Reply #190: I don't see it as JD calling you Hitleresque [View All]

[davekriss]

What I hear is that the high crimes and misdemeanors of the Bush administration are so crystal clear and out in the open that there is only one side, one judgment to draw, and one conclusion: IMPEACHMENT. If this is indeed JD's point, I am in 150% agreement.

The absence of an attempt to impeach means (to me) that the Democratic Party is complicit (albeit passively). I'll use the words of others to express my own position:

Where the law of the majority ceases to be acknowledged, there government ends; the law of the strongest takes its place, and life and property are his who can take them.
-- Thomas Jefferson, to Annapolis Citizens, 1809

Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is that numbers of people all over the world have obeyed the dictates of the leaders of their government and have gone to war, and millions have been killed because of this obedience... Our problem is that people are obedient all over the world in the face of poverty and starvation and stupidity, and war, and cruelty. Our problem is that people are obedient while the jails are full of petty thieves, and all the while the grand thieves are running and robbing the country. That's our problem.
-- Howard Zinn, "Failure to Quit"

He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetuate it.
-- Martin Luther King Jr

Cowardice asks the question - is it safe? Expediency asks the question - is it politic?
Vanity asks the question - is it popular? But conscience asks the question - is it right?
And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular; but one must take it because it is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr.

We are facing a most extreme crisis in our democracy and it appears right now that fascism is winning the battle.