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America! If You Will Not Impeach This Tyrant Who Will You Impeach? by Sherwood Ross
If you, my fellow
Americans, will not demand the impeachment of the worst president in
American history, a man who is a traitor to our Constitution, an
instigator of unjust wars, a destroyer of worlds, a strutting global
tyrant, and a threat to the very survival of human life on this planet,
who will you impeach?
This George W. Bush, this wastrel, this smirking twister of truth, this
volcano of lies, this heinous torturer, this killer of innocents, this
Thief-of-Baghdad, this mass murderer, this open sewer of aggressive
militarism, in short, this blot on the very name of America, must be
compelled by Congress and the American People to answer for his alleged
and apparent crimes.
He, and every culpable
member of his cabal must be impeached and made to stand trial before the
Senate for the Genocide of Iraq and countless other criminal acts. One
of the least of his crimes, ordering wiretaps without court order in
violation of the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, entitles
him to a five-year incarceration at Leavenworth for trampling the Fourth
Amendment's protection against unreasonable search and seizure.
His most heinous crime, his War of Aggression upon Iraq, violates the
United Nations Charter and other convenants to which the U.S. is
signatory, a war when unleashed then UN Secretary General Kofi Annan
denounced as "illegal."
Surely, Americans who are too timid to sign a petition for impeachment
might well consider there are 650,000 Iraqis who, had they lived, could
have written their signatures in their own blood.
...
In October, 2005, an Ipsos
Public Affairs poll found 50% of the public agreed with the statement,
"If President Bush did not tell the truth about his reaons for going to
war with Iraq, Congress should consider holding him accountable by
impeaching him." A year later a Newsweek Poll found a majority favored
impeachment.
Now, as new evidence comes to light each day documenting how Bush and
his aides lied this nation into a criminal war of aggression, yes, just
as Hitler lied when he invaded Poland, just as Stalin lied when he
invaded Finland, just as Mussolini lied when he invaded Ethiopia, just
as Japan lied when it invaded China, the numbers of Americans who want
George W. Bush impeached is swelling by the millions. Passively favoring
impeachment, though, is not the same as actively demanding it.
At the Constitutional Convention, Ben Franklin insisted on the inclusion
of the impeachment provision in the name of fairness, to give the
president an opportunity to defend against charges of "high crimes and
misdemeanors." Otherwise, Franklin said, the only way to remove an
errant president would be to assassinate him.
Today, Americans have more urgent reason to remove King George Bush II
from office than the Colonists had for overthrowing King George III and
founding this nation. King George III's crimes against the Colonists
were as nothing compared to the damage this self-made King George Bush
II has visited upon America and Americans, and upon the Middle East.
Even though he is not a king, George W. Bush conducts himself as one,
for he has arrogated to himself sweeping kingly powers, powers seized in
secret, powers stolen in the dead of night without debate, powers
aggrandized with the compliance of a lied-to Congress, powers to arrest
any citizen, fling the individual in jail, and then throwing away the
key; powers to listen in on any private conversation; powers to order
Pentagon spying on antiwar protesters and the clergy; powers to enter
any home and search and seize without a warrant; powers to read without
a court order any citizen's mail and Internet communications; powers to
invade our library records and our medical records and our financial
papers; powers to nullify the Acts of Congress; powers to reach around
the globe and kidnap any foreigner off any street in any country and to
remove him without trial to some remote dungeon for torture; powers to
scrap binding treaties; powers to invade other countries with great
armies on lies and pretexts, to make war upon them, and to dragnet
arrest their citizens; powers to tear people away from their native
lands and their families and to remove them to distant, secret prisons
without recourse to the most primary principles of law, without lawyers,
without trials, without habeas corpus, without Red Cross visits, and to
detain them forever and there to torture them until bodily
disintegration, suicide, or death.
George W. Bush must also be impeached for the mass roundup and arrest of
foreigners living in the United States; for the military incarceration
of U.S. citizens; for violating the First Amendment rights of Americans;
for violating the Third and Fourth Geneva Conventions; for reinstitution
of the notrious "Cointelpro" program; for violating the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights; for violating Article II of the UN Charter
by crimes against peace; for violating what the UN Committe on Torture
last May declared was the "ill-treatment" of detainees in violation of
the international Convention Against Torture; for violating the Hague
Regulations on Land Warfare; for violating the Nuremberg Charter banning
the wanton devastation of a city or area; for violating the Genocide
Convention by turning Iraq into a charnel house; for violation as
Commander-in-Chief of U.S. Army Field Manual Regulation 27-10 against
conspiracy to commit war crimes; for usurping the power to imprison
people arbitrarily for indefinite periods by making himself judge and
jury; for creating illegal secret prisons by executive order; for
lowering a shroud of secrecy over the operations of the U.S. government;
for willful noncompliance with the Freedom of Information Act; for
failure to faithfully execute the laws including Article VI of the
Constitution that holds U.S. treaties "shall be the supreme law of the
land"; for resuming work on nuclear devices and reinitiating a nuclear
arms race in defiance of the nuclear arms treaty; for terrorizing Iran
with the threat of nuclear war; for using illegal weapons against Iraq
such as white phosphorus, depleted uranium ammunition and a new type of
napalm; for launching an aggressive campaign to militarize space in
order to dominate the earth; for violating the Bacteriological Warfare
Covenant by engaging in germ warfare research including the restoration
of long dead pathogens that imperil the planet, and for the creation of
delivery systems for such sinister pathogens.
It is for all these reasons, and likely for treacheries and treasons yet
undiscovered, the American people must stand up to their sacred
obligation to impeach George W. Bush now. If the American people will
not do it for themselves, in the name of their sons and daughters being
slain in this holocaust, we are morally obliged to do so in the name of
the people of Iraq, upon whom this sadist in the White House has hurled
down a hellish rain of brimstone. For if we do not impeach this tyrant,
we will deserve the low esteem that is now the veritable universal
opinion of America. If we do not impeach, we will go on living as
oppressed subjects, unworthy of the name "citizens," people whose
Federal government has turned us into a nation of patsies, stooges,
victims, sheep, and dupes, people who make no outcry when our blood, our
treasure, our time, our precious liberties, and even our dreams for a
world of peace are stolen from us by this menace to humanity, this
George W. Bush, this most dangerous and despicable human being ever to
occupy public office in America.
(Sherwood Ross is an American journalist. Sherwood
Ross has worked in the civil rights movement and as a reporter for major
dailies and wire services.
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