Retired lawyer Doug Wallace has filed a class action lawsuit against Bush and the PNAC neo-con agenda. He is "75 years of age, a father of six; a grandfather of soon to be 26 and a great- grandfather of 4."
Here is an excerpt from his PRESS RELEASE JANUARY 14, 2005
SUBJECT: LAWSUIT FILED IN U.S. DISTRICT COURT IN RENO
AGAINST GEORGE W. BUSH AND RICHARD B.CHENEY
A lawsuit was filed today in the U.S. District Court in Reno, Nevada against President Bush and Vice President Cheney. The lawsuit alleges that both defendants have acted outside the scope of their job description in waging a war against Iraq. The complaint alleges that both defendants and others working within the White House and Defense Department have covertly implemented a white paper called "Rebuilding America's Defenses" as presented by the Project for the New American Century or PNAC in September, 2000 two months before the murky elections of that year. Among the persons signing the paper were Richard Cheney and Jeb Bush. While the paper was published on the internet, implementation of it by the White House has been in secret.
I'm not a lawyer, so I couldn't say if Doug has a strong case here or not. But I sure enough admire this man's courage in his attempt to "disassemble the fascist government that has taken over the United States in the past four years."
I'm hoping some of the lawyers on this site could examine this legal complaint (PDF file) and provide us with their enlightened opinions.
I also encourage those who support this man's legal actions to download his letter of support to the court, sign it, and send it in To Honorable Judge McKibben. The link for this is at the bottom of his website.
Here's an excerpt from the complaint:
Chief Judge Howard McKibben
CAUSE OF ACTION
Plaintiff alleges upon information and belief that Defendants BUSH, CHENEY
and JOHN DOES 1-100 have:
1. Implemented PNAC by way of the War on Terrorism in its first stages
without a discussion or vote of the Congress of the United States about their
agenda. That they have thereby deceived the Congress and the American
public. That Plaintiff(s) have been damaged thereby.
COMPLAINT FOR INJUNCTION-13
2. By surreptitiously implementing PNAC under cover of the War
on Terrorism, caused the unnecessary deaths of members of the United
States military causing despair to Plaintiff and his class.
3. Under cover of "War on Terrorism," illegally and unilaterally invaded a
sovereign nation, Iraq, and have caused deaths of innocents and destruction
of their property by which American taxpayers and their posterity have
become subject to a financial burden previously unknown in the entire world.
Plaintiff and his class have been damaged thereby.
4. By implementing PNAC, subjected the government to a certainty to
re-instate the draft in order to fulfill the massive troop needs of PNAC in
contradiction to their election campaign pledge and have thus lied to
Americans in order to become employed again in their covert PNAC agenda
under cover of War on Terrorism which further damages Plaintiff and his
class.
There's quite a bit more to it, and after reading the whole complaint it makes it easier to understand just how these neocon facists have hijacked our government, and hopefully what we can do to stop it.
Go get em Doug!