Why George W. Bush and Friends should be prosecuted by the next administration.

This country is founded upon some really radical ideology. Even by 21st century standards the idea of liberty, enfranchisement and privacy are shared by very few on this planet, regardless of coca cola commercials. That these ideals were enshrined upon parchment over 230 years ago is a testament to their strength, universality and truth. But lately, these ideals have been encroached upon. Not by outside forces bent upon our destruction. (Although those people do exist.)

No, this threat has come from within, as we always knew it would. Some men of great vision saw this coming and wrote stern warnings. Orwell gave us glimpses in 1984 and Animal Farm. But others, were much more specific: “When fascism comes to the United States it will be wrapped in the American flag and will claim the name of 100-percent Americanism … “, Sinclair Lewis knew of what he spoke.

Criminal and fascist things have been done. They have been done right out in full view of the world. Those perpetrating these crimes are bold. They have done heinous and vile things, and said “fuck you” to the rest of humanity while doing it. They believe that they can get away with it. And the sad part is, they may be right. For no one, I mean no one, in all of law enforcement in this nation so loves his country, and the ideals for which it supposedly stands, that he will risk livelihood and ridicule and arrest these criminals.

Not that I blame the local beat cop, for these are world class criminals. With connections and power and an air of authority they long ago squandered but still use like a sledgehammer on any that question or pause to think about what they’ve done. There are people in the positions of power and authority that could do something. In fact one has, Dennis Kuchinich is a man of integrity.

But one man alone can not protect the Constitution of the United States. Nor can a million. But 100 senators and 435 Congressmen can protect that hallowed parchment. But they have become complicit in the crimes against that sacred roll and therefore won’t take the chance of exposing themselves to investigation. This means that George and Dick and Condi and Alfredo will leave this criminal enterprise having been responsible for more deaths than all gangland criminals, having looted more money from the national treasury than all the criminals in the history of this nation put together. And they will go home.

That means that there truly is only one man that can bring these criminals to justice. The next president of the United States of America will have the power to appoint an attorney General who knows how to prosecute world class criminals. One who is a pit bull with evidence and squeezing witnesses/criminals. And he should sick him on the previous administration like a fat man on an all-you-can-eat buffet.

Now some say, it’s counter-productive, in an election year, to be bringing up all this talk of impeachment, and hearings and such. People want to put it in the past and turn the page. Well this isn’t something you turn the page from. This is the very fabric of American society, culture and jurisprudence. Nor is this about a vendetta to get even for these crimes. This is about justice. Something it seems, very few understand.

When a president takes the oath of office, he says these words:

I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.

It isn’t very long or complicated. It says that as president, he has but one duty. “to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.” He is not bound to protect his political party, or his ideology. He is not bound to protect its corporations nor even its citizens. He is bound, by oath, to “preserve, protect and defend” that which George W. Bush called “..a piece of paper…”.

That means defend from everything. From foreign terrorists and crazed politicians to corporate Supreme Court justices and presidents who have shredded the document to with in an inch of its being. It is the latter to which I shall address the rest of this missive.

There are some very sound and prudent reasons for prosecuting bushco. The first and foremost is that justice demands it. Those who have died for that piece of paper over the past two hundred and thirty plus years will have died in vain if bushco is allowed to walk away scot-free.

Our reputation amongst the nations of the world has been severely tarnished of late. There is no better way to restore it than to admit freely that we allowed a group of criminals to take over the office and run roughshod over the world and that we will prosecute and punish them for those crimes. That the idle boast we make ‘that no one is above the law’ rings true.

Any presidential hopeful that takes that oath must prosecute this administration for their crimes against that most important of documents. If he doesn’t, he is making a mockery of that oath and neither deserves nor should have that office. I can not be clearer.

And if you believe otherwise, then you are not an American. You are a disciple of politics. You are a partisan. You are caught in a cult of personality, not integrity. A sycophant for a political party or agenda or worse, politician. You don’t care about the country, you care about winning an election.

And one final thought. If a presidential hopeful won’t swear to prosecute criminals, perhaps it is because he is hedging his bet that he may want to use those same criminal tools during his administration. Which begs the next question; why? We have come as close as I ever want to a dictatorship under G.W. Bush. Without an immediate rollback of practices and ideology I fear the next president could take us to where we may never return.

And no I don’t trust any politician to keep his word, and I trust one less who won’t even give it.