Congressman Robert Wexler of Florida announced on Friday that he along with two other members of the House Judiciary Committee, Luis Gutierrez of Illinois and Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin, were calling for immediate hearings on the impeachment of Vice President Dick Cheney.

Their joint statement declared, “These charges are too serious to ignore. There is credible evidence that the Vice President abused the power of his office, and not only brought us into an unnecessary war but violated the civil liberties and privacy of American citizens. It is the constitutional duty of Congress to hold impeachment hearings.”

A statement on the prominent Democrats.com reflects the tragedy of the supplicant, fearful mainstream media at the present time:

“The three Democrats wrote an op-ed to announce their position, but none of the nation’s leading newspapers would publish it – just as they refuse to include impeachment in the polls, and just as they refuse to publish their own investigations of the crimes of the Bush Administration. Why? Because the corporate owned media is a wholly-owned subsidiary to the Republican Party, as it has been since the Reagan Revolution of 1980.”

Read and re-read the above paragraph as many times as necessary to recognize the true nature of the American media in the first decade of the new millennium. Just think of how much more copy was expended over the Richard Mellon Scaife driven Whitewater case, the impeachment investigation and trial of Bill Clinton for lying on an affidavit about an extra-marital sex act, along with the fusillade of absurdity about Al Gore released during the 2000 presidential campaign.

Now three House members take their oaths of responsibility seriously enough to begin demanding questions on vital issues such as lying a nation into war on false evidence after secret hearings allocated oil holdings in the nation ready to be attacked, on a blatant act of identifying an intelligence agent by the media with cooperation from members of the administration.

There are also Bill of Rights violations with impunity through conducting numerous unlawful seizures and holding citizens without permitting defendants with right of counsel or provided with charges under which they were being held, as well as numerous Geneva Convention violations through torturing prisoners.

Nothing exceeds the aforementioned issues in importance. Our entire system of government resides on the most dangerously slender thread until justice can be restored as a regime with an insatiable appetite for power runs amok, leaving the U.S. Constitution and the rule of law in tatters.

Congressman Wexler has indicated that he needs 50,000 signatures to convince his Democratic colleagues that the American people truly support impeachment. I have added my support. Have you?

The good news is that my last visit to Wexler’s site indicates that over 61,000 interested citizens have voiced their support.

Visit Wexler’s site and add your support if you have not done so already.

Just contact Congressman Wexler at his site and fill out the needed particulars. Wexler can be reached at wexlerwantshearings.com.

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Bill Hare

