This afternoon I received an email fromÂ Massachusetts Senator Ted Kennedy asking me to visitÂ http://www.democraticmajority.com/cheneyÂ and sign a petition toÂ remindÂ Vice President Dick Cheney "that he can't ignore our nations's laws."Â Â

For me, a longtime advocate of impeaching and indicting President Bush and Vice President Cheney for unconstitutional acts and crimes against humanity, the Senator's request is merely aÂ baby stepÂ orÂ half-measure.Â Â

If Senator Kennedy truly wants to uphold the Constitution of the United States,Â the only true and proper actionÂ the good SenatorÂ should take is to call for the impeachment of George Bush and Dick Cheney.Â AÂ "warning" is not strong enough.

It is admirable that Senator Kennedy wants to include we-the-peopleÂ in his effort to warn Vice President Cheney that he is not above the law. But the good Senator and his Washington colleagues have ignoredÂ theÂ petitions, letters, phone calls, emails, faxes, rallies, marches, panel discussions and pleas of we-the-people to impeach George Bush and Dick Cheney for far too long.

Yesterday at the White House, a group of fifty High School students gave George W. Bush a letter asking him to ensure that the United States won't participate in torture and will uphold its Democratic traditions of decency and human rights.Â If fifty high school students can demonstrate their love for their nation and their desire to uphold its principles of fairness and human decency by confronting the President with strength and conviction, why can't powerful Senators Ted Kennedy, Dick Durbin and Harry Reid do the same?Â Why can't powerful House leaders Nancy Pelosi and Steny Hoyer follow suit?Â Â

Ohio Congressman Dennis Kucinich has patriotically provided all members of the House with a vehicle to impeach Vice President Cheney.Â Congressman Kucinich has introduced House Resolution 333 - Articles of Impeachment against Dick Cheney. Â It is time for members of the House to sign on to House Resolution 333 to stop Vice President Cheney from defying Congress, engaging in secrecy, and eroding the Constitution of the United States.Â Â

Is it worth our efforts as patriots to sign Senator Kennedy's petition to "warnÂ CheneyÂ that as Vice President he can't ignore our nations's laws"?Â

For me, it is not.Â Â

It IS worth my while to let Senator Kennedy know that I, a patriotic American, care too much about my nation to simply sign a petition that WARNSÂ its destroyer.Â For this patriot, the only clarion call is:

I. - I. - I. - I.:

Invoke - Articles of Impeachment against George W. Bush and Dick Cheney

Impeach - George W. Bush and Dick Cheney for high crimes and misdemeanors

Indict - George W. Bush and Dick Cheney to be tried in a criminal court

Imprison - George W. Bush and Dick Cheney for the commission of criminal acts

Anything less is UNPATRIOTIC!!!

For those who want to "warn" theÂ Vice President, you can sign Senator Kennedy's petition at http://www.democraticmajority.com/cheney.

For those who believe in the patriotic refrain of I. - I. - I. - I., you should inform Senator Kennedy that the BABY STEP he has offered is not enough.Â It's time to WALK LIKE A MAN!

To contact Senator Kennedy:

email:Â http://kennedy.senate.gov/senator/contact.cfm

write:Â Â 317 Russell Senate Building, Washington, DC 20510

phone: (202) 224-4543 DC

fax:Â Â Â (202) 224-2417

Massachusetts

write:Â 2400 JFK Building, Boston, MA 02203

phone: (617) 565-3170

phone: (877) 472-9014

fax:Â Â Â (617)Â 565-3183Â

To tell Speaker Pelosi that I.- I. - I.- I. is the Constitutional, legal, moral and patriotic way forward:

Write: 450 Golden Gate Ave. - 14th Floor - San Francisco, CA 94102

Call: (415) 556-4862

Write: 235 Cannon HOB - Washington, DC 20515

Call: (202) 225-4965

I. - I. - I. - I.!!

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About author Linda Milazzo is a Los Angeles based writer, educator and activist. Since 1974, she has divided her time between the entertainment industry, government organizations & community development projects, and educational programs. Linda began her writing career over 30 years ago, starting out in advertising and promotions. From 1976 to 1989, she operated an independent public relations service providing specialty writing for individual and corporate clients. For the past six years, Linda has focused on political writing. Her essays, letters and commentaries have appeared in domestic and international journals, newspapers, magazines and on dozens of respected news and opinion websites. She's an educator and creator of a writers' program she's taught privately and in public schools. She currently facilitates an advocacy writing workshop and is developing an advocacy writing program to be implemented in public and private educational institutions and in community based organizations. A political and social activist since the Vietnam War, Linda attributes her revitalized-fully-engaged-intense-head-on-non-stop-political activism to the UNFORTUNATE EXISTENCE OF GEORGE W. BUSH and her disgust with greed-ridden American imperialism, environmental atrocities, egregious war, nuclear proliferation, lying leaders, and global tyranny!