LA Times Reports On West Hollywood Council's Resolution To Impeach Bush/Cheney

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http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-impeach22jul22,0,5956863.story?coll=la-home-center

West Hollywood votes to impeach Bush and Cheney
The City Council's resolution cites abuses of power and other misdeeds. Some residents say they should have been consulted first.
By Ari B. Bloomekatz, Times Staff Writer
July 22, 2007

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West Hollywood was the 80th city or township in the nation to pass such a declaration, following similar actions in Michigan, Ohio and Vermont as well as six cities in Northern California, including Arcada and Eureka.

Citing perceived abuses of power and constitutional transgressions, such as domestic wiretapping and torture at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay, the City Council passed the resolution unanimously Monday. Mayor John J. Duran said he thought it was his civic responsibility to hold elected officials responsible for what he called egregious crimes. "Someday I know I'll look back and I'll be satisfied that when I thought the Constitution was in peril, I took some action rather than just sat passively by," Duran said. He hopes the Santa Monica and Beverly Hills councils will follow suit, increasing pressure on Rep. Henry A. Waxman (D-Los Angeles) to take action in Congress.

The idea was introduced to West Hollywood officials by Peter Thottam, executive director of the Los Angeles National Impeachment Center, which recently opened near the Beverly Center as the nation's first "impeachment headquarters." The center has a staff of about 100 volunteers; it stages protests every Sunday outside the Federal Building in Westwood. Thottam said the West Hollywood resolution signals a victory for his group.

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Residents said they have often heard anti-Bush and Cheney banter in bars, restaurants and coffee shops. Many said that although they did not align with the Bush administration's politics, they had mixed feelings about the potential for an impeachment resolution. "As a whole, do they make a convincing argument? Yes," West Hollywood resident John Tower said while eating lunch recently at Joey's Cafe on Santa Monica Boulevard. "I hear them criticized all the time."

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1. I wish that these resolutions had a larger effect in the machine

but they seem to go in one ear and out the other.

Over 100 towns, etc passed resolutions on the unPATRIOTic Act, too, much to no avail. :-(