Final Verdict is Rendered in First Common Law Court Case against the Vatican and Canada for Genocide

Final Verdict is Rendered in First Common Law Court Case against the Vatican and Canada for Genocide

Pope, Queen and Canadian Prime Minister found Guilty of Crimes against Humanity and Sentenced to Twenty Five Year Prison Terms

Court Orders them to Surrender by March 4 or face Citizens' Arrests

http://itccs.org/2013/02/25/guilty/

Brussels:

Pope Benedict will go to jail for twenty five years for his role in Crimes against Humanity, and Vatican wealth and property is to be seized, according to today's historic verdict of the International Common Law Court of Justice.

The Brussels-based Court handed down a unanimous guilty verdict from its Citizen Jurors and ordered the citizens' arrest of thirty Defendants commencing March 4 in a Court Order issued to them today.

The verdict read in part,

"We the Citizen Jury find that the Defendants in this case are guilty of the two indictments, that is, they are guilty of committing or aiding and abetting Crimes against Humanity, and of being part of an ongoing Criminal Conspiracy"

The Jury ruled that each Defendant receive a mandatory twenty five year prison sentence without parole, and have all their personal assets seized.

The Court went on to declare in its Order No. 022513-001,

"The Defendants are ordered to surrender themselves voluntarily to Peace Officers and Agents authorized by this COURT, having been found Guilty as charged.

"The Defendants have seven days from the issuing of this ORDER, until March 4, 2103, to comply. After March 4, 2013, an International Arrest Warrant will be issued against these Defendants".

The guilty parties include Elizabeth Windsor, Queen of England, Stephen Harper, Prime Minister of Canada, and the head officers of the Catholic, Anglican and United Church of Canada. (A complete copy of the Verdict, the Court Order and a list of the Defendants is enclosed on the accompanying you tube link).

The guilty verdict followed nearly a month of deliberations by more than thirty sworn Citizen Jurors of the 150 case exhibits produced by Court Prosecutors.

These exhibits detailed irrefutable proof of a massive criminal conspiracy by the Defendants' institutions to commit and conceal Genocide on generations of children in so-called Indian residential schools across Canada.

None of the Defendants challenged or disputed a Public Summons issued to them last September; nor did they deny the charges made against them, or offer counter evidence to the Court.

"Their silence told me a lot. Why wouldn't innocent people defend their own reputation when accused of such horrible things?" commented one Juror, based in England.

"These crimes were aimed at children, and were a cold and calculated plan to wipe out Indians who weren't Christians. And the defendants clearly are still covering up this crime. So we felt we had to do more than slap their wrist. The whole reign of terror by state-backed churches that are above the law has to end, because children still suffer from it".

The Court's judgement declares the wealth and property of the churches responsible for the Canadian genocide to be forfeited and placed under public ownership, as reparations for the families of the more than 50,000 children who died in the residential schools.

To enforce its sentence, the Court has empowered citizens in Canada, the United States, England, Italy and a dozen other nations to act as its legal agents armed with warrants, and peacefully occupy and seize properties of the Roman Catholic, Anglican and United Church of Canada, which are the main agents in the deaths of these children.

"This sentence gives a legal foundation and legitimacy to the church occupations that have already begun by victims of church torture around the world" commented Kevin Annett, the chief adviser to the Prosecutor's Office, who presented its case to the world. (see www.itccs.org, November 6 and January 30 postings)

"The verdict of the Court is clearly that these criminal church bodies are to be legally and practically disestablished, and their stolen wealth reclaimed by the people. Justice has finally begun to be be served. The dead can now rest more easily."

Court officers are delivering the Order to all the Defendants this week, including to the Canadian Prime Minister, the Queen of England and to Joseph Ratzinger, the retiring Pope Benedict who is avoiding arrest within the Vatican after suddenly resigning two weeks ago.

The citizens' arrests of these and other Defendants will commence on March 4 if they do not surrender themselves and their assets, as per the Court Order.

These actions will be filmed and posted at here in the coming week, along with further updates from the Court and its Citizen Agents.

Please see the accompanying you tube video.

Issued by the Central Office,
The International Tribunal into Crimes of Church and State

25 February, 2013

Brussels

Dr Bea testify on BP trial

Witness in Gulf oil spill trial charges BP had flawed safety record

Oil collects in a boom at Pass a Loutre on June 11, 2010. (Photo by NOLA.com | Times-Picayune archives)

By Richard Thompson, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune 
on February 26, 2013 at 4:00 PM, updated February 26, 2013 at 5:54 PM

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The BP oil spill trial's second day featured testimony from retired University of California-Berkeley civil and petroleum engineering professor Robert Bea, who was called by the Plaintiffs' Steering Committee to discuss how BP's safety record compares with industry standards.
During questioning from plaintiffs' attorney Robert Cunningham, the 76-year-old Bea testified Tuesday that he had warned BP executives multiple times about improving the British oil giant's safety procedures, beginning as early as 2001.
The failure to act fell squarely on the "upper leadership and management of the corporation," Bea said, "not just on the rig but the system, all the way onshore."
Despite the risk of drilling in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico, Bea testified that BP had not put in place its new operating management system -- which the company has described as a major improvement in safety management -- at the Macondo operation, which exploded in April 2010, killing 11 people and sending oil gushing into the Gulf. BP describes the system, implemented in 2008, as its "guiding principles and requirements for safe, reliable and compliant operations."
BP developed the system in the wake of a 2005 explosion at its Texas City refinery, which killed 15 people and injured 180 others.
In a pretrial deposition, former BP CEO Tony Hayward, who stepped down in October 2010, was asked whether the Deepwater Horizon disaster could have been avoided if the operating system had been implemented in the Gulf before April 2010.
"There is possible potential. Undoubtedly," Hayward said, according to portions of a deposition discussed Tuesday.
Asked to characterize BP's failure to implement the process safety system across the board on its drilling operations in the Gulf, Bea didn't mince words.
"Tragic. Egregious," he said.

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BP attorney Robert "Mike" Brock sought to poke holes in Bea's testimony as questioning continued into the afternoon.
Brock contended that Bea's background, which includes numerous stints as consultant to BP, was proof in itself that the oil company was working to improve its safety culture.
Brock also cited and discussed a plethora of internal and public BP documents, ranging from press releases to speech transcripts and email correspondence between BP executives and their partners in the Macondo oil well to show that safety was on the forefront of their minds, and that the operating management system in question was implemented in the deepwater Gulf by late 2009.
Bea, who lived in New Orleans in 1965 and lost his home to storm surge during Hurricane Betsy, is best known in the city for his role as the head of a forensic investigation team supported by the National Science Foundation after Hurricane Katrina. The team published an extensive report outlining how portions of the levee system failed as a result of improper engineering decisions by the Army Corps of Engineers.
Afterward, Bea was used as an expert witness by plaintiffs' attorneys in several portions of the complex litigation aimed at getting the corps to pay damages for the thousands of businesses and homes flooded during the storm.
Bea's work experience includes 16 years with various divisions of Shell Oil, including stints studying offshore accidents; five years as a vice president with Woodward-Clyde Consultants, and eight years as a vice president with engineering giant Bechtel Inc., before joining the university in 1989.
Immediately after the Macondo well blowout, Bea assembled a team of more than 60 experts and researchers to analyze the failures about the Deepwater Horizon rig and among BP's partners in the ill-fated venture.
But by the time Bea had finished his work, BP's own internal investigation into the fatal oil well blowout, completed by its safety chief Mark Bly and a team of 50 investigators mostly from within BP, had already pinned much of the blame on contractors. President Barack Obama's appointed Oil Spill Commission and others had also honed in on ways of improving offshore drilling.
Bea, in his testimony Tuesday, said that Bly's investigation was incomplete because it had not zeroed in on the root cause of the accident once the sequence of events leading up to it was determined.
Instead, his own expert report, which Beau and William Gale, a California-based fire and explosion investigator and consultant, submitted to the court, said that BP's drilling operations "violated industry-accepted process safety and risk management standards and even its own group-defined standards and practices."
On Tuesday, Bea described process safety as a "set of approaches and strategies who's goal is the prevention of catastrophic failures involving complex engineered, human-based systems." BP's Macondo oil well was over-budget and behind schedule, he said.
Bea's report said that even though BP executives "knew that an uncontrolled, deepwater blowout was one of its highest risks within the organization," the company refused to assess the potential of that happening. Transocean, which owned the rig and supplied the crew to BP, was not required to do so, according to the report.
BP emphasized cost-cutting over safety, according to the report, echoing a common refrain during opening statements Monday. BP officials were focused on "'slashing management layers' and embedding an 'every dollar counts' culture in the organization," Bea and Gale wrote in the August 2011 report.
The Plaintiffs' Steering Committee is expected to play portions of Hayward's deposition for the judge, probably next week.