Pacifica Commentary for June 24, 2004

Hello, this is Blase Bonpane with a comment. Why should we consider impeachment of

the president when we are so close to an election? We must promote impeachment

because in so doing we can clearly express the crimes of this government without any

partisan consideration. Campaign talk is simply a form of advertising. In promoting

impeachment we are stating facts of law, not advertising. What is more, should Bush be

elected for the first time, we will have the foundation for immediate impeachment

proceedings.

Here are some of the charges made by former Attorney General of the United States,

Ramsey Clark:

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 civil rights of the people of the United States and other nations, by

assuming powers of an imperial executive unaccountable to the law and usurping powers

of Congress, the Judiciary and those reserved to the people of the United States by the

following acts:

1. Seizing power to wage wars of aggression in defiance of the U.S. Constitution, the

U.N. Charter and the rule of law, carrying out a massive assault on and occupation of

Iraq, a country that is not threatening the United States, and resulting in the death and

maiming of tens of thousands of Iraqis and hundreds of U.S. G.I.'s.

2. Lying to the people of the United States, to Congress and to the United Nations,

providing false and deceptive rationales for war,

These are only two of the seventeen charges made by the former Attorney General.

In order to study this matter more thoroughly please go to: <ImpeachCentral.com>

The question of choosing impeachment over election is frequently asked. Both processes

are essential to the health of the nation at this time of crisis. Elections are about voting for

a preferred candidate; impeachment is about criminal wrongdoing.

To quote Dr. Martin Luther King, "The saving of our world from pending doom will

come, not through the complacent adjustment of the conforming majority, but through the

creative maladjustment of a non-conforming minority."

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This is Blase Bonpane.