There is Somsing Wrong Wit Chour Bowels*
Posted by Hazel Stone | Filed under Oddly Not Satire
Via Alphecca, comes this story if ultra-left wing chicanery, courtesy of Brattleboro, Vermont:
A town petition making President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney subject to arrest for crimes against the Constitution has triggered a barrage of criticism from people who say residents are “wackjobs” and “nuts.”
The petition reads:
“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 indictments for consideration by other authorities and shall it be the law of the Town of Brattleboro that the Brattleboro Police, pursuant to the above-mentioned indictments, arrest and detain George Bush and Richard Cheney in Brattleboro if they are not duly impeached, and prosecute or extradite them to other authorities that may reasonably contend to prosecute them?”
Of course, once the intarwebs got hold of this, the inevitable backlash started:
In e-mail messages, voicemail messages and telephone calls, outraged people are calling the measure the equivalent of treason and vowing never to visit Vermont.
“Has everyone up there been out in the cold too long?” said one.
“I would like to know how I could get some water from your town,” said another. “It’s obvious that there is something special in it.”
Personally, I think if you’re going to arrest two politicians then you’re going to have to arrest all of them.
Ted says:
Cheney ought to load up the family, take a nice long drive to colder climes, step out of the car in Brattleboro town square, and like Zorro, the Gay Blade, announce, “Heeeere, I yaaaaamm!”
*I’d* pay to see that.
*Also a ZtGB quote
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January 31st, 2008
I used to date a girl in Brattleboro, and spent quite a lot of time there. It is a really nice town, equally divided between Marlboro College students in various states of their education, hippies who graduated and stayed, and farmers and locals who have been there forever, and like it. Despite the culture clash, it is a really pleasant town. Good for them!
January 31st, 2008
I’ve long held that if Bush could be impeached for anything, it would be signing the McCain-Feingold Act, especially considering that he went on record as saying that it was probably unconstitutional (There’s an understatement). So I don’t really have a problem with the idea that he’s committed crimes against the Constitution.
But I don’t remember reading anything in the Constitution that gives States the authority to be the arbiter of that particular crime (I realize this is a City, not a State, but the Constitution doesn’t mention Cities, they derive their powers from the State Constitutions, so if the State doesn’t have that power, a City can’t claim it either).