Vermont Town Voted Today To Support Measure Asking Police Force-To Arrest & Indict Bush/Cheney

[kpete]

Vermont Town Votes to Arrest and Indict Bush, Cheney

Posted by David Swanson, After Downing Street at 5:02 AM on March 5, 2008.

Their next job can be making sure that Bush and Cheney get something they've denied so many other people: a fair trial

Brattleboro, Vt., voted today in support of a measure calling on the town's police force to arrest and indict Bush and Cheney. The vote was 2012-1795.

Marlboro, Vt., passed a similar measure at its town meeting today at which the vote to indict Bush and Cheney was 43-25-3. That's 43 in favor and 3 abstaining. Thus Marlboro beat Brattleboro to it by a few hours. In Brattleboro, the indictment question was on the primary ballots for both parties.


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The abuse inflicted on our nation by the current president and vice president makes a lot of people angry. Responding with violence would be foolish and counterproductive. Responding with an election might be cathartic, but would not solve the problem. The only response that can work is one that calls the crimes what they are and upholds the rule of law. If we had really gotten this right under Nixon or Reagan or Clinton, we might have prevented some of the same people involved back then from committing new offenses.

More importantly, only a serious law-enforcement response will set a precedent for future administrations. Raise your hand if you are a Republican who wants Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama to have the power to spy without warrants, detain without charges, torture, murder, and rewrite any law passed by Congress.

And only a proper criminal trial can possibly lead to the restorative justice the occasion demands, to an open confession and apology for the crimes committed, and to a plan for those war profiteering individuals and corporations closest to the president and vice president, and including the vice president, to make restitution to the people of this country and the people of Iraq.

more at:
http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/78717/#more

[bdamomma]

1. Vermonters you got to love them

so progressive. Thank you Vermont!!!

[Junkdrawer]

2. Remember how the Dallas police couldn't keep JFK's body from the SS...

for the legally required autopsy?

Now, imagine trying to arrest Bush/Cheney...

[zestfolly]

3. Cheney arrested

more at http://impeachforpeace.org/impeach_bush_blog/?cat=52