[WCUSP] Fwd: Bush Must Be Impeached for Good of the Country By Dr. CAROL WOLMAN, MD

[yvonne simmons]

--- Lloyd Marbet <cnsrvncy at cascadeaccess.com> wrote:

> Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2006 02:41:15 -0800
> From: Lloyd Marbet <cnsrvncy at cascadeaccess.com>
> To: undisclosed-recipients:;
> Subject: Bush Must Be Impeached for Good of the
> Country By Dr. CAROL WOLMAN,
>  MD
> 
>  We badly need this restraining order:
> 
> http://www.counterpunch.org/wolman12302006.html
> 
> Weekend Edition
> December 30 / 31, 2006
> 
> 
>   Psychiatrist Says Bush Must Be Impeached for Good
> of the Country
> 
> 
>   The Nation is Locked in a Spousal Abuse
> Relationship
> 
> By Dr. CAROL WOLMAN, MD
> 
> "We the people" have been and are being badly abused
> by the Bush 
> administration. We've been disenfranchised by
> Diebold, a major Bush 
> donor. Our Congress, our elected Representatives,
> have been corrupted, 
> intimidated into going along with shredding of the
> Constitution. The 
> incoming Democrats, whom we elected in protest, plan
> to play ball with Bush.
> 
> We've been lied into Iraq and our taxes are being
> used to support all 
> kinds of atrocities there. Our reputation as an
> honorable nation has 
> been destroyed, and hatred has been stirred up
> against us all over the 
> world.
> 
> Our treasury is being drained, the public sector, on
> which we rely for 
> essential services and infrastructure, is being
> starved. Rampant 
> cronyism and ripoffs go unchecked.
> 
> Our land is being defiled with pollutants,
> clearcutting, exploitation of 
> pristine areas. Standards of cleanliness and safety
> have been lowered or 
> ignored. Public utilities are being "privatized",
> including the health 
> care system, the prison system, the energy system,
> so that the public 
> welfare is subordinated to profit. The commons is
> being destroyed.
> 
> We are being systematically stripped of our
> freedoms. Freedom of the 
> press has all but vanished, and the TV networks and
> major newspapers 
> have become propaganda organs. Freedom of assembly
> and speech are being 
> threatened. Individual privacy has disappeared.
> Habeas corpus is no more.
> 
> Our future is being mortgaged. We are leaving our
> kids an overheating 
> planet, since the Bushies won't acknowledge global
> warming, let alone do 
> anything about it. We are leaving them an enormous
> debt, and a set of 
> laws that allows fascism to be imposed at will.
> 
> Our emotions are being manipulated by the constant
> fake terror alerts. 
> Meanwhile we are being terrorized into submission to
> Bush, with reports 
> of concentration camps under construction by
> Halliburton, warrantless 
> tapping of our phone calls and emails, scary
> legislation like the 
> Patriot Act and the Homeland Security Act, and the
> Military Commissions Act.
> 
> I could go on and on- you, reader, can add your own
> outrages to the 
> list. The point is, "we the people" are being abused
> by the members of 
> the Executive Branch, whose job it is to carry out
> OUR will, the will of 
> "we the people".
> 
> As a people, we are now depressed. We feel helpless
> to stop the 
> depredations. Our massive repudiation of the Iraq
> occupation and the 
> Bush administration at the polls seems to have been
> pointless. The Iraq 
> occupation is escalating again- more troops, more
> money for Halliburton 
> and Carlyle. The Democrats has said that
> "impeachment is not on the 
> table". A feeling of hopelessness and dread of what
> the future will 
> bring is hanging over us.
> 
> We are like a wife trapped in an abusive marriage,
> who feels that duty 
> and economics prevent her from leaving. Perhaps she
> still feels some 
> love and loyalty to the husband who mistreats her.
> Perhaps she feels she 
> deserves ill treatment, or that she's too weak and
> pitiful to do 
> anything about it. She becomes depressed and
> resigned to a dismal life.
> 
> When a woman is being abused by her husband, it is
> commonly accepted 
> that he is committing criminal acts, and needs to be
> brought to justice. 
> First of all, she is separated from him, and he is
> served with a 
> restraining order to prevent further abuses. Safety
> first. The case is 
> then investigated by the District Attorney, and if
> enough evidence is 
> found, he is indicted and brought to trial. If
> convicted, he may serve 
> some time, depending on how bad the abuse has been.
> 
> All this helps the victim to realize that it is
> wrong to be mistreated, 
> and that justice is on her side. She regains a sense
> of power and 
> self-esteem, and is able to manage her life. She
> sees some hope and 
> happiness ahead.
> 
> We the people need to separate from Bush and Cheney.
> The mechanism for 
> this is impeachment. Pelosi's plan to "work with"
> Bush is co-dependence, 
> allowing the perpetrator to continue his abuse. In
> this case, enabling 
> the criminals to continue their ripoff of the public
> amounts to 
> co-conspiracy, opening the Congresspeople who go
> along to criminal charges.
> 
> A statement by House leaders of intention to
> investigate for 
> impeachment, and a REFUSAL to cooperate with Bush
> plans to escalate in 
> Iraq, etc, etc, would amount to a restraining order,
> preventing further 
> harm to "we the people". Safety first.
> 
> This should be followed by a thorough investigation
> and impeachment by 
> the House, which acts as the "district attorney"-
> the attorney for "we 
> the people". Impeachment = indictment. The evidence
> will surely be 
> strong enough to warrant conviction by the Senate,
> even if the Democrats 
> do lack a 2/3 majority there. Public airing of Bush
> and Cheney's high 
> crimes through the House investigation will force
> the Senate to convict, 
> and eject them from office. They can then be tried
> as ordinary citizens 
> in a regular criminal court.
> 
> We the people will become empowered, as we are
> supposed to be under our 
> Constitution. We will be able to restore paper
> ballots and ensure fair 
> elections. We will be able to address the pressing
> problems of global 
> warming, budgetary crisis, nuclear pollution, and
> all the other ills 
> which we will inherit from 6 years of Bush's
> plundering. Our self-esteem 
> as a nation, and our reputation among nations, will
> be restored.
> 
> Impeachment is the only way this can happen.
> Impeachment is peaceful, 
> legal and democratic.
> 
> Dr. Carol Wolman, MD is Board Certified in
> Psychiatry. She is the
> Co-chair, Impeach Bush-Cheney and a Member of the
> Longhouse Coalition. 
> She can be reached at: cwolman at mcn.org
> <mailto:cwolman at mcn.org>
> 
> 


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