Newsie News: Politics
Nov. 26th, 2007 07:59 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mlerulesImpeachment: If Not Now, When?
EDIT: Here're the transcript of articles of impeachment against Cheney. Thx for the link,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
mnfiddledragon.
Shades of HUAC. Here Come the Thought Police: "The historian Henry Steele Commager, denouncing President John Adams’ suppression of free speech in the 1790s, argued that the Bill of Rights was not written to protect government from dissenters but to provide a legal means for citizens to oppose a government they didn’t trust. Thomas Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence not only proclaimed the right to dissent but declared it a people’s duty, under certain conditions, to alter or abolish their government."
EDIT: And furthermore:
"[T]he fetters imposed on liberty at home have ever been forged out of the weapons provided for defence against real, pretended, or imaginary dangers from abroad." - James Madison (1799)
“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.” -Theodore Roosevelt (1918)
Amongst the facts submitted to a candid world in support of the United States’ Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776:
“He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.” Homeland Security anyone?
EDIT: Here're the transcript of articles of impeachment against Cheney. Thx for the link,
mnfiddledragon.Shades of HUAC. Here Come the Thought Police: "The historian Henry Steele Commager, denouncing President John Adams’ suppression of free speech in the 1790s, argued that the Bill of Rights was not written to protect government from dissenters but to provide a legal means for citizens to oppose a government they didn’t trust. Thomas Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence not only proclaimed the right to dissent but declared it a people’s duty, under certain conditions, to alter or abolish their government."
EDIT: And furthermore:
"[T]he fetters imposed on liberty at home have ever been forged out of the weapons provided for defence against real, pretended, or imaginary dangers from abroad." - James Madison (1799)
“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.” -Theodore Roosevelt (1918)
Amongst the facts submitted to a candid world in support of the United States’ Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776:
“He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.” Homeland Security anyone?
