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Thread #92714   Message #2282738
Posted By: Teribus
08-Mar-08 - 03:05 AM
Thread Name: BS: A Declaration of Impeachment
Subject: RE: BS: A Declaration of Impeachment
Trouble is that most clamouring for "Impeachment" who are in the public eye are doing so for a number of reasons all connected with personal motive, most concern re-election this coming autumn.

Your "Impeachment" process is not a "legal" process, therefore phrases such as your "facts of crimes committed in office" and others yammering on about "evidence" of this or "evidence" of that only amounts to just so much hogwash. There is no legal or formal means to establish clearly whether or not crimes have been committed and there appears to be no standard set for the establishment, examination or presentation of what would constitutue "evidence".

I know before anybody points it out that they are not the same as the political set up and machinery is entirely different but what you seek in your "Impeachment" process boils down to what in the UK Parliament would be called a "Motion of No Confidence"(Proposed by the Opposition) or "Motion of Confidence" (Proposed by the Government) in the Prime Minister. If either goes against the Government of the day it falls and a General Election has to be called.

There will be no "Impeachment", because quite rightly Nancy Pelosi and most of those sitting in the House of Representatives and in the Senate fully realise exactly what damage it would do to the United States of America both domestically and internationally. With regard to both actions in Afghanistan and Iraq those same people are also fully aware of the part that they played in influencing and supporting the decisions made.

So, my plea, most definitely "Not Guilty". I can hardly be an apologist for the crimes that have not been committed. Crimes that you and your supporters have yet to establish were ever perpetrated.