TWO VERMONT TOWNS VOTE TO ARREST BUSH & CHENEY
By Deanna Gorzynski, World Can’t Wait Writers Group
Tuesday March 4, voters in two Vermont towns approved a measure that
would instruct police to arrest President George W. Bush and Vice
President Dick Cheney for “crimes against our Constitution,” local
media reported.
More symbolic than substantive, the items approved in Brattleboro and
Marlboro sought to have police arrest Bush and Cheney if they ever
visit Brattleboro or nearby Marlboro or to extradite them for
prosecution elsewhere — if they’re not impeached first.
In Brattleboro, the vote was 2,012 for and 1,795 against. In Marlboro, it was 43 to 25, with three abstentions. The vote and presidential primary came on Town Meeting Day, the day when voters in most Vermont cities and towns gather to debate and vote in an annual exercise of direct democracy. “I hope the one thing that people take from this is `Hey, it can be done,”‘ said Kurt Daims, 54, who organized the petition drive that led to the Brattleboro vote.
Vermont is the only state Bush hasn’t visited since he became president in 2001. Doubt he’ll be giving them his cowboy welcome any time soon!
The White House Press office was slow to respond to a request for comment, but promised one later that week. A spokeswoman for the Repubican National Committee denounced the article.
“It appears that the left-wing knows no bounds in their willingness to waste taxpayers dollars to make a point,” Blair Latoff said. “Town people would be much better served by elected officials who sought to solve problems rather than create them”.
The article read: “Shall the Selectboard instruct the Town Attorney to draft indictments against President Bush and Vice President Cheney for crimes against our Constitution, and publish said indictments for consideration by other authorities and shall it be the law of the Town of Brattleboro that the Brattleboro Police, pursuant to the above-mentioned indictments, arrest and detain George Bush and Richard Cheney in Brattleboro if they are not duly impeached, and prosecute or extradite them to other authorities that may reasonably contend to prosecute them?”
It all started as a petition drive for consideration. Kurt Daims, 54, of Brattleboro, the organizer of the petition drive, said the debate to get the issue on the ballot was a good one. Opposition to the vote focused on whether the town had any power to endorse the matter.
“It is an advisory thing,” said Daims, a retired prototype machinist and stay-at-home dad of three daughters.
Daims said the most grievous crime committed by Bush and Cheney was perjury – lying to Congress and U.S. citizens about the basis of a war in Iraq.
He said the latest count showed a total of 600,000 people have died in the war.
Daims also said he believed Bush and Cheney were also guilty of espionage for spying on American people and obstruction of justice, for the politically generated firings of U.S. attorneys.
Daims said people in Brattleboro were willing to “think outside the box” and consider the issue.
Daims had no compunction in comparing Bush and Cheney with one of the most notorious people in history.
Finally Daims said, “If Hitler were still alive and walked through Brattleboro, I think the local police would arrest him for war crimes”.
Thanks, Mr. Daims”couldn’t have said it better myself.
Thank you Brattleboro and Marlboro for scoring one for “We The People” !!