The PATRIOT Act was a giant step toward fascism, as was the Torture Act signed just weeks ago. The Reeps who were just handed their head on a plate, lameduck though they are, should start NOW to repeal both of the so called ‘Good for America’ travesties of representative democracy.

The repeal of those two acts should then pave the way to hold Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfewitcz et al accountable for the high crimes and misdemeanors that they perpetrated on the US Citizenry (i.e. the country). Impeach all of them. Convict all of them in Senate. Remove all of them from office. (Okay, Bush already symbolically lopped off Rummy’s head as a sacrificial scapegoat.) Then try all of them in Federal court for treason. Convict them, and send them to prison. And do all this while affording these jackels the rights and privileges that defendants in the US are supposed to have, but don’t be foolish, confiscate their passports. If they flee anyway, try and convict them in absentia, then issue a worldwide warrant for their arrests and extraditions.

Do all this to send a message to ANY future president be he/she Reep, Dem, Libr, or GDI, that treason will not be tolerated (period).

Do all this, but not to satisfy a desire to seek vengeance, but instead to bring those criminals to real (not Reep-style) justice.

There will be no comparable reaction if Bush and Cheney refuse to testify. And that’s the whole story. People on the left truly underestimate the power of TV news.

“Separation of powers” does not mean “immunity from subpoena”.

President Clinton was required to testify in the Paula Jones sexual harrassment case. He tried to resist the subpoena, but was smacked down by the Supreme Court. I seem to recall everybody “so conservative to make Trent Lott look like Karl Marx” was howling in derision back then at Clinton’s chutzpah for trying to resist a subpoena.

The President and Vice President are no more immune to Congressional subpoenas than Congresspeople are immune to being arrested by the FBI. (Except, curiously enough, if they are en route to work, but that exception is explicit in the Constitution.)

http://library.law.pace.edu/blogs/jib/2006/10/when_lawyers_are_war_criminals.html

It is a speech by Scott Horton speaking at the ASIL Centennial Conference on The Nuremberg War Crimes Trial, Bowling Green, OH Oct 7, 2006. The comparison between Hitler’s call for his lawyers to come up with a means to “disappear” people, the “Night and Fog Decree” (Nacht- und Nebelerlass), and secret renditions under Bush is striking. The Military Tribunals Act essentially granting immunity to the Bush lawyers that wrote the legal opinions justifying torture, secret renditions, detainee policy is such a slap in the face to what the prosecutors at Nuremberg learned, and how they sentenced Hitler lawyers to years in prison for the same or similar opinions found today in Addington’s, Gonzales’s, and Yu’s writings.

So, they have roughly two more years, (because they are indeed still in power) to rip off as much as they possibly can in Iraq and around the Middle East, (that would be the OIL) and when the time draws near, they will be gone, taking all of that which they have stolen…with them.

He’d be received with flowers and candy!!!!