Al
palmbeach411@yahoo.com wrote:
Articles of Impeachment
of
President George W. Bush,
Vice President Richard B. Cheney,
Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld, and
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales
The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States,
shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason,
Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.
-- ARTICLE II, SECTION 4 OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
President George W. Bush, Vice President Richard B. Cheney, Secretary of
Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld, and Attorney General Alberto Gonzales 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 the civil rights of
the people of the United States and other nations, by assuming powers of an
imperial executive unaccountable to law and usurping powers of the 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 was not threatening the
United States, resulting in the death and maiming of tens of thousands of
Iraqis, and hundreds of U.S. GIs;
(2) Lying to the people of the U.S., to Congress, and to the U.N.,
providing false and deceptive rationales for war;
(3) Authorizing, ordering and condoning direct attacks on civilians,
civilian facilities and locations where civilian casualties were
unavoidable;
(4) Threatening the independence and sovereignty of Iraq by belligerently
changing its government by force and assaulting Iraq in a war of aggression;
(5) Authorizing, ordering and condoning assassinations, summary executions,
kidnappings, secret and other illegal detentions of individuals, torture and
physical and psychological coercion of prisoners to obtain false statements
concerning acts and intentions of governments and individuals and violating
within the United States, and by authorizing U.S. forces and agents
elsewhere, the rights of individuals under the First, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth
and Eighth Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, the
Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and the International Covenant on
Civil and Political Rights;
(6) Making, ordering and condoning false statements and propaganda about
the conduct of foreign governments and individuals and acts by U.S.
government personnel; manipulating the media and foreign governments with
false information; concealing information vital to public discussion and
informed judgment concerning acts, intentions and possession, or efforts to
obtain weapons of mass destruction in order to falsely create a climate of
fear and destroy opposition to U.S. wars of aggression and first strike
attacks;
(7) Violations and subversions of the Charter of the United Nations and
international law, both a part of the "Supreme Law of the land" under
Article VI, paragraph 2, of the Constitution, in an attempt to commit with
impunity crimes against peace and humanity and war crimes in wars and
threats of aggression against Afghanistan, Iraq and others and usurping
powers of the United Nations and the peoples of its nations by bribery,
coercion and other corrupt acts and by rejecting treaties, committing treaty
violations, and frustrating compliance with treaties in order to destroy any
means by which international law and institutions can prevent, affect, or
adjudicate the exercise of U.S. military and economic power against the
international community;
(8) Acting to strip United States citizens of their constitutional and
human rights, ordering indefinite detention of citizens, without access to
counsel, without charge, and without opportunity to appear before a civil
judicial officer to challenge the detention, based solely on the
discretionary designation by the Executive of a citizen as an "enemy
combatant";
(9) Ordering indefinite detention of non-citizens in the United States and
elsewhere, and without charge, at the discretionary designation of the
Attorney General or the Secretary of Defense;
(10) Ordering and authorizing the Attorney General to override judicial
orders of release of detainees under INS jurisdiction, even where the
judicial officer after full hearing determines a detainee is wrongfully held
by the government;
(11) Authorizing secret military tribunals and summary execution of persons
who are not citizens who are designated solely at the discretion of the
Executive who acts as indicting official, prosecutor and as the only avenue
of appellate relief;
(12) Refusing to provide public disclosure of the identities and locations
of persons who have been arrested, detained and imprisoned by the U.S.
government in the United States, including in response to Congressional
inquiry;
(13) Use of secret arrests of persons within the United States and
elsewhere and denial of the right to public trials;
(14) Authorizing the monitoring of confidential attorney-client privileged
communications by the government, even in the absence of a court order and
even where an incarcerated person has not been charged with a crime;
(15) Ordering and authorizing the seizure of assets of persons in the
United States, prior to hearing or trial, for lawful or innocent association
with any entity that at the discretionary designation of the Executive has
been deemed "terrorist";
(16) Institutionalization of racial and religious profiling and
authorization of domestic spying by federal law enforcement on persons based
on their engagement in non-criminal religious and political activity;
(17) Refusal to provide information and records necessary and appropriate
for the constitutional right of legislative oversight of executive
functions; and,
(18) Rejecting treaties protective of peace and human rights and abrogation
of the obligations of the United States under, and withdrawal from,
international treaties and obligations without consent of the legislative
branch, and including termination of the ABM treaty between the United
States and Russia, and rescission of the authorizing signature from the
Treaty of Rome which served as the basis for the International Criminal
Court.
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