teach tolerance.
political grab-ass is no fit lesson for our children.
impeachment is not a partisan affair.
imagine you or your best friend
have become president of the
United States.
imagine a special prosecutor
has been appointed to investigate
the acceptability of every personal &
professional activity in your
life.
if you think this is not fair &
reasonable, do not vote for
impeachment.
imagine that the prosecutor has
taken a personal interest in doing
you harm & will lose all semblance
of his political stature if he
fails to disable
you.
if you think this is not just &
impartial, do not vote for
impeachment.
imagine the biggest mistake you made
in your life, or the most embarrassing
moment.
imagine your enemies in control of
this information.
you are taken before the largest, most
public forum that can be arranged––
you are demanded to humiliate your
self with dignity, but without
lying.
if you think this is both cruel &
unusual, do not vote for
impeachment.
do you believe that manipulation by
the special counsel or distortion by
the media is a form of lying?
have you lied or are you lying in
your political life? can you do
otherwise?
a person who consciously lies, yet
accuses others of lying is a
hypocrite.
if you have not been unerringly
honest in your political life,
do not vote for
impeachment.
imagine you will be forced to
cast a vote for or against
impeachment.
what standard will you apply?
“beyond a reasonable doubt,” as in
a criminal trial? the rules of
civil law, or the demands of your
party or the influence of your
constituency?
if you examine your standard by the
light of your conscience, you will
realize that you have left behind
the boundaries of law and pre
cedent &
have entered the realm of political
power & ego where there is no
justification beyond the satisfaction of
personal
will.
if you reject subjectivity as a proper
grounding for historic decision, you can not
vote for
impeachment.
& take this very special consideration into
account, the cause of “high crimes &
misdemeanors” if any, was not discovered
by the investigation, but generated by its
unconscionable procedures.
bad history does not make good law.
& this is a precedented
Fact.