[Peace-discuss] an alternative to impeachment -- extradition!

[John W.]

At 09:30 AM 1/2/2008, Stuart Levy wrote:

>Mentioned at Sunday's AWARE meeting:
>
>    http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/12/29/6051/
>
>about activists in Brattleboro, VT proposing a vote before
>their Town Meeting: that their police dept. shall arrest
>Bush and Cheney, should they ever visit Brattleboro,
>and extradite them to whichever country might be willing to
>put them on trial.
>
>    "Shall the Selectboard instruct the Town Attorney to
>     draft indictments against President Bush and Vice President Cheney for
>     crimes against our Constitution, and publish said indictment for
>     consideration by other municipalities?" Daims' proposed article reads.


It's a nice thought, but I'm pretty sure you can't arrest the bastards.  If 
diplomats from OTHER countries have "diplomatic immunity" here, don't you 
imagine that our own elected officials have something on the order of 
diplomatic immunity in their own country?  I'm quite sure they do.  Can you 
imagine the Secret Service just standing by and watching while some Don 
Knotts character in Brattleboro arrests the President and Vice 
President?  It's fun to imagine, isn't it?