roger that...
Posted on 01/26/2008 7:48:06 AM PST by Abathar
BRATTLEBORO — Brattleboro residents will vote at town meeting on whether President George Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney should be indicted and arrested for war crimes, perjury or obstruction of justice if they ever step foot in Vermont.
The Brattleboro Select Board voted 3-2 Friday to put the controversial item on the Town Meeting Day warning.
According to Town Clerk Annette Cappy, organizers of the Bush-Cheney issue gathered enough signatures, and it was up to the Select Board whether Brattleboro voters would consider the issue in March.
Cappy said residents will get to vote on the matter by paper balloting March 4.
Kurt Daims, 54, of Brattleboro, the organizer of the petition drive, said Friday 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.
So far, Vermont is the only state Bush hasn't visited since he became president in 2001.
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.
Voting to put the matter on the town ballot were Chairwoman Audrey Garfield and board members Richard Garrant and Dora Boubalis.
Voting against the idea were board members Richard DeGray and Stephen Steidle.
Daims said the names submitted to the town clerk's office were the second wave of signatures the petition drive had to collect, because he had to rewrite the wording of the petition.
He said he gathered nearly 500 signatures in about three weeks, and he said most people he encountered were eager to sign it. He started the petition drive about three months ago.
"Everybody I talked to wanted Bush to go," he said, noting that even members of the local police department supported the drive.
"This is exactly what the charter envisioned as a citizen initiative," Daims said. "People want to express themselves and they want to say how they feel."
He said the idea is spreading: Activists in Louisville, Ky., are spearheading a similar drive, and he said activists were also working in Montague, Mass., a Berkshires town.
The article asked 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."
The article goes on to say the indictments would be the "law of the town of Brattleboro that the Brattleboro police ... arrest and detain George Bush and Richard Cheney in Brattleboro, if they are not duly impeached ..."
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.
"If Hitler were still alive and walked through Brattleboro, I think the local police would arrest him for war crimes," Daims said.
That is a possibility. Do you consider it probable?
Sounds like an act of war against the USA.
Bomb Brattleboro if they try it.
Brattleboro, Vermont. Think Berkeley (aka “Bezerkeley”), California, except a LOT colder...
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The inmates are now offically running the asylum...
We are losing the life and character of our beloved free America...
BECAUSE WE KEEP ELECTING IDIOTS!!.....
At every level!!
JMHO....
Just how could any pissant one stoplight town in vermont with two part time cops prosecute a treason charge anyway?
And if they decide to take on the United States Secret Service, they better buy more guns and bring some friends, because they’ll need it.
Whenever you hear body counts like that, think Kook spinach, rosie and their kookie followers.
Just another example of what happens when folks stay out in the cold way to long and eat the yellow snow.
Then we'll see if people in Brattleboro are willing to "think outside the box" and consider the issue.
Please do not disrespect Barney Fife by associating him with Vermont.
LLS
roger that...
I thought that name sounded familiar when I read it.
An asteriod is going to pass by Earth at a distance of 340,000 miles on Tuesday morning, January 29th, at 3:33 AM Eastern time. NASA claims that it’s not a threat to Earth, although I heard one “renegade” scientist say it has a 50/50 chance of hitting our planet. In the unlikely event it were to hit, it would cause a crater three miles wide. The explosion would be the equivalent of 1,500 megatons. Any chance it could hit Brattleboro, Vermont?
Don’t get me all excited like that! When it passes us by I will now be highly disappointed! :-)
LLS
Take this seriously, folks. These are Howard Dean’s constituents, and Dean went from howling moonbat to head the DNC. We underestimate these people at our peril.
Something which didn't happen.
What a life this person has - perpetually miserable and trying to make as people as miserable as he is.
if it takes out Washington,the belief in God will go up in polls 80%
If they do this, the federal government should consider ti an act of treason.
Send in the national guard, cordon off the town, arrest and hang the leaders for sedition.
Withdraw and wait for the next “progressive” community to try the same.
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