Everybody knows that the war is over
Everybody knows the good guys lost
Everybody knows the fight was fixed
The poor stay poor, the rich get rich
That’s how it goes
Everybody knows
Cohen
That he broke the law is not in question…
There is no doubt…
Everyone is in agreement…
And by everyone, I mean even those who have merely a slight interest in current events…
The list of crimes is so familiar now that I almost would rather puke my guts out than to repeat it for the umpteenth million time…
Lies of WMD, lies about 9/11, lies about graft, lies about cronyism, lies about competency, lies about lies about lies… and on an on an on…
If they were just regular everyday honest lies, I guess it wouldn’t matter much…
There’s this little kid down the street who said he was a Blue Angel pilot, quite a feat for a 7 year old… lies like that don’t matter much…
Lies like HE told… those lies are harsh and devastating… those are the sort of lies that make sweet little lies seem caustically dangerous…
But here’s the thing… we know he broke the law… there is no doubt… the fact that he ordered the torture of detainee’s alone would be enough to put a regular person behind bars for an eternity… If I was to detain a stranger in my basement and tortured them… or if I ordered my employee’s to do it… I would go to jail… You… you would go to jail… Police officers would go to jail… soldiers have gone to jail but…
…
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but Nancy says no… No… off the table… That statement clatters with the visual effect rendered during the movie The Search for Bobby Fischer… remember the scene where Gandhi… no, it wasn’t Gandhi but it was the same actor… he kept telling this little boy not to make a Chess move until he could see twelve moves ahead to victory and then when the little boy doesn’t see it… Gandhi swipes his hand across the chessboard, wiping all the pieces off with a crash onto the tiled floor… Don’t move till you see it, he said… the boy puts his head down and searches and searches an empty chessboard…
I put my head down and search and search… but I don’t see it… I can’t see that deep… how is this course of action wise… how does letting a criminal go free square with any basic concept of moral justice?
Granted, there are cases where letting an evil-doer escape justice allows a greater justice to be realized… sacrificing the righteous to the greater good and all that but…
I don’t see the greater good we are serving by not revoking and rebuking the powers and the abuses thereof, committed by this person… this stranger to all of us… this George Bush. Who is this person? How is he above the law? How can he order murder for profits and be allowed to walk free… Is he a God, I wonder? Am I like Pentheus … kicking against the goad? Railing against a god?
No… George is no God… he is just a man… A man like Caligula, our little boots, a man devoured by a power he does not understand… consumed by demons named Greed, Lust, Addiction, Ego… Power. George is just a desolate soul riding bareback on a hurricane, long after the fun has worn off and the horror has faded… That is no God that is just a fool…
He broke the law and yet Impeachment is off the table… Why? Because politics is more important than the law… that’s why… because to impeach Bush in an election year would sour our chances of winning the Presidency… though how that makes any sense is far beyond me…
I would think it could be argued that by putting George Bush and Dick Cheney in prison we actually increase our chances of winning the White House. I’m not sure how having the leader of the Republican Party evicted from office for mismanagement and corruption, conspiracy and fraud… I’m not sure how that helps Republicans and hurts Democrats.
See… I think it’s actually the other way around… I think exposing just how corrupt the Republican machine really is, can and would be a boon to Obama’s chances of beating McCain. But nope… off the table… won’t even discuss it… swipe… gone…
I don’t see it Nancy… I don’t… Don’t move till you see it… I don’t see it… Don’t move till you see it… I don’t see it… Which is how they get us to sit still and not move… She has no intention of ever impeaching that person… that stranger among us who is afforded the power to kill and lie and plunder and ravage… at will… his will.
I don’t get it, why are you fighting for injustice? How do you figure to reap justice from injustice? One does not render diamonds from dunghills… though even Jefferson has tried. If you help the cause of injustice, who do you serve? You cannot serve both masters… one of justice and one of injustice… by helping Bush avoid justice you have in effect done what the Catholic Church has done by hiding the crimes of pedophile priests. How are crimes against humanity any less punishable than sexual crimes against children? How is the shame of covering up that heinous and despicable blot on the history of an already scourged church any less than those of covering up for the criminals of our Republican congregation… like Ford covered Nixon… like Pelosi now covers Bush…
I wish you’d reconsider, I really do… honestly… If I were to kill one soldier through an act of deception and fraud, what would you call me? A most foul and heinous traitor? Murderer? Monster? What then if I compounded that one crime 4 thousand times over…
And what would you call the person who helped me get away with it? One who created a pocket pardon, a wholly new extra-constitutional power… what do you say about someone like that? What will history say about someone like Nancy? The field of history is cluttered with the carcasses of fools who believed they could become clean by wallowing in feces. Bush believed such things, Cheney believes such things, most of the Mafioso leaders of the Republican Party believe such things and Nancy refuses to expose them for the vile pigs that they are… and by siding with them what do we say of her? By siding with them… what can be said of you?
We must impeach because that is the right thing to do… it is also what is required by law. If you ignore the law… if you place party loyalty and party gain above the law… how does that make you any better than them? Impeachment is not about an election or the future of one party, impeachment is about what is required for law to rule and not a cult of personality. The law demands accountability and justice aches for the truth to be known… that can only be realized in the light offered by the scrutiny of honest inquiry. Pretending we can just ignore these last eight years and let bygones be bygones is as gross as telling those molestation victims of the clergy to just walk it off and forget about it… saving the reputation of the church had become more important than saving little children from demons. Tell the families of those who died because of Bush’s lies to just walk it off and forget about it… tell them impeachment is off the table.
Reconsider your stance… read the
Articles of Impeachment read by the Honorable Dennis Kucinich on the floor of the House … read them and judge what is right and then stand up for that righteousness. We cannot wait… in a few months the Pelosi Pocket Pardon will safely rescue George Bush from any accountability just as Ford rescued Nixon. Read these articles with a judicious eye and set your heart to revealing the truth… if we do that then we will truly be a party worthy of leading this nation into a new era of integrity in government and will restore honor to the political process and our way of life.
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