A reply letter to Florida Senator Bill Nelson from Arnie Sherr June 22, 2008 6:30 AM EST

A reply letter to Florida Senator Bill Nelson from Arnie Sherr June 22, 2008 6:30 AM EST

This letter is in response to Senator Bill Nelson's reply to my original suggestion that impeachment proceedings be started by the Congress against President Bush.

ARNOLD SHERR

June 22, 2008

Bill Nelson, United States Senator (D-F)

Fax: 202.228.2183

Washington, DC 20510-0905

Dear Senator Nelson:

I thank you for your speedy response to my letter referencing a Bush impeachment action.
Given, as you state in your letter, “Many American’s would agree that certain actions taken by this Administration warrant impeachment” you’ve not emphatically stated ‘your’ agreement hereto.

Respectfully sir, “impractical” is yet another of Washington’s political avoid, stall, and/or evade words. Unless we utilize the disciplinary tools so thoughtfully placed into law by our founders we are giving permission to future presidents to abuse presidential powers because as is the mind-set of our elected Senators and Congressmen and women, it is “impractical.” Such convenient excuses are synonymous to placing statutory limits on capital offenses. Certainly if it is acceptable to strip an Olympic champion of their gold metal for steroid abuse, after the fact, then is ever appropriate to strip a past president of his lifetime salary and all other benefits except ‘security’ for his abuse of power and deliberate manipulation and breach of United States Law which is inclusive the act of deliberately misleading the Senate and the Congress is his pursuit of permissions to wage what has proved to be unwarranted military action causing greater than 4000 American deaths, untold thousands of injuries of which a preponderance are life altering, and God only know how many Iraqi deaths. Senator, because it is expected that Presidents should be held to a higher standard, I submit that omitting, fabricating, exaggerating, misleading, twisting, and/or misrepresenting to the Congress and the Senate are “Acts of Perjury.” Doing so impeaches a President’s “I do” at his or her inauguration.

US Constitution, Article II, Section 1

Before he enter on the execution of his office, he shall take the following oath or affirmation: "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.” When a sitting President officially and deliberately misleads both Houses and the American people he or she has not “faithfully executed the office of President of the United States, and has not to the best of his or her ability, preserved, protected, and defended the Constitution of the United States."

His or her oath of office carries to every function of the Presidency even if formally swearing-in a sitting President is not performed as by his oath of office he has sworn to “preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States." It is my interpretation that omitting, fabricating, exaggerating, misleading, twisting, and/or misrepresenting to the Congress and the Senate and the American people are indeed breaches of the Presidential Oath of Office and are capital impeachable offenses against “We the People.”

Doing nothing, because it is believed by you, and I submit most of your colleagues feel similarly, that it is "impractical" extends latitude to future Presidents to undermine the integrity of the Presidential Oath of Office and sends an aberrant message to America’s populous, its youth, and to the entire global community that still and always has looked up to the United States as the preferred place to immigrate. Impeachment proceedings against this President will also help to repair our worsening global reputation and example, if you will democracy at work for the entire world to witness.

I urge your sir, please reassess your “impractical” criteria and let “We the People” know, among all within our government that is perceived as broken, that our elected officials will always hold he or she who has been trusted by the American people to occupy the Office of the Presidency of the United States of America “accountable” at all times.

Respectfully,

ARNOLD SHERR

Cc: Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi

Fax: 202.225.4188