international law here are a few laws that Trump Corleone would be be breaking if he attacks targets ‘important to the Iranian culture’:
Regarding ‘institutions dedicated to religion, charity and education, the arts,’ Article 56 of the 1907 Hague Regulations states that ‘All seizure of, destruction or wilful damage done to institutions of this character, historic monuments, works of art and science, is forbidden.’
The signatories to Art.4(3) of the 1954 Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property ‘undertake to prohibit, prevent and, if necessary, put a stop to any form of theft, pillage or misappropriation of, and any acts of vandalism directed against, cultural property. ‘
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Tim Hogan
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1. This is an admission of specific intent to commit a federal crime punishable by life in prison.

Any @WHNSC @thejointstaff or @whitehouse counsel complicit can be charged.

18 USC 2441 makes any grave breach of international law of war a federal crime.
2. Article 53 of Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and Relating to the Protection of Victims of International Armed Conflicts (Protocol I), of 8 June 1977 provides:
3. Article 53 — Protection of cultural objects and of places of worship
Without prejudice to the provisions of the Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict of 14 May 1954, and of other relevant international instruments,
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(If unfamiliar with General’s story, Ronald Regan narrates this 30 min official video about Patton’s life.)


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1/ THREAD Some thoughts on the recent podcast from @CheatsMovement with @LevarStoney, specifically the mayor's comments related to #monuments and #warmemorials in #Richmond:
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