VT Cong Candidate Calls for Arrest of Bush & Cheney by U.S. Military

[Demeter]

Original Content at http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_dennis_m_060920_vt_cong_candidate_ca.htm




By 2LT Morrisseau
West pawlet, VT 9/20/06
[phone]

Former Army Lieutenant and a candidate for Congress in VT, Dennis Morrisseau
of W. Pawlet, today called for the arrest of President Bush and Vice President
Cheney by the American military "if necessary" to prevent an unauthorized attack
upon the nation of Iran.

"American forces are apparently already active inside Iran, and Naval forces have
received orders to deploy to that country," Morrisseau said. "The President has
NO AUTHORITY to attack the nation of Iran whatsoever, in the absence of a full,
formal Declaration of War on Iran by the sitting Congress," Morrisseau said. He
said any order for an attack upon Iran or to deploy naval forces to its coastal waters
is illegal, and called upon officers of the American military to "First, refuse to obey
such an order. If the president persists and insists on ordering our forces into combat
in or over Iran without a formal Declaration of War, then I call upon you, General Pace,
as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, and upon such other military officers as clearly see
their duty in these circumstances to detain both the President and Vice President,
until such time as the Congress shall act."


Morrisseau, a Congressional candidate who was court-martialled for opposition to the
Vietnam War in 1968, said he has written to General Pace to ask for the intervention
of the military. "In spite of my opposition to the Vietnam War and the court-martial
which we ultimately defeated, I was a good soldier who had the respect of my superior
officers throughout the ordeal. And they had mine!" Morrisseau said. "There are many
many, very, very decent people in the active duty military. I know this," he said "---
people who love their country and democracy too, and hate war."

Morrisseau wrote that "Iran is no present threat to us or anyone. Their right to enrich
uranium under treaties signed by us for the production of nuclear power is clear: and that
is all they have so far done. An attack upon that nation now by us, acting alone will constitute
an illegal war of aggression under international law. It is illegal under our law as well. I urge
you to so advise the President," Morrisseau wrote to Pace, "and urge that he take no such
actions. In particular, he must not act in the absense of a full, formal, responsible War Declaration
by Congress. That is the Constitutional requirement." If he and Cheney persist, Morrisseau
wrote, "than the country must rely upon you, Sir, and our armed forces generally, to resist
all illegal orders by Bush or Cheney, and take the gentlemen into custody if necessary.



Authors Website: www.2LTmorrisseau.com

Authors Bio: The Lieutenant is a candidate for Congress in Vermont running under this ballot line: Impeach Bush Now. He has called for impeachment of both Bush & Cheney. He is recruiting other "decent and able Citizens" to run for Congress with him, without regard to political party. The goal is to remove all present incumbents from Congress, again without regard to party. He call's this effort "Lieutenant Morrisseau's Rebellion".

[formercia]

1. I first read it as Viet Cong.....

my brain is imprinted....

[gademocrat7]

2. so did I.

[ET Awful]

3. Likewise

:).

[KurtNYC]

15. Even the Google ad server read it that way

I'm seeing ads about Vietnam POWs.

[NorthernSpy]

18. But what could the Viet Cong have against Bush and Cheney?

I read it as "Viet Cong" too -- and I was like, what the fuck?

Because as we all know, Bush and Cheney may have given lip-service support for America's involvement in Vietnam, but they certainly never showed up to do any of the actual fighting. So how could the Viet Cong possibly have anything against them? They've never met.

[sofa king]

28. Heh. That's what the YAF used to call us back at school.

We called them the Young American Fascists. They called us the VT Cong. We had the President of NORML drop by to give us a lecture. They had Gordon Liddy over for tea.

Go Hokie Dems!

Edit: This is as good a place as any to say it. If we have our military arrest the President and the Vice President we are asking for everyithing we're gonna deserve for having that happen. Democracies devolve into bananna republics every single year, and it starts when the military is the only authority anyone pays attention to any longer. It doesn't matter how well-intentioned the officers involved--there's an officer with equally bad intentions right next to him, with armed and loyal soldiers, waiting to take over the show. Congress provides for how our armed forces may ask, and I guarantee you they haven't provided for that.

No, we've got to do this ourselves, or risk losing everything.

[ItsTheMediaStupid]

38. We're already on the verge of losing everything

Wiretapping without warrants, roundups and detentions without due process and a madman running the country. This religious fanatic is apparently willing to use nuclear weapons against Iran and actually seems to like the idea.

Would the generals have any less regard for the Constitution than our boy George does? They certainly couldn't be any more callous and corrupt in using our military to enrich their family and friends than Bushco has been. They couldn't be any more belligerent.

Between the rigged elections and the corporatist controlled media, I sometimes wonder if it would take a coup to restore real democracy.

What we have right now is something out of 1984, with a permanent war and growing fascism.

[sofa king]

42. MIlitary dictatorship would make these guys look like saints.

Soldiers don't screw around; they view politics as war rather than the other way around and they fight to win using war, rather than politics. Donald Rumsfeld is a pussy by comparison, barely having the balls to send anthrax through the mail and not man enough to even admit that.

Just wait until a military dictatorship starts doing its convincing with the bullet-to-the-head method, killing off their opposition: politicians, intellectuals, dissenters--in other words, everyone who ever posted here at DU, including the freeper trolls. They won't wait around for fair trials. America is no different than any other nation or people; if we set up the conditions for it to happen, it will happen. Virtually every republic in history has eventually fallen to its own armed forces.

Even if the coup was pulled off by the second coming of George Washington, Smedley Butler, and Audie Murphy and they did manage to reign in the armed forces from the temptation of ultimate power on the planet, the lesson sent would still be crystal clear: it can be done. Do it once for the right reasons, and it's guaranteed to happen again for the wrong ones.

Just ask the people of Argentina, who in 1943 applauded the miltary's overthrow of a corrupt conservative government, then watched the military overthrow government after government after government after that. It might not be a military dictatorship today, but I guaran-fucking-tee you someone's working on that right now.

No way. If we want to overthrow this government we do it the right way: at the voting booth. If we can't do that because of fraud at the polls, then we win by civil disobedience and one clear and resounding message to the armed forces: stay the hell out of the way until we the people clean it up. Otherwise, it will never be we the people again.

[OwnedByFerrets]

4. As did I.....funny how the brain works. nt

[Lochloosa]

11. Here...try this one.

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Cna yuo raed tihs?

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[Tesha]

14. Wihch is why pnoihcs is a bad jkoe. (NT)

[formercia]

16. Have you tried running that through the spell-checker yet?

parse this!:evilgrin:

[Canuckistanian]

17. Taht's azamnig!

I udnertsood erevy wrod!

[3waygeek]

33. Welcome to DU, Mr. President.

[Demeter]

6. That's What the Original Source Said, Unfortunately

Just following the rules (with no space left in the window for clarifications)

[Lydia Leftcoast]

25. Me, too

It's that baby boomer conditioning. :-)

[Milspec]

26. Me too LOL

[HuffleClaw]

36. that was no mistake

gotta love the corporate media!

[teknomanzer]

44. Me too... WTF?

...

[darkism]

45. Yep. Interesting, isn't it? n/t

[texasleo]

47. ditto

Bush and Cheney would be the last people on earth they'd be pissed at.

LOL!!!1

[Mr_Jefferson_24]

5. K & R. I'd like to say Mr. Morrisseau would make a fine leader...

...in the Dem party, but I don't think he'd fit in so well, he seems to have a spine.

[cali]

7. Believe it or not

Dennis is a republican. He's also not a factor in this race.

[acmavm]

9. Dem or repub, he's a man who understands how the

government of this country is supposed to function. He also understands what is in the best interests of the United States in regard to the plans junior and Deadeye have cooked up for Iran.

I say the sooner they're behind bars, the better. Maybe we can try out some of those practices (that aren't torture don't ya know) that they're pushing for on them.

[Ian David]

8. I think his goal to "remove all present incumbents... " goes too far

If there is a legal basis to do it, then I agree with his idea to have the military arrest Bush.

I wouldn't advocate the arrest of Bush by the military outside of legal authority to do so, because that would be Sedition.

[Vidar]

10. Not a bad idea.

[texpatriot2004]

12. Excellent Idea Sir. Please let someone hear him and do it! nm

[leesa]

13. Good for him. It is high time someone said what needs to be said.

If the Congress refuses to do its job, then the military, who have sworn to uphold the constitution, must do theirs.

[The2ndWheel]

19. Yeah, let's do that

We don't have enough problems.

[Demeter]

20. Aesop's Fable--Who Will Bell the Cat?

This little mouse would, given a bell and access.

[EarthNeedsHope]

21. Before the "Vote Indys and the Republicans will win" crowd comes over...

Vermont is a very progressive state with little chance of a Republican taking power.

[rodeodance]

22. Bolton is on the tube doing the fear mantra about IraN

[lumberjack_jeff]

23. How bad has it gotten?

Retired military officers advocate a military coup, and us lefties rejoice.

No matter how bad it gets, there's something to be said for civilian control of the military as compared to the reverse.

The problem is a lack of civilian control of elections.

[robcon]

24. I think a guy who has the military "arrest" someone,

should first take a gander at the constitution, before running for office.

[bamacrat]

27. Thought it said Viet Cong. But hes right.

There should be a massive protest, mayhem, whatever if Bitch does attack Iran.

[Name removed]

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[Stand and Fight]

30. First read this as Viet Cong... Revise please... lol... n/t

[Charlie Brown]

31. wouldn't this be a coup?

I don't know how I feel about the military running our government, even if it's just for a little while.

I'd rather remove Bush and Cheny through the legally proscribed procedure of impeachment.

[warrens]

32. Maybe waterboard them a few hundred times while waiting

For Congress to act. Just for the fun of it.

[stepnw1f]

34. Good... Stand UP GODDAMNIT! (nt)

[Ignacio Upton]

35. I would suggest voting for Welch

He's in a tight race with closest Republican Martha Rainville.

[Peace Patriot]

37. It might come to that. We are in a perilous situation, for sure.

And I thank this Vietnam vet for EVERYTHING he's done to stop illegal war, to stop the killing of innocents, back then and now, and to restore order in this country. We are seeing the impacts of Bushite electronic voting corporations "counting" all the votes with TRADE SECRET, PROPRIETARY programming code, and virtually no audit/recount controls--a deliberate, conscious plot of the biggest crooks in the Anthrax Congress, Tom Delay and Bob Ney, abetted by corporatist 'Democrats' like Christopher Dodd and Terry McAuliffe. That's what we're looking at: the Diebold Congress!

THEY are NOT a legitimate Congress. They have no right to be passing laws and rubber stamping Bush Junta crimes. This is a TERRIBLE situation! And who's to say that a military coup wouldn't be a good thing? The Bush Junta and the Diebold Congress have already ripped up the Constitution. It no longer applies. Bush can just make up the laws. And we know enough about 9/11 at the very least to charge them with gross malfeasance, if not LIHOP, and possibly MIHOP. I'll bet there are people in the military who know what happened that day, when NORAD stood down. Some may also know what the torture is REALLY for (covering Bush Cartel 9/11 money tracks, torturing and killing Afghans, Iraqis and others who had the goods on them, eliminating enemies of Cheney dirty arms deals, Manucher Ghorbanafar's and Ahmad Chalabi's and Daddy Bush's personal vendettas?). If a military coup arrested Bush and Cheney, suspended Congress and held paper ballot elections, hand-counted at the precinct level, with results posted at the precinct level before any electronics are involved, and then restored civilian control, I'd be for it. There is no entity on earth who could accomplish this good deed EXCEPT the U.S. military. And I wouldn't be surprised if they, too, have had enough. They've been crapped on, royally, by these people, in every way, including the Bushites' ripping up of the Geneva Conventions. They've been made to look incompetent and sadistic. They've seen their best people shit upon and replaced with toadies. They've seen their ill equipped soldiers exhausted with long, multiple tours of duty in an UNTENABLE civil war, CREATED by Bush's, Cheney's and Rumsfeld's ill motives in Iraq. They've seen Halliburton and Blackwater privateers make ten and twenty times the money they do, larded from the public trough. They've seen ALL good purposes and intentions and worthy projects they may have had, to help the Iraqi people, sabotaged by Bushite corruption and by utterly incompetent young Bushite NeoCon political operatives. They've seen the UCMJ--the code of honor of all American soldiers--spat upon and demeaned. They've seen Karl Rove and his dirty Republican political machine revile brave people--former soldiers, like Kerry, Cleland and Murtha--and smash their medals into the dust. They've seen our own covert agents outed, in an act of treason--and that tells them just how much their own service is worth to this crowd. They've taken too many orders from "chickenhawks"--cowardly men, greedy men, power-insatiable jerks--who have no loyalty to anything or anyone, and who are using our military for their private corporate oil war.

And if they are inspired to remove this gang of war criminals, and they do it right, I think the American people and the entire world would applaud them. And it would be no more illegal, or illegitimate or unconstitutional, than what is going on now.

[ConcernedCanuk]

39. "remove this gang of war criminals" -that's what y'all gotta do, and QUICK

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cuz I think some of y'all know,

that the world is getting pissed,

and even the poorest peasant will only take so much - -

and the USA has crossed the line,

BIG TIME

So straighten up real quick,

or prepare to go the way of all empirical nations.

as in

The Rise and FALL of the ______________ nation.

Guess who's real close to repeating History?

(doh)

[ItsTheMediaStupid]

41. I thank all vets and agree with PeacePatriot - It's already that bad

I also agree that the military has probably had a bellyfull if * by now.

[MasonJar]

40. Now there is a man after my own heart. Too bad I do not live in VT.

[texpatriot2004]

43. Kick nm

[Senator]

46. k&r