Posted on 01/26/2008 7:48:06 AM PST by Abathar
BRATTLEBORO Brattleboro residents will vote at town meeting on whether President George Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney should be indicted and arrested for war crimes, perjury or obstruction of justice if they ever step foot in Vermont.
The Brattleboro Select Board voted 3-2 Friday to put the controversial item on the Town Meeting Day warning.
According to Town Clerk Annette Cappy, organizers of the Bush-Cheney issue gathered enough signatures, and it was up to the Select Board whether Brattleboro voters would consider the issue in March.
Cappy said residents will get to vote on the matter by paper balloting March 4.
Kurt Daims, 54, of Brattleboro, the organizer of the petition drive, said Friday the debate to get the issue on the ballot was a good one. Opposition to the vote focused on whether the town had any power to endorse the matter.
"It is an advisory thing," said Daims, a retired prototype machinist and stay-at-home dad of three daughters.
So far, Vermont is the only state Bush hasn't visited since he became president in 2001.
Daims said the most grievous crime committed by Bush and Cheney was perjury lying to Congress and U.S. citizens about the basis of a war in Iraq.
He said the latest count showed a total of 600,000 people have died in the war.
Daims also said he believed Bush and Cheney were also guilty of espionage for spying on American people and obstruction of justice, for the politically generated firings of U.S. attorneys.
Voting to put the matter on the town ballot were Chairwoman Audrey Garfield and board members Richard Garrant and Dora Boubalis.
Voting against the idea were board members Richard DeGray and Stephen Steidle.
Daims said the names submitted to the town clerk's office were the second wave of signatures the petition drive had to collect, because he had to rewrite the wording of the petition.
He said he gathered nearly 500 signatures in about three weeks, and he said most people he encountered were eager to sign it. He started the petition drive about three months ago.
"Everybody I talked to wanted Bush to go," he said, noting that even members of the local police department supported the drive.
"This is exactly what the charter envisioned as a citizen initiative," Daims said. "People want to express themselves and they want to say how they feel."
He said the idea is spreading: Activists in Louisville, Ky., are spearheading a similar drive, and he said activists were also working in Montague, Mass., a Berkshires town.
The article asked the town attorney to "draft indictments against President Bush and Vice President Cheney for crimes against our Constitution and publish said indictments for consideration by other authorities."
The article goes on to say the indictments would be the "law of the town of Brattleboro that the Brattleboro police ... arrest and detain George Bush and Richard Cheney in Brattleboro, if they are not duly impeached ..."
Daims said people in Brattleboro were willing to "think outside the box" and consider the issue.
Daims had no compunction in comparing Bush and Cheney with one of the most notorious people in history.
"If Hitler were still alive and walked through Brattleboro, I think the local police would arrest him for war crimes," Daims said.
It then seems that those of us that have supported the war, should all go to Vermont and turn ourselves in for aiding and abetting.
The Secret Service should be arresting and holding these people in a room with a chair and one overhanging lightbulb.
God knows what Kipling would have made of these freaks.
“Hi! I’m Larry, this is Daryl and this is my other brother Daryl and you’re under arrest!”
Won’t happen. There will never be enough initiative for impeachment before Bush leaves office next year, and essentially none after that.
OMGGG MONK rack itttt
Yeah baby
Question I don’t see Jim West hanging out with Dubya I am sorry maybe President Reagan LOL!
Bush is what you called windshield cowboy if you believe that
Least Ronnie know how ride a horse LOL!
They don't. This is Brattleboro's pathetic little cry for national attention that they so desperately crave that they're willing to throw away their credibility by listening to a delusional loony like Daims.
This sounds suspiciously like an act of attainder to me.
Same thing here in Colorado, due to the continuing influx of RINO immigrants from Kahlifornia. Perversely, our pluralities of registered GOP voters over Dem voters keep increasing, while at the same time the number of elected GOP officials keeps decreasing.
The Dems are slowly increasing their stranglehold on our state, doing it in large part with ex-Calif RINO immigrants.
“If Hitler were still alive and walked through Brattleboro, I think the local police would arrest him for war crimes,” Daims said.
(sigh) Are these losers so poorly educated that they REALLY think Bush is just like Hitler?
UnFREAKENbelievable.
I hear you......from Wyoming. We’ve seen it in Cheyenne too. We don’t have enough ‘shopping’ here to keep them happy for very long and they’re too delicate for our weather conditions.
I’ve said for years that the ONLY decent thing to come out of Vermont........is Bag Balm.
You know, I keep hearing they want to secede. I say we let them. We’ll find another source of maple syrup.
Are they planning on putting out a bounty ?
If they attempt to “Arrest” the President, or even the VP, without congressional consent, isn’t that considered an “Attempted Coup”, an act of sedittion, or treason??
(I know, everybody has different interpretations of each.)
How soon do you think they would release them when a 155 battery opens up on them???
Our enemies love !@#$ like this.
It’s good propaganda value for them.
Now let me ask guys something...
WHY IN THE HELL WOULD THE PREZ VISIT A SHIITEHOLE LIKE TINFOILHATBORO?
Maybe the situation begs to ask even another question and that is:
Why isn’t Vermont showing patriotism and supporting the USA and
reading Brattleboro the riot act?
Maybe the solution is to boycott any products or services from Vermont
while Vermont ponders the answer to that question.
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