by Sudhan@ 11:40 CET
If the Democrats don’t even make an effort to impeach George Bush or Dick Cheney before these criminals’ terms are up, then no president of the United States will ever face punishment for crimes against his own people or humanity at-large. So said David Swanson, of the Internet treasure trove of impeachment information, AfterDowningStreet.org.
Swanson was speaking at a discussion of impeachment at the Take Back America Conference, in Washington, earlier this week. Swanson presented an encyclopaedic list of 12 categories of impeachable crimes committed by the Bush regime – not 12 crimes, but 12 whole categories of crimes, each containing many separate instances and counts of crimes, any one of which is enough to send Bush and Cheney back where they came from before January, 2009. Taken together, the list shows there is no rule of law in the United States – that Bush has effectively destroyed the Constitution as a barrier to executive dictatorship. If laws can be broken at will, there is no law. Congress may as well stop enacting them, and go home, themselves.
This article is spot-on, Sudhan.
I don’t remember where I read it, but I read an article recently in which the writer says that in 50 years time historians will be examining why Congress slept while the Republic was being dismantled and turned, like former republics, into a tyranny.
If laws can be broken at will, there is no law. Congress may as well stop enacting them, and go home, themselves.
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That says it all! Why pay them to continue on this road to let Dubya and Dick break all the rules?
Great post Sudhan!
Cheney and the Crazies…sounds like a good name for a punk rock group. These idiologues have used the 911 disaster to gather power for the White House and enmeshed their cronies in all apects of government, religion, and even our private lives. We must at least iniate impeachment, so that the sheeple will stand up and take notice. Only the people can remove the stone walls and send these crooks to prison. It will be a lot cheaper than spending the millions of dollars that it will take for the protection of their sorry asses when they are out of office.
Geezer
You have said it so well!
Incompetence ( http://suzieqq.wordpress.com/2007/06/22/eight-principles-incompetence/ ) is mendacious cowardice.
Competence requires courage, patience and determination.