Rep. Dennis Kucinich Presents Articles of Impeachment

Monday June 9th Ohio Representative, Dennis Kucinich, presented 35 articles of impeachment against President Bush on the house floor. It sounds like he broke away from the views of other Democrats, who have stated impeachment was off the table, and others that have stated that they did not have the time to make the case for impeachment against President Bush, along with involving members of his administration known and unknown.

For the idea of impeachment to be off the table has never made any sense to me. I for one would not be surprised if Nancy Pelosi somehow, in some way, receives some kind of benefits somewhere a long the line for her highly opinionated view that "impeachment was off the table". I mean how anyone can just blatantly proclaim that rules and laws don't pertain to them like Bush and Cheney did is just beyond me. The Bush Administration has been the most secretive presidency seen in modern times, so we don't even know what all other laws have been broken. I believe that there are many in the Bush Administration that not only need to be impeached, but charges should be brought against them to the full extent of the law. Because they are supposed to be our leaders that uphold the constitution by sworn oath, I would even be willing to have their punishments harsher than the letter of the law.

The other argument by spineless Democrats during this election year, that they just don't have the time to go through impeachment procedures with all the other issues they want to take up before the November elections... What?? There are many important issues, but not one so important as to take the place of bringing accountability of the Bush Administration to justice for the abuse of power against the American people that has been systematically carried out the last eight years. From possibly stealing the last election, illegally doing wiretaps, searches of library records, internet searches, and internet book sale lists, compiling data bases of U.S. citizens, detaining people for years at a time without charges or reason, torture, and abuse of the very people's rights that they are sworn to protect, I don't think there has been any administration that has did more to destroy and harm the rights of the American people and done more to tarnish the United States' reputation with peoples and governments of the world. The very laws and principles that they violated are supposed to be the foundation stones on which our government was founded.

I for one solute you Rep. Dennis Kucinich for standing up and taking the initiative to do your duty. There are people all over the country that are indebted to you

Trickle Down Effect

This is a story from the Associated Press. A Philadelphia TV helicopter shot video of over a dozen police officers pulling three suspects out of a vehicle and beating them. Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey tried to down play the event because of a police officer was killed on Saturday, a few days earlier. What's most appalling about this video is they had so many police officers beating on these three people that there were officers running back and forth between the three suspects trying to get in a jab, punch or kick because they couldn't get in on the beatings of the suspect closest to them. I think maybe it's the trickle down effect. No matter what the laws are, or their intent, President Bush thinks it is justifiable to torture people he designates as enemy combatants or terrorists among other things. Maybe Bush's example of abduction, abuse, and detention mentality is just trickling down throughout governmental agencies better than his tax breaks for the wealthy has.

In all fairness I do not know what crime these defendants were supposedly to have committed or to what degree the police caught them red-handed or not, but it would seem to be that the police is taking justice into their own hands by administering punishment, probably before the accused were even read their rights or arrested. I would think that the police should be fair and impartial, make arrests with only the amount of force necessary, and and let a judge sort out the evidence and make judgment as to the punishments for the crimes, not for them to run around in gangs performing vigilante like vendettas. It's when people are charged with a crime in a court of law that they are supposed to be punished, not while getting arrested.

The next American president and every American need to press forward in the future and restore the ideals of the past that has made our nation great and get away from the present mindset that the end justifies the means. The problems of abuse and torture are not just in the military, it's in most all governmental agencies. From the way police treat people, the way the military treats people, the way people who are in high positions within the government treat their employees, the people they work with, and the people they are supposed to serve, America needs to root through all the laws, procedures, officials and their records, and look into the policies of the past that has taken our once great nation and drug its reputation through the mud and to make America what it once was, a model of democracy, freedom, and fairness for the rest of the world to admire and strive for.