[Peace-discuss] [Fwd: Impeaching George Walker Bush]
Al Kagan
akagan at uiuc.edu
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>Interesting idea.
>Carol
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>January __, 2003
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>Mr./Ms. Y submitted the following resolution; which was referred to
>the Committee on Judiciary.
>
>________________________________________________
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>A RESOLUTION
>
>
>
>Impeaching George Walker Bush, President of the United States, of
>high crimes and misdemeanors.
>
>Resolved, That George Walker Bush, President of the United States is
>impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors, and that the following
>articles of impeachment be exhibited to the Senate:
>
>Articles of impeachment exhibited by the House of Representatives of
>the United States of America in the name of itself and of all of the
>people of the United States of America, against George Walker Bush,
>President of the United States of America, in maintenance and
>support of its impeachment against him for high crimes and
>misdemeanors.
>
>ARTICLE I
>
>
>
>In the conduct of the office of President of the United States,
>George Walker Bush, in violation of his constitutional oath
>faithfully to execute the office of President of the United States
>and, to the best of his ability, preserve, protect, and defend the
>Constitution of the United States, and in violation of his
>constitutional duty to take care that the laws be faithfully
>executed, has attempted to impose a police state and a military
>dictatorship upon the people and Republic of the United States of
>America by means of "a long Train of Abuses and Usurpations" against
>the Constitution since September 11, 2001. This subversive conduct
>includes but is not limited to trying to suspend the constitutional
>Writ of Habeas Corpus; ramming the totalitarian U.S.A. Patriot Act
>through Congress; the mass-round-up and incarceration of foreigners;
>kangaroo courts; depriving ! at least two United States citizens of
>their constitutional rights by means of military incarceration;
>interference with the constitutional right of defendants in criminal
>cases to lawyers; violating and subverting the Posse Comitatus Act;
>unlawful and unreasonable searches and seizures; violating the First
>Amendments rights of the free exercise of religion, freedom of
>speech, peaceable assembly, and to petition the government for
>redress of grievances; packing the federal judiciary with
>hand-picked judges belonging to the totalitarian Federalist Society
>and undermining the judicial independence of the Constitution's
>Article III federal court system; violating the Third and Fourth
>Geneva Conventions and the U.S. War Crimes Act; violating the
>International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the
>International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial
>Discrimination; reinstitution of the infamous "Cointelpro" Program;
>violating the Vienna Convention on Consul! ar Relations, the
>Convention against Torture, and the Universal Declaration of Human
>Rights; instituting the totalitarian Total Information Awareness
>Program; and establishing a totalitarian Northern Military Command
>for the United States of America itself. In all of this George
>Walker Bush has acted in a manner contrary to his trust as President
>and subversive of constitutional government, to the great prejudice
>of the cause of law and justice and to the manifest injury of the
>people of the United States.
>
>Wherefore George Walker Bush, by such conduct, warrants impeachment
>and trial, and removal from office.
>
>ARTICLE II
>
>
>
>In the conduct of the office of President of the United States,
>George Walker Bush, in violation of his constitutional oath
>faithfully to execute the office of President of the United States
>and, to the best of his ability, preserve, protect, and defend the
>Constitution of the United States, and in violation of his
>constitutional duty to take care that the laws be faithfully
>executed, has violated the Equal Protection Clause of the
>Constitution. U.S. soldiers in the Middle East are overwhelmingly
>poor White, Black, and Latino and their military service is based on
>the coercion of a system that has denied viable economic
>opportunities to these classes of citizens. Under the Constitution,
>all classes of citizens are guaranteed equal protection of the laws,
>and calling on the poor and minorities to fight a war for oil to
>preserve the lifestyles of the wealthy power ! elite of this country
>is a denial of the rights of these soldiers. In all of this George
>Walker Bush has acted in a manner contrary to his trust as President
>and subversive of constitutional government, to the great prejudice
>of the cause of law and justice and to the manifest injury of the
>people of the United States.
>
>Wherefore George Walker Bush, by such conduct, warrants impeachment
>and trial, and removal from office.
>
>ARTICLE III
>
>
>
>In the conduct of the office of President of the United States,
>George Walker Bush, in violation of his constitutional oath
>faithfully to execute the office of President of the United States
>and, to the best of his ability, preserve, protect, and defend the
>Constitution of the United States, and in violation of his
>constitutional duty to take care that the laws be faithfully
>executed, has violated the U.S. Constitution, federal law, and the
>United Nations Charter by bribing, intimidating and threatening
>others, including the members of the United Nations Security
>Council, to support belligerent acts against Iraq. In all of this
>George Walker Bush has acted in a manner contrary to his trust as
>President and subversive of constitutional government, to the great
>prejudice of the cause of law and justice and to the manifest injury
>of the people of the United States.
>Wherefore George Walker Bush, by such conduct, warrants impeachment
>and trial, and removal from office.
>
>ARTICLE IV
>
>
>
>In the conduct of the office of President of the United States,
>George Walker Bush, in violation of his constitutional oath
>faithfully to execute the office of President of the United States
>and, to the best of his ability, preserve, protect, and defend the
>Constitution of the United States, and in violation of his
>constitutional duty to take care that the laws be faithfully
>executed, has prepared, planned, and conspired to engage in a
>massive war and catastrophic aggression against Iraq by employing
>methods of mass destruction that will result in the killing of
>hundreds of thousands of civilians, many of whom will be children.
>This planning includes the threatened use of nuclear weapons, and
>the use of such indiscriminate weapons and massive killings by
>aerial bombardment, or otherwise, of civilians, violates the Hague
>Regulations on land warfare, the rules of c! ustomary international
>law set forth in the Hague Rules of Air Warfare, the Four Geneva
>Conventions of 1949 and Protocol I thereto, the Nuremberg Charter,
>Judgment, and Principles, the Genocide Convention, the Universal
>Declaration of Human Rights, and U.S. Army Field Manual 27-10
>(1956). In all of this George Walker Bush has acted in a manner
>contrary to his trust as President and subversive of constitutional
>government, to the great prejudice of the cause of law and justice
>and to the manifest injury of the people of the United States.
>
>Wherefore George Walker Bush, by such conduct, warrants impeachment
>and trial, and removal from office.
>
>ARTICLE V
>
>
>
>In the conduct of the office of President of the United States,
>George Walker Bush, in violation of his constitutional oath
>faithfully to execute the office of President of the United States
>and, to the best of his ability, preserve, protect, and defend the
>Constitution of the United States, and in violation of his
>constitutional duty to take care that the laws be faithfully
>executed, has committed the United States to acts of war without
>congressional consent and contrary to the United Nations Charter and
>international law. From September, 2001 through January, 2003, the
>President embarked on a course of action that systematically
>eliminated every option for peaceful resolution of the Persian Gulf
>crisis. Once the President approached Congress for consent to war,
>tens of thousands of American soldiers' lives were in jeopardy -
>rendering any substantive debate by! Congress meaningless. The
>President has not received a Declaration of War by Congress, and in
>contravention of the written word, the spirit, and the intent of the
>U.S. Constitution has declared that he will go to war regardless of
>the views of the American people. In failing to seek and obtain a
>Declaration of War, George Walker Bush has acted in a manner
>contrary to his trust as President and subversive of constitutional
>government, to the great prejudice of the cause of law and justice
>and to the manifest injury of the people of the United States.
>
>Wherefore George Walker Bush, by such conduct, warrants impeachment
>and trial, and removal from office.
>
>ARTICLE VI
>
>
>
>In the conduct of the office of President of the United States,
>George Walker Bush, in violation of his constitutional oath
>faithfully to execute the office of President of the United States
>and, to the best of his ability, preserve, protect, and defend the
>Constitution of the United States, and in violation of his
>constitutional duty to take care that the laws be faithfully
>executed, has planned, prepared, and conspired to commit crimes
>against the peace by leading the United States into aggressive war
>against Iraq in violation of Article 2(4) of the United Nations
>Charter, the Nuremberg Charter, Judgment, and Principles, the
>Kellogg-Brand Pact, U.S. Army Field Manual 27-10 (1956), numerous
>other international treaties and agreements, and the Constitution of
>the United States. In all of this George Walker Bush has acted in a
>manner contrary to his trust as Presi! dent and subversive of
>constitutional government, to the great prejudice of the cause of
>law and justice and to the manifest injury of the people of the
>United States.
>
>Wherefore George Walker Bush, by such conduct, warrants impeachment
>and trial, and removal from office.
>
>(In memory of Congressman Henry B. Gonzalez - R.I.P. - and H. Res.
>86, 102nd Cong., 1st Sess., Jan. 16, 1991.)
>
>Francis A. Boyle, Professor of Law, University of Illinois, is
>author of Foundations of World Order, Duke University Press, The
>Criminality of Nuclear Deterrence, and Palestine, Palestinians and
>International Law, by Clarity Press. He can be reached at:
>FBOYLE at LAW.UIUC.EDU
--
Al Kagan
African Studies Bibliographer and Professor of Library Administration
Africana Unit, Room 328
University of Illinois Library
1408 W. Gregory Drive
Urbana, IL 61801, USA
tel. 217-333-6519
fax. 217-333-2214
e-mail. akagan at uiuc.edu
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