Gore Vidal’s Article of Impeachment

[kpete]

Posted on Jun 11, 2008

By Gore Vidal

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I wish to draw the attention of the blog world to Rep. Dennis Kucinich’s articles of impeachment presented to the House in order that two faithless public servants be removed from office for crimes against the American people. As I listened to Rep. Kucinich invoke the great engine of impeachment—he listed some 35 crimes by these two faithless officials—we heard, like great bells tolling, the voice of the Constitution itself speak out ringingly against those who had tried to destroy it.

Although this is the most important motion made in Congress in the 21st century, it was also the most significant plea for a restoration of the republic, which had been swept to one side by the mad antics of a president bent on great crime. And as I listened with awe to Kucinich, I realized that no newspaper in the U.S., no broadcast or cable network, would pay much notice to the fact that a highly respected member of Congress was asking for the president and vice president to be tried for crimes which were carefully listed by Kucinich in his articles requesting impeachment.

But then I have known for a long time that the media of the U.S. and too many of its elected officials give not a flying fuck for the welfare of this republic, and so I turned, as I often do, to the foreign press for a clear report of what has been going on in Congress. We all know how the self-described “war hero,” Mr. John McCain, likes to snigger at France, while the notion that he is a hero of any kind is what we should be sniggering at. It is Le Monde, a French newspaper, that told a story the next day hardly touched by The New York Times or The Washington Post or The Wall Street Journal or, in fact, any other major American media outlet.

As for TV? Well, there wasn’t much—you see, we dare not be divisive because it upsets our masters who know that this is a perfect country, and the fact that so many in it don’t like it means that they have been terribly spoiled by the greatest health service on Earth, the greatest justice system, the greatest number of occupied prisons—two and a half million Americans are prisoners—what a great tribute to our penal passions!

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more at:
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20080612_taking_back_the_republic/

[spanone]

1. k&r

[reprehensor]

2. Go Gore!

Ya crusty ole curmudgeon!

I wish you had made it to Congress.

[Patchuli]

3. Gore Vidal ROCKS!

K&R!! :kick:

[Swamp Rat]

4. k&r

[Echo In Light]

5. I K&R'd this earlier {another posting}, and will do so again

"America has one political party with two right wings."

[bluesmail]

6. I love reading Gore Vidal, and wish he would live forever.

For the benefit of our children and their children.

[Solly Mack]

7. K&R

:)

[Disturbed]

8. The Founders of America would be horrified if they could

see what has happened to their vision for America.

[JackRiddler]

10. Notwithstanding they wouldn't get the modern world...

or at least require a few years for orientation, since so much fundamental is different; I'm sure many of your "founders" of "America" would support class war on their own behalf, then as now. By "founders" I assume you speak of the federalists among the wealth oligarchy who sat down to frame the constitution. Please recall that they were forced to adopt a Bill of Rights by popular protest - the Founding People, as I call it.

No need to romanticize or distort what a group of old men did centuries ago.

[peekaloo]

9. kick

:kick: