Tuesday, March 4, 2008

Green Mountain justice

On this election night voters in two Vermont communities passed resolutions to indict George Bush and Dick Cheney for crimes against the Constitution. Voters in Brattleboro and Marlboro each approved the non-binding articles. The text of the resolution is:
Shall the Selectboard instruct the Town Attorney to draft indictments against President Bush and Vice President Cheney for crimes against our Constitution, and publish said indictments for consideration by other authorities and shall it be the law of the Town of Brattleboro that the Brattleboro Police, pursuant to the above-mentioned indictments, arrest and detain George Bush and Richard Cheney in Brattleboro if they are not duly impeached, and prosecute or extradite them to other authorities that may reasonably contend to prosecute them?
Of course, many will laugh this off as eccentric, liberal Vermonters being wacky, but the truth is that Bush and Cheney have, on several fronts, violated their oaths to "preserve, protect and defend" the Constitution, and in some cases the damage they've done to the nation may be irreparable. They should have been impeached several years ago.

9 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hey Jimbo,

As the math would make it impossible for her to take the lead in the delgate count, do you think Hillary drops out if she does not win both Ohio AND Texas?

Jim said...

Well, it looks not like Hillary Clinton will win convincingly in Ohio, while Texas is dead even (though through their convoluted process I expect Barack Obama to come away with a small win in delegates, even if he loses the popular vote in the Lone Star State).

If Clinton were to lose both then I think she'd be under a good deal of pressure to put her ego aside for the party and the country. As it stands now, she'll likely have enough ammo to soldier on. Pennsylvania's primary, the next big one, isn't until April 22, so that give John McCain a significant amount of time to get a head start on the general election, while the two Dems are taking shots at each other.

Either way, it seems likely that it comes down to the superdelegates, who I would think have to be swayed by the idea that Obama has a better chance to beat McCain.

Anonymous said...

I hope McCain wins and puts this country back on track. I know Jimbo will vote R this time. Right Jimbo? LOL

John Q. Public said...

Jimbo:

It is a little silly for them to waste their time with this foolishness. I think that such actions only create a perception that the people who carry this stuff out have too much time on their hands. The basis of these indictments would be for federal crimes and are required to be brought by a federal indictment or by Congress. Its like the Boston City Council declaring war on some country - meaningless. (Oh wait a minute - did'nt that happen? - LOL)

Anonymous said...

I think we should give Vermont to Canada along with some of the nuts on the Boston City Council. The Boston City Council tried to pass a resolution against the war. Fortunately, a few level headed councilors saw the futility in such a vote and killed it.

Jim said...

To anonymous at 11:28am: Never!

To johnqpublic at 3:48 pm: The real foolishness was the Republican Congress impeaching Bill Clinton, while George W. Bush repeatedly violates the Constitution (signing statements, telling lies in order to go to war, spying on Americans) AND the Geneva Conventions (creating a made-up category called "enemy combatants" and torturing people) and gets away with it.

To anonymous at 5:00pm: I don't have a problem with symbolic votes like the one in Vermont or one against the war. As Ginetta Sagan wrote, "Silence in the face of injustice is complicity with the oppressor."

Anonymous said...

To Jimbo: the real foolishness is that we don't make liberalism against the law. Only such liberals would be wasting their time thinking of this instaed of coming up with solutions. Please Jimbo I know this is your blog but don't think that evryone is a liberal

John Q. Public said...

As a moderate conservative, I did not find Jimbo's comments suggestive that he thinks everyone is a liberal - in fact I am sure Jimbo is quite aware that there are other points of view out there - did you ever thing that maybe its probably why he started this Blog...

Jim said...

I know that many of my views are held by a minority of the population. That is fine with me.

"That the desires of the majority of the people are often for injustice and inhumanity against the minority, is demonstrated by every page of the history of the whole world." -John Adams

"Nothing is more revolting than the majority; for it consists of few vigorous predecessors, of knaves who accommodate themselves, of weak people who assimilate themselves, and the mass that toddles after them without knowing in the least what it wants."
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe