Bush impeachment calls gather momentum
Sun, 04 Mar 2007 05:59:08
Ross C. "Rocky" Anderson, Mayor of Salt Lake City, has called for the
impeachment of George W. Bush before the Washington State Senate
Governmental Operations Committee.
"I am honored to address you today and am pleased that you, unlike so
many members of Congress and most state legislatures, have recognized
your solemn responsibility to examine whether proceedings should be
commenced for the impeachment of the President of the United States,"
the Mayor said.
"Never before has there been such a compelling case for impeachment
and removal from office of the president of the United States for
heinous human rights violations, breaches of trust, abuses of power
injurious to the nation, war crimes, misleading Congress and the
American people about threats to our nation's security and the
supposed case for war, and grave violations of treaties, the
Constitution, and domestic statutory law," Anderson proclaimed.
The mayor has attended anti-war, anti-Bush rallies in Salt Lake City,
one in August 2006, another in August 2005, addressing the
demonstrators that Bush and Cheney should be probed into and possibly
impeached by the Congress.
His written testimony, which was read before the committee, indicted
Bush for "mislead(ing) the congress and the American people" by
implicating the nation in an unwanted war in Iraq, violating basic
human rights by kidnapping, torturing and detaining people on
suspicion of terror without bringing any charges in a legal way, and
reneging on all his duties as a president to observe the constitution
and laws passed by congress."
He also accused Bush administration of subjecting U.S. citizens to
illegal surveillance methods through spying and wire-trapping."
"Impeachment and removal from office is the only appropriate remedy
for a president who asserts such abusive, totalitarian power, in
contravention of fundamental rights and liberties embodied in the U.S.
Constitution," Anderson told the hearing committee.
Hundreds of anti-war activists in Olympia (Wash. State) had urged
state lawmakers on Thursday to support a resolution asking that
Congress investigate the Bush administration's handling of the Iraq
war and possibly consider impeachment of the president and vice
president.
"This memorial is not directly about the war. In fact, it's not even
directly about impeachment. It's about getting answers," said state
Sen. Eric Oemig, D-Kirkland, who sponsored the resolution.
"It's a petition to Congress asking them to do a legitimate, real,
serious investigation," he added.
Sen. Oemig's resolution is just an example of several other
impeachment resolutions against Bush prepared by the state
legislatures across the U.S. including California, Illinois, Minnesota
and New Mexico.
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