The Bush Administration has made a routine practice of punishing whistleblowers. Good people have lost their jobs and had their careers ruined. But leaking the identity of a covert CIA agent placed a whole group of agents' lives at risk and jeopardized the work they were engaged in. Directing the Vice President's Chief of Staff to obstruct an investigation of that leak, and then commuting his sentence, sends a message to others: the rule of law must give way to the higher cause of covering up presidential treason.
The energy/military policies of the Bush-Cheney regime have gone out of their way to advance the phenomenon known as global warming. Already hundreds of thousands of deaths have been attributed to this cause. Time remaining to reverse course is quickly slipping away.
Within the United States, in the past six years, Bush and Cheney have systematically shifted wealth and income from the majority of the population to those very wealthiest individuals and corporations that least need additional riches. Deaths and illnesses and other suffering have been among the consequences.
President Bush has issued executive orders giving himself complete dictatorial power in case of a domestic catastrophe. (He has also constructed large detention camps for no clear purpose.) Allowing this plan to remain in place facilitates any crimes committed by the President against the people should a catastrophe occur. And who at this point would dare promise that one won't?
Failure to remove Bush and Cheney from office is a sin of omission with countless victims, but most of those victims will almost certainly appear in the future, well after Bush and Cheney have left Washington, D.C. By not holding Bush and Cheney accountable for their crimes, we are establishing very dangerous precedents. Future presidents and vice presidents will understand that they are free to disobey laws, to rewrite laws with signing statements, to refuse to comply with subpoenas, to lie to Congress and the public, to obstruct investigations, and to exact retribution against anyone challenging their power.
We have at our disposal a tool to correct this problem and set this nation on a proper course. It is called impeachment. Failure to impeach Bush and Cheney is, I hope I have made clear, a murderous action. And I do not mean only to address this moral imperative to Congress Members.
No, not at all.
You, you citizen of the United States of America, you can commit murder simply by sitting on your couch.
Or you can save lives by going to your Congress Member's office and demanding that they work for impeachment. Sitting in their office, reading the Constitution out loud, and refusing to leave is the least you can do. I've done it. It's painless. By contrast, watching your children be melted alive with white phosphorous dropped from U.S. planes, or listening to your mother scream into a telephone as the waters rise around her neck, probably hurts like hell.
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