There's Still Time

Every so often I get the urge to revisit the events of November and December 2000, in the aftermath of the Presidential vote that year. Last evening I read a statement of well-known prosecutor, Vincent Bugliosi, to the effect it was not too late to impeach the Supreme Court Five (the majority which handed the election to Bush). This was in an interview with Bugliosi sometime after September 11, 2001, on the web site of The Nation magazine. Two of the Fascist Five (as I call them) are no longer on the court, although it is possible to impeach someone after he or she has resigned. (Whether it is possible or advisable to impeach a dead person -- Rhenquist -- is open to question.)

In any event, I agree it is not too late to impeach the people who effectively put the least-qualified and one of the least-effective people in the White House in U.S. history. Of course any impeachment effort against them would face the same kind of hurdles the Cheney and Bush impeachment efforts are facing. Still these efforts continue to slowly gather strength, so who knows what can happen. And here I may mention my post of yesterday in which I mentioned gaining considerable encouragement from the writings of Thomas Paine.

It is tragic and even horrifying that our information systems are dominated by a small number of huge conglomerates which do not have the true interests of the American people at heart. Thus, any attempts at justice which simultaneously threaten corporate media interests have, unfortunately, a rough go of things.*

These are indeed times which try men's (people's) souls. But these are also times for persons of courage to stand up and contribute time and energy non-violently to the cause of a true democratic system in the United States, a process only begun by our founding fathers, but desperately needing revivifying now.


* See my earlier recommendation of a group called Reclaim Democracy (www.ReclaimDemocracy.org).