Are we a Nation of Laws or are we a Monarchy?
This is not about politics or political calculation. It is about whether this Nation stands up and enforces the U.S. Constitution, The Bill of ...more »
This is not about politics or political calculation. It is about whether this Nation stands up and enforces the U.S. Constitution, The Bill of Rights, and the most basic of Human Rights, or whether this Nation instead establishes completely criminal conduct, the tyranny of mass-murder, and the arrogance of dictatorship ('unitary executive') as legal American public policy. Over one million totally innocent people in Iraq, many of them little children and women, have been murdered without provocation. Richard Bruce Cheney and George Walker Bush have also used our own sons and daughters recklessly as cannon fodder in a dishonest war based on propaganda and a marketing campaign of entirely phony scare tactics ('mushroom clouds', 'unmanned drones' from the militarily crippled Nation of Iraq). Over 30,000 more Americans have been crippled and left deformed for life. And this has cost American citizens hundreds of billions of dollars, that we do not have, and destroyed the reputation of this once honorable Country and replaced it as the home now of human torture, secret rendititions, the mass-violence of aggressive War, the use of illegal weapons such as White Phospersous, and civilian-killing Cluster Bombs, and other treachery. In addition, our civil liberties have been systematically dismantled, and, due to the abuse of 'signing statements', even the laws of Congress itself have been made irrelevant.
The U.S. Constitution says that Congress SHALL Impeach, (not "may if it is convenient"), the executive when such crimes against our Constitution and mankind have been committed.
If Congress refuses to use the Impeachment clause in the presence of these horrific crimes against our Nation, our Constitution, and against mankind now, then when would Impeachment ever apply? Congress, by doing nothing now, will have set the bar for Impeachment so high as to be essentially stripped completely from the American experience altogether. Therefore, free license by the executive branch to commit horrific crimes at will is only inevitable, and the co-equal separation of powers will be destroyed. A message will have been sent to all future Presidents and Vice-Presidents, that this is all acceptable, legal, permissible conduct. Our Nation will soon devolve into a de-facto Monarchy, whereby the U.S. Constitution itself is null and void, and the basic Human Rights of man are only at best selectively applied. How can you simply stand there and do nothing, while this happens to our beloved Nation? Is this what you wish to be remembered for?
Furthermore, by taking no action and refusing to enforce the U.S. Constitution, the Congress is itself violating the principles of the U.S. Constitution, and is itself acting as a direct accomplice and a willing accessory to the 35 Articles (Crimes) committed by these plainly corrupt officials, Cheney and Bush.
History also shows that when investigations were first held against Richard Nixon, Impeachement was initially unpopular, but it became clearly supported by the majority of law-abiding Americans once the criminal evidence was discovered, and Nixon was forced to be held accountable. Government accountability is always supported by the public throughout history, and the more serious the crimes the MORE it is overwhelmingly supported. History shows that the Democratic Party then won the 1974 midterm elections in a landslide, and then the Presidency in 1976. Cheney and Bush today are already the most unpopular figures to hold their respective offices in modern U.S. History -- even without prosecution, and holding them accountable to the law will only disgrace and embarrass them further.
But as stated previously, this is not about politics. It is about whether all future Presidents and all furture Adminstrations have now: the legal right to start the mass-violence of aggressive War for specious reasons, the legal right to torture human beings, the legal right to wiretap American citizens, the right to ignore at will the very Laws of Congress, and the legal right to destroy and disregard the U.S. Consitution itself at their pleasure -- all with no possible recourse. This is what non-action assures. It assures that this history will be repeated (McCain, Jeb Bush, etc.) again, and that the conduct of Dick Cheney and Bush will be now legitimized as "non-criminal", acceptable conduct - no longer subject to recourse.
History will regard yourselves and this Congress as cowardly, treasonous accessories to these awful crimes, and as the willful enablers of these Bush-Cheney crimes. For such crimes and horrible abuses can never just happen in a vacuum. Evil only can only triumph when good men decide to do nothing. This will be your own legacy and history. You may as well print on your tombstone, "I let this happen".
The blood of millions of innocent lives is on your own hands. Hanging in the balance, is new aggressive acts of mass violence (War) against Iran -- this time possibly involving Nuclear Weapons, and based once again on more trumped-up fear and falsehoods. Yet you have a chance to re-establish and make clear just what is legal conduct, and what is not (Cheney, Bush) by putting the U.S. Constitution first, and common good of our Country first.
It is, in fact, your own sworn oath to do precisely this.
It is time to start defending the U.S. Constitution, and STOP protecting and defending the disreputable Richard Bruce Cheney and George Walker Bush.
Either you are with us, or you are with "them" (the criminals: Cheney and Bush), and against everything that this Nation is supposed to stand for.
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