Vermont Town Trying To Arrest Bush & Cheney For War Crimes
The Brattleboro PD doesn’t fuck around…
You know what really cracks me up about this story? Say they passed it. And say Bush and Cheney dropped in for a visit. I just can’t see a couple of small town cops trying to arrest the President of the United States while the Secret Service stands around looking at the paperwork, you know?
MONTPELIER, Vt. — President Bush may soon have a new reason to avoid left-leaning Vermont: In one town, activists want him subject to arrest for war crimes.
A group in Brattleboro is petitioning to put an item on a town meeting agenda in March that would make Bush and Vice President Cheney subject to arrest and indictment if they visit the southeastern Vermont community.
“This petition is as radical as the Declaration of Independence, and it draws on that tradition in claiming a universal jurisdiction when governments fail to do what they’re supposed to do,” said Kurt Daims, 54, a retired machinist leading the drive.
As president, Bush has visited every state except Vermont.
The town meeting, an annual exercise in which residents gather to vote on everything from fire department budgets to municipal policy, requires about 1,000 signatures to place a binding item on the agenda.
The measure asks: “Shall the Selectboard instruct the Town Attorney to draft indictments against President Bush and Vice President Cheney for crimes against our Constitution, and publish said indictment for consideration by other municipalities?”
The White House did not immediately respond to requests for comment Friday. The press office did not immediately respond to an e-mail.
Support for the measure is far from universal, even in Vermont, where the state Senate voted earlier this year to support impeaching the president. Anti-war rallies are regular occurrences here, and “Impeach Bush” bumper stickers are common.
“I would not be supportive of it,” said Stephen Steidle, a member of the town’s selectboard, which oversees its government.
“It’s well outside of our ability. From my perspective, the Brattleboro Selectboard needs to focus on the town and the things that need to be done here.”
Daims has been circulating documents that claim the community acquires a “universal jurisdiction” to take such steps “when governments breach their highest duties.”
“We have the full power to issue indictments, conduct trials, incarcerate offenders and do all other acts which Independent jurisdictions may of right do,” the statement says.
Vermont Attorney General William Sorrell, a Democrat whose office has repeatedly sued the Bush administration over environmental issues, called the move “of very dubious legality.”
“I have not seen the proposal, and I’ve done no legal research on any of the issues,” Sorrell said. “But at first blush, if this passed, they’d have really uphill sledding trying to have it be legal and enforceable.”
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I see a good sequel for Super Troopers coming on this one!
December 28th, 2007 at 5:44 pmNow who keeps putting crack in the maple syrup? There’s something wrong with the brains of these people. It’s either crack or pot. Nobody is born that fooking stupid…
December 28th, 2007 at 6:05 pmI think Vt. should stick to ice cream.
December 28th, 2007 at 6:06 pmMore useless bullshit from mindless liberal pricks …
December 28th, 2007 at 6:14 pmDan (The Infidel): Nobody is born that fooking stupid…
Correct. But if you have even the slightest case of “soft in the head” five months in Maple Syrup Afghanistan will put you straight over the edge. Vermont is so left it makes San Francisco look like the Pentagon. They have a Global Warming Czar in their state government. The cows vote. The most worthless “Republican” in the state is the Governor.
Just a warning: Vermont is under the control of the liberal Taliban. I’m surprised the frigging state troopers aren’t geearing up to invade DC.
December 28th, 2007 at 6:16 pmafter doing some research into buying a home in your fine country vermont was one of the places i looked into,well some of the yearly property taxes seem very extortionate 7.000 dollars for something that was really not that flash,no surprise now that it seems a liberal stronghold,a 1840’s with 150 acres in the south of virginia at 600 dollars a year seems a better bet,i would not have to get a job that way,i mean who needs gold plated garbage trucks anyway
December 28th, 2007 at 6:30 pmI has to be some serious inbreeding up there. Don’t mean to offend anyone, but there is something very wrong there.
December 28th, 2007 at 6:34 pmThere has to be…
December 28th, 2007 at 6:35 pmEDinTampa:
Vermont is saturated in drugs…. It’s easier to get drugs there ( and more exotic and more variations) than in most large cities.
The native Vermonter ( prior to the ski areas ) now are virtually extinct… The population (transplants w/money) are mostly from Mass, NY, Conn, NJ, with some other states mixed in. These transplants were assholes (excuse me! sophisticated assholes), before they took over the tiny towns and state, and they are still assholes now.
These transplants burn excess marijuana in their power plants so as not to pollute the air..
December 28th, 2007 at 7:59 pmDeputy Press Secretary Dana Perino mocked the impeachment motions
“Oh, I didn’t even know there was a resolution in the state of Vermont,” Perino said. “Is that a monthly occurrence?”
LMAO…So the state legislature votes to impeach, they have no authority to do anything other than to say they voted. It’s just a self absorbed publicity stunt.
Vermont just wastes taxpayer money and if I lived their I’d go after those dingle berries with buckshot.
December 28th, 2007 at 8:43 pmI thought the Bob Newhart Show was about fictional characters? So Larry and his brother Darrell and his other brother Darrell really did live in Vermont?
December 28th, 2007 at 9:24 pmThis changes TVs history. This Bob Newhart Show wasn’t a sit-com after all. It was the first reality show for TV! Holy Shit!!
That’s what I love about Pat Dollard.com! While you bitch you can learn something.
Thanks Guys!
Does anyone else see the irony here? These folks are acting outside the law, and without evidence or with evidence they and others made up (doctored) attempting to subvert the constitution and imprison other Bush and Cheney without due process.
Isn’t that the very thing they accuse Bush and Cheney of doing?
Bush hatred has not only driven them insane, but made them the burliest of fools.
December 28th, 2007 at 9:28 pmThere was something that one of the owners of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream said about ten years ago. I forget what it was, but I haven’t bought that brand since. And that’s from someone that’s an ice cream junkie. Vermont is filled with the hyper-intelligentia.
December 28th, 2007 at 10:10 pmVermont: what is it good for? Absolutely nothing!
December 28th, 2007 at 11:59 pmIt’s just a self absorbed publicity stunt.–Dan
Yes, it is. I am from Vermont (now in NJ where the women don’t walk around with bells around their necks). There are some intelligent Vermonters; I can give you both of their names. The problem with Vermont is that all the fruity-tooty libs bolted into government like they did to the media nationwide. Thus, we hear more lib noise than truth. Remember, VT is the only state in the country where you can legally walk around packing concealed guns with no permit required. But that’s the problem. All lawmakers there (and all policy-pushers know) that Vermonters have allowed themselves to fall to an unwritten policy: As long as you never come after our guns, you can make all the shit-silly laws you like. Why do you think the country’s only commie bastard congressman, Bernie Sanders, never goes after Vermonters’ guns? The guy is 100% commie and he always stands up for gun ownership. It’s because he knows as long as he leaves the gun crowd alone, he can push any agenda unopposed.
I’m not saying Vermonters should give up their guns. I’m saying they should fucking well start using them. That state is parasite city. Out-of-control taxes, no economy and round-the-clock liberal bullshit.
I don’t miss that place at all. It’s no surprise Bush never visited. There’s nothing to see but a bunch of retard, pot-smoking liberals praying to God Goracle.
December 29th, 2007 at 5:56 amSorry. Quote was from Jim.
December 29th, 2007 at 5:56 amtic tic boom,
a selected bataillon, nah ?
December 29th, 2007 at 8:04 am[…] Hat tip: the Bashman […]
December 29th, 2007 at 8:39 amNote to self - Send cow’s fecal sample to bullshit expert Kurt Daims.
December 29th, 2007 at 12:31 pm