http://fanonite.org/2008/06/12/gore-vidal%e2%80%99s-article-of-impeachment/ Sat, 10 Jul 2010 21:42:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://fanonite.org/2008/06/12/gore-vidal%e2%80%99s-article-of-impeachment/#comment-11616 Fri, 13 Jun 2008 13:04:45 +0000 http://fanonite.wordpress.com/?p=1956#comment-11616 [...] The law is not our law. Nevertheless, as the Raytheon 9 have shown, we can use it. The aggressions of the West – and especially of Israel, whose actions have been condemned by the UN more often than all other countries put together – often reach the point where they even break their own laws, and while we know that their system will not uphold their laws, it is possible for us to do so. This can have a real and immediate effect on preventing war crimes, but it also challenges their legitimacy in a big way – and it gets the argument over what is and what isn’t a war crime into the court room far more effectively than any lobbying the ruling class for the trial of Tony Blair or the impeachment of Bush. [...]

]]> http://fanonite.org/2008/06/12/gore-vidal%e2%80%99s-article-of-impeachment/#comment-11610 Fri, 13 Jun 2008 04:25:52 +0000 http://fanonite.wordpress.com/?p=1956#comment-11610 It really is a big hairy deal that Kucinich has done this, and it was not only the mainstream media. It was also TPM Media and the Huffington Post did not feature it on their front page news at all on the day, and only down low with no picture and a watery headline the day after. Kucinich has promised that if the Judiciary Committee does not take it up within thirty days, he will reintroduce it, with three times as many articles and seventeen other congressmembers helping him read them on the House floor. THAT should at least start getting some press.

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