Dennis Morrisseau

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Dennis Morrisseau is a former US Army officer, a retired businessman and the first Republican to run for Congress on a platform that promises to pursue the impeachment of U.S. President George W. Bush and Richard Cheney. Morrisseau ran in his home state of Vermont in the 2006 election, coming in third place with 0.5% of the vote. He was one of the founders of the Vermont's Liberty Union Party in 1970 and their first candidate for U.S. Representative that year, after narrowly losing in a Democratic primary to a Democratic party veteran who had the leadership's backing. Morrisseau had been court-martialled for opposing the Vietnam war while he was a US Army Officer in 1968 and for refusing to serve. (His small legal team defeated the court-martial which carried a penalty , had he lost, of 5 years in Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary.) Until recently a Republican, he says that he voted for John Kerry for President in 2004. Now a political independent, Morrisseau appeared on the November ballot under this descriptive "party" label: 'Impeach Bush Now'. This creates the first and only state-wide referendum in the nation on Impeachment, says Morrisseau. "Maybe this one move up in Vermont will bring him down," he said.

Contents 1 Lawsuit 2 On the Bush Administration 3 See also 4 Notes 5 External links

[edit] Lawsuit

According to New York Times editor Max Frankel Morrisseau was an underfunded Vermont congressional candidate in the 1970s who sued the local television station and the Federal Communications Commission, contending that the influence of television and the high cost of political commercials on the public airwaves had effectively established an unconstitutional means test for federal office. The case was thrown out. ^[1] "I still like the point," Morrisseau said to Frankel in 1999. "So do I." Frankel added.

[edit] On the Bush Administration

Morrisseau has issued the following statement:

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They are totalitarians. Obvious totalitarians. That is why they have to come down. The war in Iraq is not the reason. They began the war as a means to power over us. The war is first a way to silence us. Further sham elections will be an aid in that, but we have been suffering sham elections in America for some time now. (More on that later) "Rove's Dream". You can probably Google it. It’s right in the open and yet somehow unseen: The plan to take control of all three branches of government and make that control permanent. "The Architect" Bush calls him. This architect, a gay man, has designed a weird church. An Orwellian church adding the power of religious belief to government power, all in derogation of our beloved constitution, our beloved short history, real religion, our true values. Hate is love. War is peace. Stealing your lives, your sustenance, your oil, your children, your votes, your money, your minds — all in the name of "Freedom", in the name of "Democracy". That’s what we’re going to impeach them for. These men and Ms. Rice are not Republicans. They are also certainly not conservatives. Nor Americans. I mean that. I hate to say it, because of the history of the phrase: they are un-American — in clear violation of their oaths of office to "preserve and protect the Constitution". Read the oaths. Read the Constitution. You can do all that in half an hour. Take the time. These men and Ms. Rice are not hidden. Right in front of our noses they are condoning torture and a war of conquest. What are the permanent Iraq bases for? In court and in public, this group is claiming that The President's War Powers trump all other US and international law — that Bush's "inherent powers" as commander-in-chief to manage the war, mean that he can ignore court orders, written law, the Congress, and can override the Constitution itself, at will. That is why we must impeach them. And, by the way, I am a Republican. Running for Congress now, for '06, up in Vermont. Will YOU run in your state? I’ll help You. Visit my website for openers.

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[edit] See also

• Movement to impeach George W. Bush
• Vermont United States House of Representatives election, 2006
• United States House elections, 2006

[edit] Notes

[edit] External links

• Morrisseau's website
• HOW TO TAKE POWER by Dennis Morrisseau
• "Cleaning house at the CIA after the election" Letter to the editor of the Manchester Journal by Morrisseau
• "Saddam knows..." Letter to the editor of the Caledonian Record by Morrisseau
• "GOP candidate calls for impeachment" Burlington Rutland Herald article
• Editorial which quotes Morrisseau press release
• Posting on iburlington.com
• Daily Kos posting
• Google News search
• "Rumors of Our Death Were Greatly Exaggerated in 1978" an article on the Liberty Union Party.
• "The Power of Money in America Has a Stranglehold on Democracy" by William Pfaff in International Herald Tribune