Bill of Impeachment

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Now the mainstream news missed this one, did they?

 

SAMPLE: Impeach Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld/Ashcroft:Gonzalez Impeachment

 

 

Francis A. Boyle

Law Building

504 E. Pennsylvania Ave.

Champaign, IL 61820 USA

217-333-7954(voice)

217-244-1478(fax)

fboyle@law.uiuc.edu <fboyle@law.uiuc.edu>

 

Dear Colleagues:

In light of the House vote for war, we are trying to get one MOC who

voted against war to support introducing our Bill of Impeachment against

Bush et al into the House in order to prevent this war of aggression

against Iraq. Our proposed Bill of Impeachment would be along the lines of

the Gonzalez Bill of Impeachment against Bush Sr for his war against Iraq,

plus an additional Article VI dealing with the Ashcroft Police State. I am

willing to serve as Counsel to any MOC you can send my way-- just as I was honored and pleased to do so with the late and great Honorable Henry B. Gonzalez. Thank you for your consideration. Yours very truly, Francis

Francis A. Boyle

Law Building

504 E. Pennsylvania Ave.

Champaign, IL 61820 USA

217-333-7954(voice)

217-244-1478(fax)

fboyle@law.uiuc.edu <fboyle@law.uiuc.edu>

Importance: High

 

The Gonzalez Resolution to Impeach George Bush

Congressional Record, Jan. 16, 1991, at H520-21.

 

RESOLUTION OF IMPEACHMENT OF PRESIDENT GEORGE BUSH

 

 

The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under a previous order of the House,

the gentleman from Texas [Mr. GONZALEZ] is recognized for 60 minutes.

 

Mr. GONZALEZ, Madam Speaker, it is with great sadness, and yet

with equally great, if not greater, conviction, that I introduce today a

resolution of impeachment of President Bush. It is known as House

Resolution 34, and I will provide this resolution as introduced to be

appended at the end of my remarks today.

 

At a time when our Nation is deeply divided over the question of

war, we find ourselves on the brink of a world war of such magnitude that

our minds cannot fully comprehend the destruction that is about to be

leveled. The position we are in is a direct result of the actions of one

man and the reactions of another. The Iraqi people are as opposed to war as

are the American people. The difference is that the Iraqi people have no

choice but to support their country's leader, but the American people not

only have the right to oppose and speak out in disagreement with the

President, but they have the responsibility to do so if our democracy is to

be preserved. Today I exercise this constitutional right and responsibility

to speak out in opposition to war in the Middle East and in support of

removal of our Nation's Chief Executive.

 

When I took the oath of office earlier this month, as I had

numerous times before, I swore to uphold the Constitution. The President's

oath was the same, to uphold the Constitution of the United States. We did

not pledge an oath of allegiance to the President but to the Constitution,

which is the highest law of the land. The Constitution provides for removal

of the President when he has committed high crimes and misdemeanors,

including violations of the principles of the Constitution. President Bush

has violated these principles.

 

My resolution has five articles of impeachment. First, the

President has violated the equal protection clause of the Constitution. Our

soldiers in the Middle East are overwhelmingly poor white, black, and

Mexican-American or Hispanic-American. They may be volunteers technically,

but their voluntarism is based on the coercion of a system that has denied

viable opportunities to these classes of our citizens. Under the

Constitution, all classes of citizens are guaranteed equal protection, and

calling on the poor and the minorities to fight a war for oil to preserve

the lifestyles of the wealthy is a denial of the rights of these soldiers.

 

Let me add that since 1981 we have suffered the Reagan-Bush and

now the Bush war against the poor, and to add insult to injury, we now are

asking the poor to fight while here, as a result of this fight, even the

meager programs that the Congress had seen fit to preserve as a national

policy will suffer because the money for those programs will be diverted to

the cause of this unnecessary war.

 

Article II of this resolution states that the President has

violated the Constitution, Federal law, and the U.N. Charter by bribing,

intimidating, and threatening others, including the members of the U.N.

Security Council, to support belligerent acts against Iraq. It is clear

that the President paid off members of the U.N. Security Council in return

for their votes in support of war against Iraq or to abstain from voting

contrariwise. The debt of Egypt was, for example, forgiven--$7 billion,

without congressional approval. That, I think, casts doubtful validity on

that Presidential action. The reason for the cancellation of that debt is

so that we can then provide an equally enormous amount of armament for Egypt which it cannot obtain because of the debt outstanding. A $140 million loan to China was agreed to. The Soviet Union was promised over $7 billion in aid. This is a sum totally unreported in our country but very well discussed in foreign country presses such as Germany and others. Colombia was promised assistance to its armed forces. Zaire was promised military assistance and partial forgiveness of its debt. Saudi Arabia was promised $12 billion in arms, and more than that. Actually in October, the President let them have $2.2 billion, and there was a commitment for $21 billion more, but because of the outcry in Congress and the Israeli opposition, that is being postponed. But there is still a commitment for $22 billion. I am sure this month will see the initial efforts to bring about compliance with that commitment.

 

Yemen was threatened with the termination of support, and the

United States finally paid off $187 million of its debt to the United

Nations after the vote President Bush sought was made.

 

This is all so ironic. When our President ran for the U.S.

Senate in the 1960's, he told the people of Texas that if he would be

elected to the Senate, he would lead the fight to remove the United States

from the United Nations if what he called Red China at that time was

admitted. Fate and power almighty have a very, very mysterious way of

working together. Who was to believe during that year in that race in Texas

that years later this same man, now the President, would be the man the

President would appoint to represent us in the United Nations and welcome

Red China as a member of the United Nations.

 

The vote was bought, and it will be paid for with the lives of

our poor elements who are going to shoulder the fight.

 

Article III states that the President has conspired to engage in

a massive war against Iraq, employing methods of mass destruction that will result in the killing of tens of thousands of civilians, many of whom will be children. No civilian lives have yet been lost that we know of, but when we start using the weapons of massive destruction that are in place for this war, there is no doubt that thousands of innocent civilians will lose their

lives. As killings occur, the principles laid down in the Nuremberg trials

will be applicable. Their deaths will not only be a moral outrage, they

will constitute violations of international law.

 

Article IV states that the President has committed the United

States to acts of war without congressional consent and contrary to the U.N.

Charter and international law. From August 1990 through January 1991 the

President embarked on a course of action that systematically eliminated

every option for peaceful resolution of the Persian Gulf crisis. Once the

President approached Congress for a declaration of war, 500,000 American

soldiers lives were in jeopardy, rendering any substantive debate by

Congress meaningless. It is also ironic that what we have ended up with now is that the President has exchanged about 200 to 250 so-called hostages, Americans, all of them employees of oil companies in Kuwait or Iraq, and in exchange we now have close to 500,000 American soldiers as hostages. Hostages to the whims, the caprices, and the decisions and judgments made by other leaders, over which this President and our country has no control, all the way from Shamir of Israel to the immigrants in the Saudi sands.

 

Article 5 states that the President has conspired to commit

crimes against the peace by leading the United States into aggressive war

against Iraq, in violation of article 24 of the U.N. Charter, the Nuremberg

Charter, other international instruments and treaties, and the Constitution

of the United States.

 

Again, there is a violation of law by a President, who,

believing and acting as if he is king, decides for the country,

unilaterally, that war is the answer.

 

Madam Speaker, it is a sad day for our country, and it will be

an even sadder day once the fighting starts. President Bush must be

stopped. A divided Congress reflecting the divided country is no way to

conduct a war. The preservation of lives is at stake, and the preservation

of our country, indeed, our democracy, is at stake as well.

 

I urge my colleagues to support this resolution. All I ask is a

hearing, as I have before, before the proper committee of proper

jurisdiction, and that is it. I will argue the case there. The rest is up

to the Members' judgment.

 

Madam Speaker, I urge interest and support of this resolution,

and to stand up to the President on behalf of the soldiers who will die, the

civilians who will be massacred, and the Constitution that will be destroyed

if this country goes to war in the Middle East.

 

 

 

_____________

 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

February 21, 1991 (originally January 16, 1991)

 

Mr. GONZALEZ submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

 

___________

 

A RESOLUTION

 

Impeaching George Herbert Walker Bush, President of the United States, of

high crimes and misdemeanors.

 

 

Impeaching George Herbert Walker Bush, President of the United States, of

high crimes and misdemeanors.

 

Resolved, That George Herbert Walker Bush, President of the

United States is impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors, and that the

following articles of impeachment be exhibited to the Senate:

 

Articles of impeachment exhibited by the House of

Representatives of the United States of America in the name of itself and of

all of the people of the United States of America, against George Herbert

Walker Bush, President of the United States of America, in maintenance and support of its impeachment against him for high crimes and misdemeanors.

 

ARTICLE I

 

In the conduct of the office of President of the United States,

George Herbert Walker Bush, in violation of his constitutional oath

faithfully to execute the office of President of the United States and, to

the best of his ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of

the United States, and in violation of his constitutional duty to take care

that the laws be faithfully executed, has violated the equal protection

clause of the Constitution. U.S. soldiers in the Middle East are

overwhelmingly poor white, black, and Mexican-American, and their military service is based on the coercion of an system that has denied viable

economic opportunities to these classes of citizens. Under the Constitution, all classes of citizens are guaranteed equal protection, and calling on the poor and minorities to fight a war for oil to preserve the lifestyles of the wealthy is a denial of the rights of these soldiers. In all of this George Herbert Walker Bush has acted in a manner contrary to his trust as President and subversive of constitutional government, to the great prejudice of the cause of law and justice and to the manifest injury of the people of the United States.

 

Wherefore George Herbert Walker Bush, by such conduct, warrants

impeachment and trial, and removal from office.

 

ARTICLE II

 

In the conduct of the office of President of the United States,

George Herbert Walker bush, in violation of his constitutional oath

faithfully to execute the office of President of the United States and, to

the best of his ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of

the United States, and in violation of his constitutional duty to take care

that the laws be faithfully executed, has violated the U.S. Constitution,

federal law and the United Nations Charter by bribing, intimidating and

threatening others, including the members of the United Nations Security

Council, to support belligerent acts against Iraq. In all of this George

Herbert Walker Bush has acted in a manner contrary to his trust as President

and subversive of constitutional government, to the great prejudice of the

cause of law and justice and to the manifest injury of the people of the

United States.

 

Wherefore George Herbert Walker Bush, by such conduct, warrants

impeachment and trial, and removal from office.

 

ARTICLE III

 

In the conduct of the office of President of the United States,

George Herbert Walker Bush, in violation of his constitutional oath

faithfully to execute the office of President of the United States and, to

the best of his ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of

the United States, and in violation of his constitutional duty to take care

that the laws be faithfully executed, has prepared, planned, and conspired

to engage in a massive war against Iraq employing methods of mass

destruction that will result in the killing of tens of thousands of

civilians, many of whom will be children. This planning includes the

placement and potential use of nuclear weapons, and the use of such

indiscriminate weapons and massive killings by serial bombardment, or

otherwise, of civilians violates the Hague Conventions of 1907 and 1923, the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and Protocol I thereto, the Nuremberg Charter, the Genocide Convention and the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights. In all of this George Herbert Walker Bush has acted in a manner contrary to his trust as President and subversive of constitutional government, to the great prejudice of the cause of law and justice and to the manifest injury of the people of the United States.

 

Wherefore George Herbert Walker Bush, by such conduct, warrants

impeachment and trial, and removal from office.

 

ARTICLE IV

 

In the conduct of the office of President of the United States,

George Herbert Walker Bush, in violation of his constitutional oath

faithfully to execute the office of President of the United States and, to

the best of his ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of

the United States, and in violation of his constitutional duty to take care

that the laws be faithfully executed, has committed the United States to

acts of war without congressional consent and contrary to the United Nations Charter and international law. From August, 1990, through January, 1991, the President embarked on a course of action that systematically eliminated every option for peaceful resolution of the Persian Gulf crisis. Once the President approached Congress for a declaration of war, 500,000 American soldiers' lives were in jeopardy - rendering any substantive debate by Congress meaningless. The President has not received a declaration of war by Congress, and in contravention of the written word, the spirit, and the intent of the U.S. Constitution has declared that he will go to war regardless of the views of Congress and the American people. In failing to seek a declaration of war, and in declaring his intent to violate the Constitution in disregarding the acts of Congress - including the War Powers Resolution - George Herbert Walker Bush has acted in a manner contrary to his trust as President and subversive of constitutional government, to the great prejudice of the cause of law and justice and to the manifest injury of the people of the United States.

 

Wherefore George Herbert Walker Bush, by such conduct, warrants

impeachment and trial, and removal from office.

 

ARTICLE V

 

In the conduct of the office of President of the United States,

George Herbert Walker Bush, in violation of his constitutional oath

faithfully to execute the office of President of the United States and, to

the best of his ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of

the United States, and in violation of his constitutional duty to take care

that the laws be faithfully executed, has planned, prepared, and conspired

to commit crimes against the peace by leading the United States into

aggressive war against Iraq in violation of Article 2(4) of the United

Nations Charter, the Nuremberg Charter, other international instruments and

treaties, and the Constitution of the United States. In all of this George

Herbert Walker Bush has acted in a manner contrary to his trust as President

and subversive of constitutional government, to the great prejudice of the

cause of law and justice and to the manifest injury of the people of the

United States.

 

Wherefore George Herbert Walker Bush, by such conduct, warrants

impeachment and trial, and removal from office.

 

Francis A. Boyle

Law Building

504 E. Pennsylvania Ave.

Champaign, IL 61820 USA

217-333-7954(voice)

217-244-1478(fax)

fboyle@law.uiuc.edu <fboyle@law.uiuc.edu>

[Streetstraw]

If the people want a cheater, Krishna sends them a cheater. Man proposes, Woman reposes, God disposes.

Srila BhaktisiddhAnta Sarasvati said it all so eloquently when asked to describe Kaliyuga politics:

"Cheaters & Cheated", "A Society of Cheaters & Cheated"

And Srila BhaktivedAnta Swami added:

"People want to be cheated; they like it."

"In Kaliyuga, if u speak truth, people become angry. They throw shoes. But if u lie to them, they become pacified. They prefer to be lied to."

Similarly Srila Bhaktiraksaka SrIdhar stated:

"For any genuine thing there will arise 100 imitations."

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"For any genuine thing there will arise 100 imitations." /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif

"In Kaliyuga, if u speak truth, people become angry. They throw shoes. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/shocked.gif

But if u lie to them, they become pacified. They prefer to be lied to." /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/ooo.gif

 

"People want to be cheated; they like it." /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif

 

"If the people want a cheater, Krishna sends them a cheater." /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif