Head’s Up Bush Regime: Ohio Has Citizen’s Arrest Rights

[Joanne98]

Jul 29th, 2008 • Category: Web-Only Content ShareThis
By Laura Robeson - Managing Editor

I was very intrigued by the recent story of 4 people being arrested in Iowa for trying to make a citizen’s arrest of Karl Rove. I mean seriously — what a brilliant idea! I decided to look up in the Ohio Revised Code to see what the local laws are, and indeed we are entitled to make citizen arrests:

2935.04 When any person may arrest
When a felony has been committed, or there is reasonable ground to believe that a felony has been committed, any person without a warrant may arrest another whom he has reasonable cause to believe is guilty of the offense, and detain him until a warrant can be obtained.

2935.06 Private person making arrest
A private person who has made an arrest pursuant to section 2935.04 of the Revised Code or detention pursuant to section 2935.041 of the Revised Code shall forthwith take the person arrested before the most convenient judge or clerk of a court of record or before a magistrate, or deliver such person to an officer authorized to execute criminal warrants who shall, without unnecessary delay, take such person before the court or magistrate having jurisdiction of the offense. The officer may, but if he does not, the private person shall file or cause to be filed in such court or before such magistrate an affidavit stating the offense for which the person was arrested.

Ohio is going to be very active in the next few months as the election gets closer. I say it’s time we start exercising our citizen’s arrest rights, what a powerful tool we have that we aren’t using!
That means if any member of the Bush Administration (war crimes, 9/11, etc.), John McCain (FEC violations), etc. even steps foot in Ohio — we can get them.

Here are a few felonies to start with (and this is only Bush):
ILLEGAL WAR
George W. Bush has intentionally misled the Congress and the public regarding the threat from Iraq in order to justify a war against Iraq, intentionally conspired with others to defraud the United States in connection with the war against Iraq in violation of Title 18 United States Code, Section 371;
ILLEGAL SPYING
George W. Bush has admitted to ordering the National Security Agency to conduct electronic surveillance of American civilians without seeking warrants from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review, duly constituted by Congress in 1978, in violation of Title 50 United States Code, Section 1805;
GENEVA CONVENTION VIOLATIONS
George W. Bush has conspired to commit the torture of prisoners in violation of the “Federal Torture Act” Title 18 United States Code, Section 113C, the UN Torture convention and the Geneva Convention, which under Article VI of the Constitution are part of the “supreme Law of the Land;”

George W. Bush has conspired to deny due process to prisoners of war, indiscriminantly bomb cities, transfer prisoners of war from an occupied territory, and planned, prepared, initiated and waged of a war of aggression in violation of U.S. Military Code section 2441, Geneva convention (I Art 3, II Art 18, Art 19, III Art 13, Art 17, Art 33, Art 34, Art 49, IV Art 3), and the 1945 Nuremberg Principles articles 6(a) and (b);

ILLEGAL DETENTION
George W. Bush has acted to strip Americans of their constitutional rights by ordering indefinite detention of citizens, without access to legal counsel, without charge and without opportunity to appear before a civil judicial officer to challenge the detention, based solely on the discretionary designation by the President of a U.S. citizen as an “enemy combatant”, all in subversion of law;
ILLEGAL RELEASE OF CLASSIFIED INFORMATION
George W. Bush authorized the leaking classified national secrets to further a political agenda, exposing an unknown number of covert U. S. intelligence agents to potential harm and retribution while simultaneously refusing to investigate the matter;
ILLEGAL FREEZING OF ACCOUNTS AND RESTRICTION TO FREEDOM OF ASSEMBLY
George W. Bush ordered the freezing of financial accounts without limit to how groups were chosen to be on such a list, and further sets forth that he ordered himself the power to create blacklists of any individual he felt was associated with the aforementioned groups. Thereby creating a system of “guilt by association.”
ILLEGAL USE OF SIGNING STATEMENTS
George W. Bush has attached signing statements to more than one hundred bills before signing them, within which he has made over eleven hundred challenges to provisions of laws passed by Congress, a figure that exceeds the total number of such challenges by all previous presidents combined, and has used this practice to exempt himself, as President of the United States, from enforcing or from being held accountable to provisions of the said laws. By declining to veto bills, and instead attaching signing statements challenging hundreds of laws passed by Congress, he has sought to exempt the executive branch from accountability to said laws, thereby violating Article 1, Section 7 and Article II, Section 3 of the U.S. Constitution. These articles of the Constitution dictate that the president has the option of signing or vetoing a bill, and upon signing the bill to “take care that the laws be faithfully executed.”

It’s time to take matters into our own hands. It’s obvious Congress (with a few notable members) has NO intention of holding the Bush Regime accountable for any of their crimes. So what say ye, my fellow Ohioans, ready to roll up your sleeves and fill up our prisons?



http://www.thelibertyvoice.com/?p=44

Drill drill drill!

[Wizard777]

1. Yes but when the police and SS try to prevent the arrests. Will they be smart enough to say?

You're under arrest for Obstruction of Justice.

[damntexdem]

3. That's the point: Dubya and Darth Cheney will have SS protection.

That would make it very tricky -- as in impossible.

Now, lesser criminals among the Bushistas, that might be different.

[jtrockville]

2. Go get 'em Ohio!

[IDemo]

4. Iowa has citizen's arrest rights as well

Looks like the cops screwed up there.

804.9 Arrests by private persons.

A private person may make an arrest:
1. For a public offense committed or attempted in the person’s presence.
2. When a felony has been committed, and the person has reasonable ground for believing that the person to be arrested has committed it.

[Joanne98]

5. Go Iowa!