High Noon for Justice and the Rule of Law

Being that we either end the Iraq war or it'll be the end of us. Fortunately for us what we need do, troops out now, not only is a no-brainer, it'll be a snap, since most of us, according to the latest poll (see headlines), not only are opposed to the Iraq war, we consider it to be morally wrong. How to start the ball rolling? We bombard Congress with emails demanding that it stop funding the Iraq war, that's how. Oh, what good is that gonna do? Change the world, that's what.

(please forward)

On June 16th during operation “Shock and Awe on the Oregon Coast”,, members of SQUADRON13-DEPLOYED recorded this arrest warrant for Bush and Cheney at City Hall in Newport Oregon:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-iIkmt-eco

[Text of arrest warrant]
As former members of the armed services of the United States of America, we swore to support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic. Upon discharge from service we did not renounce that oath, which remains our sacred duty.
It has long been apparent to us that our Constitution is under attack and has been deliberately and relentlessly undermined by domestic enemies – indeed, by our highest government officials who took and have violated that same oath.
Many Constitutional crimes have been committed by the Bush administration, including warrantless electronic surveillance of American citizens in violation of the 4th Amendment, failure to provide due process rights in violation of the 5th and 6th Amendments, infliction of cruel and unusual punishments in violation of the 8th Amendment, usurpation of powers granted exclusively to Congress in violation of Article I, Section 1, and violation of Article VI, Paragraph 2, which states that all international treaties to which the United States is a signatory are “the Supreme law of the Land.”
The wars prosecuted by the Bush administration in our name with our national resources are violations of all treaties defining the international laws of war since 1928, including the United Nations and Nuremberg charters, which uniformly prohibit wars of aggression. As violations of these international covenants and pledges, they also constitute high crimes against the United States Constitution.
Furthermore, the illegal occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan and other war crimes including torture and use of internationally prohibited weapons such as depleted uranium, violate the Geneva Conventions of 1949, thereby further violating the Supreme Law of our Land.
Our oath therefore compels us to issue a citizens’ warrant for the immediate arrest of George W. Bush and Richard Cheney, President and Vice-President of the United States.
We call upon President Bush and Vice-President Cheney to surrender themselves to federal law enforcement authorities or to any private group of Americans that is prepared to make these citizens arrests.
The right of citizens arrest is deeply grounded in English common law and is constitutionally protected under the 9th Amendment, derived from the natural right of self-defense and defense of others. A citizens arrest is valid when arresting citizens have a reasonable belief that the suspect has committed a felony.
We believe that felonies of great magnitude have been committed, and the evidentiary bases of these are conclusively established in the public record.
We charge these officials with conspiracy to commit genocide against the citizens of another sovereign state, with conspiracy to commit mass murder of American citizens by waging a fraudulently justified war, and other high crimes described on our website, www.VeteransAgainstTorture.com.
Our charges include war crimes and crimes against humanity for which we will seek extradition for trial in the international criminal court at the Hague, Netherlands, following trial in the United States for treason and other high crimes against our constitutional government.
Source: http://www.VeteransAgainstTorture.com and http://www.Squadron13.com

The House HAS the votes for Impeachment. All it takes is a simple majority to pass the Articles of Impeachment and pass it to the Senate for trial and the Dems have that "simple majority"

Of course there is no way in hell they will get the votes out of the Senate to find them guilty and remove them from office but nevertheless Bush and Cheney will be branded as IMPEACHED forever in history.

At this point in time, I think a hell of a lot of us would settle for that. I know I would.

Impeachment doesn't mean so much, now that the Republicans have cheapened it.

Besides, every day GWB spends in power is another nail in the Republican coffin.

As so many have been saying and as this excellent article calls for - impeachment must proceed!

Not matter how difficult it may seem. No matter how impossible they tell us it is, we need to push forward. Impeachment is right because it IS right!

Impeachment is about restoring the Constitution and the rule of law - we owe it to our descendants.

Some follow up reading:

"Clarification of the Uses of Impeachment" - click here

"The Democrats are not responsible for the actions of this rogue, criminal executive branch; but they are responsible for meeting it head on at 'High Noon.' "

I'd call calling Christine Todd a liar to her face and getting her to sing about Rudy in a hearing "meeting the rogues head on."

Your editorials ought to be browbeating the MSM, because pressure has to come from the public (you have a large readership but I mean the mainstream public) for their reps to impeach the bastards out of there. ESPECIALLY the thugs have to be pressured or the media will turn it into a bullshit "partisan" circus. You know, just like NPR did about Cheney's declaration of independence from the executive branch...they called it a DEM concern!

Where were your screaming headlines about NPR, calling them out? You should be more concerned about your OWN High Noon, Buzzer. Confront your own...how is the larger public going to know what your readership knows when even NPR drops the ball?

The thugs want to ride it out and call the dems "cowards" and "do nothings" --- it's part of their 2008 strategy, all written out --- so, as long as the Dems' nonstop investigations bring nothing to light because the media's busy covering Paris Hilton, all that our whining and carping about OUR OWN is going to accomplish is THEIR goals. THIS is what I call DO-NOTHING when more than ever the Dems need back-up and trumpeting of everything they ARE doing. Apparently, the Dems live in the real world, unlike Buzzflash and Buzzflashians, and like the Wild West heros, they know you can't put the cart in FRONT of the horse, because the cart can't pull the horse.

Apparently, tho, Buzzflash and Dem-bashers would be happy to see a pointless Old West bloodbath because they're impatient with the slow wheels of justice and want something flashier. Well, carry on with your side show...don't let logic and real life stop you.

As well, for then NSA Advisor Rice conducting unwarranted unConstitutional and illegal searchs and seizures of US citizens' domestic telecommunications.

We are the American Imperial Hegemony with over 1000 bases spread over 103 countries - and nothing about this state of affairs seems to rile the electorate or bother the representatives.

During debate on the 2008 Foreign Operations bill, the House approved by voice vote an amendment submitted by Iowa Republican Rep. Steve King that inserted the word “permanent” before “basing rights agreement” in the following text:

“SEC. 685. None of the funds made available in this Act may be used by the
Government of the United States to enter into a basing rights agreement between
the United States and Iraq.”

As King has pointed out in the past, the United States has never had a “permanent” basing rights agreement with any country where, like Germany, Japan, and South Korea, Washington has based troops for decades. So the amendment, if it becomes law, means that the administration may now use funds to enter into any kind of basing rights agreement with the government of Iraq that it wishes.

Obviously, where the legislative branch cares enough to fund Hegemony - the Unitary Executive becomes secondary to building an empire. The voice of Democrats was absent -even to the limited degree to exercise their right to demand a RECORDED VOTE.

"In the part of this universe that we know there is great injustice, and often the good suffer, and often the wicked prosper, and one hardly knows which of those is the more annoying."
- Bertrand Russell -