A Brief Broadside

The 9th and 10th Amendments to the U. S. Constitution legally underwrite the non-violent people's revolution to come:

Amendment IX

The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.

Amendment X

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.

The people have rights and powers vested in them by this country's founding charter that must be exercised!

The Bush Administration has perpetrated criminal acts domestically and internationally. In accordance with the rights and powers vested in the people of the United States under Amendments 9 and 10 to the present U. S. Constitution, the Bush Administration may be declared a rogue regime. The largely ceremonial Congress that was elected to correct the Bush Administration's criminality has proved complicit in the Administration's crimes and it, too, may therefore be declared as having placed itself outside the bounds of law and legitimacy.

I call upon the people of this great nation to begin to engage in acts of civil disobedience and to demand the arrest and trial of George W. Bush, Richard Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Condoleeza Rice, and Colin Powell to answer for the high crimes and misdemeanors they have committed against the people of the United States, its laws and founding charter, and against the people of the sovereign nations of Iraq and Afghanistan, and against the people of Palestine.

Why standest thou afar off, O Lord? why hidest thou thyself in times of trouble? The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined... Psalm 10: 1-2.

The rest of this Psalm is equally appropriate to our present predicament. I call upon every religious organization across this land to have Psalm 10 recited aloud at special services to be held this weekend and to preach sermons relating the words of this psalm to the criminality of the Bush Administration. I call upon every religious institution to publicly and explicitly condemn the continuing criminality of the United States government and to join with people of good will in all the States to call for a constitutional convention for the purposes of drafting a new charter that will bestow upon the people of this great nation a modern multi-party parliamentary democracy.

Let a non-violent people's revolution interrupt politics as usual:

God judgeth the righteous, and God is angry with the Wicked every day...Behold, he travaileth with iniquity and hath conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood. He made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch which he made. His mischief shall return upon his own head, and his violent dealing shall come down upon his own pate. Psalm 7: 11, 14-16.

Think on that, Mr. War President, if you think at all.