Every Thursday, a group of us have been taking a stand outside Sen. Wyden's office urging him to commit to investigations of those that ordered torture in direct violation of the law. Since the Bybee memos have been released we decided to take a different approach and moved our group a few blocks south to the Pioneer Courthouse which is the local Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals courthouse.
* United States Code
o TITLE 18 - CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
+ PART I - CRIMES
# CHAPTER 113C - TORTURE
U.S. Code as of: 01/19/04
Section 2340A. Torture
(a) Offense. - Whoever outside the United States commits or
attempts to commit torture shall be fined under this title or
imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both, and if death results to
any person from conduct prohibited by this subsection, shall be
punished by death or imprisoned for any term of years or for life.
(b) Jurisdiction. - There is jurisdiction over the activity
prohibited in subsection (a) if -
(1) the alleged offender is a national of the United States; or
(2) the alleged offender is present in the United States,
irrespective of the nationality of the victim or alleged
offender.
(c) Conspiracy. - A person who conspires to commit an offense
under this section shall be subject to the same penalties (other
than the penalty of death) as the penalties prescribed for the
offense, the commission of which was the object of the conspiracy.
We know Bybee doesn't sit on the court here in PDX but since this was the closest representation of the 9th, we figured why not change venues. If I was a Judge on the 9th, I would be embarrassed having Bybee on the same bench.
Anywho, our main message was that since Judge Bybee wrote the infamous torture memos, he should be impeached for Conspiracy to commit torture as referenced in the above USC.
Our sandwich boards had this on the front:
with a picture of Bybee "The Torture Judge" and "Impeach and Disbar".
On the back was this:
"Hear No Evil"
"Speak No Evil"
"Prosecute No Evil"
We handed out copies of the above USC and and copies of the War Crimes Times.
Just a little street action on a beautiful day in Portland.
The watchers watching us.
Earlier they were taking pictures of us. I think I should get some business cards made up with name, rank and service number and thumbprint that I could just give them and save them a lot of time trying to ID me.