[Marxism] Impeachment of Cheney and Bush must happen

["Nasir Khan" <nasir.khan@xxxxxxx>]

Republished: http://nasir-khan.blogspot.com and http://sudhan.wordpress.com
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 Impeachment Must Happen

By Carol Davidek-Waller | Eat The State!, Vol. 12, No. 7, December 7, 2007


Clearly the nation has turned against Vice President Cheney and President 
George W. Bush. Their approval ratings are the lowest of any elected leaders in 
American history. We are weary of war and bled white from profligate spending 
and larceny. Our civil rights have been severely restricted and crimes have 
been committed. A once peaceful world stands on the brink of turmoil.

As the 2008 elections draw near, it's tempting to look upon regime change as an 
end to our long night. We would like to believe that a change of face in the 
Oval Office would repair the damage done by the current administration. Nothing 
could be further from the truth.

Without investigation and impeachment, electing a new president will only serve 
to codify the unprecedented and illegitimate power stolen from the Congress and 
the American people. The powers of a dictator will be passed on like an Olympic 
torch where they will reside with the next president like a ticking time bomb.

The nation has been wounded in its beating heart. The president is no longer 
obligated to uphold and defend the Constitution or obey and execute the laws of 
the land. We no longer have the protections afforded us in the Bill of Rights. 
Our elected leaders are no longer bound to tell us the truth. These wounds will 
continue to fester until they are cleansed by a strong dose of sunlight.

Failure to impeach is a threat to our national security. In the same way that 
we cannot expect our nation to be secure if we don't understand what threatens 
us beyond our borders, we cannot expect the nation to be secure if we don't 
understand and check what threatens us from within. The excesses of our own 
government can become a far greater threat than terrorism. Articles of 
Impeachment against Dick Cheney were filed several months ago and the majority 
of Americans favor impeachment. Congress has refused to act. They even turned a 
blind eye when Rep. Dennis Kucinich read out the well-documented charges 
against Cheney on the floor of the House and demanded action.

The charges against Cheney are chilling. They outline in stark relief the peril 
our nation faces when even one man exercises unrestrained power; even a man 
whose office is purely ceremonial. How could so much damage be done in such a 
short time? Why has no one stopped him?

Elections give us an opportunity to choose our representatives and leaders. 
They do not and were never meant to address the gross abuses of power, war 
crimes, felonies and fraud that Cheney and Bush have engaged in. Impeachment, 
not elections, gets top billing in the Constitution.

Elections will not address the tragedy of the hundreds of thousands who have 
died in an unnecessary war. Elections will not prevent your government from 
spying on you without cause or restore your right to privacy. They will not 
prevent you from being incarcerated or having your assets seized because one 
man, the president, says so. Elections will not prevent you from being tortured 
or flown to another country to be tortured. Elections will not keep your own 
military from being used against you. They will not restore the rule of law or 
the integrity of the Judiciary. They will not restore the balance of powers. 
Elections will not prevent this nation or any other from making war at will or 
stealing another nation's resources. They will not restore the delicate balance 
of the global community, shattered by broken treaties and unchecked lust for 
domination and power.

Elections will not prevent a president Clinton from declaring you an enemy 
combatant and shipping you off to Guantanamo. They won't prevent a President 
Obama from sweeping up Americans and holding them indefinitely on his word 
alone. They won't prevent a President Guiliani from illegally and immorally 
murdering millions of Iranians for no legitimate reason. They won't prevent a 
President Romney from seizing your home and assets because he alleges you are 
impeding operations in Iraq. It won't prevent a President Thompson from 
exempting himself, his entire administration and his political supporters from 
the rule of law. It won't prevent any president from leaving the nation 
unprotected by ignoring or rewriting the intelligence to suit his or her 
political agenda. Elections won't guarantee that anyone you elect to lead or 
represent you has to tell you, the Congress or the judiciary the truth.

Under the Constitution, we have the right to know if our elected leaders are 
doing their jobs or abusing the power of their office. When serious allegations 
are made, it is our right to have public investigations that are immune to 
state secrets and executive privilege. We have a responsibility as citizens to 
act on that information.

There is no more important work for Congress to do. You cannot build anything 
on a weak foundation. Unscrupulous men and women have damaged the very 
foundation of our nation--the Constitution which is the very bedrock upon which 
the order and legality of our nation rests. These same people have suspended 
the rule of law by which we govern ourselves. They assert that the government 
is theirs to do with as they wish. We cannot let that stand.

The genius of the Constitution is that it contains the remedy for its own 
healing, its own restoration. That remedy is impeachment. Not elections. 
Impeachment.
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