Mad King George
I was asked today whether I think it's a good idea to impeach President Bush.
Not only is a "good idea"...
"...The history of the present King … is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these states. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world.
He has refused his assent to laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good. ...
He has refused to pass other laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of representation in the legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only. ...
He has endeavored to prevent the population of these states; for that purpose obstructing the laws for naturalization of foreigners; ...
He has obstructed the administration of justice, ...
He has made judges dependent on his will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, standing armies without the consent of our legislature.
He has affected to render the military independent of and superior to civil power.
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his assent to their acts of pretended legislation:
For protecting [armed troops], by mock trial, from punishment for any murders which they should commit ...
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of trial by jury:
For transporting us beyond seas to be tried for pretended offenses: ...
For taking away our charters, abolishing our most valuable laws, and altering fundamentally the forms of our governments: ...
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burned our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people. ...
In every stage of these oppressions we have petitioned for redress in the most humble terms: our repeated petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A [leader], whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people."
Not only is a "good idea"...
"...The history of the present King … is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these states. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world.
He has refused his assent to laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good. ...
He has refused to pass other laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of representation in the legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only. ...
He has endeavored to prevent the population of these states; for that purpose obstructing the laws for naturalization of foreigners; ...
He has obstructed the administration of justice, ...
He has made judges dependent on his will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, standing armies without the consent of our legislature.
He has affected to render the military independent of and superior to civil power.
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his assent to their acts of pretended legislation:
For protecting [armed troops], by mock trial, from punishment for any murders which they should commit ...
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of trial by jury:
For transporting us beyond seas to be tried for pretended offenses: ...
For taking away our charters, abolishing our most valuable laws, and altering fundamentally the forms of our governments: ...
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burned our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people. ...
In every stage of these oppressions we have petitioned for redress in the most humble terms: our repeated petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A [leader], whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people."