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Title: OPEN LETTER TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE: One Citizen's Bill of Impeachment
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URL Source: http://www.baltimorechronicle.com/2006/101906MARKOFF.shtml
Published: Oct 19, 2006
Author: Stuart Markoff
Post Date: 2006-10-24 09:47:24 by christine
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When in the course of the history of this Republic, survivor of Rebellion, of the Great Depression, and of many wars, an Executive violates its contract with its citizens to uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States of America, and fails to so uphold and defend its basic principles, putting the nation itself in jeopardy, and subverting its very purposes, then the citizens must exercise their right to reject such governance not only by the power of the vote but by petitioning the Legislative to institute proceedings of Impeachment against the Executive to reclaim the balance of the three branches as invisioned by the Authors and enshrined in the words of the Constitution itself. To that end, We draw up this bill of high crimes and misdemeanors not only multitimes manifest but continuing, to the great harm, and maiming of this Republic, whereby we urge that the current President, Vice-President, Secretary of State, Secretary of Defense, and Secretary of the Interior be impeached, removed from office, and rendered subject to prosecution for crimes against both the domestic and international order at trials by a jury of their peers, the ordinary citizens of the United States of America. Wherefore, we list the wrongs inflicted upon us: Waging war by lies, distortions, and a secret agenda; Basing domestic policy on various grandiose usurpations of both the Legislative and Judicial functions; Suspending basic rights as enumerated in the Bill of Rights and in Common Law; Refusing to carry out the express intent of legislation by invoking the expediency of sign-off statements; Misusing the Armed Forces, and subjecting troops to retaliatory punishment by an Enemy; Creating new enemies, and destroying American prestige with aggressive, hegemonic, and destabilizing policies; Subverting the freedom of the press with paid propaganda disguised as open journalism; And in general, exercising an Incompetence so willful that its consequences may take generations to repair. THEREFORE DO WE CITIZENS OF THE UNITED STATES SEPARATE OURSELVES FROM OBEDIENCE TO SUCH UNLAWFUL AUTHORITY, EXCEPT AS CONTINGENT UPON SUCH TIME AS THEIR IMPEACHMENT, REMOVAL, AND TRIAL, in the trust we still have in the wisdom of the Founders and in the courage of the Legislative and the Judiciary to document and to pass judgment, and to rectify the CRIMINAL wrongs enumerated. Herewith we pledge our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor: Stuart L. Markoff, Baltimore, MD
AND IMPEACHMENT OF THE GOVERNMENT
OF THESE UNITED STATES CURRENTLY IN POWER AS OF THIS
OCTOBER, 2006 IN THE TWO HUNDREDTH AND TWENTY FIFTH
YEAR OF THE PROMULGATION OF THE CONSTITUTION.
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"INTRODUCTORY. _____________ The question of treason is distinct from that of slavery; and is the same that it would have been, if free States, instead of slave States, had seceded. On the part of the North, the war was carried on, not to liberate slaves, but by a government that had always perverted and violated the Constitution, to keep the slaves in bondage; and was still willing to do so, if the slaveholders could be thereby induced to stay in the Union. The principle, on which the war was waged by the North, was simply this: That men may rightfully be compelled to submit to, and support, a government that they do not want; and that resistance, on their part, makes them traitors and criminals. No principle, that is possible to be named, can be more self-evidently false than this; or more self-evidently fatal to all political freedom. Yet it triumphed in the field, and is now assumed to be established. If it really be established, the number of slaves, instead of having been diminished by the war, has been greatly increased; for a man, thus subjected to a government that he does not want, is a slave. And there is no difference, in principle --- but only in degree --- between political and chattel slavery. The former, no less than the latter, denies a man's ownership of himself and the products of his labor; and [*iv] asserts that other men may own him, and dispose of him and his property, for their uses, and at their pleasure........." "....Men are dunces for uniting to sustain any government, or any laws, except those in which they are all agreed. And nothing but force and fraud compel men to sustain any other....." "...Seventh. The principle that the majority have a right to rule the minority, practically resolves all government into a mere contest between two bodies of men, as to which of them shall be masters, and which of them slaves; a contest, that --- however bloody --- can, in the nature of things, never be finally closed, so long as man refuses to be a slave. III But to say that the consent of either the strongest party, or the most numerous party, in a nation, is sufficient justification for the establishment or maintenance of a government that shall control the whole nation, does not obviate the difficulty. The question still remains, how comes such a thing as "a nation" to exist? How do millions of men, scattered over an extensive territory --- each gifted by nature with individual freedom; required by the law of nature to call no man, or body of men, his masters; authorized by that law to seek his own happiness in his own way, to do what he will with himself and his property, so long as he does not trespass upon the equal liberty of others; authorized also, by that law, to defend his own rights, and redress his own wrongs; and to go to the assistance and defence of any [*10] of his fellow men who may be suffering any kind of injustice --- how do millions of such men come to be a nation, in the first place? How is it that each of them comes to be stripped of his natural, God-given rights, and to be incorporated, compressed, compacted, and consolidated into a mass with other men, whom he never saw; with whom he has no contract; and towards many of whom he has no sentiments but fear, hatred, or contempt? How does he become subjected to the control of men like himself, who, by nature, had no authority over him; but who command him to do this, and forbid him to do that, as if they were his sovereigns, and he their subject; and as if their wills and their interests were the only standards of his duties and his rights; and who compel him to submission under peril of confiscation, imprisonment, and death? Clearly all this is the work of force, or fraud, or both. By what right, then, did we become "a nation?" By what right do we continue to be "a nation?" And by what right do either the strongest, or the most numerous, party, now existing within the territorial limits, called "The United States," claim that there really is such "a nation" as the United States? Certainly they are bound to show the rightful existence of "a nation," before they can claim, on that ground, that they themselves have a right to control it; to seize, for their purposes, so much of every man's property within it, as they may choose; and, at their discretion, to compel any man to risk his own life, or take the lives of other men, for the maintenance of their power. To speak of either their numbers, or their strength, is not to the purpose. The question is by what right does the nation exist? And by what right are so many atrocities committed by its authority? or for its preservation? The answer to this question must certainly be, that at least such a nation exists by no right whatever. We are, therefore, driven to the acknowledgment that nations and governments, if they can rightfully exist at all, can exist only by consent. [*11]......" NO TREASON. _____________ No. 1. _____________ BY LYSANDER SPOONER http://lysanderspooner.org/notre ason.htm "...Again. If the principle be admitted, that the meaning of the constitution can be changed on proof being made that the scriveners or framers of it had secret and knavish intentions, which do not appear on the face of the instrument, then perfect license is given to the scriveners of constitutions to contrive any secret scheme of villany they may please, and impose it upon the people as a system of government, under cover of a written instrument that is so plainly honest and just in its terms, that the people readily agree to it. Is such a principle to be admitted in a [*123] country where the people claim the prerogative of establishing their own government, and deny the right of anybody to impose a government upon them, either by force, or fraud, or against their will? Finally. The constitution is a contract; a written contract, consisting of a certain number of precise words, to which, and to which only, all the parties to it have, in theory, agreed. Manifestly neither this contract, nor the meaning of its words, can be changed, without the consent of all the parties to it. Nor can it be changed on a representation, to be made by any number of them less than the whole, that they intended anything different from what they have said. To change it, on the representation of a part, without the consent of the rest, would be a breach of contract as to all the rest. And to change its legal meaning, without their consent, would be as much a breach of the contract, as to change its words. If there were a single honest man in the nation, who assented, in good faith, to the honest and legal meaning of the constitution, it would be unjust and unlawful towards him to change the meaning of the instrument so as to sanction slavery, even though every other man in the nation should testify that, in agreeing to the constitution, he intended that slavery should be sanctioned. If there were not a single honest man in the nation, who adopted the constitution in good faith, and with the intent that its legal meaning should be carried into effect, its legal meaning would nevertheless remain the same; for no judicial tribunal could lawfully allow the parties to it to come into court and allege their dishonest intentions, and claim that they be substituted for the legal meaning of the words of the instrument." http://w ww.lysanderspooner.org/UnconstitutionalityOfSlavery9.htm btw, I didn't sign on to be a slave, did you? as a matter of fact, I didn't sign at all. my name is not on the document, or rather documents, since the "Constitution" they pass off as the real thing, is an imposter, foisted on the people by abrogating the original, and substituting the forgery when many of the original signatories had been unConstitutionally removed from the ratification of the latter. The original Constitution, which contains the Preamble to the Bill of Rights, and the original 13th Amendment, would make all these lawyers and judges [Pharisees], who have PERVERTED the law, and turned the [supposed] original intent of the Constitution ON ITS HEAD, NONCITIZENS, INCAPABLE OF HOLDING PUBLIC OFFICE. At any rate, this contract has been broken, and therefore should be declared null and void, but won't be, because now it rules by terror and tyranny and force. see Your Chain of Command. PROOF THAT YOU HAVE BEEN OVERTHROWN http://www.wealth4free dom.com/truth/17/command.htm WE CITIZENS OF THE UNITED STATES SEPARATE OURSELVES FROM OBEDIENCE TO SUCH UNLAWFUL AUTHORITY, and that's the whole point God is trying to make. He said there would be days like this in 1Samuel 8, and Come out and be ye separate, and I will be a Father to you.....and the government WILL be upon His shoulder [Isaiah 9:6-7]....and He WILL rule over us....Ezekiel 20:33-38....but folks still don't get it, and keep trying to put Humpty Dumpty back together again. This govt. was only meant to be temporary...Ezekiel 17:1-10/Matthew 15:13...to PLEAD with us face to face.....just a little while longer, and He will break our yoke, and the indignation will cease.
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