Utilizing a little known rule of the US House to bring Impeachment charges.

The Illinois General Assembly is about to rock the nation. Members of state legislatures are normally not considered as having the ability to decide issues with a massive impact to the nation as a whole. Representative Karen A. Yarbrough of Illinois' 7th District is about to shatter that perception forever. Representative Yarbrough stumbled on a little known and never utlitized rule of the US House of Representatives, Section 603 of Jefferson's Manual of the Rules of the United States House of Representatives, which allows federal impeachment proceedings to be initiated by joint resolution of a state legislature. From there, Illinois House Joint Resolution 125 (hereafter to be referred to as HJR0125) was born.

Detailing five specific charges against President Bush including one that is specified to be a felony, the complete text of HJR0125 is copied below at the end of this article. One of the interesting points is that one of the items, the one specified as a felony, that the NSA was directed by the President to spy on American citizens without warrant, is not in dispute. That fact should prove an interesting dilemma for a Republican controlled US House that clearly is not only loathe to initiate impeachment proceedings, but does not even want to thoroughly investigate any of the five items brought up by the Illinois Assembly as high crimes and/or misdemeanors. Should HJR0125 be passed by the Illinois General Assembly, the US House will be forced by House Rules to take up the issue of impeachment as a privileged bill, meaning it will take precedence over other House business.

The Illinois General Assembly joins a growing chorus of voices calling for censure or impeachment of President Bush including Democratic state committees in Vermont, Wisconsin, New Mexico, Nevada and North Carolina as well as the residents themselves of seven towns in Vermont, seventy Vermont state legislators and Congressman John Conyers. The call for impeachment is starting to grow well beyond what could be considered a fringe movement. An ABC News/Washington Post Poll Conducted April 6-9 showed that 33% of Americans currently support Impeaching President Bush, coincidentally, only a similar amount supported impeaching Nixon at the start of the Watergate investigation. If and when Illinois HJR0125 hits the capitol and the individual charges are publicly investigated, that number is likely to grow rapidly. Combined with the very real likelihood that Rove is about to be indicted in the LeakGate investigation, and Bush is in real trouble beyond his plummeting poll numbers. His cronies in the Republican dominated congress will probably save him from the embarassment of an impeachment conviction, for now, but his Presidency will be all but finished.



Developing News; California Becomes Second State to Introduce Bush Impeachment




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1 HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION


2 WHEREAS, Section 603 of Jefferson's Manual of the Rules of
3 the United States House of Representatives allows federal
4 impeachment proceedings to be initiated by joint resolution of
5 a state legislature; and

6 WHEREAS, President Bush has publicly admitted to ordering
7 the National Security Agency to violate provisions of the 1978
8 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, a felony, specifically
9 authorizing the Agency to spy on American citizens without
10 warrant; and

11 WHEREAS, Evidence suggests that President Bush authorized
12 violation of the Torture Convention of the Geneva Conventions,
13 a treaty regarded a supreme law by the United States
14 Constitution; and

15 WHEREAS, The Bush Administration has held American
16 citizens and citizens of other nations as prisoners of war
17 without charge or trial; and

18 WHEREAS, Evidence suggests that the Bush Administration
19 has manipulated intelligence for the purpose of initiating a
20 war against the sovereign nation of Iraq, resulting in the
21 deaths of large numbers of Iraqi civilians and causing the
22 United States to incur loss of life, diminished security and
23 billions of dollars in unnecessary expenses; and

24 WHEREAS, The Bush Administration leaked classified
25 national secrets to further a political agenda, exposing an
26 unknown number of covert U. S. intelligence agents to potential
27 harm and retribution while simultaneously refusing to
28 investigate the matter; and

29 WHEREAS, The Republican-controlled Congress has declined
http://www.opednews.com/articles/ope...chment___t.htm

Now the whole damn Nation's Seminal Oedipal Nightmare revisited.

Diebold makes voting machines that are used in 37 states, but they provide no verifiable record and lack even basic protection against fraud.
http://scdc.sccs.swarthmore.edu/diebold/

Bush Flatly Declares No Connection Between Saddam and al Qaeda
http://www.thememoryhole.org/war/no-saddam-qaeda.htm

15 September 2002: A SECRET blueprint for US global domination reveals that President Bush and his cabinet were planning a premeditated attack on Iraq to secure 'regime change' even before he took power in January 2001.
The blueprint, uncovered by the Sunday Herald, for the creation of a 'global Pax Americana' was drawn up for Dick Cheney (now vice- president), Donald Rumsfeld (defence secretary), Paul Wolfowitz (Rumsfeld's deputy), George W Bush's younger brother Jeb and Lewis Libby (Cheney's chief of staff). The document, entitled Rebuilding America's Defences: Strategies, Forces And Resources For A New Century, was written in September 2000 by the neo-conservative think-tank Project for the New American Century (PNAC).
http://www.informationclearinghouse....rticle1221.htm

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“If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy” ---James Madison 4th U.S. president (1809 -1817), and one of the founding fathers of this country. (1751- 1836)

Very interesting, The comments on the article from the link is a pretty good read too

"If this were a dictatorship, it'd be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator." —George W. Bush -Washington, D.C., Dec. 19, 2000

Everyone should have seen a red flag at this statement, but many Germans could not concieve what was happening until it was over!

Is lying about the reason for a war an impeachable offense?
http://www.cnn.com/2003/LAW/06/06/fi...ysis.dean.wmd/


The great masses of the people will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one.---Adolf Hitler

Bush: God told me to invade Iraq
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/st...ectID=10349260

Who says I am not under the special protection of God?---Adolf Hitler

http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Po..._Dealings.html

http://www.justview.org/depleteduranium.html

http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/05/15/news/hague.php

Bush also broke this law........
Intelligence Identities Protection Act of 1982 (50 U.S.C. 421 et seq.)
(governing disclosures that could expose confidential Government agents)
http://foi.missouri.edu/bushinfopoli...rotection.html

http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...0&q=illuminati

The People of the World Demand Bush, Blair, and all complicit World Leaders be held accountable for:

* Initiating War: the crime against peace
* Crimes Against Humanity - targetting civilians; destruction of basic services
* War Profiteering and privatizing of national resources
* Cultural genocide, systematic looting of art, archives and cultural institutions
* Mass detentions, random roundups, & torture
* Violating Iraqi sovereignty
* Using prohibited weapons including cluster bombs and depleted uranium weapons
* Stealing trillions from social services
* Policy of Endless War targetting: Haiti, Palestine, Philippines, Korea, Cuba
* False testimonies, lies and fabrications to the public, the media, the United Nations and Congress
* Inciting bigotry, racism and a climate of fear.
http://www.peoplejudgebush.org/crimes.shtml

Hague trials shift into high gear
http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/05/15/news/hague.php

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"Liberty has never come from government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of government. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of government power, not the increase of it." ~ Woodrow Wilson

"Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor - with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it." ~ General Douglas Macarthur, 1957

"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed, second it is violently opposed, and third, it is accepted as self-evident." ~ Arthur Schopenhauer

Hope they make progress to get this one through the works.

It appears Vermont is in!

US Impeachment Move Taken By States

Washington, 25 Apr (Prensa Latina) While petitions abound on the Internet in a seemingly ill-fated attempt to get a Republican-controlled Congress to impeach President Bush, three state legislators are pursuing what 33 percent of US citizens want.

Illinois Rep. Karen A. Yarbrough (7th District) found a never-used US House Rule, Jefferson´s Manual Sec. 603, allowing a joint resolution by a state legislature to initiate federal impeachment proceedings.

According to an article by Melissa McEwan, published on AlterNet Tuesday, Yarbrough has begun Illinois House Joint Resolution 125 containing five charges against President Bush.

Vermont and California have followed suit, and the California bill also calls for impeaching Vice President Cheney.

The five charges in Illinois´ HJR0125 include one, a felony, which is not in doubt. That is that the National Security Agency was ordered by President Bush to spy on US citizens without warrants.

The AlterNet article gives little likelihood that these state legislatures will pass the impeachment procedure, however there actions are notable, considering 33 percent of the population (LA Times, Apr 14) believe their president should be impeached and only 32 percent (CNN) think he is doing a good job.
http://www.plenglish.com/article.asp...7D&language=EN

The ineffectiveness of the United States Congress at times is so pronounced it's laughable. We are six years into a presidency that elevates graft, corruption and criminal behavior to new heights and neither the House of Representatives nor the Senate have begun impeachment charges against the Bush Administration.

Perhaps they're waiting for a stained dress to make its entrance?

33 Republican senators that voted guilty in the 1999 proceedings against Bill Clinton for perjury and obstruction of justice still remain in office. Not surprisingly, they now stand mute against President Bush's wiretapping, treason, warmongering and profiteering. And why? Because of partisan politics? That's shameful.

Forgive me if I find the idea of lying our nation into war distasteful; it is, after all, one of the worst forms of treason imaginable. The loss of life, credibility and real wealth since we invaded Iraq in 2003 is incalculable and was done with deliberate malice. Intelligence was ignored or fabricated, dissenters were silenced and blood was spilled. When will the representatives we elect brush the cobwebs from their eyes and do their job? What else needs to happen before we can expect an honest-to-goodness inquiry into the White House's crimes?
http://www.thesimon.com/magazine/art...peachment.html
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"The individual is handicapped by coming face to face with a conspiracy so monstrous he cannot believe it exists." ~ J. Edgar Hoover

"If our nation is ever taken over, it will be taken over from within."
~ President James Madison