{news} A possible recuirted candidate??*** US House candidate in Conn.'s 5th District argues for impeachment

Fri Sep 21 16:40:06 EDT 2007

Tim McKee <timmckee at sbcglobal.net> wrote:  Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 13:37:52 -0700 (PDT)
From: Tim McKee <timmckee at sbcglobal.net>
Subject: Fwd: FW: [usgp-dx] US House candidate in Conn.'s 5th District argues for impeachment
To: greenpartyct at yahoo.com

Greg Gerritt <gerritt at mindspring.com> wrote:   Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 13:46:25 -0400
Subject: FW: [usgp-dx] US House candidate in Conn.'s 5th District argues
for impeachment
From: Greg Gerritt <gerritt at mindspring.com>
To: Tim McKee <timmckee at sbcglobal.net>

How hard are y'all working to recruit him? Anything I can do in my role as
chair of CCC? greg
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From: Scott McLarty 
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 09:31:57 -0700 (PDT)
To: 
Subject: [usgp-dx] US House candidate in Conn.'s 5th District argues for
impeachment (fwd)

The author of the essay below, Harold Burbank
, is currently running as an
independent for the US House in Connecticut's 5th
district in the 2008 election. He's seeking
Green Party support, and there's some chance he
might decide to run as a Green, perhaps if he
gets encouragement to do so from Green Party
members. -- Scott

Why Won't Chris Murphy Defend and Save Our
Constitution By Impeaching George W. Bush?

I attended Congressman Murphy's September 13,
2007 town hall meeting in New Britain to ask him
why, given his attorney and congressional oaths
to uphold and defend the US Constitution against
all enemies, foreign and domestic, he would not
do so by moving to impeach an admittedly criminal
administration which savages our Founding Fathers
constitutional design every day; the most obvious
examples of which are the lies and half truths
spewed to maintain the Iraq and Afghanistan wars
of occupation.Congressman Murphy not only failed
to answer my question - he never once used the
word "oath" - but his attempt to obscure his
plain refusal to uphold his oath, with a
meandering pitch about rebuilding and fixing the
Constitution with legislation, was insulting.
Responsible congressmen cannot avoid the Bush
administration's obscene assault on our
fundamental law, our Constitution, on which all
other US law depends, by considering it like a
junk car. The Constitution was not intended to be
"rebuilt", but as the unshakeable foundation of a
democratic and free Republic. It was clear to me
that Congressman Murphy either does not think he
can protect and defend the Constitution, which
his Connecticut law license and congressional
oath demand, or he does not want to. In either
case, we are all at risk of losing our most
sacred American birthright, our Constitution, to
the most criminal administration in US history,
and to congressmen who can, but will not for
their own reasons, save our Constitution for "We,
The People..."

The current unprecedented level of threat to our
Constitution was not unforeseen by our
forefathers, who as most school children know
wisely formulated a system of checks and balances
between the executive, legislative and judicial
government branches to prevent any one of them
from having the power to destroy the Constitution
and the Republic for which it stands. Our
Founders knew despots would attempt to seize
excessive governmental power, so the Constitution
provides the House of Representatives - the
people's' house - the remedy of initiating
impeachment for any official overreaching their
constitutional powers.

Congressman Murphy agreed with me that the Bush
administration has overreached. But, because he
thinks new laws can "repair" the Constitution, he
will not impeach the administration for
destroying it. Indeed, save for 20 co-sponsors of
Congressman Dennis Kucinich's House Resolution
333 to impeach Vice President Richard Cheney, the
entire House, and its Speaker, Nancy Pelosi,
refuse to consider impeachment, arguing that they
have a "plan" for the Constitution's safekeeping
superior in wisdom to that of our Founding
Fathers - arguably the wisest men ever assembled
for free government. The Pelosi "plan" is pure
self-interested arrogance to get a Democrat
elected to the 2008 presidency. For this she will
gladly risk our Republic by granting a free pass
to administrative evil - no investigation,
disclosure and prosecution of our constitutional
crisis - in return for the veneer of
constitutional normalcy. Bush's and Pelosi's
Tammany Hall era attitude of "What is the
Constitution among friends?", is in plain view.
What are patriotic Americans to do when faced
with government so corrupt that it will not
defend the Constitution by impeachment?

As our revolutionary Founders did, Connecticut
citizens must stand up to bullies and cowards who
would enslave them, their country and their
planet for the profit, greed and power. They must
organize their friends and neighbors. They must
petition and protest, and they must find new
candidates for public office, especially the US
House, who will protect them, as the Founders
intended under our Constitution.

As one speaker, a lawyer, eloquently put it in
New Britain, the Constitution is being destroyed
before our eyes by private US and others
interests who prefer American empire, in Iraq and
worldwide, to American constitutional democracy.
This empire is destroying our Republic, and only
our Congress can save it without, perhaps, a
second American Revolution. The constitutional
mechanism to thwart greed and imperial war by a
president is impeachment. It is the only legal,
civilized power we have to check the madness
before us, and it depends on our US House of
Representatives for its initiation.It is clear
that Congressman Murphy does want to risk taking
on the Bush administration to save the
Constitution. He is satisfied with, and expects
you and me to accept, an unrecognizable
Constitution and Republic. Mr. Murphy said it was
more important to work with a dysfunctional
Congress than to pursue constitutional democracy.
His answers avoided the central questions of harm
to the Constitution itself. You do not have a
constitutional democracy if you must revive its
founding fundamental law. You have government
with no foundation at all. Those like me who
cherish the Constitution consider such thinking
treasonous. Mr. Murphy and the Congress have no
right to ignore damage to the Constitution, nor
to deny us its fundamental protections against an
imperial presidency.

I implore all readers to search their minds and
hearts on these matters. Constitutional democracy
is not a partisan issue. Your children and their
children may soon realize that unless we get
Congress to impeach, we will have failed to
protect and defend our free society. Congressman
Murphy has admitted that he will not protect and
defend the Constitution from tyrants and
criminals, foreign and domestic. Accordingly,
beginning now, I will run a campaign against him
for his 5th congressional seat in the 2008
election, and I ask 5th district voters to please
consider supporting my (independent) candidacy
today, based on a commitment to seek impeachment
of executives who fail to end the wars in Iraq
and Afghanistan, and pledge no war in Iran,
Syria, and regional states. I will consider
withdrawing my candidacy if Congressman Murphy
immediately files bills of impeachment against GW
Bush, Richard Cheney and Condoleeza Rice, but I
do not expect him to do so. I asked him about it
publicly, and he declined.

All impeachment supporters should try to find
candidates in their congressional districts who
will run for Congress, starting now, against any
incumbents who will not file or support articles
of impeachment immediately to end the wars. I
would welcome challenges from other candidates in
the 5th District who would run pro-impeachment
campaigns (Libertarians, others), and may the
best candidate win. We have only our Constitution
and democratic republic to lose if we do not put
ourselves to these time-proven tests of American
liberty. END

PRESS RELEASE:

Independent Harold H. Burbank, II of Canton,
Connecticut has announced that he will challenge
incumbent Democratic Congressman Chris Murphy for
his 5th District US House Seat in the 2008
election beginning immediately and run primarily
on the issue of impeaching the Bush
administration for lying America into its current
wars. Burbank, a Canton attorney with an
international law background, began his campaign
in reponse to a challenge from his colleague Dr.
Francis A. Boyle, a renowned international human
rights scholar, teacher and lawyer at the
University of Illinois School of Law, who has
lectured throughout the world that unless the
damage done to our Constitution by the Bush
administration is fully restored by the
impeachment process, the country will devolve
into World War III.

"It is time to stop kidding ourselves about the
necessity of impeaching this administration so we
can end these illegal wars of aggression, get our
troops home safely, save our treasury, avoid new
wars, and defend our Constitution," Burbank said.
"Chris Murphy refuses to do this. He will not
support Dennis Kucinich's House Resolution 333 to
impeach Richard Cheney and he will not introduce
his own articles. I promise that upon election I
will introduce impeachment articles against any
executive officer who refuses to end the Iraq and
Afghanistan wars begun under President Bush,
refuses to end all US military involvement there,
and refuses to end funding for any vestige of
these illegal and immoral occupations. The
arguments for continuing them are false, do not
serve the interests of average Americans, and
threaten our children's futures with unending
war."

Burbank's campaign has been endorsed by Dr.
Francis Boyle in a national radio interview, and
by Dr. Robert Bowman, director of the Star Wars
Program during the Reagan administration. Burbank
may be contacted about his campaign at
hburbankii at att.net

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