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<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span
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</span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span
style="font-family: Arial;">In little more than two
years President Barack Obama has violated the U.S.
Constitution by:<br>
<br>
1) Ordering military attacks on sovereign nations
without Congressional authorization.<br>
<br>
2) Issuing Executive Orders for the <a
href="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=86XF%2BEyqt6GMx%2BjpP5pypRZ4pk5gBTmg">extra-judicial</a>
<a
href="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=zCFct7GJjzevWBsLiwD4XRZ4pk5gBTmg">assassination
of U.S. citizens</a> in violation of guarantees of
due process.<br>
<br>
3) Presiding over military, paramilitary and
intelligence service use of torture in violation of
prohibitions against cruel and unusual treatment.<br>
<br>
4) Ordering and attempting to assassinate foreign
heads of state.<br>
<br>
5) Obstructing justice by failing or refusing to
investigate credible allegations of torture brought
against the previous administration.<br>
<br>
President Obama is the current occupant of the
throne to the imperial presidency. The first four
items above apply to Mr. Obama himself, while the
last applies to alleged crimes that occurred during
the presidency of George W. Bush, with substantial
supporting evidence, that Mr. Obama has neglected to
prosecute. <br>
<br>
The founders understood the need to disperse
concentrations of power and divided layers of
restrictions on power between the three branches of
government. A review of U.S. military engagements
since WWII shows that every president since FDR has
exceeded their Constitutional mandates—with
Congress' unofficial cooperation. But Presidents
Bush and Obama went far beyond their predecessors
with Obama's excesses even worse than Bush's.<br>
<br>
Obama's unprovoked assault on Libya is where we need
to draw the line on executive overreach.</span></span></p>
<p><a
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style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family:
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style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family:
Arial;"> to send a letter to the House Judiciary
Committee demanding impeachment proceedings against
Mr. Obama.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span
style="font-family: Arial;">As the founders
understood: Give presidents an inch and they will
take a mile, as evidenced by the fact that Mr. Obama
has secretly deployed U.S. Special Forces in upwards
of <a
href="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=O%2FxT3M6t5QukxKKCCX%2FkXxZ4pk5gBTmg">75
sovereign</a> countries.<br>
<br>
Congress is not without blame. By appropriating
astronomical amounts of money to the so-called 'war
on terror'—approaching $4 trillion since the
September 11, 2001 attacks—Congress has put the cost
of imperialism on the American public's credit card
without taking the responsibility of declaring war.
Congress has been astute in grandstanding,
maneuvering and laying blame, but short on
officially declaring itself on matters of life and
death.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span
style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></span><a
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style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family:
Arial;">Click Here</span></span></a><span
style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family:
Arial;"> to send a letter your Congress member about
impeaching President Obama.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span
style="font-family: Arial;">Last month Attorney
General Eric Holder <a
href="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=cTbf%2F3FS7IUgjRVbN2GLnhZ4pk5gBTmg">announced</a>
that the Justice Department's review of over 100
previously dismissed claims of U.S. torture of
detainees had yielded but two cases meriting a full
investigation. Everyone else, including George W.
Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and George Tenant
—the high level officials who ordered the torture—go
scot free.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span
style="font-family: Arial;">If past torturers are
not prosecuted, then future torturers will feel free
to pursue their despicable trade, knowing that they
probably will not be prosecuted either.</span></span></p>
<p><a
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style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family:
Arial;">Click here</span></span></a><span
style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family:
Arial;"> to tell Attorney General Holder to honor
his oath to uphold the Constitution by investigating
the masterminds of torture.<br>
<br>
The <a
href="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=%2B69ulJFXC4pAwQMo2OR3sRZ4pk5gBTmg">United
Nations</a>, General Barry <a
href="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=dd2Xcp7lDhAnTzbGn4hu3RZ4pk5gBTmg">McCaffrey</a>,
Human Rights <a
href="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=%2FZpkM0xgfXq%2FzDde3LEVgBZ4pk5gBTmg">Watch</a>
and many others have all documented U.S. torture.
General Taguba, who oversaw the official <a
href="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=56Ldf2P6CcuXWyMdzZaFGRZ4pk5gBTmg">investigation</a>
into detainee abuse at Abu Ghraib said: "There is no
longer any doubt as to whether the current
administration has committed war crimes. The only
question that remains to be answered is whether
those who ordered the use of torture will be held to
account."<br>
<br>
Mr. Holder says it is time to move forward, not look
backward. But people cannot be tried for crimes they
<b>may</b> commit. It is only possible to try people
for crimes they <b>did</b> commit—in the past. So
the Attorney General's position is not only
nonsensical, it constitutes obstruction of justice.<br>
<br>
</span></span><a
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style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family:
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his oath to uphold the Constitution by investigating
the masterminds of torture.<br>
<br>
Imagine if there were a known terrorist who was
suspected in blowing up American buildings and the
president and attorney general knew where to find
that terrorist but their response was: "Those crimes
happened in the past. Forget about it! We need to
look forward."<br>
<br>
Their heads would roll.<br>
<br>
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It is far from time to throw up our hands in
despair. The 'Arab Spring' teaches us that even in
the most repressive regimes, power resides with the
people. Our forebears left us all the tools required
to effect changes we seek. It is time to insist that
Congress send a strong message to President Obama,
President Bush—and all presidents who come after
them—that the days of Congress looking the other way
while imperial presidents shred the Constitution are
over.</span></span></p>
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