Retrospective of: Impeach The President: The Case
Against Bush And Cheney, Edited by Dennis Loo & Peter Phillips, 2006, Seven
Stories Press, New York.
Darin
I kept thinking of how idiotic the
democratic presidency had become. I like many, am as jaded and prejudicial
against Obama as I was the Reagan and Bush(es) administrations. With the
problem of optimism from early activities from Occupy Oakland, the dire feelings
of shock as the pessimism from repression grew, the remorse and misgivings I
would feel due to police abuses, NDAA, CISPA, and other totalitarian agency
from the current regime I needed some kind of perspective to hold on to. I had
finally decided to look no further than my own backlog of books that I had not
read. Attending as many Occupy events as possible, photographing and producing
indybay.org articles, also trying to help feed the massive amounts of
houseguests attending our squat to help alleviate them of the stresses from
living in the warzone that was the encampment of Occupy had distracted me from
my studies, my creative consulting proposals, the general pursuit of happiness
(although there were many good events, I’m speaking of any kind of love life at
all,) and any analog sub-cultural sociological research. It was time to read a
good book. I find that reading about the impeachment post-datum helped me in
many ways to comprehend the insidiousness of the current regime. California
Governor Jerry Brown continuously lives up to his original portrayal by The Dead Kennedy’s [They have a reunion
tour summer 2012,] song Über Alles,
for some reason I simply assumed he wouldn’t just behave like a typical
Californian good old boy, similar to Ronald Reagan. At least he isn’t a fucking
actor. It’s really confusing how Obama had said that we should protest austerity and the crumbling of our social securities,
healthcare, low-income care, educational services, etc, yet the police are
constantly at odds with this fact, and the police state resumes its declination
towards fascism at an alarming rate. I guess we need to look forward and not
backwards as the Obama administration has dictated regarding the Impeachment of
the former administration.
Reading about the atrocities as they
had been written six years ago helps create a fabric of reality for me,
provides me with a tapestry that helps me have a base in which to remember a
few things about how terrible this country really is, lest I forget. Our crappy
foreign policy, our terrible humanitarian record, complete corporate control of
pretty much everything, complete disregard for civil behaviors and policy in regards
to prejudice of all kinds, a lack of balances regarding economic inequality,
dilapidated public services of all imaginable kinds, brain washing propaganda
promoting inequality of most sorts, and violence against anything deemed,
“Unamerican.” Etc. I cannot wait until after 2016, I am looking forward to
sequel.
“12 Reasons Why
George W. Bush And Richard Cheney Must Be Impeached
1.
Stealing
the White House in 2000
2. Lying
to the American people and deliberately misleading Congress in order to launch
and unprovoked war of aggression upon Iraq.
3. Authorizing
and directing the torture of thousands of captives, leading to death, extreme
pain, disfigurements, and psychological trauma. Hiding prisoners from the
International Committee of the Red Cross by deliberately failing to record them
as detainess and conducting the rendition of hundreds of prisoners to “black
sites” known for their routine torture of prisoners. Indefinitely detaining
people and suspending habeas corpus rights.
4.
Ordering
free fire zones and authorizing the use of antipersonnel weapons in dense urban
settings in Iraq, leading to the deaths of tens of thousands of civilians-war
crimes under international law.
5.
Usurping
the American people’s right to know the truth about governmental actions through
the systematic use of propaganda and disinformation.
6.
Building
an imperial presidency by issuing signing statements to laws passed by Congress
that negate congressional intent. Hiding government decisions from public and
congressional view through subverting the Freedom of Information Act. Illegally
spying on millions of Americans without court authorization and lying about it
for years.
7.
Undermining
New Orleans’ capacity to withstand a hurricane allowing New Orleans’
destruction by Katrina, and failing to come to victims’ aid in a timely
fashion, leading to thousands of Americans dead or missing.
8.
Denying
global warming, disregarding Peak Oil, and placing oil-industry profits over
the long-term survival of the human race and the viability of the planet.
9.
Violating
the constitutional principle of separation of church and state through the
interlinking of theocratic ideologies in the decision-making process of the
U.S. government.
10.
Fail
to attempt to attempt to prevent the 9/11 attacks, despite a wealth of very specific
evidence of a pending terrorist attack upon New York, and the World Trade
center in particular. Using this failure
as a rationale for preemptive attacks on other countries and for the suspension
of Americans’ fundamental civil liberties and our right to privacy.
11.
Promotion
of U.S. global dominance of the world and the building and use of illegal
weapons of mass destruction.
12.
Overthrowing
Haiti’s democratically elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, and installing
a highly repressive regime.”[1]
Chapter 1: Impeachment: The People’s Nuclear
Option, Judith Volkart, Esq.
At
the time of writing Volkart reminded us that Bill Clinton not Richard Nixon was the then most recent presidential
impeachment. It must have been the democratic PR machine, and the constant
media blitz regarding Monica Lewinski that may have deterred people from this
fact. Congress did not convict and remove Clinton, they were working towards
doing so with Nixon, when he simply left, well he was pardoned, but he left.
The senate never moved to impeach the former CIA operative, Skull and Bones
member, blatant militarist, and warmonger. The military, corporations and the
CIA fight with other government agencies for control of the country, power, and
the president is only a pawn in this game obviously. The House never took
action regarding the Conyers Resolution, referring it to the Rules Committee.
Conyers added two censure polices. Bush’s violations of FISA are, “right in the
strike zone of the concept of high crimes and misdemeanors.”[2] Censure
is a slap on the wrist, Thomas Jefferson was the last president to be Censured,
the Conyers process slowly faded away. The Kenneth Starr investigation on Bill
Clinton reached a $40 million price tag, and he was acquitted by the senate. I
like porn sometimes, however let’s not review Deep Throat, you can look it up
on the internet if you want to. Without the pornography innuendo Volkart partially
leads into an interesting investigation into a history that occurred around the
time of my birth.
“It has been the announced policy of the
Bush/Cheney presidency from its outset to expand presidential power for its own
sake, and it continually searched for avenues to do just that, while constantly
testing to see how far it can push the limits. I must add that never before
have I felt the slightest reason to fear our government. Nor do I frighten
easily. I do fear the Bush/Cheney government and the precedents they are
creating because this administration is caught up in the rectitude of its own
self-righteousness, and for all practical purposes this presidency has remained
largely unchecked by its constitutional coequals.”[3]
Chapter 2: Never Elected, Not Once: The Immaculate
Deception and the Road Ahead, Dennis Loo.
Alice
laughed: “There’s no use trying,” she said; “one can’t believe impossible
things.” “I daresay you haven’t had much practice,” said the Queen. “When I was
younger, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why sometimes I’ve believed as
many as six impossible things before breakfast.” – Lewis Carroll, Alice through the Looking Glass
Loo begins with nineteen untruths
that one would have to believe in order to factually except the Bush regime
legitimacy. Fraud, manipulation, and misinformation are the illuminati’s
control mechanisms du jour.
The data gathered here by Loo
indicates that by using the voter tabulation computer’s designed in Florida by
George’s brother there was almost enough to manipulate and to disregard the
exit polls completely. Typical of post-modern neo-liberalism the corporate
media must have been well paid off to tell as many lies during that particular
election, and probably by way of some kind of executive threat. Bush’s victory
was officially due to a “moral majority,” one that in fact never existed.
“As a result of the 2000 Florida
debacle, Congress passed the “Help America Vote” Act in October 2002. While
this act introduced a number of reasonable reforms, it also resulted in the
widespread introduction of paperless electronic voting machines. This meant
that there was no way to determine if the votes recorded by these computers
were accurate and free from tampering. The GOP majority has blocked subsequent
efforts by a few Democratic congress-people, led by Michigan Rep. John Conyers,
to rectify this situation and ensure a paper ballot.”[4]
Kerry won the election. Both the
democrats and the republicans agree on a laissez-faire capitalist, neo-global regime and fascist security
culture. We must learn to endeavor to destroy this, and teach the regime as an
unnecessary evil. Thank you and good night.
Chapter 3: The “Free Fire Zone” Of Iraq, Dahr
Jamail.
The Iraq war violated the
International Criminal Court and Geneva convention untold times. Collective
punishment, illegal weapons, impeding medical care, press censorship, are among
the sections in Jamail’s writing. “The Americans Brought Electricity to My Ass
Before They Brought It to My House,” section regarding American foreign policy
and how it effected one Sadiq Zoman is especially harrowing.
“The First Geneva Convention of 1864
dealt exclusively with the care of wounded soldiers; the law was later adapted
to cover warfare at sea and prisoners of war. In 1949 the Conventions were
revised and expanded. The First Geneva Convention deals with wounded soldiers
on the battlefield. The Second Geneva Convention addresses those wounded and
shipwrecked at sea. The Third Geneva Convention deals with prisoners of war,
while the Fourth Geneva Convention addresses civilians under enemy control. In
1977 two Additional Protocols were added: The First Protocol deals with international
conflicts, the Second Protocol addresses noninternational conflicts. More
recently, in 2005, the Additional Protocol III was adopted; it deals with
distinctive international emblems. The Geneva Conventions and their Additional
Protocols are international treaties that contain the most important rules
limiting the barbarity of war. They protect people who do not take part in the
fighting (civilians, medics, aid workers) and those who can no longer fight (wounded,
sick and shipwrecked troops, prisoners of war).”[5]
Chapter 4: War Crimes Are High Crimes, Jeremy
Brecher, Jill Cutler, and Brendan Smith.
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