Petty tyranny
Mar 5, 2008 Americana, Politics and Poker
Voters in two Vermont towns approved measures Tuesday calling for the indictment of President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney for what they consider violations of the Constitution.
More symbolic than anything, the items sought to have police arrest Bush and Cheney if they ever visit Brattleboro or nearby Marlboro or to extradite them for prosecution elsewhere — if they’re not impeached first.
“More symbolic than anything”? How about more pathetic than anything.
Most of us manage to keep our impotence to ourselves, though it is true that it is harder to hide our ignorance. Must of us don’t live in Vermont, though.
March 5th, 2008 at 8:44 am
Most of us manage to keep our impotence to ourselves, though it is true that it is harder to hide our ignorance.
I’m disappointed in you. What’s next — you’re going to call them “sheeple?”
Must of us don’t live in Vermont, though.
Oh, come on, Ron. You sound like the prototypical tri-stater who thinks the rest of us are living in some provincial wasteland.
Look, I’ll make you a deal: go to Brattleboro and spend a weekend with the folks there. Then spend the following week in DC going door to door in the US Capitol building, visiting the Congressmen who work there. Take the White House tour; watch a speech given by the POTUS. Visit the US Supreme Court while it’s in session.
Then, when you’re done, come back and look me in the eye and tell me which ones are the “petty tyrants” and which ones are the real people.
Ron, I don’t think you’re going to get far by calling the people of Brattleboro “petty tyrants.” Pretty much the entire American tradition of self-government tells us that the petty tyrants are the The petty tyrants are the people in Washington, not Vermont.
March 5th, 2008 at 11:12 pm
Yawn. This sort of stuff is so…dumb. It’s such a waste of time. It frustrates me that people think that doing this sort of thing is somehow useful or worthy of the 5 seconds it took them to vote for it.
March 6th, 2008 at 2:55 pm
Isn’t Brattleboro the place that tried and executed General Pinochet? Oh, wait…
They have nice cows, though!
March 6th, 2008 at 7:16 pm
Any particular reason that city councils can’t stick to zoning, sewers, and schools?
–|PW|–
March 7th, 2008 at 9:59 am
I think it’s a measure of frustration with Congress that people (and not just in Vermont) have spoken up in opposition to Bush and Cheney.
I’ll say it again: the biggest scandal and shanda of the last 7 years may turn out to be that Bush and Cheney were not impeached and convicted by the US Congress.