Entry 01My contribution to Brad Newsham's (cf. Beach Impeach) organized mail-in for impeachment. Sixty people write letters to five major papers in five days. Today, the Washington Post:
To the Editors:
No Administration in American history has been as thoroughly and openly corrupt as this one, and yet Congress, to our eternal damnation, has refused to prosecute the responsibles.
The sheer number of Bush’s and Cheney’s crimes is benumbing. They launched an unprovoked, unprepared and illegal war that’s leveled a nation and killed, maimed and displaced millions of innocents. That’s a war crime. They didn’t just “sanction” the use of torture, they ordered it. That’s a war crime. They’re holding prisoners without charge or trial. That’s a war crime. Here at home, Bush bungled the government response to Hurricane Katrina, even as he swore help was on its way. That’s malfeasance. They’ve spied on American citizens without warrants or probable cause, in direct contravention of the Fourth Amendment. They’ve installed political commissars in every government department, destroying those offices’ very ability to function. Maybe the greatest crime of all is that with global warming coming at us like a locomotive, they’ve done all they could to make it worse. None of these misdeeds were mere political choices that didn't pan out. They were conscious abuses of power, and as such, impeachable offenses.
To not impeach casts us permanently adrift from the bedrock principles of our Constitution. Those principles, nurtured over centuries, will not magically reappear when Bush and Cheney leave. They’re gone!
It behooves your paper and all Americans to not let these criminals escape justice. Impeachment remains the sole – and self-evident – option.
Yours truly,
Bud Hazelkorn
