CAN YOU HEAR US YET BLUMENAUER

This was our handout for our 25th Thursday of demanding Rep. Blumenauer honor his oath of office:
A special thanks to Jack and Malcolm for getting this out!

Can you connect these dots?

SOLE OATH OF OFFICE, required by the sixth article of the United States Constitution, administered to all Members of the House of Representatives: “I, Loyal Citizen of the Republic, do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.

“This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States, which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the Supreme Law of the Land.” -U.S. Constitution, Article VI, Paragraph 2

“All members shall refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state...”
-United Nations Charter, a treaty obligation of the United States.

“To initiate a war of aggression is not only an international crime, it is the supreme international crime...”
-The Nuremberg Charter, Judgment and Principles, a treaty obligation of the United States.

The President, Vice-President and all civil officers of the United States, shall be removed from office on impeachment for, and conviction of, treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors.*” mmmmmm-U.S. Constitution, Article II, Section 4

(*Serious abuses of power, criminal or not, that endanger our constitutional government)

Why Can’t Earl Blumenauer?

Our Oregon congressional delegation seems to be having trouble.
They can’t seem to identify compelling impeachable offenses.

But it’s easy, Earl. It’s already been done by experts.*

For starters, Earl, how about Conspiracy to defraud the United States government by providing false testimony to the public and Congress in violation of federal law, whether deliberate or through lack of due diligence, to fraudulently obtain from Congress a War Powers Resolution and lead the nation into an illegal war against another sovereign state without U.N. approval.

And how about Violation of international agreements and treaties, including Article 2 of the United Nations Charter of 1945, the Nuremberg Charter (1945) and Principles (1950), and the Kellogg-Briand Peace Pact of 1928, all of which prohibit pre-emptive war and to all of which the United States is a signatory, making these pacts and treaties the Supreme Law of the Land and their violation a Constitutional crime.

And how about eight more?

Using prohibited and indiscriminate weapons causing many tens of thousands of civilian casualties - cluster bombs, depleted uranium, MK77 (napalm), fuel-air or “thermobaric” explosives, and white phosphorous - all of which violate the United Nations Charter, The Hague Rules on Land and Air Warfare, the Genocide Convention, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and the Nuremberg Charter, Judgment and Principles, and to all of which the United States is a signatory, thereby further violating the Supreme Law of the Land.

Encouraging or permitting widespread torture and humiliation of prisoners, both directly and through “extraordinary rendition” to foreign “black sites” in violation of the U.S. War Crimes Act of 1996, the Anti-Torture Statute, The Third and Fourth Geneva Conventions, The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and The Convention against Torture, Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment.

Authorizing wiretaps and other electronic surveillance without court authorization, in violation of the 1978 FISA law, Federal Wiretap Act, and Fourth Amendment constitutional right of American citizens “to be secure in their persons, houses, papers and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures.” The NSA domestic database program also violates the Communications Act and the Stored Communications Act prohibiting disclosure of phone records to third parties or the government.

Subverting the constitutional separation of powers by failing to seek or obtain congressional consent for (1) withdrawal from international treaty obligations, (2) reversal by executive orders of statutory laws enacted by Congress, (3) arbitrary revisions of, or declared intent to disregard, over 750 statutory laws enacted by Congress by “interpretive signing statements,” (3) evasion of U.S. courts and due process protections for suspects accused of terrorism, and (4) instructing subordinates to refuse compliance with congressional subpoenas.

Obstruction of justice and conspiracy to commit treason by:(1) active involvement in disclosing the identity of a covert CIA agent in violation of the Intelligence Identities Protection Act of 1982, thereby damaging national security by compromising the lives, safety, and operational capacity of covert agents and damaging ability to recruit human intelligence assets worldwide; and (2) providing false testimony and withholding information about this crime in interviews with federal investigators.

Subversion of our democratic institutions of government by conspiring with subordinates to commit election fraud, including illegal disenfranchisement of approximately 60,000 primarily Democratic Florida voters in the election of 2000, and both electronic manipulation of vote counts incapable of audit and “caging” to disenfranchise Democratic voters by Republican operatives in the election of 2004 in Ohio, Florida and other key “swing” states.

Failure to protect and defend the people of the United States by ignoring and failing to act upon multiple warnings from the preceding administration and numerous federal and international agencies that anticipated the 9/11 attacks; subsequent lying about the existence of these warnings; and Contempt of Congress and obstruction of justice by attempting to prevent formation of, and then withholding evidence from, the 9/11 Commission and its legally empowered investigation.

Failure to protect the people of the United States by politically motivated appointments of unqualified federal agency heads, resulting in failure to act upon explicit advance predictions of the likely destruction from Hurricane Katrina resulting in the death of over 1,300 American citizens, and lying to the people about this advance knowledge.

*Compiled and condensed from Articles of Impeachment against George Bush proposed by former Attorney General Ramsey Clark, House Judiciary Committee Chair John Conyers, ex-Congresswoman Elizabeth Holtzman who participated in drafting the Articles Impeachment against Richard Nixon, National Lawyers Guild president Marjorie Cohn, and University of Illinois international law professor Francis Boyle, author of “Destroying World Order.”