Dear Congressmen,
We the undersigned write to you as registered Republicans who abhor what this administration has done to our Constitution and to our country. From running up the most massive debt in United States history, to undermining Americans’ most basic constitutional rights, to the conduct of a foreign policy in which the language of force has become almost the sole currency, the damage to our institutions, to our prestige abroad, and to our traditions of liberty at home continues. We abhor that the party of Barry Goldwater and Dwight Eisenhower, which is rightly the party of limited government, fiscal responsibility, and the primacy of the Constitution as the law of the land, seems to have been hijacked by an Executive Branch holding a NeoCon-authoritarian ideology rather than a truly conservative one.
Bruce Fein of the American Freedom Agenda has said: “As fellow conservatives, we believe we have a greater responsibility than most to stand up to this particular Administration and demand that it respect the checks and balances established by the Founding Fathers. Absolute power corrupts absolutely, regardless of party affiliation, and we can no more remain silent to the abuses occurring under President Bush than we could if a President Clinton were in office.”
Senator Barry Goldwater said “extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice…moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.” The impeachment of any presidential administration is indeed a strong measure, but by any measure this administration has met the threshold for the conduct of impeachment hearings, by a margin which exceeds that of almost any previous administration. Therefore we call upon you, congressman, to support the immediate commencement of impeachment hearings, first against Vice President Dick Cheney, then against President George W. Bush, based on the following articles:
WHEREAS, members of the United States Congress take an oath to support the Constitution; and,
WHEREAS, the United States Constitution provides a system of checks and balances that is designed to prevent the abuse of power by government and to preserve the power and freedom of the people; and,
WHEREAS, on December 17th, 2005, President George W. Bush publicly admitted to ordering the National Security Agency to conduct electronic surveillance and information gathering on American citizens in a manner that may have violated the Constitution’s 4th Amendment prohibition against unreasonable searches and seizures; and,
WHEREAS, George Bush on September 20, 2001 in a Joint Session of Congress announced a “War on Terror” in which he would have wartime powers, and subsequently proclaimed that the War on Terror would have “no end,” and who in a June 9, 2002 Presidential Order to Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld acted to permanently strip Americans, through war with “no end,” of their constitutional rights by ordering indefinite detention of citizens, without access to legal counsel, without charge, based solely on the discretionary designation by the President of a U.S. citizen as an “enemy combatant,” which is a subversion of the Sixth Amendment of the Constitution and a violation of his oath sworn on January 20, 2000 “to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States”; and,
WHEREAS, Representative Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA), who said in a speech on the floor of the House of Representatives on February 26, 2008 that “George Bush was elected President, not king,” in that same speech called attention to evidence in the public record that “this administration has intentionally obstructed Congress’ rightful and constitutional duties,” has “undercut congressional investigators, has lied to Members of Congress, and has forged ahead with secret deals in spite of efforts and pleas by Congress to be informed,” and in an investigation by Representative Rohrabacher of a terrorist who “currently resides in the United States and may well have had something to do with the bombing of the World Trade Center and the bombing of the Oklahoma City building,” has shown “contemptuous disregard for the authority delegated to Congress by the Constitution”; and,
WHEREAS, there is evidence in the public record that President George W. Bush and Vice President Richard B. Cheney may have abused their executive power by deliberately providing misleading information to Congress and the public about the threat from Iraq in order to induce Congress to approve the use of military force; and,
WHEREAS, there is evidence in the public record that George Bush admitted on July 12, 2007 that someone in his administration “did disclose the name of that person” - Valerie Plame–thus revealing secrets to the enemy in wartime by ordering the public identification of American intelligence agent officer, who was engaged in tracing weapons of mass destruction before they reached American shores, and;
WHEREAS, there is evidence in the public record that President George W. Bush and Vice President Richard B. Cheney may have authorized and condoned the detention of prisoners without access to courts and the torture of those prisoners in violation of the “Federal Torture Act” Title 18 United States Code, Section 113C.
As conservatives we will no longer stand by as the old and honorable party of Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt becomes the vehicle of death for our ancient freedoms. As conservatives we will not allow the party of limited government to become the party of Big Brother. Please commence hearings for the impeachment of Vice President Dick Cheney immediately.
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Members of the U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee
Signatories;
Susan Paine Serpa
Comments: I am a recently registered Republican who has come in from the wilderness to the party of Barry Goldwater. Coming to the conclusion that the Democratic party no longer represents any values besides its own perpetuation and self-aggrandizement, and is useless in defense of the Constitution, I refuse to cede the party of limited government and fidelity to the Constitution to this extremist strain of authoritarian Neocon ideology.
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