House Judiciary Committee Meeting--Hot Air or Real Thing?

July 25, 2008 may mark a date in history when the United States House of Representatives, particularly the Judiciary Committee, stood up and held the holders of the highest offices of our nation accountable for decisions and actions taken during the last eight years.

These decisions and actions seem to fly in the face of the Constitution of our country. Only through impeachment hearings for the president and vice president can we put aside questions of overstepping the bounds of the administrative powers by George W. Bush and Dick Cheney.

John Conyers of Michigan who is chairman of the Judiciary Committee has not designated the hearing tomorrow as an impeachment hearing, but there will be those attending the meeting who intend to present that very issue. Among those will be Representative Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio), anti-war protester and mother of a fallen soldier in the Iraq war, Cindy Sheehan, and a constitutional law scholar by the name of Bruce Fein.

Fein has an international reputation, having assisted nearly forty countries throughout the world with constitutional revision, has served for the United States Department of Justice, was legal adviser to the assistant attorney general for antitrust, and is frequently called upon to testify before Congress by both Democrats and Republicans.

Sheehan, who founded the Gold Star Families for Peace in 2005, is also running as an independent in California against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

Kucinich, who was unsuccessful in his bid to secure the Democratic nomination as a presidential candidate earlier this year, was successful in bringing his message to the nation that he believes impeachment hearings are warranted for the president and vice president.

The witness list for tomorrow's hearings also include: Rep. Walter Jones, Republican, of North Carolina; Rep. Brad Miller, Democrat, of North Carolina; Bob Barr, former Republican representative of Georgia and the 2008 Libertarian Party candidate for president; Stephen Presser, Raoul Berger Professor of Legal History, Northwestern University School of Law; and Jeremy A. Rabkin, Professor of Law, George Mason University School of Law, among others.

The Judiciary Committee hearing will be broadcast live on No Lies radio beginning at 9AM EDT 7/25/2008. It can be heard at: http://noliesradio.org/

Both those people who are for and against a formal impeachment hearing should listen to the broadcast tomorrow. Listening to it ourselves will prevent us from being swayed one way or another by the media later in the day as they seek to spin it for us.

An informed citizenry may be the only defense we have against tyranny, and if not today, then in all the days to come.

Interestingly enough, the rules of Congress seem to be that no discussion of crimes or even lies by the president or vice president can be made in any hearing other than an impeachment hearing, meaning that tomorrow's Judiciary Committee meeting is just so much hot air. If so, please take a moment or two to make your feelings known on impeachment to your elected officials-whether you support impeachment hearings or you oppose them matters not-let your representatives know what's on your mind.