{"id":829,"date":"2006-12-11T13:04:01","date_gmt":"2006-12-11T18:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2006\/12\/11\/impeachment-3\/"},"modified":"2006-12-11T13:12:18","modified_gmt":"2006-12-11T18:12:18","slug":"impeachment-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2006\/12\/11\/impeachment-3\/","title":{"rendered":"high Crimes and Misdemeanors…"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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The Constitution of the United States: Article. II.<\/strong> – Section. 4.<\/strong><\/div>\n
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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.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The word "high" is from English Law and means "against the State." So "Treason" is a crime against the State in the service of our enemies. "high Crimes and Misdemeanors" is a crime against the State for other reasons. Is taking us to a war that cost hundreds of billions of dollars and resulted in the loss of thousands of lives on false pretenses a "high crime?" How much higher does one have to go?<\/p>\n

Elizabeth de la Vega concludes her recent book, U.S. v. George W. Bush et al.<\/strong><\/a>, with the following:<\/p>\n

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We, the American people, relied on the truthfulness, integrity, fullness, and completeness of the information about Iraq that the President provided to us. We were, like the Enron<\/strong> fraud victims, entitled to honest information; we were entitled to know the truth about Iraq so we could make informed choices about our lives, how our money was to be used, whether and where our children, parents, spouses, siblings, cousins, and friends were to be sent into battle, and the actions of our country in the world – the actions being taken in our name.<\/div>\n
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The President, the Vice President, and their most senior advisers have perpetuated a massive fraud upon our country. Their crime was – and continues to be – far worse than the Enron<\/strong> fraud. We must not shrug our shoulders and walk away.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Constitution of the United States: Article. II. – Section. 4.   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. The word "high" is from English Law and means "against the State." […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}