Kucinich seeks Cheney impeachment; Americans to rally on Saturday, April 28

Desert Greens/Green Party of Utah
www.GPUT.org 
www.desertgreens.org

Contact: Eileen McCabe, 801-201-0219; Deanna Taylor, desertgreens@desertgreens.org 

04.24.07

SALT LAKE CITY --  In response to yesterday's announcement by Rep. Dennis Kucinich that he plans to file Articles of Impeachment against Vice-President Dick Cheney, Americans across the country will take to the streets on April 28 to express their support for the impeachment of both Cheney and Bush. From Miami, Florida to North Pole, Alaska, more than 100 actions are planned nationwide, with more being added by the hour. Utahans will participate in this national day of action on Saturday, April 28th with an Impeach rally beginning at noon at the Federal Building in Salt Lake City, 100 South State Street. The rally is being organized by the Desert Greens Green Party of Utah and People for Peace and Justice of Utah.

Constitutional Law Scholar Ed Firmage will address Impeachment at the rally: ?If we are ever to redeem ourselves in the eyes of the world; if we are ever again to presume to take upon ourselves the mantle of Washington, Adams, Jefferson, and Madison, we must remove the mediocrity who now holds the office of President, together with his Vice President, Mr. Cheney, the dark force who has masterminded much of our nightmare in the conduct of this illegal war of aggression and the maladministration of the executive office of President of the United States.?

Ed Firmage is the Samuel D. Thurman Professor of Law, Emeritus, at the University of Utah College of Law. During the Nixon impeachment he wrote "The Law of Presidential Impeachment," 1973 Utah Law Review 681; and "Removal of the President: Resignation and the Procedural Law of Impeachment," 1974 Duke Law Journal 1023. He is also the author of "Why Did the Watchdogs Never Bark?," in God and Country: Politics of Utah (Jeffrey E. Sells, ed. with a foreword by Harold J. Berman, Signature Books 2005) as well as a dozen other books.

Westminster College professor Chuck Tripp will also speak at the rally. Professor Tripp has spent the past five years researching war crimes, human rights violations and violations of international law committed by the Bush administration in Iraq and Afghanistan and has published a number of opinion pieces about such topics in a variety of newspapers and magazines. His lengthiest article on these topics is entitled, /George W. Bush's Proxy War Crimes in Iraq: Violations of the/ /Nuremberg and U.N. Charters and the U.S. Constitution/ and can be found online at the Desert Greens Green Party of Utah: http://www.gput.org/proxywarcrimes.shtml . 

Professor Tripp has also compiled information concerning citizen's tribunals held around the world since 2002 (all of which have found Bush administration officials guilty of committing crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan) in an online article that can be found at: http://www.gput.org/tribunals.shtml In further research, Dr. Tripp has attempted to track all of the various cases against the Bush team that have been brought to different courts around the world, most of which have not resulted in full prosecutions for a variety of reasons, and has catalogued the different international agreements and domestic laws broken by the Bush government.

Eileen McCabe, a local Green Party national delegate, will also speak and says, "When I was 14, I remember reading with disgust that President Ford had pardoned President Nixon after he resigned. I remember thinking, 'You don't pardon someone unless they're guilty.' Yet, Nixon got away scot-free, not even facing impeachment, and there was no 'healing'. It was a turning point for me politically, planting seeds of cynicism and suspicion about the corruptness of our government. Let us not sow these seeds in another generation of Americans; let us do the right thing, and stand up for the rule of law. It is important in its own right."

For a complete list of actions scheduled nationally for April 28, please see http://www.a28.org.

More information: Eileen McCabe, 801-201-0219, gpu@gput.org, www.desertgreens.org