Recently I came across a petition called "When in the Course of Human Events", created by Robert Kezelis. I urge any and every freedom-loving American to sign it.
What's more, I feel the list of grievances- indeed the entire text- should be read aloud at public meetings, broadcast on internet radio, and find its way to all alternative media:
...As our forefathers warned 231 years ago, Prudence continues to dictate
that a government long established should not be changed for light or
transient reasons. However, the transgressions of the current
administration against his own people and that against people of other
countries are so serious and numerous in nature, that it becomes
imprudent not to act immediately. We approach a form of absolute
despotism of the kind suffered by our forefathers when they began their
own revolution for reasons not dissimilar to ours.
To prove our case, the facts below are without question:
* HE has refused his assent to law, the most wholesome and necessary for
the public good.
* HE has obstructed the administration of justice, by politicizing the
method and manner in which justice is sought across the states and in
the federal courts.
* HE has made US Attorneys dependent on his will alone for the tenure of
their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
* HE has spied on citizens domestically and abroad without warrants or
justification.
* HE has repeatedly lied and misled his people into unnecessary,
unjustified, and deadly wars, invasions and eventual occupations,
causing untold death and destruction for all concerned.
* HE has attacked the very protections of the Constitution, the one
document that he took an oath to uphold; and by passage of his Patriot
Act, and his countless signing statements, he has destroyed the very
protections to which each of us were and are entitled.
* HE has erected a new office, misnamed the Department of Homeland
Security, which does nothing to increase security, but instead impedes
commerce, trade, communication, travel, and privacy to a degree never
imagined by our forefathers.
* HE has deprived us the benefits of a trial by jury.
* HE has held, without charges, many individuals who have no benefit of
counsel, courts, or juries.
* HE has cut off communication and trade with countries who have offered
to aid us in a time of need, after the attacks of September 11, 2001.
* HE has arrested, harassed and threatened groups of civilians who
gather to protest the excesses of government.
* HE has precluded and interfered with free speech of individuals and
their right to meet safely.
* HE has created a mercenary army, uncontrolled by the democratic
process, to fight in actions both domestic and foreign.
* HE has ignored long-standing treaties and pacts among other nations,
particularly with respect to torture and basic human rights.
* HE has ignored the wisdom, experience and knowledge of scientists,
replacing them with self-serving political and religious persons, intent
on destroying the very knowledge base that serves mankind.
* HE has caused the kidnapping and extra-ordinary rendition, followed by
their transportation of individuals beyond seas to be held without
counsel, trial or juries.
* HE has permitted the plundering of our cities, the ravaging of our
coasts, and the damage of homes and businesses without properly
addressing the damage to individual lives, dignity and health.
* HE has imposed secrecy on most actions of goverment, in the name of
national security, while precluding citizens from learning of repeated
acts of wrongdoing, fraud, and crime.
* HE has permitted political donors and supporters to make vast sums of
profit from government funds, without requiring accountability,
performance or successful endeavors in return.
* HE has used religion and faith based initiatives as an attack on the
very structure of government, rewarding only certain beliefs, and
punishing all others.
* HE has destroyed foreign ties with allies and friends, creating
distrust and fear, instead of cooperation and friendship.
* HE has permitted the destruction of our ecology, causing suffering and
worse among us and guaranteeing that our children and our children's
children will be forced to pay a dear price.
Our pleas and requests are ignored, our attempts to gain redress are
attacked as unpatriotic, our cries are treated as an act of support of
terror. A president whose character is marked by these and many other
acts which define a tyrant, is unfit to be a ruler of a free people.
WE, therefore, citizens of these United States, and citizens of the
world, finding our appeals to our elected representatives to be ignored,
do in our name, and in the name of all other true patriots and citizens
of this country, solemnly declare that George Walker Bush is unfit to be
president; that his vice president is likewise unfit for office, and
that both of them are most likely guilty of a multitude of war crimes,
crimes against the Constitution, and crimes against humanity. We hereby
declare that their offices are now declared vacant and that they shall
be delivered to the proper international court for imprisonment while
the full nature and extent of their crimes are investigated and
determined, thereafter which they will be tried for said crimes. We
hereby commit to one another our best efforts to fulfill our
forefathers' original intent, while removing the horrors of slavery,
sex, race, religious and other forms of discrimination while we work
together to repair the horrendous damage inflicted on our Country, its People and its Constitution.
We want our country back.
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