I've diaried before on the growing constitutional rumble in San Gabriel Valley,
eastern bastard stepchild suburb of Los Angeles County.
Impeachment Op-Ed in California Red Zone
My Spy LTE in a California Red Zone! (yellowdog poll
My Spy LTE in a California Red Zone.... Gets a RISE!!!
Today, I give you yet another two clear voices from the wilderness,
calling it spit in the SGV Tribune.
lick yer thumb...
Act not patriotic
As a descendent of several true "patriots" from our War of Independence, I find the label and use of the name Patriot Act for the legislation that allows spying on American citizens by its own government to be extremely offensive and degrading to their memory. Very little is patriotic about the Patriot Act.
Certainly, we need some spying and covert operations in place to protect our country, but can't we do this and still maintain the safeguards that have been in place for over 200 years?
We have had great presidents and very poor ones, and of course everything in between. Much to their credit and genius, our Founding Fathers created a system of government, with its three branches balanced to watch and check each other, that could withstand the inevitable corrupt and incompetent.
The current administration, with its band of hapless, self-serving demagogues is not competent enough, nor trustworthy enough to be allowed to spy on the people of America without significant oversight from Congress and the judicial branches of our government.
If one carefully reads the Constitution and Bill of Rights, one is continuously reminded of the preoccupation of the Founders with protection. Protection is the main activity of government.
The Founders also saw the need for protection against the government.
We need to watch the watchers.
We don't have the right to bear arms so we can hunt wild game whenever we want, it is so we can defend ourselves against the tyranny from outside as well as inside our borders.
Larry Elder
Temple City
And furthermore,
Stand up, America
Fellow citizens, you had better wake up and pay attention to what George W. and Dick Cheney are doing to America, our Constitution, your citizen rights and everything this country supposedly stands for.
I say supposedly because a good portion of your rights under the Bill of Rights have been significantly eroded. Are we all cowards that we need inept government officials to protect us?
These clowns cannot even safeguard our borders.
For all of you who need to be "protected," think about what this Mexican revolutionary said almost 100 years ago:
"I would rather die on my feet than live on my knees!"
Ruben Barrios
El Monte
Sing loudly, mighty local patriots.
IT ONLY TAKES ONE STATE!
See pages 314-315 of the House Rules for the 109th Congress.
<<NOTE: Sec. 603. Inception of impeachment proceedings in the House. This refers to Jefferson's Manual-the House uses it as a supplement to its standing rules.>>
In the House there are various methods of setting an impeachment in motion:
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by charges transmitted from the legislature of a State (III, 2469)