Case for impeachment By Joe Howard Crews - July 10, 2013 Certainly we cannot blame Obama for all the evil that is being done in our name, especially the two major wars, Iraq and Afghanistan. In fact, he responsible for only a small, but highly significant, part of it. The tragic problem, as I see it, is that Obama simply is failing to act where he must and where only he can. He is criminally negligent, as I see it. In the case of Bradley Manning, only the commander in chief can issue a pardon. No one else. This is the only just and honorable thing Mr. Obama can do, but he does not act. I think he does not feel the pain of this soldier, or recognize his patriotic valor. I cannot believe that Gen. George Washington would stand by in such as case. In the case of many other honorable and patriotic whistlerblowers Mr. Obama has also failed to act. In fact, he has supported the Justice Dept. every step of the way in the prosecution of whistleblowers, including investigative NY Times reporter James Risen, Aaron Swarz and CIA agent John Kiriakou (who was recently been imprisoned). And just this week, a federal judge who rejected a legal bid by a Guantanamo prisoner seeking to block his force feeding there during the Ramadan holiday is calling on President Barack Obama to confront the issue of whether the practice violates international norms. The judge has said only Obama can break this logjam impass -- yet he fails to act. https://commondreams.org/newswire/2013/07/09 Obama is not an evil man. He simply fails to act to stop evil where he should, and worst, where only he can do so. It pains me to say Obama should be impeached, because I am more sorely grieved that his predecessors, GW Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz were not impeached. It pains me that Nancy Pelosi took “impeachment off the table.” Nevertheless, failure to act against today’s evil is not justified by yesterday’s failure to act. Impeachment would be a terribly divisive action, and has given me penetrating pause, but I feel we have paused years too long already. It is time to proceed with this bitter medicine of accountability, else worse will occur in the future. It is because we did not hold the previous administration accountable that the current administration has become more deeply entrenched in destruction of our democratic republic. - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. spoke: "History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the vitriolic words and the violent actions of the bad people, but the appalling silence and indifference of the good people. Our generation will have to repent not only for the words and acts of the children of darkness, but also for the fears and apathy of the children of light."
Posted on: Wed, 10 Jul 2013 11:05:08 +0000
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