A lurker asked if I would post this.
Articles of Impeachment
of
President George W. Bush
and
Vice President Richard B. Cheney,
Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld,
and
Attorney General John David Ashcroft
The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United
States, shall be removed from
Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other
high Crimes and
Misdemeanors. - - ARTICLE II, SECTION 4 OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
President George W. Bush, Vice President Richard B. Cheney, Secretary of
Defense Donald H.
Rumsfeld, and Attorney General John David Ashcroft have committed
violations and
subversions of the Constitution of the United States of America in an
attempt to carry out with
impunity crimes against peace and humanity and war crimes and
deprivations of the civil rights
of the people of the United States and other nations, by assuming powers
of an imperial
executive unaccountable to law and usurping powers of the Congress, the
Judiciary and those
reserved to the people of the United States, by the following acts:
1) Threatening Iraq with a first-strike war of aggression by
overwhelming and indiscriminate force including specific threats to use
nuclear weapons while engaged in a massive military build-up in
surrounding nations and waters.
2) Authorizing, ordering and condoning direct attacks on civilians,
civilian facilities and
locations where civilian casualties are unavoidable.
3) Threatening the independence and sovereignty of Iraq by belligerently
proclaiming an
intention to change its government by force while preparing to assault
Iraq in a war of aggression.
4) Authorizing, ordering and condoning assassinations, summary
executions, kidnappings, secret
and other illegal detentions of individuals, torture and physical and
psychological coercion of
prisoners to obtain false statements concerning acts and intentions of
governments and
individuals and violating within the United States, and by authorizing
U.S. forces and agents
elsewhere, the rights of individuals under the First, Fourth, Fifth,
Sixth and Eighth Amendments
to the Constitution of the United States, the Universal Declaration of
Human Rights, and the
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
5) Making, ordering and condoning false statements and propaganda about
the conduct of foreign
governments and individuals and acts by U.S. government personnel;
manipulating the media
and foreign governments with false information; concealing information
vital to public
discussion and informed judgment concerning acts, intentions and
possession, or efforts to obtain
weapons of mass destruction in order to falsely create a climate of fear
and destroy opposition to
U.S. wars of aggression and first strike attacks.
6) Violations and subversions of the Charter of the United Nations and
international law, both a
part of the "Supreme Law of the land" under Article VI, paragraph 2, of
the Constitution, in an
attempt to commit with impunity crimes against peace and humanity and
war crimes in wars and
threats of aggression against Afghanistan, Iraq and others and usurping
powers of the United
Nations and the peoples of its nations by bribery, coercion and other
corrupt acts and by rejecting
treaties, committing treaty violations, and frustrating compliance with
treaties in order to destroy
any means by which international law and institutions can prevent,
affect, or adjudicate the
exercise of U.S. military and economic power against the international
community.
7) Acting to strip United States citizens of their constitutional and
human rights, ordering
indefinite detention of citizens, without access to counsel, without
charge, and without
opportunity to appear before a civil judicial officer to challenge the
detention, based solely on the
discretionary designation by the Executive of a citizen as an "enemy
combatant."
8) Ordering indefinite detention of non-citizens in the United States
and elsewhere, and without
charge, at the discretionary designation of the Attorney General or the
Secretary of Defense.
9) Ordering and authorizing the Attorney General to override judicial
orders of release of
detainees under INS jurisdiction, even where the judicial officer after
full hearing determines a
detainee is wrongfully held by the government.
10) Authorizing secret military tribunals and summary execution of
persons who are not citizens
who are designated solely at the discretion of the Executive who acts as
indicting official,
prosecutor and as the only avenue of appellate relief.
11) Refusing to provide public disclosure of the identities and
locations of persons who have
been arrested, detained and imprisoned by the U.S. government in the
United States, including in
response to Congressional inquiry.
12) Use of secret arrests of persons within the United States and
elsewhere and denial of the right
to public trials.
13) Authorizing the monitoring of confidential attorney-client
privileged communications by the
government, even in the absence of a court order and even where an
incarcerated person has not
been charged with a crime.
14) Ordering and authorizing the seizure of assets of persons in the
United States, prior to
hearing or trial, for lawful or innocent association with any entity
that at the discretionary
designation of the Executive has been deemed "terrorist."
15) Institutionalization of racial and religious profiling and
authorization of domestic spying by
federal law enforcement on persons based on their engagement in
noncriminal religious and
political activity.
16) Refusal to provide information and records necessary and appropriate
for the constitutional
right of legislative oversight of executive functions.
17) Rejecting treaties protective of peace and human rights and
abrogation of the obligations of
the United States under, and withdrawal from, international treaties and
obligations without
consent of the legislative branch, and including termination of the ABM
treaty between the
United States and Russia, and recission of the authorizing signature
from the Treaty of Rome which served as the basis for the
International Criminal Court.
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 530-898-5321
E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
