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A Sickness Beyond Reason

It is pathetic that after nearly three years of impeachment efforts by easily hundreds of thousands of people from the grass roots in this country to experience this horrible treatment from our elected "leaders." Impeaching the president and his cohorts during "a time of war" - even an illegal one based on lies, as obvious as it is now, has been over the heads of the vast majority of people in Kansas.

This mass sickness, for lack of better terms to identify it, is almost as if a form of mental illness has descended upon tens of millions of citizens, trained like domesticated animals to never raise their heads, to continue working day in, day out - never questioning the orders given. Unable or unwilling to consider the lunacy of charging up a war in oil-rich countries on a national credit charge, utter denial of climate change until they see it with their own eyes, then panic sits in as the price of gasoline goes higher and higher, our croplands flood with monsoon like rains, our western states burn. Pathetic.

In Kansas it has been like talking to stone walls in the dark, elected representatives from both parties and chambers merely generate computer formula letters who send them back to us. Local mayors and city councils consider it "too political" and refuse to listen or even take the time to read a resolution from other towns that passed them. "That's in Vermont," one elected official said. As if it was someplace on Mars. None will consider impeachment as the remedy despite the glaring unconstitutional crimes committed by the Bush administration. Even the citizens, including many of the readers and listeners of my endeavors here at the Blue Barn have not persisted, became more determined and pushed for impeachment. A letter here, an email there, but no real public pressure. I attempted several times to have published letters to the editors in the local newspapers centering on impeachment, none were published.

And so many have staked their future on one candidate, Barack Obama - to do their job as citizens. Pathetic.

I fear such a people who want to sit while these wolves are at the door. I fear their complacency to guard any chicken coop, especially mine, but I digress.

Here is Dave Lindorff, my buddy who inspired me to promote impeaching Bush and Cheney in Kansas several years ago. My roosters are still crowing with this news, but I fear nobody hears it out here where I live, or cares.

Dave begins: "The sorry performance of the US corporate media, which blacked out stories questioning the official line on the so-called “Iraq Threat” until the nation was deeply mired in to pointless, bloody war in that country, and which has almost completely ignored a three-year, nation-wide movement calling for the impeachment of the president and vice president, has continued. Search far and wide, and you will find no reporting on the fact that Rep. Dennis Kucinich, who has filed a total 36 proposed articles of impeachment against President Bush, is finally going to get to formally present his case to the House Judiciary Committee, beginning on July 25. Although this is not an impeachment hearing, it is putting impeachment “on the table,” from which it has been banned for two years by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. ..." Read more because It is Happening!