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| It Cannot Wait. We must put
future presidents on notice
Impeaching George Bush and Dick Cheney MUST be accomplished
before their term of office ends, even if it takes place as late
as the morning of inauguration of the next administration.
Impeachment now will serve notice on future presidents and all other officials that the actions of the present incumbents are illegal and will not be tolerated. Failure to impeach them while we can will not only establish their illegalities as precedent, but will embolden further incremental encroachments on our liberty. It must be made clear that we are a nation of laws and that our presidents serve only so long as they respect our laws. Our civil rights have never been so threatened. They have put American citizens in prison without trial and denied them the right of Habeas Corpus - the right to appear before a judge to establish that there is evidence of a crime committed by the prisoner. Our Bill of Rights was written expressly to establish that such conduct is illegal. If there is evidence of a crime committed by an American citizen or even a president, put him on trial. Bush and Chaney lied to us and to Congress in order to sell the invasion of Iraq, a country that had not engaged in any acts of war against us. In doing so they caused great damage to our long tradition of refraining from attacking until attacked. They have engaged in defiant illegal wire tapping in open and notorious violation of laws that establish clear rules and regulations for intelligence gathering. They engaged in outrageous violations of national security by exposing the identity of an undercover CIA officer. When they thought that lies under oath before a Grand Jury and to the FBI by their operative (an aide to the vice-president, acting on the v-p's orders) who had carried out those illegal orders would prevent the truth from exposure, the president promised to prosecute any offenders. But after the liar was convicted, the president pardoned him from prison; the vice president continues in office, unpunished. The president, in signing Congressional Bills into law has made illegal "signing statements" claiming that he may refuse to uphold any law with which he disagrees, thus violating his oath of office. He has interfered with proper Congressional investigations into the illegal political firings of local Federal Attorneys. Most disgusting of all, he has allowed and even encouraged,
torture of the most despicable kind, to be used on human beings.
There is now evidence from many credible sources that high
government officials with knowledge of it repeatedly protested
to the White House that war crimes were being committed.
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