Reply #10: Sam Farr is my Rep!!! I'd like to think I might have had a little to do with this... [View All]

As I've called and emailed him several times, and finally last week, I sent the following letter to both his local Santa Cruz and D.C. offices:
(the first two graphs are from an email form letter, the rest, starting with "You took an oath", is mine)

Congressman Sam Farr July 7, 2007
1221 Longworth House
Office Building
Washington, DC 20515

Dear Congressman Farr:

Testimony from the Scooter Libby trial has made it perfectly clear that Libby did not act on his own in "outing" covert CIA agent Valerie Plame. Rather, he acted at the direction of his boss, Vice President Cheney, when he spoke with multiple reporters about Plame. Disclosing a CIA agent's identity -- or directing others to do so -- is a crime of treason against our nation; Vice President Cheney must be impeached and removed from office immediately.

In addition to this crime, Mr. Cheney:

- Repeatedly lied to the nation about the potential threat of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, provoking the invasion and occupation of that country, with catastrophic results for our nation;
- Continues to lie and distort intelligence regarding links between Iraq and al Qaeda; when such links simply did not exist before our invasion; and
- Continues to threaten aggression against Iran, in violation of the United Nations charter and in a manner that destabilizes the region and harms our national security.

You took an oath to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution; Impeachment, not censure, not strong statements, is the only Constitutionally prescribed remedy to the crimes of the Vice President.
Impeachment is the only remedy in the Constitution designed by our founding fathers to protect our democracy from tyranny. Even if there aren't enough votes at this point to force removal from office, the Impeachment process must begin, in order to force a Constitutional challenge to Cheney's crimes. If the Vice President's crimes are allowed to stand without the formal Constitutional challenge of Impeachment, a dangerous precedent will be set, and nothing will remain to protect our democracy from the despotism of extremists.
A poll by the American Research Group, published yesterday, show that a majority of Americans favor beginning impeachment hearings for the Vice President, and nearly a majority favor impeachment hearings for George Bush.

I urge you to find the moral, political and patriotic courage to stand up for Impeachment.

All of these actions certainly meet the constitutional threat of high crimes and misdemeanors. So I ask that you join your colleagues in co-sponsoring H. Res. 333, Articles of Impeachment Against Dick Cheney. To date, there are 14 co-sponsors; to put this in context, you should know that the Articles of Impeachment against Richard Nixon only had 25 co-sponsors when his hearings began. I look forward to your response to my letter on this most serious of topics.
Sincerely,




Sincerely, xxxxxx

When I heard this news this morning, I called his office to thank him!
inch by inch, drop by drop, this is turning into an interesting summer...