Beyond Impeachment: The Case for Pursuing Justice
By Syndi Holmes,
Co-founder of the Piedmont Centre for Peace, Justice and Cultural Exchange, Winston-Salem, NC
18 March 2007

Even if impeachment were politically possible, it is getting far too late into the year to begin the process. It will not occur because the now Speaker took the option off the table before this past November’s election.
The stark reality is that impeachment will not occur because there is no political will by either party to seek justice because politics has no morals, it thrives only on expediency. Hence, the 2008 Presidential race was deliberately started early as a distraction for the populace with the blessings of both parties to obscure any lingering thoughts of such an action.
Focusing our energies on a futile cause is a best case scenario for the Bush Administration because they all know this action is simply busy work that will keep their opponents occupied while they continue on with their nefarious activities. The Administration patronises us by allowing us to march on the streets of D.C. because they know we are of no threat to them. The Administration knows we are attempting to lobby an ineffectual Congress that cannot even pass a resolution to consider another resolution so what do they truly have to be concerned with?
What we, as the opposition, need to vigorously focus on developing a legal process that will bring this administration to justice as soon as they step outside the White House in January 2009. We need to be prepared to meet them at the door with arrest warrants for crimes against peace and crimes against humanity and a plane waiting to take them all to The Hague for arraignment and trial.
We need to seek every avenue for obtaining justice by developing viable legal strategies for filing law suits in every civil and/or criminal court in the country so that our words are backed up with concrete action.
We also need to hold Congress accountable in the same manner for their gross derelictions of Constitutional duty.
We, as members of the human race and as believers in the rule of law need to do this for absolution of our country’s soul for the crimes and actions we allowed to occur through our neglect of our duties as citizens. To regain our freedoms and Constitution for our children and to show the world that no one anywhere in the world is above the law we must need to commit ourselves to bringing to justice our leaders who have placed themselves outside the law by defying the rules of law and human decency.