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>Francis A. Boyle
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>Posted on Thursday 23 August 2007
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>We have to go all out with massive, non violent peace demonstrations in
>Washington which Ramsey Clark is organizing for September 15th.
>
>I think it is very important for at least one member of the United
>States Congress to file a bill of impeachment against Bush to try to
>stop this and to give some ammunition to those still in the US
>Intelligence Services and in the Pentagon who don't want a war against
>Iran-and to that extent to de-legitimize what appears to be their rush
>to war. Law Professor Francis A. Boyle.
>
>INTRO: In a September 2007 interview Professor Boyle warned about the
>guns of August, Neocon policy measures culminating in a US Military
>attack against Iran. In the following interview he discusses the
>indications for war now that August has arrived.
>
>Francis A. Boyle
><http://www.law.uiuc.edu/faculty/directoryresult.asp?name=Boyle,+Francis
> >  has written extensively on legal issues involved in civil resistance.
>His most recent book, Protesting Power: War, Resistance, and Law was
>written as a tool for all who protest and need legal information and
>political insights. The book has been described as a clarion call to
>citizen action against Bush administration policies in the US and other
>countries.
>
>Talk Nation Radio for Wed. August 22, 2007 taped at 10:30 EDT
>
>Produced at WHUS <http://www.whus.org/>  at the University of
>Connecticut in Storrs, CT by Dori Smith
>
>Special thanks to WWUH <http://www.wwuh.org/>  and the station's Public
>Affairs Director Mike DeRosa for assistance with the taping of this
>interview.
>
>Listen to the broadcast here
><http://www.archive.org/download/LawProfFrancisA.BoyleTalksAboutHisNewBo
>okProtestingPowerWar/LawProfFrancisA.BoyleTalksAboutHisNewBookProtesting
>PowerWar_64kb.m3u>
>
>Dori Smith: Welcome to Talk Nation Radio a half hour discussion on
>politics, human rights and the environment. Professor Francis A. Boyle
>of the University of Illinois joins us to talk about his new book,
>Protesting Power: War, Resistance and Law
><http://www.rowmanlittlefield.com/Catalog/SingleBook.shtml?command=Searc
>h&db=^DB/CATALOG.db&eqSKUdata=0742538923>  out from Roman and
>Littlefield.
>
>The book focuses on civil resistance which he argues is a basic right of
>US Citizens under both US and International Law. Francis A. Boyle is an
>expert in both. A distinguished scholar and author he defended Camilo
>Mejia <http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/08/23/1333255>  the
>first US Military resister to the Iraq War. During an interview in
>February he told us to 'beware the guns of August in Eurasia' that the
>title of his piece in Counterpunch <http://www.counterpunch.org/> .
>
>Professor Boyle welcome to Talk Nation Radio.
>
>Francis A. Boyle: Thank you for having me on Dori and my best to your
>listening audience and regretfully in light of the Guns of August
>article it is August and last week the third US aircraft carrier task
>force arrived in the Persian Gulf organized around the USS Enterprise.
>So there are now three
><http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20070330/news_1n30ship.html>
>air craft carrier task forces in the Gulf. We have not seen that amount
>of Naval and aerial fire power in the Gulf since the war against Iraq in
>March of 2003.
>
>So it's an extremely dangerous situation. We have President Bush
>threatening to determine that the Iranian Guards are a terrorist
>organization. Yesterday Iran entered into a comprehensive work plan with
>the International Atomic Energy Agency. Today the Bush administration
>rejected that and said that they are continuing to move toward another
>round of sanctions at the Security Council. So literally I regret to say
>anything can happen. Studying the Guns of August by Barbara Tuckman, the
>allusion to the origins of the First World War I think would scare
>everyone. We could not rule out another incident along the lines of the
>so-called Tonkin Gulf incident of 1965. We had the British sailors
>ultimately admitting that they did stray into waters claimed by Iran and
>that created another incident so it's an extremely dangerous situation.
>We had Vice President Cheney earlier appearing on the Air Craft Carrier
>Stennis in the Persian Gulf literally threatening Iran. So I really
>don't know what to say. Anything is possible at this time.
>
>Dori Smith: Getting back to what you said about the IAEA
><http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_world/view/295302/1/.html> ,
>International Atomic Energy, back in Iran recently to do inspections of
>nuclear facilities. They said that their recent agreement with Iran
>would help to diffuse Western suspicions about Iran's nuclear program.
>Yet former CIA Director James Woolsey has appeared on CNN with Lou Dobbs
><http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0708/14/ldt.01.html>  to say
>something that we have heard from Israelis as well which is that an
>attack on Iran is a bad idea but allowing Iran to obtain a nuclear
>weapon is worse. Just discuss this phenomenon of US pro war
>neoconservatives in the US teaming up with hard line Israelis on Iran.
>
>Francis A. Boyle: I think the fact that this was a major breakthrough
>between the IAEA and Iran yesterday that was summarily dismissed by the
>Bush administration proves that the Bush administration is not concerned
>at all about Iran having nuclear weapons. Indeed, as Ray McGovern
><http://www.antiwar.com/mcgovern/> , the former CIA analyst pointed out
>yesterday this so-called National Intelligence Estimate that's been
>bottled up predicts at best they might have one in a decade. I don't
>think anyone reasonably believes Iran has nuclear weapons now or could
>have them for at least a decade and certainly this could be headed off
>with reasonable good faith negotiations.
>
>So the nuclear allegations, this is the same scenario that the Bush
>neoconservatives used against Iraq to scare the American people and
>Congress to death and stampede them into supporting a war against Iraq.
>And that is why it is so dangerous what is going on. If you've studied
>the pattern of their behavior in the past I guess Bush and the Neocons
>figured well it worked once let's try it again and that is what they are
>doing. And again the presence of that third aircraft carrier task for
>there is extremely dangerous.
>
>As for the role of the Neocons yes of course first Iran has all that oil
>and gas and is a strategic location there on the Gulf. That is important
>as the Bush people see it.
>
>Second, Israel wanted to take Iraq out and therefore had all its
>neoconservative operatives and minions and mouthpieces here in the
>United States mongering for war against Iraq, and you do not have to
>just take my word for it. The Walt and Mearsheimer essay
><http://www.lrb.co.uk/v28/n06/mear01_.html>  in the London Review of
>Books on this-Walt, Harvard, Mearsheimer, Chicago-agreed with what I'm
>saying here about the pernicious role played by the Israel Lobby.
>
>The Neocons were working with them as well such as Woolesy on JINSA
><http://www.jinsa.org/about/adboard/adboard.html?documentid=2059> , the
>Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs.
>
>Now they are moving on to Iran. Again the Neocons
><http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Neo-conservatives/list>  are
>pushing for war and Walt and Mearsheimer have also pointed out and I do
>agree: in their longer essay with all the footnotes you can find on the
>web site at the Harvard Kennedy School, the only people pushing for war
>against Iran today are the Neocons and the Israel Lobby. They have all
>of their people out there in the news media, in Congress, doing whatever
>they can to push for war. But it's not just the pro Israel Lobby and the
>Neocons. It's also all of the oil and gas and the strategic location
>Iran occupies. So it is a combination of both factors at work here as
>happened in the invasion of Iraq.
>
>Dori Smith: We've seen an incredible development with the Prime Minister
>of Iraq Nouri al Maliki
><http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6958388.stm>  heading first to
>Iran and then Syria. This widening the scope of possible sectarian
>interplay in the region because Iran is Shiite, Syria is Sunni. But talk
>about how that also could impact Congress and the White House and
>possibly lead us to a wider US role in regional conflict.
>
>Francis A. Boyle: Yes well the Iraqi Prime Minister went to Iran and
>made several statements that pulled the rug out from under the Bush
>Neocon allegations that Iran was destabilizing Iraq. And likewise he
>recently made a similar statement about Syria. Again it does appear that
>the Neocons, the Likudniks, the Pro-Israel Lobby, have Syria in their
>gun sites as well. If they attack Iran they will probably take out
>Syria.
>
>A year ago when Israel went to war against Lebanon all the reports were
>that the Bush neoconservatives were also trying to pressure Israel to
>attack Syria. Israel I think realized that would be a very dangerous
>proposition and they resisted that pressure. But if there is an attack
>upon Iran my guess is they will go after Syria as well and we could see
>again a major conflagration over there. Syria could do very serious
>damage to Israel.
>
>Of course, Iran, we have the case last summer where a Chinese missile in
>Lebanon fired by Hizzbollah
><http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/para/hizballah.htm>  took
>out an Israeli destroyer. The Iranians have large numbers of those
>missiles and they could easily take out a US warship in the confines of
>the Persian Gulf.
>
>If that happened my guess is Bush would ask for a formal declaration of
>war against Iran from Congress along the lines of 1898 "remember the
>Maine" and things of that nature and that would be it. We'd be off. They
>would reinstate a draft. They would further engage in police state
>tactics; once the President actually gets a formal declaration of war
>which he does not have now for Iraq or Afghanistan he basically becomes
>a Constitutional dictator. It triggers an entire title of the United
>States code giving the President enormous numbers of emergency powers
>that he can pretty much do what he wants. So that is what we are facing.
>
>Dori Smith: I certainly do want to ask you what we can do to stop this
>march to wider war in the Middle East. First I want to mention a Time
>Magazine article
><http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1654188,00.html>  by a
>former CIA field official named Robert Baer. He has compared the
>evidence being put forth against Iran over their role in Iraq to
>something resembling the Bush administration's evidence on Saddam
>Hussein. This article representing yet another example of the split
>between intelligence figures on US policy in the Middle East today. He
>also said he feels the Neoconservatives are delusional.
>
>Francis A. Boyle: Well you ask the question what we can do now. I think
>it is very important for at least one member of the United States
>Congress to file a bill of impeachment against Bush to try to stop this
>and to give some ammunition to those still in the US Intelligence
>Services and in the Pentagon who don't want a war against Iran-and to
>that extent to de-legitimize what appears to be their rush to war.
>
>I personally do not believe the Neocons are delusional. They know
>exactly what they are doing as we've discussed before. I went through
>the same program with them at the University of Chicago, the home of the
>Neocons. I have my undergraduate degree there in International
>Relations. Wolfowitz was there getting his PHD in International
>Relations, Shulsky
><http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Abram_N._Shulsky> ,
>Khalilzad <http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Zalmay_Khalilzad>
>, all of the rest of them. I went through the exact same program. They
>know exactly what they are doing and what their objectives are and these
>other statements they are making about the Iranian people overthrowing
>the government-they don't believe that. This is propaganda.
>
>So these people are very smart, ruthless, and completely unprincipled.
>You have to understand that the founder of the Neocons at Chicago, Leo
>Strauss, his mentor in Germany was Carl Schmitt who went on to become
>the most notorious Nazi law professor of that benighted era justifying
>in legal terms every hideous atrocity Hitler and the Nazis inflicted on
>anyone.
>
>So these Neocons are really Neo Nazis and that's the mentality that
>motivates them. So I would respectfully disagree with Mr. Baer there. I
>don't think they are delusional. That's their framework of reference and
>we have to deal with that and with what these people are up to.
>
>Ray McGovern, another CIA analyst pointed out if we file the bills of
>impeachment now when Congress comes back against Bush and Cheney and
>start the process that will give some hope to those professional
>military people in the Pentagon who don't want a war and my
>understanding is most of them don't, and I suspect most of the people in
>the CIA don't want a war against Iran. That's why you are having retired
>CIA people speak out against this, not active duty CIA or Military.
>
>Dori Smith: You are listening to Talk Nation Radio. Professor Francis A.
>Boyle is a leading American professor, practitioner, and advocate of
>International Law. Four years on January 17th his Draft Impeachment
>Resolution Against George W. Bush
><http://www.counterpunch.org/boyle01172003.html>  appeared in
>Counterpunch.
>
>Professor Boyle we've seen a tremendous increase in the numbers of
>Americans that are against the war. Most people now believe the war was
>not necessary. How could members of Congress tap into these anti-war
>sentiments and use them to change US policy?
>
>Francis A. Boyle: Well I think it's we the American people who are going
>to have to tap into the members of Congress and get them to do their
>job. As you know Cindy Sheehan, Ray McGovern, and others, met with
>Congressman John Conyers just recently with a petition signed by a
>million people to start impeachment proceedings against President Bush
>and after one hour Congressman Conyers had them arrested. I think that
>is symptomatic of the problem here that you have one of the leaders of
>the Democratic Party arresting one of the leaders of the American peace
>movement, Peace Mom Cindy Sheehan, simply for insisting that Conyers and
>his Congressional colleagues perform their duties as mandated by the
>United States Constitution.
>
>So that's the problem. Just before Congress took off on their summer
>vacation, the day before they took off, they signed this so-called
>'Protect America Act' which is truly Orwellian, basically gutting FISA
>the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and retroactively approving
>the illegal, criminal, massive spying operation that the Bush
>administration has been conducting against the American people. So
>unfortunately we have a congress that is not looking out for the
>Constitution or the will of the American people.
>
>In this regard I note that my colleague and friend Ramsey Clark has
>organized a peace march on Washington on September 15th. I think as many
>people as possible have to show up there. As we know from Vietnam the
>massive peace demonstrations in Washington D.C. did have an impact.
>Indeed Dan Ellsberg tells a story of how he was in the Pentagon hearing
>the march and he had a crisis of conscience and decided to publish the
>Pentagon Papers. So that is coming up on the 15th and we have to
>continue working to turn around Congressman Conyers and others to get
>them to file those bills of impeachment right away to try to head off a
>war with Iran.
>
>Dori Smith: Democratic Speaker Nancy Pelosi has said she is not in favor
>of trying to use articles of impeachment, calling it a non-starter. But
>given the stakes do you think there is some way that she might be
>persuaded to change her mind if peace activists and others continued to
>make their appeal?
>
>Francis A. Boyle: Cindy Sheehan had the right idea. You go to their
>offices, you talk to them. And then you refuse to leave until they
>respond in an appropriate manner to you and then if they decide to
>arrest you you carry on the struggle in court.
>
>That's why I wrote my new book "Protesting Power" to set forth to peace
>leaders, peace activists, NGOs, lawyers and the American public, the
>legal and Constitutional principles involved here in citizens
>petitioning their government for redress of grievances under the First
>Amendment to the United States Constitution, and in the event repressive
>measures are taken against them how to properly defend themselves in
>court-and since my involvement in the defense of Staff Sergeant Camilo
>Mejia <http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/08/23/1333255> , a
>very courageous man who we did get adopted as a 'prisoner of conscience'
>by Amnesty International-the first here in this country since Gulf War I
>when there were about 23 or 24 prisoners of conscience at that time
>including my client and friend Captain Dr. Yolanda Huet-Vaughn
><http://www.preventgenocide.org/edu/publications/new-and-forthcoming.htm
> > .
>
>I've also worked on the case of Lieutenant Ehren Watada, his
>court-martial being the first commissioned officer to be court-martialed
>for refusing to go to Iraq as a matter of conscience and principle.
>Again a very courageous man. I've met them both and dealt with them. We
>were able to get a mistrial in Lieutenant Watada's case. It's scheduled
>for retrial some time this fall. I don't know if we will see it or not.
>There are appeals going on at this point in time. But my book was used
>in both cases and other protests that are going on around the country
>itself. The Nuclear Resister estimated that in the, I think it was the
>first two years of this Gulf War, there were over 9,000 arrests.
>
>So what I try to do in my book is to address these types of questions,
>what are the principles of International Law, human rights, the United
>States Constitution, at stake, and why does it in fact justify peaceful,
>non violent, civil resistance against government policies and those
>government officials who are either actively aiding and abetting or
>complicit in what the Bush administration is doing.
>
>So we have to go all out with massive, non violent peace demonstrations
>in Washington which Ramsey Clark is organizing for September 15th and
>others are organizing with him. And the civil resistance demonstrated by
>Cindy Sheehan, and now Cindy Sheehan I think has correctly stated that
>since Pelosi is not going to undertake her Constitutional obligations,
>she, Cindy Sheehan, is going to run against Pelosi. And that's the way a
>Democracy works and I think we have to make it clear to our elected
>representatives whether they are Democrats or Republicans that if you
>are not going to do your job under the Constitution, if you are not
>going to stop this rush towards war against Iran, if you are not going
>stop the further development of the Bush police state along the lines of
>this reprehensible Protect America Act then we are going to run
>candidates against you and we will defeat you. We will put in people to
>do this job. I think doing this, what Cindy Sheehan has done with
>Pelosi, has a salutary affect. If I were Pelosi I would be very worried
>and concerned about what Cindy Sheehan is doing right now. I think she
>will have a lot of support behind her. I notice Dan Ellsberg just came
>out in support of her. We need to replicate that all over the country.
>
>Dori Smith: You have made a legal case against preemption doctrine in
>the past. How can that be used and what other legal arguments can be
>used to argue for impeachment?
>
>Francis A. Boyle: Again I do set forth all of that comprehensively in
>this new book, Protesting Power. But to make a long story short actually
>I just resumed teaching my International Law students yesterday, I have
>about 50 second and third year law students, and went through this
>doctrine of preventive warfare at great length and pointed out that in
>fact this doctrine that was developed by Wolfowitz, my former colleague
>from the University of Chicago, was actually rejected by the Nuremberg
>Tribunal when lawyers for the Nazi defendants made an argument along the
>lines of preventive warfare to justify their invasion of Norway. And it
>was soundly rejected.
>
>Yet, unfortunately Wolfowitz and others put this into the national
>security directive of September 2002 to justify preventive warfare
>against Iraq. It is still on the books as the policy of this government.
>It is undoubtedly I suspect going to be used to justify a war against
>Iran and this is a Nazi doctrine. Again it gets back to my point that
>the Neocons because of the Strauss connection with Schmitt, these
>Neocons are in fact Neo Nazis and they are adopting and espousing and
>justifying Neo Nazi doctrines in our government and in our popular
>culture.
>
>For example, Francis Fukyama, one of the leading Neocons at John's
>Hopkins School of International Affairs, a center for Neocons, was asked
>to do a review on the hundredth anniversary of Max Weber's Protestant
>Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, for the New York Times Sunday book
>review. They gave him the whole back page of the book review to do this.
>And during the course of reviewing Max Weber's Protestant ethic and the
>spirit of capitalism, and I lecture my students in Jurisprudence on this
>subject, Fukuyama
><http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Francis_Fukuyama>  mentions
>Carl Schmitt as if Carl Schmitt were an ordinary German philosopher
>along the lines of Max Weber. And Fukuyama didn't bother to point out to
>anyone that Schmitt was a Nazi.
>
>What also astounded me was that the editor of the Sunday New York Times
>Book Review did not pick up the fact that Fukuyama was citing a Nazi
>philosopher right there in the Sunday New York Times Book Review. It
>simply astounded me. But that's what these Neocons do. They take Nazi,
>Neo Nazi ideology and doctrine, and either put them into government
>policy as Wolfowitz has done on the National Security Directive of
>Preventive Warfare which then gets carried out against Iraq and now
>might be carried out against Iran, or else they pollute and degrade the
>academic and intellectual culture here in America by espousing Nazi
>doctrines without attribution. I'm just appalled that the Sunday New
>York Times would run a favorable reference to a Nazi philosopher without
>any commentary at all. But this goes on all the time if you follow the
>Neocons closely as I have since the University of Chicago tried to train
>me to become a Neocon starting back in 1968. That's how long I've been
>fighting these people.
>
>Dori Smith: I happened to be driving this morning in Connecticut on the
>Vietnam Veteran's Memorial Highway. It runs through Bloomfield. And NPR
>was airing a news story about the President's upcoming speech. Evidently
>he plans to make reference to 'America's success at winning Democracy in
>Asia'. Ironic at best but do you think the White House could be
>telegraphing its new approach to trying to make Americans feel better
>about dark histories of war? Maybe as a way to get them to support
>larger war in the Middle East?
>
>Francis A. Boyle: Right. If you have a look at today's New York Times it
>does appear that the President is going to make a speech later today
>before the Veteran's of Foreign Wars trying to justify what he is doing
>in Iraq and the Middle East along the lines of Vietnam, Cambodia, and
>Laos. I won't go through all of the historical analogies here having
>lived through those wars and opposed them myself as a young man but you
>are correct. This is extremely dangerous because if you go back and look
>at this 58,000 men in my generation were murdered in Vietnam by Johnson
>and Nixon in the name of a pack of lies. And three countries were
>destroyed, Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos, by the United States Government.
>
>To allegedly extricate themselves from Vietnam they attacked Cambodia
>and Laos, which is not a very good precedent when the Bush
>administration might very well attack Iran and Syria which we have
>already discussed. So yes, it is an ominous discussion here that it
>could be Bush and the Neocons are telegraphing us that that's what they
>have in mind, continuing to pursue the Vietnam precedent, up to three or
>four different countries and tens of thousands of Americans killed and
>millions of Arabs and Muslims killed as happened with Vietnam. The
>estimate is, even McNamara himself said we probably killed three million
>Vietnamese.
>
>So it's obvious it seems to me they have-the Neocons and Bush/Cheney
>have in mind a much broader conflagration which very well could happen.
>If they do attack Iran, you know if you study the course of the
>Iraq-Iran war I'm sure the Iranians will fight back ferociously and Bush
>and the Neocons will probably use tactical nuclear weapons against them.
>I think given the Neo Nazi mentality of these Neocons they would be
>happy to use nuclear weapons. I think they would like to break the taboo
>of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and using nuclear weapons would not bother
>them at all.
>
>Dori Smith: Professor Boyle thank you so much for joining us.
>
>Francis A. Boyle: Well thanks for having me on and I wish I had better
>news for everyone but I guess I have to give it to us all straight as to
>the way I see it and I think at this point everyone has to act in
>accordance with his or her conscience.
>
>Francis A. Boyle of the University of Illinois is author of Protesting
>Power: War, Resistance and Law. The Harvard Graduate has long been
>thought of as a leading expert on the use of the US Constitution and
>International Law to wage peace. You can find his article, "Beware the
>Guns of August in Eurasia," at Counterpunch.org
><http://www.counterpunch.org/> .
>
>For Talk Nation Radio I'm Dori Smith. Special thanks to Mike DeRosa
><http://www.newfocusradio.org/>  and WWUH Radio at the University of
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>
>Follow up irony regarding NPR: During the Wed. August 22, 2007 NPR show
>All Things Considered
><http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=13872684>  we
>discussed above Robert Siegel turned to scholars for some: "Scanning
>History for Analogies to Iraq War." The context was the President's
>speech that day before Veterans and the "historians" featured in the
>segment were Neocons.
>
>Bush tried to argue that the US troop withdrawal from Vietnam had caused
>massive deaths that would not have occurred had the US forces stayed.
>This strange revisionist history has been taken apart line by line as
>historians who truly know what happened (they were sober during the
>Vietnam War) laid out the facts on programs such as Democracy Now. See
>for a good example the statements of Gareth Porter to Amy Goodman and
>Juan Gonzales.
>
>(A similar line of historical revisionism has been attempted by Michael
>Reagan, the former President's son. )
>
>In the wake of this assault on history NPR sought opinion from:
>Professor Francis Fukuyama of the School of International Studies at
>Johns Hopkins University, Harvard professor Joseph Nye and Max Boot of
>the Council on Foreign Relations.
>
>References:
>
>Mike DeRosa <http://www.newfocusradio.org/>  is Public Affairs Director
>at the University of Hartford radio station WWUH where the interview was
>taped. Production took place at Uconn's Radio for the People, at the new
>studios of WHUS in Storrs, CT.
>
>Francis A. Boyle's <http://www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/biowar101.html>
>bio is too lengthy to reproduce here. His CV is online here
><http://www.law.uiuc.edu/faculty/directoryresult.asp?name=Boyle,+Francis
> > .
>
>This is a portion of his bio: A scholar in the areas of international
>law and human rights, Professor Boyle received a J.D. degree magna cum
>laude and A.M. and Ph.D. degrees in political science from Harvard
>University. Prior to joining the faculty at the College of Law, he was a
>teaching fellow at Harvard and an associate at its Center for
>International Affairs. He also practiced tax and international tax with
>Bingham, Dana & Gould in Boston.
>
>He has written and lectured extensively in the United States and abroad
>on the relationship between international law and politics. His eighth
>book, Destroying World Order, was recently published by Clarity Press.
>An earlier book, Defending Civil Resistance Under International Law, has
>been used successfully in numerous foreign policy protest trials. In the
>September 2000 issue of the prestigious The International History
>Review, Professor Boyle's Foundations of World Order: The Legalist
>Approach to International Relations (1898-1922) was proclaimed as "a
>major contribution to this reinterrogation of the past" and "required
>reading for historians, political scientists, international relations
>specialists, and policy-makers." That book was translated into Korean
>and published in Korea in 2003 by Pakyoungsa Press.
>
>References for those wishing to know more about Carl Schmitt.
>Law as Politics: Carl Schmitt's Critique of Liberalism
><http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0149-7952(200002)23%3A1%3C157%3>  by
>David Dyzenhaus
>Author(s) of Review: Steven T. Ostovich German Studies Review, Vol. 23,
>No. 1 (Feb., 2000), pp. 157-158 doi:10.2307/1431462
>
>July 11, 1888 in History Born: Carl Schmitt, German nazi-lawyer,
>Verfassungslehre
><http://www.brainyhistory.com/events/1888/july_11_1888_62644.html>
>
>Carl Schmitt, Crown Jurist of the Thrid Reich: On Preemptive War,
>Military Occupation, And World Empire
><http://www.amazon.com/Schmitt-Crown-Jurist-Third-Reich/dp/0773461124>
>(Studies in Political Science) (Hardcover)
>by Peter M. R. Stirk (Author) Edwin Mellen Press (October 25, 2005)
>
>Carl Schmitt and the Jews The "Jewish Question," the Holocaust,
>and German Legal Theory,
><http://www.wisc.edu/wisconsinpress/books/2940.htm>  Raphael Gross
>Translated by Joel Golb
>Foreword by Peter C. Caldwell, George L. Mosse Series in Modern European
>Cultural and Intellectual History, A conclusive reexamination of
>antisemitism in the life and work of controversial German legal and
>political theorist Carl Schmitt
>
>The New York Times
><http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/13/books/review/013FUKUYA.html?pagewante
>d=2&ei=5090&en=b034755ae025b76e&ex=1268370000&partner=rssuserland>  book
>review, By FRANCIS FUKUYAMA Published: March 13, 2005
>
>Paragraphs where Francis Fukuyama writes about Max Weber and "The
>Calvanist Manifesto" and fails to properly identify Carl Schmitt as a
>Nazi.
>
>Carl Fukuyama: "One might even take a broader view of what constitutes
>religion and charismatic authority. The past century was marked by what
>the German theorist Carl Schmitt labeled ''political-theological''
>movements, like Nazism and Marxism-Leninism, that were based on
>passionate commitments to ultimately irrational beliefs. Marxism claimed
>to be scientific, but its real-world adherents followed leaders like
>Lenin, Stalin or Mao with the kind of blind commitment to authority that
>is psychologically indistinguishable from religious passion. (During the
>Cultural Revolution in China, a person had to be careful about what he
>did with old newspapers; if a paper contained a picture of Mao and one
>sat on the holy image or used the newspaper to wrap a fish, one was in
>danger of being named a counterrevolutionary.)"
>
>Dori @ 9:07 pm
>Filed under: Audio <http://talknationradio.com/?cat=1>
>No Comments <http://talknationradio.com/?p=97#comments>
>Law Professor Francis A. Boyle on Resistance to the Neocon Plan for
>Wider War in the MidEast <http://talknationradio.com/?p=96>
>
>Posted on Thursday 23 August 2007
>
>
>Talk Nation Radio for August 22, 2007
>
>Law Professor Francis A. Boyle of the University of Illinois on
>Resistance to the Neocon Plan for Wider War in the MidEast
>
>Produced by Dori Smith at WHUS at the University of Connecticut in
>Storrs, CT. Taped at WWUH at the University of Hartford in West
>Hartford, CT.
>
>Special thanks to Mike DeRosa, WHUS Public Affairs Director
><http://www.wwuh.org/program/articles/julaug99/derosa.htm>
>
>Listen to the Audio here
><http://www.archive.org/download/LawProfFrancisA.BoyleTalksAboutHisNewBo
>okProtestingPowerWar/2007-07-23-64-FrancisABoyle-More-On-Guns-of-August_
>64kb.mp3>
>
>TRT: 29:30 music fades
>Download at Pacifica's Audioport at
>http://www.audioport.org/index.php?op=program-info&program_id=13247&nav=
>type&session=619bb7b86f86b02b47cae6a136544155&
>Or http://www.radio4all.net <http://www.radio4all.net/>  in 64 bitrate
>
>In September of 2007 Professor Boyle warned about the guns of August
><http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17109.htm>  -the
>possibility that the Bush administration and Neocons will get their war
>against Iran.
>
>August has arrived. There has been a breakthrough agreement with the
>IAEA, International Atomic Energy Agency
><http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/library/news/iran/2007/iran-070713-ir
>na01.htm> . Negotiators say it will diffuse Western tensions about
>Iran's nuclear potential. Yet, the Administration has rejected
><http://news.monstersandcritics.com/middleeast/news/article_1346352.php/
>US_criticism_of_IAEA-Iran_deal_unhelpful_diplomats_say>  it-A move Boyle
>sees as further evidence that they do not want negotiations to succeed.
>
>Another US Naval carrier has arrived in the Persian Gulf. And
>Neoconservatives have had an increasing presence in the media including
>a visit from former Director of CIA James Woolsey
><http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/1391>  to CNN where he called
>for US air strikes on Iran. (Lou Dobb's show, August 14, 2007)
>
>Boyle continues to advise and defend civil resisters like Camilio Mejia
>and other war resisters such as Ehren Watada, a First Lieutenant (1LT)
>of the US Army who in June 2006 publicly refused to deploy to Iraq.
>(Wiki)
>
>Boyle's most recent book Protesting Power: War, Resistance, and Law
><http://www.rowmanlittlefield.com/Catalog/SingleBook.shtml?command=Searc
>h&db=^DB/CATALOG.db&eqSKUdata=0742538923>  was written as a tool for all
>who protest and need legal information and political insights. The book
>has been described as a clarion call to citizen action against Bush
>administration policies in the US and other countries.
>
>For more information about this book, See:
>http://www.RowmanLittlefield.com/ISBN/0742538923
>
>http://www.whus.org <http://www.whus.org/>  to listen live Wed. at 5 PM
>
>Music by Fritz Heede <http://www.fritzheede.com/>  with Guitar Riffs
>from Bruce Cockburn
>
>
>Francis A. Boyle
>Law Building
>504 E. Pennsylvania Ave.
>Champaign, IL 61820 USA
>217-333-7954 (Voice)
>217-244-1478 (Fax)
>(personal comments only)
>
>

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