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Pelosi and Rangel and too many other key democrats are trying to have
it both ways. What they are now claiming is that the American presidency
is an institution above and beyond the law-and as such cannot be
prosecuted for the crimes they committed while in office. The point of the
constitution was to carefully protect the public from corrupt politicians
at all levels: and this includes the highest officers of this government.
Treason, murder and crimes against humanity are the charges that the
bushwhackers must answer for. The mid-term elections went to the democrats
because besides the president's "party-there was almost no other
choice offered, except for the defunct democrats. The City of San
Francisco has in its history a clear act of vigilantism, it wasn't a
perfect solution, but when people are moved by what they see as the total
breakdown of existing law - sometimes they decide to get creative:
"...on May 22, (1856) Casey and Cora were
'tried' before
the executive committee and hanged. Minutes before the hanging, Belle
married Charles Cora in his cell inside vigilante headquarters.
Afterwards, her fate, as well as that of James King of William's
broad-based reform crusade, hung in the balance.
During the next three months, the committee hanged two more men and
exiled over two dozen others (mostly Irish-Catholic Democrats) for alleged
political crimes. In addition, the vigilantes conducted illegal searches,
suspended the law of habeas corpus, confiscated federal arms, subverted
state and local militias, sought to oust elected city officials, and even
imprisoned a justice of the state supreme court. In response, the governor
of California declared the city of San Francisco to be in a state of
insurrection and attempted to crush the committee by force. Certain
prominent citizens of San Francisco, including many Irish-Catholic
politicians, organized a Law and Order Party, insisting on the rule of law
above all else. In their own defense, the vigilantes cited the right of
revolution. A sovereign people, they argued, whose government is not only
corrupt but has resisted reform, has the right to rise up and replace that
government. They claimed that they had the nearly universal support of the
people-the 'respectable people of all classes.' To protect
themselves from prosecution, the vigilantes supported the formation of the
People's Party in August 1856 (a major qualification for candidacy was
public support of the Vigilance Committee), which dominated city politics
for the next decade." (1)
When politics becomes so outrageous, the public in other nations, have
on occasion resorted to taking matters into their own hands. If the
current national situation is not soon resolved - along the lines of
federal law and common practice; then Americans may again resort to
solving what they see as grave transgressions against the fabric of this
society and the settled laws of the United States.
The Democratic Party and its current leadership cannot have this both
ways. They received a mega vote of the people, to correct the policies and
criminal actions of a thoroughly corrupt administration. And now, after
the fact, Pelosi and her top lieutenants have decided that the public has
no right to bring lawful charges of Impeachment against the president and
other members of his administration-before even allowing investigations
into the details of any potentially pending case-according to the rules
set down in the constitution for just such deviations from the rule of
law. That decision is not hers or other democrats to make, quite the
opposite: it is the duty of congress to investigate serious charges of
criminality within the government at the highest levels-according to the
constitution.
Hearings need to be held, immediately, upon assumption of the offices
that changed hands last Tuesday-and actions need to flow from the results
of those investigations, if it is found that federal officials of the US
government have committed acts that amount to potential treason,
dereliction of duty (Katrina), for crimes against humanity or for
sedition. To pre-judge the outcomes of such investigations constitutes the
crime of obstruction of Justice, and in a case of such national
significance: those attempting to shield the office of the presidency
should also be found guilty of collusion in the commission of these crimes
as well.
It is far too late to try and protect those people who stole the office
of the presidency, and who then proceeded to lie to the public while
committing the United States and it's military to an unending war founded
on nothing but lies, solely for their personal gain. The resulting deaths
of the 665 thousand dead Iraqi's along with the nearly 3,000 US soldiers
who have so far perished, along with the unknown number of maimed,
permanently disabled and mentally destroyed individuals formerly in
uniform - needs to be evaluated by the appropriate court that can oversee
these crimes - in the context of their totally false reason for happening
in the first place.
What we have instead, is yet another bunch of complicit accomplices who
want to protect the president at all costs - while they pretend to
represent the people of this nation, in a forestalling of further criminal
proceedings against those who have brought this nation to the brink of
international chaos. Either the United States is a government of laws, not
men, or we have become something related to that which "the decider" says
we are fighting. Either those who serve the people of the United States
are there to serve the people who pay their government salaries, or they
are there to serve their dreams of a State wherein the people's only point
and purpose is to serve the needs of this fascist State that has so
recently become apparent. Lobbyists obviously pay a lot more for their
services, but then there's that sticky little compact between the public
and the government which is why these thieves are in office in the first
place.
The United States was a sovereign nation that has in the last
half-century become just a front for the needs and policies of Israel. Our
soldiers are sent out to die for Israel; just as our money is sent in
massive amounts to support the continued existence of that vicious and
still unfinished "state:" and all of this has been conducted in utmost
secrecy, at the highest levels of the American government. The mid-term
elections were a poor vehicle, because other than the republicans there
was in most cases only one other choice. The so-called two-party system
has become another and more basic fraud upon the public, in that there is
no real difference between the so-called political parties - there is only
that single party in power which as can be seen in the pronouncements of
Pelosi and Rangel as being one of continuing the status quo-uninterrupted!
This is no longer "good enough" given the list of crimes committed by
Bush & the Bandits: From Katrina to all the wars, to the virtual
impoverishment here at home of the bulk of the working people in this
country-this on top of the five-year-failure by congress to investigate
any of the crimes committed by this administration on or around the events
of 911.
How much longer can people wait for answers to these mind-boggling
events, either here at home or in the wider-world? Is it too late to
change the way we treat this criminal government-or is it appropriate to
look back to an earlier time when the public refused to put up with what
they considered to be intolerable behavior? This social convention that we
call elections is far more than a societal event-it's the bedrock on which
the constitution rests. And if the public fails to remain involved, then
the constitution becomes exactly what Bush has said it is: "just a piece
of paper."
It's our decision to make. The traitors in office now have played their
cards; will we hold on to our beliefs or will we fold in the face of this
pretentious and pernicious power of political arrogance so firmly based on
unfounded fears and pitiful attempts at intimidation! We were once a
people to be envied, a people who did not fall-in-line or kneel before
dictators-so what have we become-and when will that begin to change? Soon
I hope-given the continuing behavior in the Israeli war upon the
Palestinians! (2)
Jim Kirwan
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