BS: A Declaration of Impeachment

Subject: RE: BS: A Declaration of Impeachment
From: Amos
Date: 30 May 08 - 09:39 AM

California Impeachment Slate Press Conference
by Carol Brouillet ( cbrouillet [at] igc.org )
Wednesday May 28th, 2008 12:46 PM
Tuesday, Bay Area Congressional candidates dedicated to the Constitutional remedy of impeachment for those committing high crimes announced the newly formed coaltions pushing for impeachment at a rally in front of the San Francisco Chronicle offices.

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The California Impeachment Slate (www.calimpeachmentslate.com) a non-partisan group of Democrats, Republicans, Independents, Greens, has identified pro-impeachment candidates in more than 20 of the state's 53 congressional districts, from Eureka to San Diego. Candidates are running for Congress against incumbents neglecting their duty and their oaths to uphold the Constitution by not impeaching (holding hearings for) Dick Cheney. Bay Area candidates who spoke included Shirley Golub (Challenging Nancy Pelosi, June Primary); Brad Newsham (Challenging Barbara Lee, June); Cynthia Papermaster (Challenging Pete Stark, Nov.); Carol Brouillet (Challenging Anna Eshoo, Nov.); Carol Wolman (Challenging Mike Honda, Nov.); Bill Callison (Challenging George Miller, Nov.); Gene Ruyle (Challenging Tauscher, Nov.)
John Conyers, Chair of the House Judiciary Committee, wrote a book in 2006 calling for impeachment, but is now dragging his feet about starting hearings, even though six members of the Committee demand immediate hearings and 30 members of Congress want hearings to start. The Impeachment Slate is asking Monica Conyers, his wife, to join over 100 impeachment candidates nationwide and to run against her husband for Congress.

Subject: RE: BS: A Declaration of Impeachment
From: Amos
Date: 30 May 08 - 02:45 PM

Support Congressman Wexler: The Bush-Cheney Criminal Enterprise Must be Confronted Now!
By Bill Hare
05/29/2008 09:17:17 PM EST

Recent revelations from the upcoming book by former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan cite the increasing need to confront the impeachment issue immediately.
Congressman Robert Wexler of Florida has vigilantly pursued the necessity of impeachment hearings and of holding government officials, beginning with George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, accountable for potential "high crimes and misdemeanors" under mandate of no less than the U.S. Constitution.

As so many continue to point out, this duty to pursue commission of high crimes and misdemeanors by those charged with upholding the U.S. Constitution violates that document and deems it necessary for them to answer such charges. There is a duty to pursue such acts of grievous misconduct and, when the facts warrant, remove the responsible parties from their positions of power.

McClellan reveals that Karl Rove, Scooter Libby and Dick Cheney lied about their roles in revealing the identity of Valerie Plame Wilson, actions constituting an obstruction of justice.   


The former White House Press Secretary also wrote that there was a coordinated effort by the Bush administration to use propaganda to inflate the case for attacking and ultimately occupying Iraq and hide the projected costs of the war from the American people.
Congressman Wexler stated May 28:

"Scott McClellan must be called to testify under oath before the House Judiciary Committee to tell Congress and the American people everything he knows about this massive effort by the White House to deceive this nation into war."

Last week a subpoena was issued for Karl Rove to testify before the Judiciary Committee. It appears that the former top political strategist for the Bush-Cheney team will pursue every legal action to block this subpoena.

According to Congressman Wexler, "The truth is that Congress has the right - and obligation - to hold him (Rove) accountable now - not months or years from now. It is long past time to pass Inherent Contempt and bring Rove, Libby and others before Congress."

Wexler believes that we cannot ignore these recent developments nor postpone serious inquiry until after the election. He realizes that there is a duty mandated by the Constitution to act under such circumstances, a necessity others in position of high trust need to also recognize and act upon with due speed and diligence.

More than 230,000 Americans previously signed up at the wexlerwantshearings.com site urging that impeachment action be expeditiously taken.

As for the Bush administration, its response to the McClellan disclosures show that nothing has changed since the tired old strategy of Richard Nixon and Joseph McCarthy beginning in the fifties extended to more recent times with Lee Atwater and Karl Rove. When one cannot refute a message then the strategy is to form an angry pack, then loudly and persistently attack and seek to destroy the messenger.

Subject: RE: BS: A Declaration of Impeachment
From: Amos
Date: 31 May 08 - 05:11 PM

From te Nashua, NH, Telegraph

State Rep. Betty Hall, vilified in the letters to the editor, lauded in the blogosphere and other media, is an elder statesman who struggles on to be understood. Unfortunately, most folks really don't "get it" as to what Betty Halls' still pending impeachment resolution is actually all about.

Every American knows something about the litany of wrongs alleged against the current Bush administration. Whether the administration did or did not do those things has no part in this debate.

The vote in the New Hampshire legislature on June 4 will be on only one question Ð shall we, speaking for the people of the sovereign state of New Hampshire, ask the U.S. House to begin investigations to determine if there is sufficient cause or evidence to hold elected leaders in Washington accountable?

That's it! No more; no less.

It's the first step in the constitutional procedure that our forefathers provided for us as a remedy when we find ourselves engulfed in wrongs. Why would anyone fear using the tool we're given just for times like these?

Subject: RE: BS: A Declaration of Impeachment
From: Teribus
Date: 31 May 08 - 06:12 PM

Stand-by Amos you know what's coming

Subject: RE: BS: A Declaration of Impeachment
From: Little Hawk
Date: 31 May 08 - 06:34 PM

Yeah. ;-) So do I.

The next post is coming...

Subject: RE: BS: A Declaration of Impeachment
From: Amos
Date: 31 May 08 - 06:54 PM

Teribus, stop shooting the messenger, would you?

Instead, why not buy McLellan's latest book.



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Subject: RE: BS: A Declaration of Impeachment
From: Teribus
Date: 04 Jun 08 - 10:38 AM

That's May gone Amos, "Impeachment" none the closer, but look on the bright side - I,ve only got six more of these posts to go.

Subject: RE: BS: A Declaration of Impeachment
From: Amos
Date: 04 Jun 08 - 11:37 AM

Cold comfort in the face of serious criminality, T. I guess you enjoy your passive-accomplice role, huh?


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Subject: RE: BS: A Declaration of Impeachment
From: Teribus
Date: 04 Jun 08 - 11:49 AM

Accomplice to what exactly Amos?

In the light of what happened and the response by those in charge, the Taleban, they were never a Government, the US Administration was perfectly correct in assisting the Tribesmen of the Northern Alliance to drive the Taleban from power. They were also correct when afforded the opportunity to hunt down those responsible for the attacks of 911 to send troops to Afghanistan and to assist in the reconstruction of that country.

When advised as to what represented the greatest threat to the United States of America in the wake of the attacks of 911. The US Administration were perfectly correct in addressing and removing that threat.

Now in both of those instances Amos, it would not have mattered a damn who the president of the United States of America was the cards would have fallen exactly the same way.

Oh, one obvious observation, if both Houses in Congress in the USA and both Houses of Parliament in the UK are happy in their passive-accomplice role, then so am I.

Subject: RE: BS: A Declaration of Impeachment
From: Amos
Date: 04 Jun 08 - 02:01 PM

Yeah, that's about what I figured. I guess if someone eatsd a crock of crap every morning for breakfast all his life, it's kind of hard to convince him that he has been feeding on shit all his days; he'll be inclined to keep it up. He'll actually have a preference for eating shit. No sense trying to dissuade him.

Go with God, T.

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Subject: RE: BS: A Declaration of Impeachment
From: Amos
Date: 09 Jun 08 - 08:22 PM

As I write this, Dennis Kucinich is reading very carefully written, complete and irrefutable Articles of Impeachment against George Bush into the Congressional Record.


Go with God, Dennis. You're making history.


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Subject: RE: BS: A Declaration of Impeachment
From: Amos
Date: 09 Jun 08 - 08:40 PM

He's amazing. Eleven articles and counting, citing exact statements, line, chapter and verse of national and international laws, detail upon detail. Kucinich is forging ahead like a tank.

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Subject: RE: BS: A Declaration of Impeachment
From: Peace
Date: 09 Jun 08 - 08:42 PM

He's the guy who SHOULDA been next President, imo.

Subject: RE: BS: A Declaration of Impeachment
From: Amos
Date: 09 Jun 08 - 10:16 PM

My god-- he is now up to Article 24, and still going like a tank. What a mensch. Details, book, chapter and verse.

Awesome performance.


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Subject: RE: BS: A Declaration of Impeachment
From: Amos
Date: 09 Jun 08 - 10:36 PM

Slugging along like Jimmy Stewart; he looks pale and dehydrated but he is now on Article 26 of 35.

This is really an act of quiet heroism unfolding before our eyes.

A

Subject: RE: BS: A Declaration of Impeachment
From: Amos
Date: 10 Jun 08 - 01:15 AM

HuffPo:

Representative Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio, just finished reading on the House floor a 35-count impeachment resolution against President George W. Bush. Kucinich's lengthy and detailed indictment of this wayward president is the most thorough and powerful case made to date. He outlined a litany of high crimes and misdemeanors and showed without a shadow of a doubt that George W. Bush deserves to be impeached and removed from office. Kucinich made clear that Bush has violated his oath of office and his Constitutional duty that the laws be "faithfully executed."

Kucinich's impeachment resolution comes after the shocking revelations contained in the 107-page Senate Intelligence Committee's report that confirmed, once and for all, (and with the vote of two Republican Senators), that President Bush lied the American people into war. There can be no more dire and serious offense than a president lying to his fellow Americans on issues of war and peace. Bush should be impeached forthwith. The House Judiciary Committee should vote on the Kucinich resolution and split it up into Articles of Impeachment. All the committee needs is one Article to impeach Bush, Kucinich has provided dozens of potential Articles.

Subject: RE: BS: A Declaration of Impeachment
From: Teribus
Date: 10 Jun 08 - 01:29 AM

Well I suppose having dropped out of the race for the White House he did have time on his hands to engage in this pointless amusement. With only six months or so of this Presidential term left and an election in the way, I look on this with interest to see if anybody pays the blindest bit of notice - sort of like this thread.

Subject: RE: BS: A Declaration of Impeachment
From: Amos
Date: 10 Jun 08 - 10:46 AM

T:

I suggest you carefully read the careful description of crimes and other impeachable offenses.

Your mockery of legitimate justice has been well-recorded and I see no need for you to repeat it.


A

Subject: RE: BS: A Declaration of Impeachment
From: GUEST,Fantasma
Date: 10 Jun 08 - 10:49 AM

The only candidate calling for impeachment is Ralph Nader, whom Amos finds to be anathema to his worship of the Democratic party and the corporate duopoly.

Kinda wierd, politics.

Subject: RE: BS: A Declaration of Impeachment
From: Amos
Date: 10 Jun 08 - 10:54 AM

Fantz:

Your projection of me is quite off the mark. I like Ralph, and find him no anathema. I just don't view him as a candidate in the sense of someone who may get elected.

I support his desire for impeachment.

A

"Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) introduced 35 articles of impeachment against President Bush on Monday night, reading the resolution into the Congressional Record.

Kucinich, who unsuccessfully sought the Democratic presidential nomination this year, unveiled a litany of alleged illegal and improper acts by Bush, including war crimes.

Kucinich has introduced a similar impeachment resolution against Vice President Cheney. That resolution was referred to the House Judiciary Committee, which has taken no action on the measure. Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and other top House Democratic leaders have stated that there will be no consideration of impeachment proceedings against Bush, calling the idea "off the table."

Kucinich and other liberal Democrats, including Rep. Robert Wexler (D-Fla.), have sought the removal of the current administration, arguing that Bush and Cheney have lied to Congress and the American public about the reasons for invading Iraq in 2003 and abused their offices in order to conduct the "War on Terror" following the 9/11 attacks."

Subject: RE: BS: A Declaration of Impeachment
From: Amos
Date: 10 Jun 08 - 11:00 AM

A link to the PDF file containing all thirty-five Articles of Impeachment with their substantiating evidence is available at the USA Today site http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2008/06/democrat-files.html.

It links to the PDF file at http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/files/kucinich_impeach.pdf.

I will email a copy on request by PM.


A

Subject: RE: BS: A Declaration of Impeachment
From: Stringsinger
Date: 10 Jun 08 - 11:35 AM

C'mon, Clinton was impeached over a blow job. Bush should be impeached because of
a blowing-up job leaving over 100,000 innocents in Iraq dead. Cheney, another war criminal should also be impeached.

this just shows you what priorities American's have.

This equation between Bush and Clinton is stupid.

Subject: RE: BS: A Declaration of Impeachment
From: Peace
Date: 10 Jun 08 - 01:31 PM

BUT, what will Congress do?

Subject: RE: BS: A Declaration of Impeachment
From: Amos
Date: 10 Jun 08 - 01:40 PM

Therein lies the real conundrum, amigo.


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Subject: RE: BS: A Declaration of Impeachment
From: Amos
Date: 10 Jun 08 - 02:02 PM

A clip of part of the 35-article marathon.


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Subject: RE: BS: A Declaration of Impeachment
From: Amos
Date: 10 Jun 08 - 05:03 PM

From the Kucinich office:

"Under circumstances that can best be described as "suspicious," the www.kucinich.us website was crippled early this morning a few hours after Congressman Dennis Kucinich introduced 35 extensively documented Articles of Impeachment against President George W. Bush.

Until we can restore the website and implement additional security measures, you can find the full list and detailed Articles at
http://www.democrats.com/files/amomentoftruth.pdf

andÊ http://chun.afterdowningstreet.org/amomentoftruth.pdf

If you would like to show your support for the Congressman's efforts, please go to myinfo.kucinich.us to offer your comments and provide us with contact information so that we can continue to keep you informed."

Subject: RE: BS: A Declaration of Impeachment
From: Amos
Date: 10 Jun 08 - 08:37 PM

..."Kucinich's resolution has at least one congressional backer.

Florida Democrat Robert Wexler declared support for it in a press release this afternoon. He accused President Bush of creating a "massive propaganda campaign to sell the war in Iraq to the American poeple" and "an unprecedented abuse of executive power."

"It is time for Congress to stand up and defend the Constitution against the blatant violations and illegalities of this administration," Wexler said.

Wexler is a House Judiciary Committee member who launched a nationwide campaign earlier this year to hold impeachment hearings for Cheney, although he didn't cosponsor a Kucinich's Cheney impeachment measure until today.

Wexler doesn't think there's currently enough support on the Judiciary Committee to begin impeachment proceedings, but hopes upcoming testimony by former Bush press secretary Scott McClellan might change members' minds, said his chief of staff, Eric Johnson.

"There weren't enough committed votes to impeach Nixon before the hearings and tapes were discovered," Johnson said. "You need to have the hearings to bring evidence out to make the case."
...The PLain Dealer

Subject: RE: BS: A Declaration of Impeachment
From: Ebbie
Date: 10 Jun 08 - 11:09 PM

This afternoon I listened to the bottom segment of the clerks' reading of the impeachment resolution. They spelled it off between at least two clerks.

The running caption said that it took Kucinich five hours to read the 84-page resolution. I wonder how many legislators stayed in chambers to listen to either the original or for the record.

The cameras tend not to pan around the chamber; often speeches are being made to an empty house.

Subject: RE: BS: A Declaration of Impeachment
From: Amos
Date: 10 Jun 08 - 11:44 PM

I wouldn't have stayed myself, once I appreciated the nature of the event, knowing I could read the transcript in a fifth of the time. But the important thing is that it was read in to the Congressional Record, so there is no fudgeroom about it--the exact causes and reasons, laws, regulations, treaties and violations spelled out.

A

Subject: RE: BS: A Declaration of Impeachment
From: katlaughing
Date: 10 Jun 08 - 11:44 PM

I got that same email about his website. Glad you posted about here, Amos. He is a brave man...a lone wolf among yellow-bellied idjits in Congress. I hope SOME of them listened and felt some shame.

Subject: RE: BS: A Declaration of Impeachment
From: Bill D
Date: 11 Jun 08 - 02:30 PM

I congratulate Kucinich for making those charges part of the public record. Although NO one will act on them...for various reasons**... it gets Bush and his administration's failures into the spotlight in one more way.

** (if we did impeach him, he'd look like a martyr to some, it would detract from the race, and besides, he's SO handy as he is as a target for the campaign.....also, if convicted, we'd get Cheney.)

Subject: RE: BS: A Declaration of Impeachment
From: Amos
Date: 11 Jun 08 - 06:18 PM

"ASHINGTON (CNN) -- An attempt by Rep. Dennis Kucinich to impeach President Bush was kicked into legislative no-man's land by members of his own party Wednesday.


Rep. Dennis Kucinich of Ohio introduced a resolution to impeach President Bush on Tuesday.

The House voted 251-166 to send the Ohio Democrat's impeachment resolution to committee, a maneuver that allows the Democratic leadership to freeze the measure indefinitely.

The vote largely followed partisan lines, with 225 Democrats voting to punt the measure to committee.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has repeatedly said she would not support a resolution calling for Bush's impeachment, saying such a move was unlikely to succeed and would be divisive.

All 166 votes in favor of opening up a House impeachment debate came from Republicans, apparently eager to paint Democrats as political creatures in a time of serious issues. Kucinich voted with his party, against his own measure.

Kucinich introduced the resolution into the House on Tuesday night.

Most of the congressman's resolution deals with the Iraq war, contending that the president manufactured a false case for the war, violated U.S. and international law to invade Iraq, failed to provide troops with proper equipment and falsified casualty reports for political purposes.

Kucinich also charges that Bush has illegally detained without charge both U.S. citizens and "foreign captives," and violated numerous U.S. laws through the use of "signing statements" declaring his intention to do so.

Other articles address global warming, voting rights, Medicare, the response to Hurricane Katrina and failure to comply with congressional subpoenas."


Thus, politics neatly thwarts a path of honesty and open justice.

Again.

A

Subject: RE: BS: A Declaration of Impeachment
From: Amos
Date: 24 Jun 08 - 11:11 PM

Democratic leaders who are worried about Rep. Dennis Kucinich's (D-Ohio) impeachment obsession ain't seen nothing yet.

Kucinich tells us he's giving the House Judiciary Committee 30 days to act on his resolution proposing 35 articles of impeachment against President Bush or else he'll raise even more hell on the House floor. Thirty-five articles was just the tip of the iceberg. If Judiciary does nothing, he'll go back to the House floor next month armed with nearly twice as many articles.

"The minute the leadership said 'this is dead on arrival' I said that I hope they believe in life after death; because I'm coming back with it," Kucinich vowed in an interview with the Sleuth this week. "It's not gonna die. Because I'll come back with more articles. Not 35, but perhaps 60 articles."

But before he stages Night of the Living Impeachment Part II in the House chamber, the former presidential candidate says he'll meet with House Judiciary Chairman John Conyers (D-Mich.) this week to try to convince him to consider just one little article of impeachment against Bush for waging a war "based on lies." Take one, any one, Chairman Conyers, but please - just take one!

"It only takes one of the 35 articles to establish an impeachable offense," Kucinich explains.

Democratic leaders view the notion of impeaching George W. Bush as an act of political suicide for their party. But Kucinich says "there are some things that yield to reason, and there are other things that yield to politics...I cannot understand what the political reason would be to not [impeach Bush]."

Kucinich says the Democratic leadership's silence is eroding the constitutional framework of checks and balances. "What we're witnessing here is the not so slow moving destruction of our Constitution."

Subject: RE: BS: A Declaration of Impeachment
From: GUEST
Date: 25 Jun 08 - 01:26 PM

Democrats will not do anything about impeachment. Dems and Reps are owned by the same people. The Ford Foundation owns Obama. Pelosi wants to revive the "fairness doctrine" (radio censorship). The Supreme Court will begin the second American Revolution today by ruling against firearms ownership. The Dems want to be in charge of the show that's coming up. Obama/Gore want a "Green Army" that'll be assigned to steal your private property. The Dems will accelerate the Bush/Clinton destruction of America.

Vincent Bugliosi has a more workable idea for Bush. Charge him with murder. He details the plan in his new book:

The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder

http://www.amazon.com/Prosecution-George-W-Bush-Murder/dp/159315481X

He says any district attorney in any of the 50 states could launch such a case, since Bush has murdered so many troops in Iraq. Bugliosi's the one who prosecuted Charles Manson and others. He's hoping one of the hundreds of the DAs in the US will initiate a case, which cannot be blocked by pardons or leaving office, and so on.

Subject: RE: BS: A Declaration of Impeachment
From: Amos
Date: 26 Jun 08 - 08:21 PM

Articles of Impeachment Against William Jefferson Clinton:

In his conduct while President of the United States, William Jefferson Clinton, in violation of his constitutional oath to faithfully execute the office of President of the United States and, to the best of his ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States, and in violation of his constitutional duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed, has committed the following abuses of power.

Article I Perjury article: William Jefferson Clinton provided "perjurious, false and misleading testimony" before Independent Counsel Ken Starr's grand jury in regard to relationships with Monica Lewinsky and Paula Jones.
Article !! (thrown out): William Jefferson Clinton provided "perjurious, false and misleading testimony" in the Paula Jones civil case.
Article III obstructed justice in an effort to delay, impede, cover up and conceal the existence of evidence related to the Jones case.
Article IV (thrown out): William Jefferson Clinton misused and abused "his high office" by making perjurious statements to Congress in his answers to the 81 questions posed by the Judiciary Committee.
note: Clinton was acquitted of all charges.
Link to details: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/clinton/stories/impeachvote121198.htm

Articles of Impeachment for President George W Bush:

Introduced in Congress June 9, 2008.

In his conduct while President of the United States, George W. Bush, in violation of his constitutional oath to faithfully execute the office of President of the United States and, to the best of his ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States, and in violation of his constitutional duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed, has committed the following abuses of power.

Article I - Creating a Secret Propaganda Campaign to Manufacture a False Case for War Against Iraq.
Article II - Falsely, Systematically, and with Criminal Intent Conflating the Attacks of September 11, 2001, With Misrepresentation of Iraq as a Security Threat as Part of Fraudulent Justification for a War of Aggression.
Article III - Misleading the American People and Members of Congress to Believe Iraq Possessed Weapons of Mass Destruction, to Manufacture a False Case for War.
Article IV - Misleading the American People and Members of Congress to Believe Iraq Posed an Imminent Threat to the United States.
Article V - Illegally Misspending Funds to Secretly Begin a War of Aggression.
Article VI - Invading Iraq in Violation of the Requirements of HJRes114.
Article VII - Invading Iraq Absent a Declaration of War.
Article VIII - Invading Iraq, A Sovereign Nation, in Violation of the UN Charter.
Article IX - Failing to Provide Troops With Body Armor and Vehicle Armor
Article X - Falsifying Accounts of US Troop Deaths and Injuries for Political Purposes
Article XI - Establishment of Permanent U.S. Military Bases in Iraq
Article XII - Initiating a War Against Iraq for Control of That Nation's Natural Resources
Article XIII - Creating a Secret Task Force to Develop Energy and Military Policies With Respect to Iraq and Other Countries
Article XIV - Misprision of a Felony, Misuse and Exposure of Classified Information And Obstruction of Justice in the Matter of Valerie Plame Wilson, Clandestine Agent of the Central Intelligence Agency
Article XV - Providing Immunity from Prosecution for Criminal Contractors in Iraq
Article XVI - Reckless Misspending and Waste of U.S. Tax Dollars in Connection With Iraq and US Contractors
Article XVII - Illegal Detention: Detaining Indefinitely And Without Charge Persons Both U.S. Citizens and Foreign Captives
Article XVIII - Torture: Secretly Authorizing, and Encouraging the Use of Torture Against Captives in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Other Places, as a Matter of Official Policy
Article XIX - Rendition: Kidnapping People and Taking Them Against Their Will to 'Black Sites' Located in Other Nations, Including Nations Known to Practice Torture
Article XX - Imprisoning Children
Article XXI - Misleading Congress and the American People About Threats from Iran, and Supporting Terrorist Organizations Within Iran, With the Goal of Overthrowing the Iranian Government
Article XXII - Creating Secret Laws
Article XXIII - Violation of the Posse Comitatus Act
Article XXIV - Spying on American Citizens, Without a Court-Ordered Warrant, in Violation of the Law and the Fourth Amendment
Article XXV - Directing Telecommunications Companies to Create an Illegal and Unconstitutional Database of the Private Telephone Numbers and Emails of American Citizens
Article XXVI - Announcing the Intent to Violate Laws with Signing Statements
Article XXVII - Failing to Comply with Congressional Subpoenas and Instructing Former Employees Not to Comply
Article XXVIII - Tampering with Free and Fair Elections, Corruption of the Administration of Justice
Article XXIX - Conspiracy to Violate the Voting Rights Act of 1965
Article XXX - Misleading Congress and the American People in an Attempt to Destroy Medicare
Article XXXI - Katrina: Failure to Plan for the Predicted Disaster of Hurricane Katrina, Failure to Respond to a Civil Emergency
Article XXXII - Misleading Congress and the American People, Systematically Undermining Efforts to Address Global Climate Change
Article XXXIII - Repeatedly Ignored and Failed to Respond to High Level Intelligence Warnings of Planned Terrorist Attacks in the US, Prior to 911.
Article XXXIV - Obstruction of the Investigation into the Attacks of September 11, 2001
Article XXXV - Endangering the Health of 911 First Responders

Source with links to details: http://www.impeachbush.tv/progress/dk_aoi_bush/

Subject: RE: BS: A Declaration of Impeachment
From: Teribus
Date: 27 Jun 08 - 02:18 AM

"Articles of Impeachment for President George W Bush:

Introduced in Congress June 9, 2008."

If that is the bag of bones Amos and Kucinich are obsessing on then neither Bush nor Cheney have the slightest thing to worry about.

Running down through the first few the "guilty" parties would be Congress and US Intelligence Agencies.

Subject: RE: BS: A Declaration of Impeachment
From: GUEST,Sawzaw
Date: 27 Jun 08 - 11:21 PM

Amos's definition of insanity:

Insanity is to continue doing the same things expecting different results.

Keep at it Amos.

Subject: RE: BS: A Declaration of Impeachment
From: Amos
Date: 27 Jun 08 - 11:27 PM

HEy, dingleberry, you think I post these reports to get a result? Whattya think I am, nuts? Oh...never mind answering that. Unfortunately, your snidity ranks a long mark further south on the sanity scale than my persistence in pointing out what people are saying about the virtues of impeachment. The fact that you disagree is probably more a reflection on your mental state than mine, I reckon.


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Subject: RE: BS: A Declaration of Impeachment
From: GUEST,Sawzaw
Date: 28 Jun 08 - 12:32 AM

So what is your definition of insanity?

One indication is insane people go bonkers if they think someone said they are nuts.

What has been the results of whatever it is you are doing here?

Subject: RE: BS: A Declaration of Impeachment
From: Amos
Date: 01 Jul 08 - 06:09 PM

Public Forum Letter
Article Last Updated: 06/30/2008 08:44:47 PM MDT

Did I miss something, or were Dennis Kucinich's 35 articles of impeachment against President Bush ignored by The Tribune? Legal scholars on TV have stated that many of the articles proposed are likely impeachable offenses, far exceeding the merits that eroded the dignity of the last presidential impeachment process.
    House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid say that impeachment would be divisive and counterproductive to the election mandate on the war. So much for accountability. It's not their job to ignore our Constitution's demise, it's their obligation to protect it. A serious debate on the impeachment articles may be Congress' only hope of doing the people's business this session.
    The Tribune should take the matter seriously as well.
   
    Doug Vilnius
    Park City

---

Dear Sawzall:

One definition --not the legal one--is the inability to see evil. I suspect your type falls in that set. You seem to miss the point of this thread; it is simply to point out how much communication and concern there is on the subject of impeachable offenses by your furless leader. Perhaps you feel that Kucinich's 35 articles, for example, do not bear sufficient weight, especially compare to Clinton's two articles. Or perhaps you feel that Mister Bush has never lied to the American people or the American Congress. Or perhaps you imagine he has broken no laws, violated no Consittutional limitations, or violated no part of his oath.

Unfortunately there is a large portion of the American public who disagree with you on these points.


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Subject: RE: BS: A Declaration of Impeachment
From: Teribus
Date: 01 Jul 08 - 06:52 PM

Well, well Amos, here we are in July, just a couple of days over four months before the election.

As for:

"perhaps you feel that Mister Bush has never lied to the American people or the American Congress. Or perhaps you imagine he has broken no laws, violated no Consittutional limitations, or violated no part of his oath.

Unfortunately there is a large portion of the American public who disagree with you on these points."

They can disagree all they want, it doesn't make them right, it is only their opinion. The people in the know ain't moving on it, for the very solid reason that they do not believe that there is a case to answer. No point banging on about Bush and unilateral attacks on independent sovereign states in contravention of UN Charter, or without a Congress sanctioned declaration of war. He didn't do that, did he? But Bill Clinton did in 1998. Bush did not set up Iraq for an attack, the House Joint Security Committee and the US Intelligence Agencies did that. Iraq having been identified by them as a clear threat three years before Bush moved into the White House.

Now you and your fellow travellers may not be prepared to take all that in as acknowledged fact, but those good citizens sitting in the Senate and in the House of Representatives damn well know it to be the truth - Hence no action and no prospect of action on impeachment.

If it is to happen it has to happen soon, it won't because even if there was any sort of case to answer nobody wants this at this time because they want to concentrate on getting either elected or re-elected and if the Dems push ahead with this they are dead in the water and they fully realise it.

Subject: RE: BS: A Declaration of Impeachment
From: Amos
Date: 01 Jul 08 - 07:07 PM

T:

Oh. Well, thanks, I see my efforts here have been in vain, and groundless, thanks to your superior insight. What a relief. Please accept my thanks--I cannot express how delighted I am to have been gifted with your high-altitude overview and set right from the error of my ways.

Oh, and sod off, too.



A

Subject: RE: BS: A Declaration of Impeachment
From: GUEST,Sawzaw
Date: 02 Jul 08 - 04:05 PM

"perhaps you feel that Mister Bush has never lied to the American people or the American Congress. Or perhaps you imagine he has broken no laws, violated no Consittutional limitations, or violated no part of his oath."

Name one who hasn'tt Mr OCD Amos.

And how much closer are you to completing whatever itt is you are ttrying to accomplish for ttwo years now?

According to whiney Libs JFK was the greatest even though he started a secret war in Asia and lied to congress and the American people about it.

Here is a good book for you teo read to give you some background. You need itt bad.

Subject: RE: BS: A Declaration of Impeachment
From: Amos
Date: 02 Jul 08 - 04:20 PM

Sawzaw,

You keep pushing the "what are you trying to accomplish" button, event hough it has no buzzer attached.

And I ain't answering again, since it appears you obtusely enough did not let the answer penetrate the first time. Anyone who thinks in knee-jerk categotrical imperatives like "whiny Libs" doesn't know enough, or think enough, to bother commenting on significant national issues. But do come back when you finally have your head pulled out of your butthole.



A

Subject: RE: BS: A Declaration of Impeachment
From: GUEST,Sawzaw
Date: 02 Jul 08 - 05:05 PM

Amos keeps pushing the impeach button even though the power is off.

"a large portion of the American public" If such a large portion wants Bush impeached, why hasn't he been impeached? It is just a minority of weirdos that march along to the hate Bush drumbeat that keep bashing their heads against the wall even though the wall is still there.

If you can't answer a question then the only thing to do is whine a little, impugn the question an ignore it.

Amos likes his information predigested, filtered like pablum and fed to him through a RSS feed.

Are you capable of independent thought?

Is "have your head pulled out of your butthole" a knee jerk knee-jerk categotrical imperative? As in "Anybody that asks me questions about why I am doing what I am doing has his head up his butthole"

And what "type" am I? the questioning type?

Do you agree with Albert Einstein's definition that insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results?

Subject: RE: BS: A Declaration of Impeachment
From: Amos
Date: 02 Jul 08 - 06:18 PM

Well, I am not sure that is actually Einstein's idea, for one thing. Might be.

For another thing, I am capable enough of independent thought to see thrugh the hypnotic drumbeat of the Bush media machine, and have been since he first took office.

Fr a third thing, I answered your question.

For a fourth, I have not been whining. I have been directly, firmly, and persistently calling crime when i see crime, and calling bullshit on those who, like your good self, are inclined to justify, ignore, or look away from it.

I don't know what kind of country you want the United States to be, pal, but if Bush;s imperial executive is your idea of good measure, I feel sorry for you.

DIsmissing those who believe impeachment is completely and wholly justified as a nutty minority is an easy, simpleminded dodge, but it won't hunt. Dig into it a little and you'll be surprised how many think he should be suspended from office.

A

Subject: RE: BS: A Declaration of Impeachment
From: Amos
Date: 03 Jul 08 - 04:31 AM

Devy Kidd discusses Bugliosi's book on The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder:


"For those who want to blow this off as the work of a 'Bush hater' and other popular propaganda, you are in denial about the intentions of Bush and his coconspirators. These are evil people who must be held accountable. Patrick Henry's 'Give me liberty' speech was magnificent in so many ways. He and others were willing to put it all on the line for this country. For our country. For honor, integrity and birthing a nation of free individuals who were willing to fight to give all of us freedom - not to fight wars based on lies.

Bush and his coconspirators must be indicted and prosecuted. For those who died on September 11, 2001. For our soldiers who have died for their lies. For their families who will grieve every day until they take their last breath. We the people are bleeding for those families. We do care. We are not unpatriotic, but we will not condone what Bush and his coconspirators have done to this nation.

Bush and his coconspirators must be indicted and prosecuted. For the hopes of dreams of our young people, gone and blowing into the dust bin of a distorted history.

For the children of our soldiers who will never know their mom or dad past the last time they saw them as they were being shipped to hell to fight an unnecessary war. America's plate is heaped with corruption and danger. But, we must not, we cannot ignore the crimes of Bush, Cheney and Rice, because it's the easiest path or because "they're out of office now." No. This must be pursued as a screaming warning to future presidents that they cannot and will not be allowed to destroy this country by sending our soldiers into useless wars based on lies, causing so much grief and agony. Vincent Bugliosi has given the American people and the legal system the blueprint for prosecution. The question remains is there one single Attorney General in the 50 states of the Union who has the guts and courage to take on a criminal like George Bush?"

Subject: RE: BS: A Declaration of Impeachment
From: Amos
Date: 04 Jul 08 - 12:05 AM

It was January 2003 and a war in Iraq was looming.
    On a whim, Larry Bergan, a baby boomer from Murray, scratched out a sign that read, "Impeach Bush."
    He walked the streets of his community, raised his sign to passing cars and logged the first 10 miles of what has become his own personal trek for peace.
    He chronicled the events of that day in a letter to his mom, Ruby Snyder, who was serving an LDS mission in Des Moines, Iowa. The letter, dated Jan. 26, read in part, "It was a great deal of fun. Although I tried not to stare at people as they went by, I got dozens of thumbs ups. It's probably impossible to tell if a honk is supportive or not, but I think if someone lays on the horn, that's bad, and if someone gives a couple of short beeps, that's good. There were far more short beeps than long ones."
    Bergan stepped up his efforts the next month when he heard commentator Bill O'Reilly, say, "Once the war against Saddam Hussein begins, we expect every American to support our military, and if you can't do that, just shut up. Americans, and indeed our foreign allies who actively work against our military once the war is under way, will be considered enemies of the state by me. Just fair warning to you, Barbra Streisand and others who see the world as you do. I don't want to demonize anyone, but anyone who hurts this country in a time like this, well, let's just say you will be
spotlighted."
    Bergan wrote a second letter to his mom March 9 in which he excitedly reported, "Well, I hit a big landmark today. I have carried my "Impeach Bush" poster over 100 miles now. This project of mine has really amazed me."
    It has amazed him because of the support he has received - like that from the veteran who pedaled by with three American flags attached to his bicycle. He looked Bergan in the eye, put his thumb in the air and said, "I'm with you 100 percent, man."
    On another occasion, he walked by a young couple playing with their daughter. Bergan was slightly embarrassed because of the blunt message on his sign. He tried to go unnoticed only to have the couple shout out their support.
    There are dozens of such stories, but not everyone supports Bergan. Some simply ignore him. He has been called a communist, terrorist, tree hugger, wimp and worse. He usually just smiles, waves and ignores the insults.
    And when people tell him to "get a job", he counters that he was an optician for more than 30 years. Now that he's retired, he spends more time stumping for his causes.
    To date, Bergan has walked more than 500 miles and invested hundreds of hours to share his message of opposition to the war. Along the way, he garnered City Weekly's award for the best lone demonstrator of 2006.
    Bergan's mom was not surprised he received the award.
    She describes his passion as unbelievable.
    "He is trying to do what he thinks is right," she said. Snyder is proud of her son for standing up for his beliefs. She adds that he tends to be a bit too zealous.
    Bergan doesn't disagree with his mom's characterization. It is not his intent to anger the good, hard-working people of Utah. He pounds the pavement in an effort to generate dialogue and get people to think outside their comfort zones.
    "I am really angry about the war and want to express my feelings. I'm doing something I don't have to do and it makes me feel good," Bergan said with pride. "People can take me or leave me, but I'm not going to hide."

Subject: RE: BS: A Declaration of Impeachment
From: Amos
Date: 04 Jul 08 - 02:08 PM

ARTICLES OF IMPEACHMENT FOR PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH (INdex)

Article I
Creating a Secret Propaganda Campaign to Manufacture a False Case for War Against Iraq.
Article II
Falsely, Systematically, and with Criminal Intent Conflating the Attacks of September 11, 2001, With
Misrepresentation of Iraq as a Security Threat as Part of Fraudulent Justification for a War of
Aggression.
Article III
Misleading the American People and Members of Congress to Believe Iraq Possessed Weapons of Mass Destruction, to Manufacture a False Case for War.
Article IV
Misleading the American People and Members of Congress to Believe Iraq Posed an Imminent Threat
to the United States.
Article V
Illegally Misspending Funds to Secretly Begin a War of Aggression.
Article VI
Invading Iraq in Violation of the Requirements of HJRes114.
Article VII
Invading Iraq Absent a Declaration of War.
Article VIII
Invading Iraq, A Sovereign Nation, in Violation of the UN Charter.
Article IX
Failing to Provide Troops With Body Armor and Vehicle Armor
Article X
Falsifying Accounts of US Troop Deaths and Injuries for Political Purposes
Article XI
Establishment of Permanent U.S. Military Bases in Iraq
Article XII
Initiating a War Against Iraq for Control of That Nation's Natural Resources
Article XIIII
Creating a Secret Task Force to Develop Energy and Military Policies With Respect to Iraq and Other
Countries
Article XIV
Misprision of a Felony, Misuse and Exposure of Classified Information And Obstruction of Justice in
the Matter of Valerie Plame Wilson, Clandestine Agent of the Central Intelligence Agency
Article XV
Providing Immunity from Prosecution for Criminal Contractors in Iraq
Article XVI
Reckless Misspending and Waste of U.S. Tax Dollars in Connection With Iraq and US Contractors
Article XVII
Illegal Detention: Detaining Indefinitely And Without Charge Persons Both U.S. Citizens and Foreign
Captives
Article XVIII
Torture: Secretly Authorizing, and Encouraging the Use of Torture Against Captives in Afghanistan,
Iraq, and Other Places, as a Matter of Official Policy
Article XIX
Rendition: Kidnapping People and Taking Them Against Their Will to "Black Sites" Located in Other
Nations, Including Nations Known to Practice Torture
Article XX
Imprisoning Children
Article XXI
Misleading Congress and the American People About Threats from Iran, and Supporting Terrorist
Organizations Within Iran, With the Goal of Overthrowing the Iranian Government
Article XXII
Creating Secret Laws
Article XXIII
Violation of the Posse Comitatus Act
Article XXIV
Spying on American Citizens, Without a Court-Ordered Warrant, in Violation of the Law and the
Fourth Amendment
Article XXV
Directing Telecommunications Companies to Create an Illegal and Unconstitutional Database of the
Private Telephone Numbers and Emails of American Citizens
Article XXVI
Announcing the Intent to Violate Laws with Signing Statements
Article XXVII
Failing to Comply with Congressional Subpoenas and Instructing Former Employees Not to Comply
Article XXVIII
Tampering with Free and Fair Elections, Corruption of the Administration of Justice
Article XXIX
Conspiracy to Violate the Voting Rights Act of 1965
Article XXX
Misleading Congress and the American People in an Attempt to Destroy Medicare
Article XXXI
Katrina: Failure to Plan for the Predicted Disaster of Hurricane Katrina, Failure to Respond to a Civil
Emergency
Article XXXII
Misleading Congress and the American People, Systematically Undermining Efforts to Address Global
Climate Change
Article XXXIII
Repeatedly Ignored and Failed to Respond to High Level Intelligence Warnings of Planned Terrorist
Attacks in the US, Prior to 911.
Article XXXIV
Obstruction of the Investigation into the Attacks of September 11, 2001
Article XXXV
Endangering the Health of 911 First Responders
____________

Subject: RE: BS: A Declaration of Impeachment
From: Amos
Date: 04 Jul 08 - 09:46 PM

Why I Interrupted Bush at Monticello
David Swanson


David Swanson is the creator of ImpeachCheney.org, the Washington Director of Democrats.com and of ImpeachPAC.org. He is co-founder of the AfterDowningStreet.org coalition, creator of MeetWithCindy.org, creator of ResistinMarch.org, and a board member of Progressive Democrats of America, of the Backbone Campaign, of Voters for Peace, and of Filibuster for Peace. He was the organizer in 2006 of Camp Democracy. He serves on the steering committee of the Charlottesville Center for Peace and Justice and on a working group of United for Peace and Justice. He has worked as a newspaper reporter and as a communications director, with jobs including Press Secretary for Dennis Kucinich's 2004 presidential campaign, Media Coordinator for the International Labor Communications Association, and three years as Communications Coordinator for ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now. Swanson is a member of and has served on the Executive Council of the Washington Baltimore Newspaper Guild. He obtained a Master's degree in philosophy from the University of Virginia in 1997. His website is www.davidswanson.org. In April and May 2007, Swanson consulted part-time for Kucinich for President 2008. Swanson produces a weekly podcast at anationdeceived.org and hosts a weekly radio show at thepeoplesspeakradio


David Swanson
July 04, 2008
I'll be uploading video and photos, so watch http://afterdowningstreet.org

When Bush opened his mouth to speak I shouted "Defend the Constitution, Impeach Bush!" I repeated that several times, as people nearby knocked me over, cops handcuffed me, people gave me smiles and thumbs up signs. They threw me out and a couple of more defenders of our Constitution behind me, and then a few more, and then a few more. The handcuffed citizens who'd done their duty kept comign down the hill. They did not arrest us but did give us a ride down the mountain where we joined a crowd of protesters in the road who greeted Bush's limo coming and going.




Why did we do this? Here's why:

http://afterdowningstreet.org/busharticles