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Week of March 11, 2007 - March 17, 2007

A Bill of Impeachment


Here are the key items for a bill of impeachment for our present government leaders:

He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.

He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.

He has obstructed the Administration of Justice by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers.

He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.

He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.

He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.

He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power.

He has imposed Taxes on us without our Consent.

He has deprived us in many cases, of the benefit of Trial by Jury.

He has transported us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences.

He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation, and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & Perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.

In case this seems familiar I quote the justification for raising these objections:

 

That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

If you still haven't figured it out: read this. (I recast the tense of some of the items.)

If the basis for our government was these abuses of powers and these same powers are being abused presently then the charges of a bill of impeachment are obvious. In fact we are ordered to take steps in this passage:

 

But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. [my emphasis]

Perhaps it is time to send our congressional leaders back to retake civics 101 so that they can see that we must take steps to restore a true democracy now.

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