{"article":{"id":42101,"heading":"ARTICLES OF IMPEACHMENT FOR GEORGE W. BUSH by RAMSEY CLARK","author":"Impeach Bush","created":"2003-03-28 10:58:34","modified":"2003-03-28 10:58:34","last_modified":"Fri, 28 Mar 2003 17:58:34","article":"

Articles of Impeachment

of

President George W. Bush

and

Vice President Richard B. Cheney,

Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld, and

Attorney General John David Ashcroft

The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from

Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and

Misdemeanors. - - ARTICLE II, SECTION 4 OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

President George W. Bush, Vice President Richard B. Cheney, Secretary of Defense Donald H.

Rumsfeld, and Attorney General John David Ashcroft have committed violations and

subversions of the Constitution of the United States of America in an attempt to carry out with

impunity crimes against peace and humanity and war crimes and deprivations of the civil rights

of the people of the United States and other nations, by assuming powers of an imperial

executive unaccountable to law and usurping powers of the Congress, the Judiciary and those

reserved to the people of the United States, by the following acts:

1) Threatening Iraq with a first-strike war of aggression by overwhelming and indiscriminate force including specific threats to use nuclear weapons while engaged in a massive military build-up in surrounding nations and waters.

2) Authorizing, ordering and condoning direct attacks on civilians, civilian facilities and

locations where civilian casualties are unavoidable.

3) Threatening the independence and sovereignty of Iraq by belligerently proclaiming an

intention to change its government by force while preparing to assault Iraq in a war of aggression.

4) Authorizing, ordering and condoning assassinations, summary executions, kidnappings, secret

and other illegal detentions of individuals, torture and physical and psychological coercion of

prisoners to obtain false statements concerning acts and intentions of governments and

individuals and violating within the United States, and by authorizing U.S. forces and agents

elsewhere, the rights of individuals under the First, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth and Eighth Amendments

to the Constitution of the United States, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and the

International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.

5) Making, ordering and condoning false statements and propaganda about the conduct of foreign

governments and individuals and acts by U.S. government personnel; manipulating the media

and foreign governments with false information; concealing information vital to public

discussion and informed judgment concerning acts, intentions and possession, or efforts to obtain

weapons of mass destruction in order to falsely create a climate of fear and destroy opposition to

U.S. wars of aggression and first strike attacks.

6) Violations and subversions of the Charter of the United Nations and international law, both a

part of the \"Supreme Law of the land\" under Article VI, paragraph 2, of the Constitution, in an

attempt to commit with impunity crimes against peace and humanity and war crimes in wars and

threats of aggression against Afghanistan, Iraq and others and usurping powers of the United

Nations and the peoples of its nations by bribery, coercion and other corrupt acts and by rejecting

treaties, committing treaty violations, and frustrating compliance with treaties in order to destroy

any means by which international law and institutions can prevent, affect, or adjudicate the

exercise of U.S. military and economic power against the international community.

7) Acting to strip United States citizens of their constitutional and human rights, ordering

indefinite detention of citizens, without access to counsel, without charge, and without

opportunity to appear before a civil judicial officer to challenge the detention, based solely on the

discretionary designation by the Executive of a citizen as an \"enemy combatant.\"

8) Ordering indefinite detention of non-citizens in the United States and elsewhere, and without

charge, at the discretionary designation of the Attorney General or the Secretary of Defense.

9) Ordering and authorizing the Attorney General to override judicial orders of release of

detainees under INS jurisdiction, even where the judicial officer after full hearing determines a

detainee is wrongfully held by the government.

10) Authorizing secret military tribunals and summary execution of persons who are not citizens

who are designated solely at the discretion of the Executive who acts as indicting official,

prosecutor and as the only avenue of appellate relief.

11) Refusing to provide public disclosure of the identities and locations of persons who have

been arrested, detained and imprisoned by the U.S. government in the United States, including in

response to Congressional inquiry.

12) Use of secret arrests of persons within the United States and elsewhere and denial of the right

to public trials.

13) Authorizing the monitoring of confidential attorney-client privileged communications by the

government, even in the absence of a court order and even where an incarcerated person has not

been charged with a crime.

14) Ordering and authorizing the seizure of assets of persons in the United States, prior to

hearing or trial, for lawful or innocent association with any entity that at the discretionary

designation of the Executive has been deemed \"terrorist.\"

15) Institutionalization of racial and religious profiling and authorization of domestic spying by

federal law enforcement on persons based on their engagement in noncriminal religious and

political activity.

16) Refusal to provide information and records necessary and appropriate for the constitutional

right of legislative oversight of executive functions.

17) Rejecting treaties protective of peace and human rights and abrogation of the obligations of

the United States under, and withdrawal from, international treaties and obligations without

consent of the legislative branch, and including termination of the ABM treaty between the

United States and Russia, and recission of the authorizing signature from the Treaty of Rome which served as the basis for the International Criminal Court.

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