How is it that the country tried to impeach Clinton for his perjury concerning his sex scandal...
But our current president, who has pretty much blatantly disregarded laws, responsibilities, and restrictions concerning his office, still sits smiling dumb and pretty in his white house?
How is it that we let these corrupt billionaires take control of our country... OUR country... And how can we expect a respectable government to be run by unrespectable men?
Why do we allow ourselves to be lied to over and over again? Even when we learn that we have been violated by this administration, we do nothing. Even when we learn that justice and freedom have been forsaken, we do not react.
How is it that we have allowed this man to rule us? We are supposed to be a democracy. WE are supposed to make the decisions... And yet, even the beginnings of this regime, the usurpation of power was suspect, with underhanded tactics and scandals quietly ignored by the majority?
We sit quietly. Are we complacent? Do we not care?
Or have we forgotten that it is our responsibility to shout down the overambitious ruler?
Have we fallen to trusting our representatives, who buffer us from the responsibility of true democracy?
Or have we (and I fall in this last category) given up hope of influencing these men who speak for us in the larger houses of the government?
It does not seem like it should matter... Whatever the cause of our silence, the real question is this: How do we find our voice again? How do we speak out and make a difference?
Bush has over 530 days left in office. That's a year and a half-- more than a third of his final term. I don't think he should be trusted with that much time, and that much power. Imagine the damage that could be done. Think of how many more men will die face down in the sand, how many billions of dollars will be thrown away because we let aman who has consistently shown a lack of intelligence, conscience, and responsibility in the management of this country.
Any other man would be in jail... We tried to prosecute Clinton for lying about cheating on his wife. Bush took us to war. WAR, people! Guns and bombs and body parts.
Why the fuck is this country still asleep?
It is time for us to start pushing the senators to bring down Caeser.
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3 comments:
The real problem with trying to impeach him is that by the time we finally get to the hearing, or to its sentencing and try to impeach him (in the event impeachment is decided upon), it'll just have been a waste of time, because it'll be time for him to step down. Sad, but probably likely to be true.
Furthermore, while he's had a grave misuse of power, he hasn't done anything that's explicitely illegal, as far as I know with my limited knowledge, whereas Clinton, while he did help us by sparing us the S&L debts, did lie under oath. As trivial as his perjury was, it was still perjury, though it did get blown out of proportion. After all, we were trying to impeach him for a personal matter.
Your first sentence is basically, "nothing we do will accomplish anything." There is something very wrong about that.
Furthermore... a man who gravely misuses his power will gravely misuse his power to cover up his misuses. Legal does not define right, and illegal is not the source of corruption. I can't remember who asserted that you cannot make an immoral people moral, but you can make a moral people immoral, but it is the government's doing if the population swings in either direction.
Oh, I agree with your synopsis of that first sentence. That is basically what it is. And I thoroughly agree, there is something very wrong about that. We're stuck in a society that, for all its rights, for all its freedoms, doesn't ensure the "speedy trial" the Amendments to the Constitution spell out, and doesn't bring about justice swiftly and properly.
On that note, it'd probably be easier, rather than impeach, to just congressionally bind him. Put enough pressure on the people in Congress, from their constituents, and if they don't agree with them, they can't expect re-election. Use them to pass legislature that puts the pinch on, that sort of thing. Of course, the problem is that if the President vetoes, then the Supreme Court doesn't override the veto, no progress can be made; only the status quo can be maintained.
As for your second point, I've not heard that morality-immorality argument before, but I can't deny that you're right. People who abuse power will cover up their abuse of power.
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