Sign the Pledge! Trim Bush from American History

[bluestateboomer]

Published on Wednesday, November 21, 2007 by TedRall.com
Sign the Pledge! Trim Bush from American History
by Ted Rall
A couple of weeks ago I wrote a column that resonated with a lot of people.

Since 2001, I noted, “We’ve lost our right to see an attorney, to confront our accusers, even to get a fair trial. Government agents have kidnapped thousands of people, most of whom have never been heard from again. Bush even signed an edict claiming the right to assassinate anyone, including you and me, based solely on his whims. Torture, the ultimate sign that civilized society has been replaced by a police state,” has been legalized.

None of the major presidential candidates are currently promising to do what it would take to restore democracy: close Gitmo and the CIA torture chambers, get out of Afghanistan and Iraq, revoke the protofascist USA-Patriot and Military Commissions Acts, obey the Geneva Conventions and turn over Bush, his torturers, his Congressional allies and his top civilian and military officials to an international war crimes tribunal for their role in the murders of more than one million Afghans and Iraqis.

The politicians are too timid to do what’s right. But we can bully them into it. Let’s begin America’s long slog toward moral and political redemption by demanding that our next president’s first act be to declare the Bush Administration null and void. Every law and act carried out between 12 noon on January 20, 2001 and January 20, 2009 should just…go…poof.

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/11/21/5381/

Best Idea I've heard!:toast:

[ClayZ]

1. Expunge 'em! K and R

[rzemanfl]

2. I suggested something similar (reverting to the United States

Code as it existed just prior to * taking office) here quite a while back. It would be simplier than trying to repeal everything piecemeal and keeping the "good" parts (like there are any-maybe the do not call list, I can't think of anything else). To truly erase the scars of BushCo, the number of Justices on the Supreme Court needs to be increased and we need more federal judges so the Bush appointees can be assigned to cases where they can do the least harm.

[MonkeyFunk]

3. So the next President

should be a total dictator and take this obviously extra-constitutional step?

[DFW]

4. We can no more expunge Bush from our record than...

Russia can expunge Stalin from theirs or Germany can expunge Hitler from theirs.

With Bush, I hope we follow the German example of dealing with this sorry episode
of our past than the Russians have (so far) dealt with Stalin. Gorbachev and Yeltsin
knew what a horror he was, but I think Putin sees him as more of a role model.

[Ian David]

5. Oh, I think this is a GREAT idea! nt

[rasputin1952]

6. We should never try to hide the misery that bush has brought...

upon the nation, we should ensure that his "edicts" are stricken from the law books, but we need to maintain his horrid legacy in the minds of those who survive, and our prodigy. The future generations need to know just how close we came to becoming a nation of landed gentry and serfs, how close we came to becoming a third world nation in the are of human rights,(we used to be a beacon of freedom and hope for the world in this area)>

There is no doubt in my mind that bush will go down in history as the most abysmal president this nation has ever seen, and by keeping that "legacy" right up for all to see, we may be able to hold back the next potential horror.