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2007-12-29 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Activists in Vermont town want Bush, Cheney subject to arrest

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Posted by gorb 2007-12-29 03:54|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 so they don't even have the 1,000 signatures yet and it is CNN Headline News.

What will be next? When little Molly puts out a petition with her classmates to have the teacher arrested for denying them recess?

How the mighty have fallen.

Posted by Whomong Guelph4611 2007-12-29 09:30|| 2007-12-29 09:30|| Front Page Top

#2 they'd have really uphill sledding

Not gonna be much sledding (or any hills, for that matter!) after the evil Chainey sends his personal fleet of bulldozers and war zeppelins to straighten this out.

Posted by SteveS 2007-12-29 10:05|| 2007-12-29 10:05|| Front Page Top

#3 just for grins, we need a squadron of unmarked black helicopters to make a couple runs over the town, hovering over Daims' home with spotlights.... just a couple days of that should really knot their panties

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2007-12-29 10:14|| 2007-12-29 10:14|| Front Page Top

#4 If I was up there I would vote for this. Then I would demand that it be made mandatory that every dime of the city's budget be thrown in to the effort. No cops, no teachers, no trash pickup, no fire protection, NOTHING until the evil scourge of Bush/Cheney is eliminated from the face of the earth.
Put your money where ya mouths are, ya fuckin dirty hippies...

Posted by tu3031 2007-12-29 10:30|| 2007-12-29 10:30|| Front Page Top

#5 Vermont is my home state. I live here by choice. That said, Vermont is odd. In the parking lot of the company I work for, it is not uncommon to see bumper stickers like the one noted above sharing bumper space with an NRA decal. Dichotomies abound. At the range, apparent rednecks swap load data with apparent hippies. It is a free carry, concealed carry state, so radical in its gun laws (there basically aren't any to speak of, other than "don't do bad things" and "no silencers" and "no loaded shotguns or rifles in the front seat") that no other state (except maybe Alaska) has any reciprocity with Vermont. You want to talk to the head of the State Police? Call him, he'll answer immediately. Nice guy too. You can call the State Attorney General as well, and he will answer; nice guy, too. Dichotomies. Really, really old Yankee.

Brattleboro is a looney bin, IMHO. Most of the rest of the state would agree. The Brattleboro police suffer (somewhat) silently. Pity them. Or, buy them a beer when you can (my preferred course of action). They will accept.

Posted by Whiskey Mike 2007-12-29 10:31|| 2007-12-29 10:31|| Front Page Top

#6 Hey WM didn't B'boro get overrun by the dregs to the south? I'm down in MA and this sounds like something out of Amherst or the PRoC.

Posted by AlanC 2007-12-29 11:22|| 2007-12-29 11:22|| Front Page Top

#7 Getting bad in Southern New Hampshire, too.

Take this earnest query from a self-described "potter" from Exeter: "I've had a U.N. flag flying from my front porch since the beginning of the war. It pains me to think of how our respect for the United Nations has been drained away in these years under the current administration. I want to know what you would do to restore our respect as a country for the United Nations and the United Nations' respect for America?"

New Hampshire Blues

Posted by KBK 2007-12-29 11:50|| 2007-12-29 11:50|| Front Page Top

#8 "We hold these Troofs to be self-evident..."

Posted by Seafarious 2007-12-29 11:52|| 2007-12-29 11:52|| Front Page Top

#9 Fine. I'll get a similar law passed here in Vidalia, but naming Kurt Daims as a traitor to the United States. We'll award ourselves universal jurisdiction too, then go out there, arrest the bastard, and all 1000 co-signers as co-conspirators, haul their pimply yankee asses back here, and get to work.

I am sick and tired of jackass SOBs who think they can change the rules of the game while thinking we'll abide by the old rules. Betcha they'll whine "it's not fair!" quicker than a second grader when faced with a 20 gauge "Back At'cha!".

Sauce. Goose. Gander.

Posted by Ptah">Ptah 2007-12-29 13:30|| http://www.crusaderwarcollege.org]">[http://www.crusaderwarcollege.org] 2007-12-29 13:30|| Front Page Top

#10 "I'll get a similar law passed here in Vidalia, but naming Kurt Daims as a traitor to the United States. "

Citizen's arrest?

Posted by doc 2007-12-29 14:37|| 2007-12-29 14:37|| Front Page Top

#11 AlanC: Yes, I think you're probably right. Kind of an influx from Amherst, Greenfield and North Hampton at a guess. Same types. There are some good people in western Mass, but the commie-types tend to flock together.

I like the idea of the "right back at'cha", they'll be dumbfounded.

Posted by Whiskey Mike 2007-12-29 15:47|| 2007-12-29 15:47|| Front Page Top

#12 The measure asks: "Shall the Selectboard instruct the Town Attorney to draft indictments against President Bush and Vice President Cheney for crimes against our Constitution, and publish said indictment for consideration by other municipalities?"

The hippies need to read the Constitution themselves. Note that they do not ask the Selectboard to instruct its attorneys to seek an indictment from a legitimate court, they ask it to draft an indictment and present it other municipalities, that is, other legislative bodies.
The measure they request is a Bill of Attainder, a declaration of guilt by a legislative body, and specifically forbidden by Article I, Section 9; Clause 3:
"No Bill of Attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed."
The Constitution of every state also forbids bills of attainder.

Posted by Gromomble Oppressor of the Iowans8916 2007-12-29 15:52|| 2007-12-29 15:52|| Front Page Top

#13 The population of VT has shifted from manure shovelers to manure packers in a single generation.

Posted by regular joe 2007-12-29 15:54|| 2007-12-29 15:54|| Front Page Top

#14 If Kurt Daims is named a traitor, I can still shoot him legally because of the oath I swore.

Oh sweet happiness.

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2007-12-29 20:12|| 2007-12-29 20:12|| Front Page Top

#15 D.V. I'll pull what strings I can to get you on the firing squad. Then you'll have several rounds on me, 'kay?

Posted by Ptah">Ptah 2007-12-29 22:02|| http://www.crusaderwarcollege.org]">[http://www.crusaderwarcollege.org] 2007-12-29 22:02|| Front Page Top

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