Political dueling ground
As a finale to my series on the Constitution, I posted this on the old site. I think it may be of help here.
Grounds for a General Impeachment
The people are not burdened with the responsibility to specifically accuse elected or appointed officials, or branches of the federal governm?ent, when the offenses against them are of so long a duration, the culpability for them spread unevenly throughout, and of such enormity. Instead, we give grounds for a general impeachment, not being required by law to specify particular ?high crimes and misdemeanors? when individuals are not forced to Congressional trial, but all of the governm?ent and Congress are called out on having together failed to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.
The elected officials comprising the Executive and Legislative Branch, and the nine Justices of the Supreme C?ourt, having failed to delegate the powers entrusted to them in a manner consistent with the protection and defense of the Constitution, and having failed since at least 1964 to correct or mitigate the effects and consequences of the policies, decisions, and acts under their leadership, are called out in general impeachment to resign their offices in the year 2005, 2007, or 2009 for the reasons that as successors to those offices, or for their own part, among other numerous acts, they
1. Have embarked on military adventures without the consent of the people, costing tens of thousands of lives, and ruining the economy with debt, unproductive spending, and overtaxation;
2. Have rendered the laws subordinate to the profiteering and private interests of numerous parties while the standards of public health and education have steadily declined, and have even waged war overseas for the benefit of such interested parties, at the cost of citizens? lives;
3. Have depleted the power and reputation of the United States by means of its policies and conduct of international policy, compromising the people?s full exercise of diplomatic representation and putting both trade and cultural exchange at risk by exporting fear, threat, arrogance, and ignorance of other peoples in their place;
4. Have amassed an arsenal of doomsday weapons of which even a small fraction of the number can never be used without destroying civilization, and comparable to which no nation on Earth has any but the same fraction, in spite of having no nation or alliance opposed to the general policies and continuing existence of the United States able to launch attack or invasion against it; and has held the lives of the citizens and of all people in the world in fear and forfeit to the plausibility of nuclear attack for decades;
5. Have amassed stockpiles and arsenals of unknown extent and precise character which contain inhuman weapons of chemical and biological agents, likewise without an enemy, and posing a threat to world health, on the basis that such weapons might possibly be used in the future, thus presenting to the world a national character of willingness to use absolute violence against helpless populations;
6. Have undermined and corrupted the Constitution and succeeded in centralizing political and military power in itself contrary to the initial design of the United States govern?ment;
7. Have embezzled and squandered the public funds and betrayed the public trust in the mishandling and waste of tax and investment revenue, at one time permitting the theft of billions of dollars, never recovered, from the treasury, to underwrite the failed Savings and Loan system;
8. Have extended the explicit powers in the Constitution to include by preemption and c?ourt opinion the control of all rivers, ports, harbors, interstate highways, lands of indigenous peoples, and lands in the public trust confiscated without remedy, constituting a majority of open land in some States;
9. Have instituted general policies of secrecy despite the unmistakable call of the public and of the Constitution for revelation, and in some cases violating clear law requiring disclosure, and in any event cutting against the plain intent of the Constitution and its Framers to conduct an open and accessible govern?ment in form and function, thus further undermining the public trust;
10. Have mismanaged the country?s natural resources even while intruding jurisdiction over them contrary to the original intent of the Constitution, and by their environmental and economic policies and acts permitted the extensive ruin of the atmosphere, pollution of the air and water, and destruction of wildlife and their natural habitat throughout the world;
11. Have undermined the ability of the majority of citizens to obtain inexpensive and competent healthcare, including mental health treatment, in apparent collusion with pharmaceutical and medical interests, and to meet the unconscionable expenses of their military, intelligence, and secret projects and programs;
12. Have levied taxes upon the American people in an ever-increasing severity, making the value of one?s labor to the govern?ment nearly the equal of its value to himself, in sharp contradiction to the intent of the Framers that each citizen should be protected in his enjoyment of property as an aspect of his liberty;
13. Have extended administrative powers of the Executive Branch into law enforcement nationwide, into the summary collection of onerous taxes without review or remedy, and into the control generally of the national economy, education, and law enforcement, among others, violating the Constitutional directives of Separation of Powers and Rights Reserved to the States and People;
14. Have by Supreme C?ourt opinion diluted and weakened Constitutional guarantees of rights, instead of expanding the recognized scope of such rights, and aided in the violation of Separation of Powers and Rights Reserved, as above, by honoring the arbitrary and capricious expansion of the Executive War Powers; and have failed to interpose a judicial review system to avert the majority of Constitutional questions having been neglected on writs of certiorari;
15. Have encouraged and sponsored partisanship of the judiciary, and subjected candidates for the courts of the United States to the mutable demands of inconsistent politics; and
16. Have permitted the pervasive influence of corporate interests to direct the affairs of Congress and the presidency, and to participate in the drafting and execution of regulations in all departments, and in the policies and acts of govern?ment overall.
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Paul J. Lyon
, is that even though it looks like the wealthy are being hit hard on taxes, and they are, they can certainly afford to pay it and still live a comfortable life, enjoying the benefits that go with the high income and still give back to those in need, albeit through government enforced philanthropy! 
