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IndictBushNow.org reports that on April 3, at a meeting of over 150 lawyers, legal scholars and human rights campaigners, Ramsey Clark, founder of Indict Bush Now, was chosen to be the chairperson of an international campaign to investigate war crimes committed by officials from the Bush administration.
Representatives at the meeting held in Beirut, Lebanon, came from all over the world. The campaign will investigate the lies, deceit and manipulation leading up to the Iraq war; the conduct of the war itself against an essentially defenseless country; and the horrors of the continued occupation.
Lawyers and judges in several countries are exploring prosecution.
Ramsey Clark emphasized that it is the imperative responsibility of the American people to relentlessly pursue this investigation, and to seek prosecution and indictment inside of the United States.
The culture of criminal conduct started at the top in the White House itself and seeped far down the chain of command. The White House is responsible for these crimes—from the hideous torture scenes at Abu Ghraib prison to the shockingly grotesque, cold-blooded murder of innocent civilians by U.S. helicopter pilots in Baghdad in 2007, as shown in a video released this week.
The chilling video came to light because two of the killed Iraqis happened to be Reuters journalists, and because of the heroic effort of a whistleblower inside the Pentagon who leaked the video posted by WikiLeaks. The Pentagon undoubtedly has hundreds or thousands of similar videos that are kept under lock and key.
Prosecuting only a few low-level people would be a calculated effort to deflect away from those in high places who are ultimately responsible.
Ramsey Clark made the point that all the war crimes and crimes against humanity flow from the commission of the most supreme crimes which he identified as the Crimes against Peace. This was the finding at the Nuremberg trial, and it is enshrined in the Nuremberg Principles.
This now galvanized international movement will also conduct independent inquiries in several countries to review the conduct of Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice, Rove, Yoo and other Bush-era officials.
We want to thank you and the hundreds of thousands of people who are unflagging in their pursuit of justice and government accountability. People around the world—including right here in the U.S.—are encouraged by these efforts. This is a struggle that will be defining not only for this but for future generations. The outcome will send a message to current and future leaders that criminal conduct will never be tolerated or condoned.
IndictBushNow.org: Link to Donate Funds to their CauseIndictBushNow.org reports that on April 3, at a meeting of over 150 lawyers, legal... more
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It's certainly been a while since the Japanese have given us a film to be shocked over, but it seems like Koji Shiraishi's Grotesque managed to make the Brits all squirmy in their trousers. While a bland report from the British Band of Film Classification has outright banned the DVD rental and sale of the film, the reasoning of BBFC director David Cooke (via Twitchfilm) :
Unlike other recent ‘torture’-themed horror works, such as the Saw and Hostel series, Grotesque features minimal narrative or character development and presents the audience with little more than an unrelenting and escalating scenario of humiliation, brutality and sadism. The chief pleasure on offer seems to be in the spectacle of sadism (including sexual sadism) for its own sake… Rejecting a work outright is a serious matter and the board considered whether the issue could be dealt with through cuts. However, given the unacceptable content featured throughout cutting the work is not a viable option in this case and the work is therefore refused a classification.
Apparently the second film to be banned in the UK thanks to the BBFC in the last four years, per Variety, while the other, Murder-Set-Pieces (fyi, link auto-plays an NSFW trailer) was an apparent ode to German serial killers, bloodplay, rape and Las Vegas. The trailer (above, also NSFW) for Grotesque is a play on something you'd never see in the Saw trailers.
Mainly: gore.
It'd odd how, even to this day, gore remains something we can never talk about unless the door is closed, Mom is asleep and the lights are low. Even the Guinea Pig franchise is taboo, despite being one of the shlockiest video series imaginable. But whenever the camera is first-person, such as the 2007 Korean film The Butcher, something becomes horribly wrong. Instead of lauding a two camera set-up entirely in an abandoned warehouse with being a terse thriller, it becomes a gut-wrenching experience to watch. After all, this is the new Horror that we've forced upon ourselves when it just wasn't enough to chainsaw the guy who raped and killed your daughter.
You need to microwave him, even when your daughter survived. Because it's just not enough to eviscerate these days, but if you did that from a 1st-person perspective? Now that's just grotesque...so I guess we'll have to wait till the lights go down to replay that.
[Order the UK Version of Grotesque on DVD through YesAsia. For the Lulz.]
-John Lichman
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Ron Mueck is an Australian hyper-realist sculptor working in the UK. His incredible sculptures of creepy, grotesque, mottled skin and uncannily gigantic proportional figures have adorned the Millennium Dome as well as Charles Saatchis living room for a number of years now. It would be fair to say, Muecks one of the leading contemporary artists of today.Ron Mueck is an Australian hyper-realist sculptor working in the UK. His incredible... more
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