The time has come to impeach Cheney and Bush.
Read the script of Truth or Consequences - The trial of Bush and Cheney for defrauding Congress about why we invaded Iraq.
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VIDEO - How to Impeach
How to Impeach a President.
The Constitution in Crisis - Report by Representative Conyers.
Please CALL YOUR REPRESENTIVE at (202) 224-3121 and ask him/her to support
H Res 333 - Articles of Impeachment for Cheney.
Pre-war memo shows Bush lied about reasons we invaded Iraq.
Daily Show Video .
Keith Olbermann - QuickTime Video
Bush's Lies .
Audio of 8/30/06
speech by Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson.
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Was the 2004 Election Stolen? Kennedy article in Rolling Stone.
Thom Hartmann discusses the Kennedy article in detail. Audio.
The Military Commissions Act of 2006, signed into law on October 18, 2006 will be viewed as one of the worst laws in American history.
Arlen Specter zeroed in on the real issue, however, when he said the bill would set us back 800 years by repealing the habeas corpus protections against arbitrary arrest and jailings – and then went ahead and voted for it anyway.
The ticking time-bomb at the heart of this legislation, scheduled to go off, perhaps, in tandem with some future crisis, e.g., another terrorist attack on American soil, is the redefinition of the "unlawful combatant" concept that lays the foundations for this administration's reconstruction of the gulag.
Here is the new, broadened definition:
"The term 'unlawful enemy combatant' means – (i) a person who has engaged in hostilities or who has purposefully and materially supported hostilities against the United States or its co-belligerents who is not a lawful enemy combatant (including a person who is part of the Taliban, al-Qaeda, or associated forces); or (ii) a person who, before, on, or after the date of the enactment of the Military Commissions Act of 2006, has been determined to be an unlawful enemy combatant by a Combatant Status Review Tribunal or another competent tribunal established under the authority of the president or the secretary of defense."
It doesn't say "alien" or "terrorist," although it specifically includes members of the Taliban and al-Qaeda. It says "person" – any person, including American citizens. As Bruce Ackerman, professor of law at Yale puts it:
"Buried in the law is a real shocker, reaching far beyond the legal struggles about foreign terrorist suspects in the Guantanamo Bay fortress. The legislation authorizes the president to seize American citizens as enemy combatants, even if they have never left the United States. And once thrown into military prison, they cannot expect a trial by their peers or any other of the normal protections of the Bill of Rights."
Congress has now granted the president the powers of a dictator. The rest of our slide into tyranny is merely a matter of filling in the details.