Text of faxed letter of 10 July 2009:T
President of the USA Barack Hussein
Obama
President of the Islamic Republic of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Secretary General of the UN Ban Ki Moon
Citizen of the USA Stephen M. St. John brings to the attention of the presidents of the USA and Iran and the Secretary General
of the UN a disturbing call for sabotage against Iran for the purpose of regime change by former Speaker of the US House of
Representatives Newt Gingrich during an Al Jazeera interview (http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2009/07/20097105813472179.html).
Such
a call for violent terrorist acts deserves strong condemnation by all peace loving people because national and international
laws forbid resort to criminal acts for political gains.
Citizen St. John reminds the presidents of the USA and Iran
and the Secretary General of the equal applicability of the 2nd Circuit appellate decision (Judges Newman, Leval and Parker)
with respect to Sheikh Omar Abdur Rahman to the current crime of Newt Gingrich: "Words of this nature -- ones that
instruct, solicit or persuade others to commit crimes of violence -- violate the law and may be properly prosecuted regardless
of whether they are uttered in private, or in a public speech, or in administering the duties of a religious ministry."
Furthermore, Citizen
St. John points to Article 2.3 of the Charter of the United Nations which prohibits "the threat or use of force against
the territorial integrity or political independence of any state," which the UK and the USA violated with the overthrow
of the Mossadegh regime in 1953 and threaten to do so again with the overthrow of the Ahmadinejad regime in the coming months
or years.
Stephen
M. St. John
