Failure to impeach: A new "covenant with death and agreement with hell"

[pat_k]

The moral principles and audacious hopes that drove the founding of our nation were eviscerated by the "http://www.masshist.org/objects/2005july.cfm">convenant with death and agreement with hell" by which our Constitution condemned a sixth of our fellow Americans to enslavement.

From the start, true patriots fought to repair that intolerable breach, but no subsequent act -- not the passage of the 13th Amendment; not the election of a black President -- can erase the incalculable human suffering or moral and material costs.

Once again, as we declare our intent to dedicate ourselves to building a government that manifests the principles we claim to treasure, we are allowing the men and women we elected to represent us to make a new "covenant with death and agreement with hell."

By failing to impeach, Our Congress -- Our Voice -- endorses torture. By failing to impeach, Our Congress surrenders our sovereign authority.

Our Constitution is in breach. Impeachment is the ONLY means to repair that breach.

Only a vote on impeachment can finally divide the defenders of torture from the defenders of our Constitution. Only a vote on impeachment can divide those who are committed to creating an authoritarian state from those committed to defending the principle that legitimate government power can only be derived from the consent of the governed.

If we allow Congress to fail us without a fight, our dedication to a "new beginning" is a lie. Anything we build will be as fragile as house of cards built on sand.

It is not too late for the 110th Congress act. Our so-called "leaders" can no longer invoke fear of electoral defeat to excuse their intolerable failure. And if members of the 110th Congress fail us, we must look to the 111th Congress. We must call on Kucinich to introduce articles against Bush and Cheney when they convene on January 6th.

President-elect Obama has called on us to join the fight to shape our common destiny as citizens and patriots.

The time to start is now. Today.

Fight to break America's new "covenant with death and agreement with hell." Fight to rescue our Constitution and make the assertion "we do not torture" REAL. Confront the leadership; confront your district's representative -- current and elect. Call on them to finally set aside their irrational fears and take up the fight for impeachment.

Call. Visit. Fax.

It's our patriotic duty.http://talkingimpeachment.com">

[BootinUp]

1. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz nt

[petgoat]

3. Yeah, that Constitution stuff is so boring! Who needs it? Barack is a good man.

He won't abuse the dictatorial powers he's inheriting from Bush.
And as to the future, who cares? We can't know what will happen,
so why worry?

:sarcasm:

[BootinUp]

4. Theres a pretty thick line

between concern about the constitution and acting crazy, lol.

[petgoat]

5. Yeah, and saying "zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz" about defending it is crazy, all right.

Who are you to give my grandchildren's rights away?

[BootinUp]

6. When did I do that, pal?

[petgoat]

8. When you grant Bush's imperial extra-constitutional powers to all future presidents

through failure to enforce the constitutional prohibitions and the
resultant establishment of precedent.

[BootinUp]

9. Impeachment is a political process and subject to all things political

nothing decided last year dictates what will be decided this year or any time in the future. Your whole premise is without foundation.

[petgoat]

10. Impeachment is the remedy for abuses of the Constitution.

It's the only defense the Constitution has when the courts refuse to defend it.

Congress's failure to impeach Bush for his crimes is a tacit endorsement of them,
and will make it all the more difficult for Congresses in the future to impeach
Presidents who commit the same ones.

[Independent_Liberal]

2. Thank you pat_k!

I'm not letting up.

I just love being a thorn in the side of the "anti-impeachment" crowd. We (pro-impeachers) are sort of like annoying frat boys who drive our roommates (anti-impeachers) crazy. I love it when we drive them to the point of outbursts and profanity, like "Would you shut the fuck up already!" Kind of like in college with a roommate who keeps playing an album the other roommate hates over and over to the point of them going, "You play that stupid fucking thing again, I'm gonna smash it over your head!" The reply above proves my point.

:rofl:

[nichomachus]

7. All it takes for evil to prevail

is for people to go to sleep when challenged to stand up for their principles.

If you want to know why the country is going to hell -- just look at Post #1.

[leftofthedial]

11. ...AND we set the bar even lower for the next generation of repuke slime

who manage to steal power.