Destroy the Herd
The next time President Bush visits the folks up in Kennebunkport, he better not drive. Leastways, not through Vermont.
President Bush may soon have a new reason to avoid left-leaning Vermont: In one town, activists want him subject to arrest for war crimes.
A group in Brattleboro is petitioning to put an item on a town meeting agenda in March that would make Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney subject to arrest and indictment if they visit the southeastern Vermont community.
“This petition is as radical as the Declaration of Independence, and it draws on that tradition in claiming a universal jurisdiction when governments fail to do what they’re supposed to do,” said Kurt Daims, 54, a retired machinist leading the drive.
As president, Bush has visited every state except Vermont.
My family and I have taken our summer vacations in Vermont for the last few years, and I can’t describe more beautiful county. Give me 75 acres, a mountain view, and high-speed internet, and I could live out my days there very happily.
Except for the Bernie Sanders lawn signs.
There be some pretty wacked-out people up there. Michelle thinks she’s got a diagnosis:
Impeachment Watch: Extreme BDS in Vermont
The state Senate in Vermont earlier this year approved an impeachment resolution. Guess there’s nothing else to worry about in the Green Mountain State.
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The impeachment mob has quite the little racket going on. Earlier this week, Daims was hyped by a Huffington Post blogger Dan DeWalt, who likened the Brattleboro movement to the founding fathers forging the Declaration of Independence. DeWalt’s bio on HuffPo says he “authored the Newfane impeachment resolution passed in 7 Vermont towns in 2006.”
HuffPo failed to disclose that Daims attempted to get the Brattleboro council to pass a measure that would:
…”for the sake of our nation and world, issue bonds and notes of $190,000 to hire two advocates who would attempt to impeach the president, and…
… that $30,000 to be awarded to Dan DeWalt of Newfane for his services….”
Bush Derangement Syndrome? Is it hereditary, or do you get it only from hanging around fat, smelly hippies?
Like my home state of Oregon, Vermont hosts a lot of outsiders who moved there from more bespoiled lands. What you get when you take a relatively underdeveloped state and populate it with refugees and castoffs is a rather large commune—a commune with voting power in the US House of Representatives and Senate. My experience with both Oregon and Vermont suggests that the locals are more interested in eking out a living than engaging in radical politics, but that the renegade losers from California, New York—wherever—bring their harebrained and embarrassing socialist views with them. Along with fleas.