Sometimes I wonder if I’m speaking English. What seems so crystal clear to me, and always did, is not reaching the man or woman on the street, going about shopping, going to work, taking the kids to soccer practice, whatever. George Bush has declared wartime powers in a war he says has “no end.” What is it that folks aren’t getting about this?
I know I’m a political junkie, and follow the game more closely than the average Joe. But you don’t need to be a sports nut to know when you’ve witnessed a history-making grand slam. You don’t need to know the game at the level of body language. You know you’ve just seen something breathtaking. Radical. Record-breaking. Never-before-witnessed-by-human-beings.
What Bush has done changes the relationship between government and the people once and for all, no matter who’s in charge. Could be a Democrat. Could be a Republican. Could be none of the above.
Never again will you have what Thomas Jefferson called the “inalienable right” to a “speedy and public trial” by a jury of your peers. Never again will you have the freedom from “unreasonable search and seizure.” The law of the land, the Constitution, is not the law of the land anymore. [Read more →]
A direct appeal from Gov. Don Seigelman, important because if they hold Karl Rove in inherent contempt he will either testify or be arrested. Either one is a good step toward impeachment. This one takes 30 seconds and goes straight to your congressman, so it’s worth filling out.
After you’ve done that don’t forget to sign up at the Phone Blockade, we’ll tie up their lines until they do the right thing and impeach!
From Military.com Disabled Sent Back To War
Tom Philpott | June 19, 2008
One day last August, while manning the .50-caliber gun atop his a Humvee on a dirt road in northern Iraq, Army Spc. Daniel “Joey” Haun suddenly lost consciousness. His vehicle had struck by a buried bomb, an “improvised explosive device.” Haun was ejected, his vehicle flipped over.
On impact with the ground, Haun’s left hand was driven up toward his forearm, crushing his wrist. The surgeon who rebuilt the wrist, using a metal plate and screws, told Haun last year that his infantry days were over…MORE
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In the hullaballoo over whether Bush really said whether or not there was a link between Saddam and 9/11, in the run-up to the Iraq War, an impeachable offense, we can all stop arguing.
The Authorization to Use Force Against Iraq REQUIRED Bush to certify a link between Saddam and 9/11:
–”I have also determined that the use of armed force against Iraq is consistent with the United States and other countries continuing to take the necessary actions against international terrorists and terrorist organizations, including those nations, organizations, or persons who planned, authorized, committed, or aided the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001.” -George Bush, certification to Congress to authorize the use of force in Iraq, March 23, 2003
“Armed force against Iraq is consistent with”…actions against…nations…who…aided the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11,” is what that sentence reads, with the lawyerly gobbledygook stripped out. In other words, Saddam “aided” 9/11.
Did he lie? Forgery or no forgery, on Sept. 18, 2003, on Meet the Press, Bush said:
–”No, we’ve had no evidence that Saddam Hussein was involved with September the 11th.
Stop the presses. Do not pass go. Either Saddam “aided” the attacks on 9/11, or he didn’t. That requires impeachment proceedings, for something a heck of a lot more important than lipstick on underwear. No “plausible deniability” here.
Congress and Fox newscasters may not be paying attention to these plain, simple facts, but historians certainly will. And historians will label us The Dumbest Generation for our grandchildren. Ron Suskind’s alleged forgery may be ADDITIONAL evidence that Bush lied us into war, but it isn’t by a looong shot the only evidence.
One of the most commonly-heard refrains from naysayers on impeachment is: It’s already August. There is no time.
This is flatly wrong. Yes, it is late in the term, and unusual at this point to punish a president’s crimes. What is more unusual is the sheer magnitude and number of the crimes of this president, which demands impeachment if not war crimes trials later. It took Nixon less than a week-and-a-half to resign after the House Judiciary Committee adopted a single article of impeachment, on obstruction of justice. Bush ordering members of his administration, like Karl Rove, to defy subpoenas is obstruction of justice, and is alone enough to impeach. There is time aplenty. The missing ingredient is political will.
Were the Judiciary to convene hearings on two articles related to the above, and be forced to take a vote, the phones would start ringing off the hooks from Republican voters, Democratic voters, and everyone in between. If you don’t believe it go to a few conservative websites like those concerned with illegal immigration, and search “impeachment.” The dynamics of the “votes aren’t there” will change once people find out that something is in the works.
The truth is, the Congress has no clothes on impeachment. This is one of those cases in which the biggest obstacle to understanding how something can happen is…it’s too easy. What isn’t easy is putting the fear of God into congressmen who want to keep their jobs, in order to force them to do the right thing. But it can be done. One real effective way is to go through their corporate campaign contributors and email them that you will not be buying whatever they are selling as long as they give money to this treasonous congressman who won’t do his duty to impeach. Then copy the email to your treasonous congress-critter. These people are nothing without the money behind them, so we’re going after the money. The language everyone understands.
Some have the impression that these kinds of historic events are a long, drawn out process. They are not always. Remember when the Berlin Wall fell? The fall of tyrants tends to unfold quickly. One minute the news is inflation and gas prices, then suddenly you are watching people with pieces of the Wall dancing and cheering on television. The Wall was the one stone cold reality in the world that would never change, and suddenly, it’s down. It all happened so fast it made your head spin! That’s what impeachment will be like, if we keep up the pressure, and double it, and double it again, now.
With the Judge Bates ruling against immunity for Harriet Meirs, and ruling that “executive privilege” claims are invalid against orders to produce certain documents, it is clear that congress has no business going into recess in the middle of a constitutional crisis. They have just been handed a major victory, by a Bush appointee, no less. Republicans of integrity are emerging from the shadows, most dramatically with the nine who broke with the party to vote for having the hearings which took place on July 25. Judge Bates said: Even if you’re my friend, George, you still have to, um, obey the law.
The next order of business is to prevail upon congress to cancel its summer recess, to complete the unfinished business of restoring the Republic over the New Executive Branch Monarchy, through impeachment. The most common argument by the well-meaning American for why impeachment is a “waste of time” is that they will be out soon. This is like saying, while a gang is robbing a bank and down to carting away the furniture, they’ll be done soon.
You don’t wait until they’re done. You intervene.
The damage to the Constitution and the rule of law cannot be allowed to stand, as the partisans in any party which holds a majority in the future will be able to say, “well Bush did it.” Start a disastrous war based on lies? Well Bush did it. Trample the rights of even born-and-bred American citizens? Well Bush did it. Torture prisoners of war who later turned out to be innocent, caught in the wrong place at the wrong time? Well Bush did it. All because Americans have forgotten who they are and have begun acting like sheep every time Bush plays the Fear Button. Our forefathers on the nation’s battlefields of generations past would disown us, to see how soft and cowardly 60 years of prosperity have made us.
The only warning we needed that these people were out of control was when Bush declared the radical doctrine of wartime powers which over-ruled the Fourth (search and seizure) and Sixth (jury trial) Amendments of the Constitution, forever. He took powers which existed in previous wars then applied them to “a new kind of war,” meaning: The permanent kind. The power to throw someone in a dungeon to rot or to ransack his home, without a warrant, are the powers of a monarch. And in America, we don’t do monarchs.
If congress does not cancel summer recess, referred to in the official calendar as their “District Work Period,” we must be clear that we will be camped on their front lawns with signs. They will come out and talk to us and explain why they aren’t in Washington doing their jobs. There will be no fiddling while Rome burns.
What Price Freedom, and the Way of Life We Have Enjoyed? Of the 56 Signers of the Declaration of Independence:
-Five signers were captured by the British as traitors, and tortured before they died.
-Twelve had their homes ransacked and burned.
-Two lost their sons serving in the Revolutionary Army; another had two sons captured.
-Nine of the 56 fought and died from wounds or hardships of the Revolutionary War.
-Carter Braxton of Virginia, a wealthy planter and trader, saw his ships swept from the seas by the British Navy. He sold his home and properties to pay his debts, and died in rags.
-Thomas McKeam was so hounded by the British that he was forced to move his family almost constantly. He served in the Congress without pay, and his family was kept in hiding. His possessions were taken from him.
-Vandals or soldiers looted the properties of Dillery, Hall, Clymer, Walton, Gwinnett, Heyward, Ruttledge, and Middleton.
-Legend has it when Thomas Nelson Jr was told the British General Cornwallis had taken over his home for British headquarters, he replied, “Blow the damn thing down.” Nelson’s house is still standing at Yorktown and there are cannonballs embedded in its east wall.
-Francis Lewis had his home and properties destroyed. The enemy jailed his wife, and she died within a few months.
-John Hart was driven from his wife’s bedside as she was dying. Their 13 children fled for their lives. His fields and his gristmill were laid to waste. For more than a year he lived in forests and caves, returning home to find his wife dead and his children vanished.
We’ve had a lot of requests for easy contact information for the Republican members of the House Judiciary Committee. The future of this democracy rests in very few hands, and the Democrats, with few exceptions , show interest only in partisan intrigue. The most commonly heard excuse on the Hill for them not doing their duty is “the Republicans will say it’s retribution for Clinton.” God help us. I am out of pejorative adjectives for the hapless cowardice of these creatures who talk like men, walk like men, and yet are missing something which is supposed to run up through your back from your hips to the base of the cranium. History will be their judge.
In this struggle there are no Democrats, no Republicans, only Americans fighting to save the Constitution. Full House Judiciary Committee.
Broadening his attack on the Bush administration to issues which affect ordinary Americans daily, Rep. Dennis Kucinich today thanked citizens for making the upcoming hearings possible, and affirmed that he would be making a:
“presentation before the Judiciary Committee of the House of Representatives at which time I will make the case that this president has violated his oath of office, violated United States law and international law, has separated our nation from our constitution, and has taken us on a course that has been so profoundly anti-democratic that it has threatened the core of our nation.”
HR 1345, the resolution referred to the Judiciary Committee last week by all Democrats and nine Republicans, and which are the impetus for Friday’s hearings, is entitled “An Article of Impeachment of George W. Bush.”
TRANSCRIPT: I want to thank you for the support which you have given to my efforts to hold this administration accountable for taking us into a war based on lies and for the destruction of the rule of law and the destruction of cherished constitutional principles.
Because of your support, this Friday in Washington, DC, I will make a presentation [Read more →]
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