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"Harry Hope" |
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03 May 2006 05:48:56 PM |
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Why Impeachment is Essential. |
http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0502-28.htm
May 2, 2006
Why Impeachment is Essential
by Bill C. Davis
Say it and you’re told it won’t happen.
There’s a conscious rage and an unconscious self-defeating deference
to the absoluteness of the power that caused the rage.
Whether we know it or not we are devastated by that realization.
Impeachment: Impossible -- stop thinking about it.
Translated: We don’t matter.
They know it and we know it.
The "leaders" that perhaps, and in not a few minds, most likely,
rigged two national elections,
quite possibly allowed 9/11,
definitely invaded Iraq and lied to do so,
depleted the US treasury -- or more specifically,
redistributed the treasury to internal, private and corporate allies,
sanctioned torture and domestic spying --
those people can never be impeached or even investigated.
If we felt we owned the house, we’d say get out.
But we don’t feel we own the house.
We are reduced to squatters, who will grumble and pay fees for the
plot of land allowed us, but we know now the land isn’t ours.
We know the government and its treasury isn’t ours.
So when someone says impeach -- ie. evict -- the response, even from
the people who say it, is - not gonna happen.
But impeachment is essential.
It is the remedy for, if one believes in it, the national soul.
I think there is such a thing and it has material and physical
manifestations.
When it’s sick it demonstrates symptoms -- when it’s healthy it yields
harvests.
A legal and constitutional purge will return the sense of citizen
ownership and spiritual health that was robbed along with election
2000.
With that first theft all other thefts flowed.
No - the clock can’t be turned back -- dead soldiers can’t be brought
back to life -- flesh and blood limbs won’t grow back -- the money to
war profiteers most likely won’t be returned to the treasury -- but
the national soul, spirit, libido -- whatever name we give the
invisible American essence -- that can be resuscitated and revived.
And for that to begin to happen -- impeachment is essential.
We are being surrounded by a world that doesn’t trust us anymore.
They aren’t all hostile to us -- they’ve lost faith in the power of
the American people -- and right to the point, as evidenced by
comments such as "he should be impeached but it’s not going to happen"
- we have lost faith in our own power.
It’s not personal.
It’s not about how much we are embarrassed by or don’t like Bush.
It has nothing to do with individual animosity and everything to do
with collective power.
When exit polls don’t match the official tally it doesn’t
automatically mean that the time honored system of exit polls is
suddenly unreliable, or that, as we were told, spouses were afraid to
admit in front of each other who they voted for.
It means something darker and more challenging.
The American people did not take the challenge -- we did what the coup
expected we would do and we have been doing it ever since -- until
now.
We are at the "until now" moment.
Democratic party leaders are uncomfortable talking about it.
They think strategy.
Impeachment is not a strategy.
It’s a citizen action -- a national correction -- a collective
redemption -- an honest recall.
It may happen city by city -- state by state -- but the body politic
has the right, need, obligation to impeach.
"It’ll be over soon," is not good enough.
"We’re at war," is no excuse.
The war, as is now apparent, does not need, does not have, the
president’s attention or wisdom.
His job on that front is done -- he sent the troops in.
That was his role as defined by the Constitution and commandeered by
criminality.
The war is no longer his to orchestrate or end so if he goes, the war
won’t notice, except in one way.
Extremist forces may not change their agenda toward us but the angry
disappointed moderate elements may reconsider.
Proving to that section of the world population that America is of, by
and for the people will encourage them to act as blockades against
violent reactionary elements.
Impeachment could well be the secret weapon in our national defense.
Impeachment could be the ultimate bunker buster that will purge the
leadership that the world wants to get at, through us.
Impeachment could move us from being collateral targets to active
citizens.
The well-protected architects of this government’s suicidal policies
are indifferent to what makes us safe.
Anyone who talks so much about keeping us safe reveals something quite
opposite.
What are they trying to convince us of?
And why do we believe them?
At the protest at inauguration 2001 there were mink coats, Stetson
hats and lots of parties with lots of beef -- and in the streets a
feeling of free fall.
It was just gonna happen -- all of it -- whatever lurked behind the
front called GW Bush was going to happen even after we knew the
majority didn’t ask for it.
The free fall is still going on but instead of waiting for the hard
landing -- we can take the land and instead of falling on our backs,
we can stand.
But to do that -- impeachment is essential.
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Impeachment is essential.
Harry
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| Title: Re: Why Impeachment is Essential. |
03 May 2006 07:21:20 PM |
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Impeach Bush and let his "Agnew" step into the office?
You must be kidding.
Fan of HCl, Jr.
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| Title: Re: Why Impeachment is Essential. |
03 May 2006 07:37:31 PM |
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Impeach Bush and let his "Agnew" step into the office?
You must be kidding.
Fan of HCl, Jr.
Impeach and both and remove them from office after the new Democratic
congress meets in Jan 2007.
Other wise let them both wither on the vine3 until their term is over
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