It Could Never Happen Here

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Thursday May 24, 2007 · 10:38 AM PDT

2007/05/24 · 10:38

As a US citizen I like to think It could never happen in the US today. When bad despicable actions happen, I like to think that if they happened in the US then they are past and the US has learned and those actions will never happen again. The Watergate Investigation and resignations of Vice President Spiro Agnew and President Nixon gave me faith that if it happened then our system of government was robust enough to take corrective action before it became horrendous. Iran / Contra gave me pause as did the presidential pardons of some key Iran / Contra players. The election of 1992 was a course correction. I could ignore the Iran / Contra it.

I should have known better. Not only has it happened, it has happened repeatedly and the nation has yet to make a course correction. Torture (though the newspapers called torture abuse and while some abusive marriages are torture; what happened in Abu Ghraib, secret prisons, Guantanamo, and is probably still happening today was and is torture), lying (President Bush, Vice President Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice, and most recently Attorney General Gonzales – seriously who believes he cannot recall) and most recently we learned of a scene out of The Godfather as retold by former Acting Attorney General Comey. IT is so common, blatant and unconstitutional that not only does it become difficult to list; I can no longer ignore IT. There is only one action that can be taken – impeachment and conviction of Bush, Cheney, Rice, Gonzales, and possibly others. The time has come for Nancy Pelosi to put impeachment on the House agenda.

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