Veterans GROUP ISSUES "DECLARATION OF IMPEACHMENT"

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Veterans GROUP ISSUES "DECLARATION OF IMPEACHMENT"
Submitted by davidswanson on Thu, 2005-06-30 18:28. Activism
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Veterans GROUP ISSUES "DECLARATION OF IMPEACHMENT" AND ANNOUNCES PETITION TO REMOVE pRESIDENT bUSH

St. Louis – A national veterans’ organization today issued a “Declaration of Impeachment” and announced it is beginning an online petition to remove President Bush from office for crimes committed during the invasion and occupation of Iraq.

Using the same language as the original “Declaration of Independence,” Veterans For Peace cited many of the same reasons to remove George Bush that Thomas Jefferson cited to separate from King George of England. And in a modern version of the signing of the Declaration, VFP announced the posting of its online impeachment petition.

“The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny,” Jefferson wrote, and then added the famous litany of abuses charged against the king that VFP said is unchanged today:

“He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.
He has…deprive(ed) us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury…transport(ed) us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences
He has constrained our fellow Citizens…to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands
He is at this time transporting large Armies…to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.
A (President) whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.”

The veterans’ Declaration of Impeachment came to the same conclusion as Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence, when it declared “…it is the Right of the People…it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.”

More:
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/593

[Independent_Liberal]

1. I got an email about this earlier...

Check out this thread:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=3988525&mesg_id=3988525

[Zodiak]

2. Combine this with other petitions for impeachment

The signatories of this petition shuld be combined with the first petition to impeach Bush that appeared before the Iraq War (started by some bigwig govermnt official from yesteryear). I can;t remember the website, but I signed the durned thing.

[glitch]

3. Been signing them for 5 years now.

Remember "None Dare Call It Treason"?

[meganmonkey]

4. Probably thinking of Ramsey Clark

He was attorney general under Johnson and has been heavily involved in the anti-war and impeachment movement for a long time.

Wrote an excellent book about the first Gulf War including a lot of history - called The Fire This Time

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3984.htm

http://impeachbush.pephost.org/site/PageServer?pagename=VTI_homepage

[Zodiak]

5. That's it!

That would be it. I signed that sucker years ago. Maybe I shoud follow-up and find out what the heck came of that petition.

If we put 'em all together, can we beat the Conyers petition for the DSM?

[Lone_Wolf]

7. Self-Delete

n/t

[starroute]

6. Is there a nice file for printing out the original Declaration available?

It wouldn't hurt a bit to spread some copies around at your local July 4 celebrations.

[wallwriter]

10. Try this link

http://www.law.indiana.edu/uslawdocs/declaration.html

[David Zephyr]

8. Kick!

[Rainscents]

9. Where is online petition?

[LightningFlash]

11. Good to know!!!