| Welcome
fellow citizens! The Wisconsin Impeachment/Bring Our Troops
Home Coalition is a grassroots, non-partisan group composed of volunteers.
We are dedicated to peace, justice, democracy and the constitution.
We were inspired by the successful April Bring Our Troops Home referendum
efforts in 32 communities across the state. Alleged illegal activity
by the President and war are the two major issues facing America.
The coalition will help activists in more communities place resolutions
on the November 2006 and April 2007 ballots calling for bringing
our troops home and calling for Congress to start an impeachment
investigation of the Bush Administration.
For more information on the effort or if you
would like to volunteer or start an initiative in your area contact
us at info@impeachwi.com
or join us at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/impeachwi/
Our effort has been a huge success!
Click here to view a spreadsheet of the many efforts around the
state.
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Why Impeachment
-The Capitol Times, July 19, 2006
-Buzz Davis, Guest Columnist
The most powerful men the world has ever known
are George Bush and Dick Cheney -- men who make war but avoided
combat when they had a chance to fight. They are not merely hypocrites,
however. Their hypocrisy is attached to policy, and that policy
is a danger to the nation. Bush and Cheney must be impeached for
their high crimes and removed from office. Their wars on Afghanistan
and Iraq are illegal wars of aggression outlawed by the U.N. Charter,
the U.S. Constitution and the rule of law.
Throughout human history, those who kill, bully,
scheme, lie and cheat are usually the people who gain power over
communities of humans. We call these people "rulers."
For the last 600 years men and women fought to restrain out-of-control,
absolute monarchs with their arbitrary powers to start wars, rape,
murder, steal, starve, destroy and tax.
Since the Enlightenment, citizens have fought
for the idea that humans should come together, either selected or
elected, to discuss and adopt a body of law. Those laws would then
"rule" the community. Their fight was successful. In many
nations today kings, queens, prime ministers and presidents lead
their nations, but laws limit their power.
The British struggled for 400 years to place
the concept of impeachment in their body of laws. The revolutionaries,
who fought against the British to found our nation, placed the concept
of impeachment front and center in our Constitution. Jefferson,
Adams, Washington and others argued that all citizens and political
leaders are always beneath the law. No one has the power to operate
above the law. Therefore, if a person is elected or appointed to
a government position, he or she must follow the laws or be removed
from office by impeachment.
We have lost the rule of law and the fairness
of law. Bush and Cheney have placed themselves above the law. They
have started two wars of aggression, organized the torture of prisoners,
set up secret prisons, conducted warrantless wiretaps on Americans,
and broken the nuclear disarmament treaty. The list goes on.
Today our family members can be effectively prosecuted
for things like the violation of traffic laws. But Bush and Cheney,
who started illegal wars and are causing the deaths of tens of thousands
of people, go scot-free and stay in power. There has been no accountability
for our highest leaders when they break the law. The concepts of
fairness and justice at the highest levels in our nation are broken.
On top of this, one of the most sacred values
in a republic, free and fair elections, has been tarnished. We now
have questionable election outcomes in 2000 and 2004, leaving us
with an uncertainly whether Bush was fairly elected.
You and I, as citizens, and our nation, as a
member of the world of nations, are in an untenable situation. But
the founding fathers and mothers provide us with a "repair."
It is the impeachment process. You and I must rise up and demand
that our elected representatives commence the impeachment process
in the U.S. House of Representatives. Let the House investigate
the allegations of law breaking. If they believe law breaking has
taken place, let the Senate then decide whether Bush and Cheney
will be removed from office.
Where to start? Today, groups in nearly 50 cities
across America will be conducting impeachment teach-ins sponsored
by the nonpartisan Center for Constitutional Rights.
* You can make a difference. No one else is going
to restore the rule of law for ourselves and our kids. We either
restore the rule of law now or it will be gone. Join us tonight
and decide if it is time for you to take action.
\ Stoughton activist Buzz Davis is a leader of
the WI Impeachment/Bring Our Troops Home Coalition (www.ImpeachWI.com)
and a member of Veterans for Peace (www.VeteransForPeace.org), which
conduct town meetings on impeachment. Find CCR at www.ccr-ny.org.
View the original article here: http://www.madison.com/tearsheet/pdf/2006/07/19/TCT/20060719-A-A-008--CN_-TCT--.pdf
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