[GJM] Ltr to Pres. Bush on Exclusion Order of World Citizen Garry Davis
Norman Kurland
thirdway at cesj.org
Mon Jul 17 16:13:04 MDT 2006
Garry,
For whatever good it does, attached is the letter I'm about to put in
the mailbox to President Bush on your behalf.
Let's continue to have fun in turning this world right-side up,
delivering justice with a smile.
Norm
Garry Davis wrote:
> Dear Norm,
> I am deeply appreciative of your response to my recent emails.
> Speaking truth to power is always not only the individual's sovereign
> right but is fun also. You are one of those rare sprites who enjoy
> both aspects of earthly existence. It takes one to know one.
> Warmly,
> Garry
>
>
>
>
> Garry Davis wrote:
>
>
>
> World Government House
> 6 Ledoux Terrace, South Burlington, VT 05403 —(802) 864-6818;
> Fax 802) 862-3744
>
> Director Email:worldlaw at globalnetisp.net
> Garry Davis www.worldservice.org
>
>
> George W. Bush July 6, 2006
> 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
> Washington, DC 20500
>
> George Bush,
>
> So now you are 60. First off, George, know I am a full
> generation ahead of you, I will be 85 on July 27th, old enough
> to be your father.
> When you were two year’s old, following World War II, after
> serving as a B-17 bomber pilot, I renounced the exclusivity of
> nationalism according to US laws and, following Tom Paine’s
> famous words that “My country is the world, “ declared myself
> a “citizen of the world.” In brief I unilaterally opted out of
> the nationalistic war game at the same time exercising my
> inalienable right of political choice. (www.garrydavis.org).
> Fifty-eight years later your Department of Homeland Security
> is now threatening me with “removal from the United
> States”...”and that I “may be taken into custody to effect
> your removal.” (See letter appended).
> When returning from Montreal on May 28th, after dining with my
> two children, I was detained at the Highgate Springs. VT
> border for two hours. After being fingerprinted (again) I was
> temporarily “paroled” into the United States. A hearing was
> scheduled for June 28th for a “Deferred Inspection.” I did not
> attend the June 28th hearing for reasons described below. On
> June 29th, therefore, I received the order to appear for a
> “Deferred Inspection” at Highgate Springs. VT POE to determine
> my “parole status” in the United States. That I have resided
> in the US since 1979, live in South Burlington, VT, own my own
> house, possess a VT driving license—was born at Bar Harbor,
> Maine, facts fully known by the Immigration officials at the
> scene (one even asking me whether I still issued the World
> Passport!)— I was released with the admonition that the same
> procedure would result every time I returned from Canada where
> two of my children live
> My reason for not attending the June 28th interview goes back
> to my entry at Dulles Airport from Heathrow, UK in 1979 when I
> presented as my travel document the World Service Authority*
> passport to INS officials. My statement at the time was that I
> was entering the United States by virtue of Article 13(2) of
> the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: “Everyone has the
> right to leave any country, including his own, and to return
> to his country.” And the Ninth Amendment of the US
> Constitution: “The enumeration in the Constitution of certain
> rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others
> retained by the people.”
> I was rejected by Immigration Judge Bobeck and classified “an
> excludable alien.”
> I appealed this decision up to and including the US Supreme
> Court. Without going into the details, the Supreme Court
> denied my Writ of Certiorari and Petition for Rehearing (See
> www.worldservice.org/wsal.htm) which in effect confirmed the
> lower level court decisions that I was legally an “excludable
> alien.” The law required that I be summarily excluded while
> being detained.
> The Immigration and Naturalization Service, however, neither
> excluded nor detained me: a stateless person born in the US is
> unexcludable and permanent arbitrary detention is a violation
> of Article 9 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights to
> which the United States is a signatory nation. (I enclose
> copies of similar past “Orders” of the INS which resulted in
> no further action on the part of your government.)
> Since that time I have traveled to Jamaica, Haiti, India,
> China, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore and Mexico always
> with the World Passport. Upon my reentry to the US , the INS
> has either waved me in or issued to me the very same “Order to
> Appear” which I possess now however, under the aegis of the
> recently formed “Department of Homeland Security.”
> Moreover, on two separate occasions, the INS physically forced
> me into the US, once when aboard the SS Queen Mary and once
> from a Northwest plane at Seattle, Washington arriving from
> Tokyo, Japan.
> In addition, I enclose correspondence under Department of
> State letterheads confirming my legal reentry to the US on
> other occasions.
>
> Regarding the present HS order, in 1989, the Tokyo World
> Service Authority office under my direction had been issuing
> human rights documents to “alien” workers from Southeast Asia
> for over a year. While not closing the WSA district office,
> the Japanese authorities informed the US Embassy that it had
> detained me, “an American citizen” for deportation back to the
> USA. Unable to accept an “excludable alien,” however, the
> State Department, in collusion with the INS, arbitrarily
> changed my status from “excludable alien” to “indefinite
> parolee in the public interest” under the authority of then
> Secretary of State Lawrence S. Eagleberger. There was no court
> procedure in this unilateral decision.
> Forced onto a Northwest Airline plane by the Japanese
> Department of Justice, I was then admitted into the United
> States on August 9, 1990 as an “indefinite parolee in the
> public interest” under Section 273(b) of the Immigration and
> Nationality Act. (See letter appended from the U.S. Embassy in
> Tokyo, signed by the Consul General.)
> These facts do not appear in the INS computer file on me as I
> personally witnessed at Highgate. In brief, that arbitrary
> status change-over was never recorded in the INS file on me.
> All the above documented facts are illustrative of the
> breakdown of national laws plus violations of fundamental
> human rights in consideration of one who legitimately claims
> the sovereign status of a World Citizen. Moreover this global
> civic status is sanctioned by articles 15(2), 21(3) and 28 of
> the Universal Declaration of Human Right to which the United
> States is an original signatory nation.
>
> Now I want to write to you as “father” to son, George. Not
> only as a former World War II bomber pilot who lost an elder
> brother during that war, but as a spokesperson for all war
> veterans from whatever nation or whatever war, past and
> present and especially for the civilian victims we killed in
> the name of “national security.”
> I speak even for you, George, who, though a veteran, never
> actually fought in a war.
> Like your biological father, (whom incidentally I “ran”
> against in 1988 after my mayoralty campaign in 1986: see
> documents enclosed), you are fundamentally mistaken re your
> “foreign” policies. A deadly example: Both you and Bush Sr.
> knew that the use of depleted uranium was a killer of innocent
> civilians by the tens, maybe hundreds of thousands. And due to
> its radioactivity would go on killing for tens of thousands of
> years. You can plead neither innocence nor “for security of
> Americans.” (“Gulf War Syndrome” is a direct result for
> American veterans.) British scientists recently reported
> depleted uranium "is no longer confined to the Mideast, where
> these weapons have been used: air-borne radioactive
> nanoparticles are now detectable worldwide". US soldiers, now
> fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, are being “nuked” by DU, as
> are the entire civilian populations.
> If the Nuremberg Principles are part of “international law” as
> are the Geneva Conventions, then you, George, are thus guilty
> of willful “murder.” As for your “place in history,”
> considering your ongoing first-strike nuclear and preemptive
> war policy, if those nuclear bombs at your fingertips are
> detonated, there may not be any history for you to have a
> place in. Threatening humanity with a nuclear holocaust places
> you in the forefront of history’s potential mass killers. Who
> do you consider an “enemy of humanity” George, if not one
> ready, willing and able to wipe humanity from the face of the
> earth? But worse, a nuclear holocaust may kill most or all
> other living matter on the planet and add exponentially to
> global warming..
> This would be a crime of cosmic proportions.
> And as the world knows, you enjoy your present position of
> possibly ultimate human power, George, not as you claim
> because God wants you to be US president but due to the narrow
> vote of an obsequious Supreme Court in 2001.
> George, as a World Citizen and Coordinator of a legitimate
> government of fellow citizens worldwide, (Article 21[3], UDHR)
> I have sent you a registered letter May 1, 2006, as to the
> eight other heads of state who likewise officially condone the
> nuclear option, of our intention to take you collectively to
> court as “war criminals” and guilty of potential genocide
> (omnicide). (Copy enclosed) The recent Supreme Court decision
> citing “international law” (specifically the Geneva
> Conventions) as nullifying your alleged right as president to
> act unilaterally outside the legal national framework provides
> a historic breakthrough for world law itself as the only
> countervailing legal remedy to the anarchy between nations
> which breed wars.
>
> However you may think of yourself and those advising you as
> all-powerful, I remind you that the people are sovereign as
> the first three words in your Constitution affirm. Moreover,
> as the 8 humans on the Space Station circling the earth every
> 29 minutes can visibly attest — the ultimate sovereign on this
> tiny globe we call “home” is humanity itself.**
>
> Einstein wrote that “Our world faces a crisis as yet
> unperceived by those possessing the power to make great
> decisions for good and evil, The unleashed power of the atom
> has changed everything save our modes of thinking and thus we
> drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.”
>
> . In short, our common crisis is real, immediate and global.
>
> At 60, hopefully one begins to realize how brief our earthly
> time really is and thus how the eloquent formula “Life,
> Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness” for one and all
> embraces the wisdom and love of humankind itself.
>
>
> Sincerely,
>
>
> Garry Davis
> World Citizen
> Enclosures
> Cc: Kofi Annan
> Richard Cheney
> Donald Rumsfeld
> Condoleezza Rice
> Alberto R. Gonzales
> Michael Chertoff
> Patrick Leahy
> James Jeffords
> Bernie Sanders
> Area Port Director, Highgate Springs, VT
> Coordinators: World Commissions
> Heads of nuclear states
> World Media
>
> *See (www.worldservice.org)
> **The Earth itself is of course the ultimate “sovereign.”
>
>
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