Restraining Order against Bush Denied
A federal judge on Wednesday denied a former Republican congressional candidate’s request for a restraining order barring President Bush or Vice President Richard Cheney from bombing Iran or Syria.
Mary Maxwell, 59, of 179 Loudon Road, Apt. 10, Concord, filed a lawsuit Monday against Bush, Cheney and other “unnamed defendants actively engaging in acts of war against Iran and Syria in the guise of the war against terrorism.”
Maxwell’s suit seeks a ruling that the administration lacks legal authority to pre-emptively attack either Iran or Syria without a Congressional declaration of war, and that radioactive fallout from the use of nuclear weapons in any such attack would endanger people around the world, including herself.
Maxwell was one of two candidates who unsuccessfully challenged six-term Republican incumbent Congressman Charles Bass in the primary election last week.
One of Maxwell’s points, and one on which she feels she has standing, is that she (and everyone eles) would suffer the effects of nuclear fallout from dropped nuclear bombs. That’s in addition to the illegality of Congress handing over power to the Bush admiminisration to be able to declare war.
But because no personal harm has been demonstrated (yet), the courts will not bring her case forward.
It’s too bad that death and destruction have to happen FIRST before any action can be taken to stop these destructive illegal acts of aggression.
Deanna Dee-Dee Taylor 