[Grovenet] Impeachment

[Ron D'Eau Claire]

This has been getting a lot of "play" in the Doonesbury comic strip lately
but it's not all for fun:

"WHEREAS, Section 603 of the Manual of the Rules of the U.S. House of
Representatives provides for impeachments to be initiated on a motion based
on charges transmitted from a state legislature, and

WHEREAS, George W. Bush has committed high crimes and misdemeanors as he has
repeatedly and intentionally violated the United States Constitution and
other laws of the United States, particularly the Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance Act and the Torture Convention, which under Article VI of the
Constitution is a treaty as part of the "supreme law of the land",

WHEREAS, George W. Bush has acted to strip Americans of their constitutional
rights by ordering indefinite detention of citizens, without access to legal
counsel, without charge and without opportunity to appear before a civil
judicial officer to challenge the detention, based solely on the
discretionary designation by the President of a U.S. citizen as an "enemy
combatant", all in subversion of law, and

WHEREAS, George W. Bush has ordered and authorized the Attorney General to
override judicial orders for the release of detainees under U.S. Citizenship
and Immigration Services (formerly INS) jurisdiction, even though the
judicial officer after full hearing has determined that a detainee is held
wrongfully by the Government, and

WHEREAS, George W. Bush has ordered at least thirty times the National
Security Agency to intercept and otherwise record international telephone
and other signals and communications by American citizens without warrants
from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review, duly constituted
by Congress in 1978, and designated certain U.S. citizens as "enemy
combatants", all in violation of constitutional guarantees of due process,
and

WHEREAS George W. Bush has admitted that he willfully and repeatedly
violated the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and boasted that he would
continue to do so, each violation constituting a felony,..."

http://www.greenmountaindaily.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=38

Other sites include:

http://www.vtimpeach.com/frontPage.do


http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0307-11.htm

http://newsbusters.org/node/11266

The "Doonesbury" strips dealing with the story in Trudeau's famous "style"
start here and run for the next five days (just click "next day" on each
page):

http://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/2007/04/09/

Ron D'Eau Claire