The 35 Articles of Impeachment

The 35 Articles of Impeachment Against George W. Bush have been read aloud in the House of Representatives. They are now a part of history, taken down and transcribed, due to be printed in the Congressional Record, never to be removed from our memory no matter how much revisionist history is written.

And all we're doing is grumbling about how a committee will bottle up the resolution and impeachment isn't going to happen?

When was the last time a multicount indictment against a sitting president of any country was announced publicly, out loud, twice, on television?

In 1517, Martin Luther had the courage to nail 95 theses to the door of Castle Church in Wittenberg. As a result, the Protestant Reformation changed the world forever.

Dennis Kucinich has announced to America that our leaders are criminals and must be punished. He did his research, he is meticulous in his text, and his sources are reliable. It is to be hoped that America will be changed by his work, regardless of what the Judiciary Committee does or even what the traditional media choose to report.

The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights are our foundational principles. Can we do less with all our resources than one man did with a hammer and nail? Do we have less faith than Martin Luther did?

Martin Luther's faith was in God. Ours is in our own will, supported by the power of belief in liberty, which in America is as strong as religious faith. Remember, the accused has abrogated the Magna Carta.

Magna Carta or Magna Carta Libertatum (Great Charter of Freedoms), was issued in 1215. It required the King to renounce certain rights, respect certain legal procedures and accept that his will could be bound by the law. It explicitly protected certain rights of the King's subjects, whether free or fettered — most notably the writ of habeas corpus, allowing appeal against unlawful imprisonment.

XXIX. NO Freeman shall be taken or imprisoned, or be [deprived] of his Freehold, or Liberties, or free Customs, or be outlawed, or exiled, or any other wise destroyed; nor will We not pass upon him, nor condemn him, but by lawful judgment of his Peers, or by the Law of the Land.

Whether or not we can remove this felonious administration from office, history has been made. If the egregiousness of the crimes has reduced us to impotent rage, The 35 Articles of Impeachment should help us regain our power and our calm. We have a duty, even in the absence of impeachment, to do whatever we can to magnify the effect of the reading of the Articles.