CONYERS "dictoral flavor", push for impeachment?, Iraq, dirty elections,

[MelissaB]

CONYERS
Veteran Democrat raises worries on civil liberties, 2002 Iraq attack plan

By Larisa Alexandrovna and John Byrne | RAW STORY

In an interview with RAW STORY, Congressman John Conyers (D-MI) raised concerns about a document which suggests President Bush may have knowingly misled the country into war and expressed serious worries about the ebbing of civil liberties.

“There’s a dictatorial flavor that comes into this matter,” Conyers said, speaking of efforts of the current Bush Administration. “This chipping away from what we thought we had and what was in stone: the Civil Rights Act, the Voter Rights Act, the ability of states to process their own judicial cases without federal intervention—all of these things mean we’re not where we were; we’re slipping back and what we’re slipping back into in the cumulative sense is something a little bit scary.”

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The Michigan Democrat also weighed in on his push for an inquiry into whether the president had quietly decided to invade Iraq in 2002, even while telling the nation he was seeking to “disarm” Saddam Hussein.

Conyers says some have called upon him to push for impeachment, but he avoided the term in conversation with RAW STORY. The congressman was a member of the Judiciary Committee in its 1974 hearings on the Nixon’s impeachment; he suggested that details of the Iraq deal might trickle out as they did with Watergate under President Nixon.

More: http://rawstory.com/exclusives/alexandrovna/conyers_memo_iraq_interview_524



I posted in another thread before I saw this article that Conyers leads the country in the call for reform. Now, I wonder if he will lead the call for impeachment. I love and respect this man.

[MelissaB]

1. Martial Law and screwed up elections?

On the issue of civil liberties, RAW STORY raised a question some readers have asked, whether the congressman thought it was a reach to imagine the turn by the current Administration to infringe about personal privacy could result in something as drastic as martial law.

“I’m not so sure that there’s a lot of reaching necessary,” he remarked. “In totality, we’re moving into a different kind of country under different kind of law. For a president who has won each of his two elections by two states and each time the state that provided him with the margin had the most violations and irregularities of voting procedure of any other state in each election – obviously Florida and Ohio – he’s acting as if he had a mandate.”

[LightningFlash]

2. In fact, it appears those who engaged in the crime do...

They in fact do believe they have a mandate so extreme that even those would be republicans must obey their every wish. But will that actually happen, as the house of cards becomes a crashing wind of dissonance?

http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/11489971.htm

[MelissaB]

3. Thanks for the link.

Regristration is required. Care to post a snip?