Please explain your opposition to impeaching Bush and Cheney.
It shocks me that we now torture people! Torture is prohibited by the Geneva Convention. Torture is contrary to everything we stand for. Wasn’t torture one of the reasons we removed Saddam Hussein from power?
Remember the words of Thomas Paine: “He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.”
When you voted for FISA, you voted for warrantless wiretapping! You sacrificed our constitutional rights under the Fourth Amendment. How can you defend liberty and freedom, and simultaneously vote to give them up?
You have now supported the Patriot Act and warrantless wiretapping. Those laws are as damaging to our country as our decision to go into Iraq. Your resistance to investigating Bush and Cheney for impeachable acts is contrary to your oath to defend the Constitution.
In the words of James Madison, “I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedoms of the people, by gradual and silent encroachment of those in power, than by violent and sudden usurpations.”
You are one of “those in power.” Will you please publicly explain your opposition to impeachment of this administration? Please don’t use your standard answer, “Because they were elected to office in 2004.” By that logic, no elected official could ever be impeached.
Tom Welch, Lolo
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