Citizens Of Tompkins County New York Sending Impeachment Resolution To Legislature (Read the text!)

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Tompkins County NY Impeachment Resolution Cites Bush-Cheney Offenses
Submitted by Chip on Sun, 2007-05-27 02:46.

Citizens of Tompkins County in west central upstate New York, home to Cornell University and Ithaca College, are filing an impeachment resolution May 29 with the Tompkins County legislature. The impeachment resolution will be voted on June 5, 2007.

The impeachment resolution lists these offenses by Bush and Cheney:

Misleading Congress and the American people regarding Iraq’s weapons of
mass destruction

Misleading Congress and the nation about ties between Iraq and al Quaeda

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The citizens of Tompkins County wrote in the impeachment resolution's preamble: (Mods, as this preamble text is a part of a public act and soon to be public record, if it is not now I'm reproducing all of it.)

To: The Tompkins County Legislature

As citizens ultimately accountable for our constitutional democracy and its actions, we submit a resolution calling on you to urge a full and comprehensive review of charges that may warrant impeachment of the President and Vice President of the United States. Under the Rules of the House of Representatives impeachment may be set in motion by a State legislature as well as a member of Congress. The resolution below urges you to request action by both.

Impeachment is not a remedy for policy differences or bad government or even ordinary breaches of the criminal law involving no abuse of public trust.

Impeachment is a remedy to protect against serious abuse of power and subversion of constitutional government. By making dramatically clear that a public official’s misconduct has compromised his or her function in the constitutional scheme, impeachment is a means to secure our democracy against present and also future harm.

While the impeachment remedy can only be used in the face of grave misconduct, the accumulation of evidence suggesting the Bush Administration’s gross assault on government appears to be overwhelming. It has systematically violated the treaties, laws, and Constitution of the United States, deceived Congress and the public, and abused the public trust and our constitutional traditions. This misconduct has involved grave abuse on matters of national security, war, and domestic wellbeing, as well as abuse of the rights of citizens to bodily integrity, security in their homes, communication, travel, participation in the political process, and included even the use and justification of torture against U.S. citizens and others.

In the face of such evidence, the House of Representatives has a duty placed upon it by the Constitution to conduct an inquiry into whether grounds for impeachment exist to the end that abuse of office not become a precedent capable of destroying our constitutional form of government.

Where the assault on government is grave, impeachment may be used even in the event an official has already retired or otherwise left office in order to ensure his or her disqualification to ever again hold any office of trust under the United States and also to serve as a warning and precedent to those who might entertain similar ambitions.

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1. I am not surprised

I went to college in Ithaca, and lived there for awhile both before and after I attended classes there, and to say that it's a hotbed pf liberalism would be an understatement.

It is especially loathed by "the place that shall not be named"

This pic from the above site says it all:



For some odd reason I find this photoshop (from the same link in the sme unspeakable space) HIGHLY amusing!! Go Ithaca, go Tompkins County!!!

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2. How many cities and counties casting resolutions for impeachment

will it take before our congress is compelled to impeach the Resident and Vice-Resident? Has this ever happened before--cities and counties voting to impeach the president?

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3. k&r nt