Dear Opednews editors: The following link and statement are posted to the McKinney for President website. Be that as it may, it is public information and her call to action asks for wide-spread participation. I trust that this implies permission to reprint. If you still need me to get specific permission, I will do my best but have no idea whether or not I would get through to a live person. I trust that it's okay to print this since it is from her public campaign website. Thank you.
IMPEACHMENT -CALL TO ACTION Cynthia McKinney Statement Written by jim
Cynthia McKinney's Call to Action in Support of Dennis Kucinich's Articles of Impeachment Against Bush
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With great satisfaction I learned of the courageous action taken by Congressman Dennis Kucinich on Monday, June 9th. On that day, on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives, he rose to introduce House Resolution 1258, containing 35 Articles of Impeachment against President George W. Bush. The litany of documented High Crimes and constitutional abuses by the Bush administration took over five hours to recite.
I wish to take this opportunity to thank and commend Rep. Kucinich for his courage and tenacity, for the comprehensiveness of his research, and for the leadership he exhibited to press forward the democratic demands of the People for accountability and justice.
Under House Rule 9, which Rep. Kucinich invoked in introducing H.Res. 1258--"a question of the privileges of the House"-- the full House of Representatives was compelled within 48 hours to bring the matter to a vote. Consequently, two days later, on Wednesday, June 11th, our Congressional Representatives voted overwhelmingly (by a 251-166 margin) to refer the matter to the House Judiciary Committee, chaired by Congressman John Conyers.
Kucinich's Articles of Impeachment effectively lay out the case against a lawless, degenerate regime that places corporate power and profits above the good and welfare of the U.S. Citizenry. In great detail they show that Bush & Co.:
* manufactured a fraudulent case for the Iraq war, lying to Congress and the American People;
* invaded Iraq illegally for the purpose of occupying a sovereign nation indefinitely and expropriating its public oil reserves and other natural resources for their billionaire cronies of corporate America;
* negligently failed to provide protective gear to our troops;
* outsourced the functions of the U.S. military and created a no-bid, private-contractor mercenary force which killed Iraqis with impunity and looted the treasuries of both the Iraqi and U.S. governments;
* tore up the United Nations Charter, the Geneva Conventions, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and other binding international treaties to which the U.S. is signatory;
* retaliated against government whistleblowers attempting to shine a light on corruption, malfeasance and unconstitutional abuse of power;
* began illegal detentions without trial or access to counsel of U.S. citizens and foreign nationals alike;
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