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Wednesday, March 8, 2006

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Posted by on March 8 at 16:55 PM

I haven’t been Slogging much the last two days—but I’m not slacking.

Check out my new project: www.ImpeachTheMotherFuckerAlready.com.


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Dan,
Cleve Stockmeyer, a PCO in the 46th District, is shopping this local resolution. He posted it on the comments a couple a days ago. In case you missed it, here it is again:

The impeachment resolution floating around Seattle is set forth below at the end of this post. Feel free to use it!

Recently the 46th District Democrats, the Metropolitan Democratic Club, all caucuses in the 43d District Democrats, and many other Democratic caucuses in Seattle, passed this impeachment resolution. I had written it, with assistance from others who provided invaluable editing, and I sent it around prior to the March 4th caucuses. (That's a Democratic party neighborhood meeting where folks talk issues and pass resolutions.)

The resolution is set forth below -- copy it, pass it, change it, add Dick Cheney's name to it, and most of all, send it to your Representative and editorial page editors and ask them to take a stand, yea or nay.
Four things to mention, then the resolution:

1. The grounds are misleading us into war (either deliberate lying OR knwoingly withholding certain material information), torture AND spying.

2. This resolution says "Congress, start an investigation as to impeachment" not "Congress, impeachment the dude" -- because an investigation is an appropriate first step.

3. As to misleading us into war: there are two grounds: (a) either there was a plain old lie, OR (b) it was misleading to knowingly say over and over the threat of WMD and links to Al-Queda were solid or nearly certain -- while withholding the intelligence information that was directly to the contrary (that is, that nothing was solid or certain).

Say you buy a used car and you are told: "this car has been checked out, and it is solid" when unbeknownst to you the salesperson has a report that says "hey we have no idea how solid this car is, you can't really conclude it is solid."

The used car sales person committed fraud even if he/she does not actually "know" the "real" or "true" facts as to the reliability of the car.


4. Some say "why bother, this can never work." But it will "work" as follows:
(a) we can tell the world we don't want to put up with these high crimes and misdemeanors
(b) raising the i-word may raise the profile of this issue causing every candidate for Congress in 2006 to explain why they oppose or support dopoing nothing in the face of evidence of high crimes and misdemeanors -- producing a better electoral result and firing up the progressive vote.
(c) to let this go is truly to be "soft on crime" when the Democrats should be tough on crime -- particularly tough on crime in the board rooms, in the Oval office, at Enron, in lobbying scandals, etc.

At a time when Democrats often can't figure out what we are for, it can't be right to take a "do nothing" position on impeachment. It boils down to this: are you for or against abuse of State power -- misleading our nation into war, torture and illegal spying on Americans without a warrant?

Here's the resolution:

RESOLUTION CONCERNING IMPEACHMENT OF PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

WHEREAS, misleading the United States into war, violating human rights protected by treaty law and the Constitution, and spying on US citizens without warrants, are high crimes and misdemeanors that are abuses of State power and are impeachable offenses; and there is reason to believe that President George W. Bush may have misled the nation into war by manipulating or withholding material intelligence information and/or falsifying the threat that Iraq presented to the American people, authorizing and implementing a policy of torture and spying on US citizens contrary to statutes and without obtaining warrants;

WHEREAS, the Bush Administration represented as substantially certain fact that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction and intended to use them, and that Iraq provided assistance to al-Qaeda, while knowingly withholding material qualifying and countervailing information, that would make the asserted causes for war appear to be speculative or uncertain;

WHEREAS, President Bush either knew the representations were false or that it was materially misleading to withhold qualifying and countervailing information, and recklessly led us into war, disregarding the likelihood that the reasons for going to war would be wrong or non-existent;

WHEREAS, torture is contrary to the US Constitution, our traditions and ideals, the common law, customary international law and US treaty obligations (including the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the United Nations Convention Against Torture, and the Third and Fourth Geneva Conventions); and torture degrades those who practice it, yields unreliable information, constitutes punishment without trial, encourages torture by others of our own citizens and military personnel, and has no part in any nation claiming to represent democracy or to lead in a struggle against terrorism;

WHEREAS, President Bush has engaged in or authorized a policy of torture, and cruel, inhumane, and degrading treatment; and has stated that prohibitions against torture should not apply to foreigners outside the US; has directed his vice president to oppose Congressional acts prohibiting torture, and has condoned the practice of sending persons to the custody of other governments known or expected to engage in torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment;

WHEREAS, the US Constitution and federal statutes (FISA) prohibit spying or eavesdropping on US citizens in the United States without a court order or a warrant; and President Bush admits to conducting a spying program that clearly violates the Constitution and FISA in this regard;

WHEREAS, this nation has often been under threat of attack, and using the threat of attack to justify violation of law arrogates to the executive branch the power to act lawlessly and could lead to the downfall of our democracy and civil liberties; and it is incumbent upon all to resist and remedy such violations, else greater violations be committed;

NOW THEREFORE IT IS HEREBY RESOLVED that:

1. The House of Representatives shall institute an investigation into the IMPEACHMENT of President George W. Bush for high crimes and misdemeanors including misleading the nation into war, authorizing torture, and spying on US citizens.

2. This resolution shall be forwarded to all US Representatives and Senators representing areas served by this organization who shall be asked to respond in writing within 30 days as to what action they will take in furtherance of said IMPEACHMENT investigation.

mondo kudos!

Lame. How about DEMOCRTATS GET A FUCKING BACKBONE ALREADY.

I'm for that too, Reg Dem. Can't you be for both?

IMPEACHMENT TALK REACHES THE MAINSTREAM
William Goodman, AlterNet
From The Wall Street Journal to MSNBC, talk of impeachment is no longer on the fringe.

http://www.alternet.org/story/33373/

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