US CITIZENS IMPEACH BUSH, CHENEY, RUMMY, ASHCROFTUS CITIZENS IMPEACH BUSH, CHENEY, RUMMY, ASHCROFT http://www.InformationTimes.com Draft Impeachment Resolution Against President George W. Bush http://www.counterpunch.org/boyle01172003.html Read the Articles of Impeachment, Drafted by former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark http://www.votetoimpeach.org http://www.votetoimpeach.org/articles_rc.htm by RAMSEY CLARK Former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark, former U.S. Attorney General during the Johnson Administration has drafted Articles of Impeachment setting forth high crimes and misdemeanors committed by President Bush, Vice President Cheney, Defense Secretary Rumsfeld, U.S. Attorney General Ashcroft and other civil officers of the Bush regime: http://www.votetoimpeach.org Articles of Impeachment of President George W. Bush and Attorney General John David Ashcroft http://www.votetoimpeach.org/articles_rc.htm "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 John David Ashcroft 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) Threatening Iraq with a first-strike war of aggression by overwhelming and indiscriminate force including specific threats to use nuclear weapons while engaged in a massive military build-up in surrounding nations and waters. (2) Authorizing, ordering and condoning direct attacks on civilians, civilian facilities and locations where civilian casualties are unavoidable. (3) Threatening the independence and sovereignty of Iraq by belligerently proclaiming an intention to change its government by force while preparing to assault Iraq in a war of aggression. (4) 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. (5) 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. (6) 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. (7) 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." (8) 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. (9) 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. (10) 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. (11) Refusing to provide public disclosure of the identifies 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. (12) Use of secret arrests of persons within the United States and elsewhere and denial of the right to public trials. (13) 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. (14) 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." (15) Institutionalization of racial and religious profiling and authorization of domestic spying by federal law enforcement on persons based on their engagement in noncriminal religious and political activity. (16) Refusal to provide information and records necessary and appropriate for the constitutional right of legislative oversight of executive functions. (17) 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 recission of the authorizing signature from the Treaty of Rome which served as the basis for the International Criminal Court. Notes for the Consideration of the Impeachment of President George W. Bush, Vice President Richard B. Cheney, Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld and U.S. Attorney General John David Ashcroft: http://www.votetoimpeach.org 1. Provisions on Impeachment in the U.S. Constitution http://www.votetoimpeach.org/notes_1.htm 2. British Experience With Imperial Power and Abuse http://www.votetoimpeach.org/notes_2.htm 3. The Intention of the Founders to Grant the Power of Impeachment http://www.votetoimpeach.org/notes_3.htm 4. Impeachment of U.S. Presidents http://www.votetoimpeach.org/notes_4.htm 5. President George W. Bush and Other Named Officials of the U.S. Have Committed Impeachable Offenses of Unprecedented Danger to the Constitution and People of the United States http://www.votetoimpeach.org/notes_5.htm 6. We Must Act Now to Prevent Catastrophe and Ensure Accountability http://www.votetoimpeach.org/notes_6.htm [Copyright C 2003 Ramsey Clark] CLICK THIS WEB LINK TO POST YOUR COMMENTS, SUGGESTIONS, OR QUESTIONS ABOUT THIS ARTICLE AT THE INFOTIMES FORUM: http://www.dream-tools.com/tools/messages.mv?index+infotimes |
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