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Goatse
26th September 2006, 00:19
Does anyone have a list handy of crimes of US presidents, sorted by the president in question?
Thanks.
Whitten
26th September 2006, 00:28
I assume you mean older than George W Bush?
A few big ones:
Truman - Deliberate and unnecessary targetting and murder of hundreds of thousnadns of innocent civilians with the nuclear strikes on Japan.
JFK - Illegal (failed) invasion attempt on Cuba
Johnson, Nixon and probably others - The US military frequently Napalmed villages in the Vietnam war.
Reagan - Nicaragua, funding and supplying terrorist groups in south and central america, Grenada, violation of countless diplomatic treaties.
Goatse
26th September 2006, 00:30
Any.
RedCommieBear
26th September 2006, 00:52
Andrew Jackson (and the state of Georgia)ignored a Supreme Court ruling that ruled against indian removal. Link (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worcester_v._Georgia)
The Alien and Sedition acts of 1798 voided the 1st Amendment and the right of free speech. Link (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_%26_Sedition_Acts)
Speaking of Sedition acts, The Espionage Act of 1917 and the Sedition act of 1918 both limited political dissent, and led to the imprisonment of Eugene V. Debs.
Those were the only ones I could think of at the moment...
overthrowthebeast726
26th September 2006, 23:04
What about Abe Lincoln suspending the writ of habeas corpus during the Civil War?
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