Reply #118: Actually, they are doing what Congress should do [View All]

[RainDog]

as noted before, Vermont has town meetings and caucuses/votes on issues. This is called democracy. The situation at hand is this: do the citizens of this town think the current prez and v.p. have committed crimes. if so, do these crimes warrant some action.

this is what Congress should do. Pelosi, etc. has already indicated the dems don't care about the rule of law. The next vote in Bratt should be if Congress should be declared in contempt for failing to do their duty to protect and defend the constitution.

The founders recognized that democracy could be perverted and another revolution might be necessary. How do you think these sorts of actions occur? By citizens who want the govt. to do its job, and when it doesn't to call attention to this fact and seek other remedies.

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in nations in Europe that are signatory to war crimes investigations and trials, the people of those nations VOTED for reps that made this happen. As a signatory, these nations are REQUIRED to detain and investigate someone who is on their soil who is charged with war crimes. Americans have gone to both Germany and France for just this reason. Rumsfeld was the target then. Both of these nations referred the case back to the U.S., basically telling our govt to DO SOMETHING about the criminals in the exec. branch.

so, if national pols won't do it, it seems people at the state level have to demand accountability. at least they are trying to pursue such actions. maybe when the European nations see that the fed. govt of the U.S. will never hold the Bush League accountable, then the case can be made that these charges cannot be referred back to this country and, if Bush, Cheney, Rummy, Wolfie, Perle (with his villa in Southern France) etc. step foot in any country who complies with international human rights laws, these people must be arrested.

It's not an embarrassment. many cities voted against the war in iraq and mine is one of them. I'm so glad they did because at least they had the courage to say what only Russ Feingold was willing to say at the time.

It is NOT mob rule to vote, as towns in Vermont do, on whether the town should do something when the feds will not.

Congress should be ashamed of itself. How on earth could they put themselves in a position in which they are both identified with Bush and held in such low esteem because of their failure to represent the will of the people who voted them in office IN ORDER TO STOP BUSH???

Where does justice come from, when govt is unwilling to do its job? Or when we have kangaroo courts, and state AGs who are political hacks? or when the JD won't hire an independent prosecutor?

how fascist do they have to act before they are fascists? I suppose such a symbolic gesture would have been embarrassing for any town in Germany, too. But that town would have been able to note that they were willing to defend their nation when the nat'l govt would not.