Vermont towns vote to arrest Bush and Cheney

[Gandalf]

Voters in two Vermont towns on Tuesday approved a measure that would instruct police to arrest President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney for "crimes against our Constitution," local media reported.

The nonbinding, symbolic measure, passed in Brattleboro and Marlboro in a state known for taking liberal positions on national issues, instructs town police to "extradite them to other authorities that may reasonably contend to prosecute them."

Vermont, home to maple syrup and picture-postcard views, is known for its liberal politics.

State lawmakers have passed nonbinding resolutions to end the war in Iraq and impeach Bush and Cheney, and several towns have also passed resolutions of impeachment. None of them have caught on in Washington.

Bush has never visited the state as president, though he has spent vacations at his family compound in nearby Maine.

Roughly 12,000 people live in Brattleboro, located on the Connecticut River in the state's southeastern corner. Nearby Marlboro has a population of roughly 1,000.

I find this fascinating, even if it will go nowhere.

[Mr Bean]

It's good for a news story and a useless gesture worse yet it acts as propaganda for the far right wing in America. Better than they had done nothing of the sort. Especially since the charges are "crimes against our Constitution" had they instead been real charges like for example ordering water boarding and drawling comparisons between us executing Japanese officers who did the same thing to American servicemen. As it is they come off as extremist and a little crazy even if I agreed with them I'd have told them to simply not do it.

[NoXion]

The far right will make propaganda out of anything if they think it will suit their purposes, even if the rest of us think they're insane for doing so. I agree that it would have been better had the charges been more as you said, but I suspect there were legal reasons for that (number one being the abject spinelessness of the US "justice" system). Should they have done it? Considering that an actual arrest and trial seems very unlikely this side of Hell freezing over, I think actions like this are a way for people to register their disgust, something which should be done as a matter of record.

[Lord Zentei]

Seems more like a stunt to me, quite frankly.

But in any case, shouldn't Obama have been named too?