Do this in our name ... soon!
02/16/2006
We are beyond the point of merely asking for help in ridding our country of perhaps the greatest threat to its future: President George W. Bush.
We are demanding, as deeply concerned American citizens, that Congress take immediate action to impeach Bush.
Not tomorrow, not the next day, but today - now - before it's too late.
As horrifyingly candid testimony in the National Security Administration Senate hearings have shown, Bush and his cronies clearly believe that they are able to do anything they want to anyone anywhere who happens to fall into the crosshairs of his administration.
Bush, according to his own attorney general, is no longer bound by the law, the US Constitution, which clearly defines the role of the president, particularly when it comes to fighting wars.
But unlike all other presidents presiding over all other wars that this country has ever fought in, this president, argues Alberto Gonzales, has been imbued with additional unwritten powers that most people, including members of Congress who presumably granted those powers, never realized.
Warrantless searches and wiretaps, all military decisions, the arrest and limitless detention of uncharged enemy combatants, the use of torture ... where does it end?
Apparently it doesn't end, at least not in these United States, according to Gonzales. Making Bush appear more Nixonian than even Richard Nixon could or would, Gonzales actually testified that the president has "inherent powers" that transcend the limited authority granted by the Constitution.
Could he actually believe such a thing? Worse, would others actually believe such treasonous talk? That clearly is not protecting and defending the Constitution, not the one everyone else is working from, as Bush and Gonzales are sworn to do.
But Gonzales isn't the only one encouraging Bush to use the Constitution like a club against his own people. Other White House lawyers, according to recent coverage of the NSA hearings in the LA Times, have drafted documents indicating that the president can do just about whatever is necessary to wage war and that Congress has no right to interfere with that duty.
Where these people come from, where they learn this stuff and why they knowingly deceive people, we do not know. We do know, however, that Bush does not have that power, at least not according to the Constitution as it is written. And he never did.
Nor does the president have unlimited war-making abilities under the Constitution, as he and his supporters claim.
Forgive us for being so blunt, but at this point, we would like to ask Congress - Republicans and Democrats alike - to do something, and quickly:
WAKE THE HELL UP!
A blind man could see where all this is leading and it's not to a place that most people would want to go, largely because it's a place that will no longer be recognizable in its previous form as the land of the free and home of the brave.
Bush has done all of those aforementioned things in the seemingly never-ending war on terrorism. But instead of being called on the carpet and prosecuted, as he should be, our corrupted commander in chief is being obeyed and his henchmen coddled, as if what they do actually is above the law.
Let's put all this another way: If we are correct and Bush is not above the law, then he has broken the law, at least in the domestic spying arena, and he should be prosecuted.
If he is correct, then we no longer live in the United States of America because we no longer have a government of laws by the people, of the people, for the people, but one that does the bidding of a dictator or a king. King George Bush.
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