Impeachment Is Not Dead

Written by: Mary Ellen Marino on Nov 12, 2007 1:21 PM EST

Despite the media blackout and the attempted burial by Democratic leaders in the House, the effort to impeach Dick Cheney is far from dead.  The vote this Tuesday displayed four times the support for debating impeachment.  85 Democrats initially voted against tabling which is almost  four times the number (22) of co-sponsors to the Kucinich resolution.

The resolution is positioned exactly where is needs to be in the House Judiciary Committee which is responsible for investigating impeachment and bringing actions for impeachment to the floor.  In fact, very little investigation is needed since most of the impeachable offenses by both Bush and Cheney are recorded on videotape and have already been investigated and documented by the Judiciary Committee two years ago and re-published recently.

I don't need to tell you what to do.  We need to call on the 22 members of the House Judiciary Committee to urge them to vote articles of impeachment against Cheney and bring them to the House floor.  Call Jerry Nadler, Chair of the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties subcommittee at 202-225-2825 or his office at 202-225-5635.

But televised hearings should be held to publicize the impeachable offenses to media and rest of the American people who know more about Britney Spears than the undermining of our constitution.  Cheney and Bush have undermined our constitutional system of checks and balances of co-equal branches, permitted heinous human rights abuses never before countenanced in our nations' history as a matter of official policy,  and led our nation to contemptuous violations of our treaty obligations and federal statutory law.

Most DFA members worked hard on important local elections and now want to devote themselves to the Presidential primaries. And you should all be proud of what you accomplished.  But so long as US agents kidnap, disappear and torture human beings around the world, and the Bush Cheney Administration attempts to justify or make legal its crimes aided by a complacent and complicit Congress, the reputation of the United States and its security and safety are being undermined.  We must demand that the candidates we support join us to demand an end to these appalling, unconscionable actions.  If we do not, we risk the permament loss of our 200 year old democracy.

Mary Ellen Marino, Mercer County DFA Orgainzer, Central Jersey Impeach Group, New Jersey Impeach Groups ww.impeachthem.com, www.impeachcheney.org

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