…We’d better have a hair-trigger impeachment cannon ready, because we’re likely to need it. Money-power has a thousand Bush look-alikes lurching around in the toilets at the Business Round Table, the fascist think-tanks, globalization centers, and Fox News. Additionally, they’ll still have the fascist thugs masquerading as Supreme Court and lower federal bench judges…
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Prosecutions Timing & Flowing Civics Lessons
© 2006 Stephen Neitzke
OK, let’s say that Election 2006 passes and we’ve got our impeachment and removal Congress. Next three tangles are (1) Special Prosecutor legislation to get us around the obstruction of justice political hacks at the DOJ, (2) impeachment and removal proceedings for many of the Illegitimacy’s criminals, and (3) the felony prosecutions in federal court for at least some of lesser felony conspiracies against rights, as defined in 18 USC 241.
We should hold the most important of the 18 USC 241 felony conspiracies until after we have a renewed Constitution. We’ll have a better chance at justice for the criminals if the despotism’s Supreme Court fascist thugs have been imprisoned and replaced with moderates who are faciing mandatory penalties for feasance violations against the Constitution. Waiting till then is especially important for the felony conspiracy against our soldiers’ rights to be sent to war only on the expressed order of Congress — and the felony conspiracy to torture and murder POW’s and persons branded by the Illegitimacy as “terrorists”.
We have time. There is no statute of limitations on felony murder. We do not want Bush-Cheney-Rumsfeld and the others being exonerated on an arbitrary technicality done by their fascist thug buddies among the Supremes. We want the guilty to suffer sentences of life imprisonment or the death penalty, per 18 USC 241. We want to bind them over to the ICC at the Hague for their war crimes and crimes against humanity. We did not go through the Nuremberg trials for giggles.
We can debate whether the state should be allowed to kill anybody on the way to those super-important, criminal prosecutions. Perhaps an absolute prohibition of the death penalty will be written into the renewed Constitution.
Needless to say, all three tasks growing out of a successful Election 2006 will require intense preparation. Start now, please.
In the first days of the new Congress, we should have the new “Special Prosecutor” bill on Bush’s desk. Veto. No problem. Override. (We must have Independents and Democrats enough for quick veto overrides — plan for it.)
The Special Prosecutor should have federal grand jury actions and criminal indictments very quickly for 18 USC 241 co-conspirators. Everyone who’s guilty, from Bush-Cheney, down. Felony forfeits legislative immunity, judicial immunity, and executive immunity. The long list of 18 USC 241 felony conspiracies and their co-conspirators need to be prepared well in advance of Election 2006.
The indictments should name hundreds of felonious co-conspirators. In the unconstitutional vote to give Bush unconstitutional war powers for the unconstitutional invasion of Iraq, 373 senators and congressmen voted aye. That vote, and Bush’s orders to invade, violated our soldiers’ rights to be sent to war only on the expressed order of Congress. Only Congress is given war powers in the Constitution — for damned good reason. Presidents do not have war powers in the Constitution — for damned good reason. Nothing in the Constitution allows any branch to give away any power expressly assigned to it in the Constitution. The votes to give Bush his very own war powers were unconstitutional, felonious, and treasonous.
Per 18 USC 241, every last one of those 373 senators and congressmen is a co-conspirator in the felony murders of our soldiers in Iraq — over 2,400 now. There is no statute of limitations on conspiracy for felony murder. Per 18 USC 241, conviction means a sentence of life imprisonment or the death penalty. Just right for those fascist, felonious thugs. Just right for our honoring our war dead and maimed.
Can’t find the names of those treasonous constitutional criminals masquerading as senators and congressmen, or the roll call votes in October 2002? Email me.
OK, let’s say that we’ve got the Bush-Cheney Illegitmacy safely out of office and into prison. Are we safe? Oh, hell no.
We’d better have a hair-trigger impeachment cannon ready, because we’re likely to need it. Money-power has a thousand Bush look-alikes lurching around in the toilets at the Business Round Table, the fascist think-tanks, globalization centers, and Fox News. Additionally, they’ll still have the fascist thugs masquerading as Supreme Court and lower federal bench judges.
We can’t get to the 2nd NCC fast enough. And we’ve got to figure three months to a year for the interactive convention to write the provisions. Then there’ll be about a two-year debate and deliberation period for civil society before the, probably, “double majority” referendums ratify or reject the amendments, probably on an Article-by-Article basis. (“Double majority” referendums are the Swiss legitimacy steamroller for national legislation since 1891. They require an approving majority of all voters, plus an approving majority of all states. It’s an idea that they copied from our Congress, where the passage of law requires a majority of the people’s representatives and a majority of the states’ representatives.)
To smooth our way into the 2nd NCC, we purely need to do nonpartisan unicamerals in about ten states. We need THE FEAR working for us.
Getting the picture? All of this needs to be running on the same days, the days between now and Election 2006. We need volunteers and organizations to break it all down. We’re burning daylight.
The simultaneously running package includes the stand-alone Constitutional amendment for the ratifying of future Constitutional amendments only with the people’s referendums. Timing is everything. It runs after THE FEAR sets in, but it needs intense planning well in advance.
What will we name the citizen action group that handles the planning and execution for this stand-alone Constitutional amendment?
Mantra in play — planning prevents piss-poor performance. All of this needs to be a well-organized, multi-level, citizen action effort. Do something now, please. Don’t stop until all the jobs are done.
Job 1? Morphing from milquetoast, directionless consumers back to regular, rights-demanding, well-organized, American citizens?
By the time this multi-level citizen action effort is up and running, Job 1 will be well on its way. Civics lessons will flow like water. Public political sophistication will soar from its present 0.5 on the 10-scale to Reform Era I’s 8.5 — and beyond. Reform Era II will be ours.
But it doesn’t happen with the world on automatic and your sitting around on your hands waiting for government or your neighbors to save you.
It’s all on us. This will be work, mentally and physically — get used to it. You’ll need to dig for the good information that helps. You’ll need to build connections with like-minded people and maintain those connections. Connections are the hard work of democracy. The connections can be online, but we know from Reform Era I that they have to be face-to-face, too.
People need to see people doing democracy. In the 1880s, the greatest democracy movement in recorded history started in small, church-basement and Grange-hall meetings, as well as around wagon-camp meetings of thousands of whole families on the open praries. They organized co-op economics for the National Farmers Alliance. The NFA countered money-power’s vicious racketeering in the “Crop Lien System”, which reduced thousands of rural families to virtual enslavement. When eastern bankers threw in with the merchants and broke the backs of the NFA’s co-ops, the NFA members morphed into the People’s Party and took on the massive corruption of the two major political parties in Election 1890. They lost, but their loss — plus the powerful exposés done by the first investigative reporters, later branded “muckrakers” — triggered the urban backlash of Reform Era fame. Citizens of 26 states rammed citizen lawmaking down the throats of their elitist state constitutions.
Lasting from from 1877 to 1914, it was the greatest democracy movement in recorded history. People seeing people doing democracy was at its core.
This citizen revival has to be done on top of demanding jobs, messy families, and whatever culture-stuff you’re into. And it’ll have to have high priority.
You’ll never do anything more important in your life than to help all of us get all the way through Reform Era II.
Chew on this. We’ll do 2nd NCC details next time, along with imagining many little sidebars that will happen around a 2nd NCC in session. It could be a whale of a festival.
Written by Stephen Neitzke [send him email], who is the founder of the Direct Democracy League. He is the author of “The State of the Republic, 1776-2004″ as well as a number of other works, which can be found at www.ddleague-usa.net and on his blog at http://ddrevived.blogspot.com. Stephen is a featured columnist at www.populistamerica.com