BATTLING THE IMPEACHMENT SHAM
By John F. McManus
Many Americans (though certainly not regular readers of this magazine)
would be surprised to know that there is a long list of President
Clinton's actions, other than perjury and obstruction of justice related
to the sex scandal,that could of resulted in impeachment and removal from
office.That list includes:
* Illegally soliciting and receiving campaign funds in the White House.
* Arranging for one million dollars in hush money for Webster Hubbell.
*Obstruction of justice in secreting files related to the Whitewater Land
deal.
*Taking bribes from drug dealers, labor racketeers, and other
international desperados and returning favors for the "contributions."
*Illegally acquiring FBI files containing personal information about
political opponets.
*Using the IRS and other government agencies to harass and intimidate
opponets.
*Treasonously endangering national security by arranging for for the
transfer of militarily sensitive items to China after receiving bribes
from Chinese nationals.
A COUCHED CONFESSION?
On the last and most serious of all of these matters, Mr. Clinton has in
fact admitted to crime. In her book, HIGH CRIMES and
Misdemeanors,,attorney Ann Coulter points out that MR. Clinton was asked
by reporters about campaign funds received from China and his subsequent
decisions favoring the acquisition by China of military items.He
responded: "I don't believe you can find any evidence of the fact that I
had changed government policy soley because of a contribution," There it
is in his own words: he didn't accommodate China "soley" because of the
bribes. This appears to demonstrate that he money showered on his
re-election effort by the Chinese did play a role in his decision.
So where were the supposedly hardnosed Clinton opponents when the
impeachment process began? Under the leadership of Judiciary Committee
Chairman Henry Hyde, who did Mr. Clinton the great favor of focussing
only on the Starr Report and the Lewinsky-driven muck, they ended up in a
box that could have been crafted by Bill Clinton himself. The charges
produced by the committee,even though it had the full House's green light
to examine any potential offense and even though Hyde himself knew about
Bejing's bribery and the transfer of military items to Red China, ignored
the matter and all of the other items listed above. Finally, the full
House impeached the PResident only for perjury and obstruction of justice.
Still, the perjury and obstruction charges should have been enough
to convict the President -- but for partisanship and likely fear of
reprisal. Senator Joseph Lieberman(D-CT), dubbed the Senate's "moralizer"
because of his highly publicized condemnation of the President's sexual
affair, threw principle completely out of the picture in basing his vote
to acquit on the will of the people. He stated:"We're standing in place of
the people, the voters, and we'd be irresponsible not to take them into
account. They continue to trust him."Liberman was not alone in relying on
the voice of the people, uninformed as it may be.
GOVERNMENT BY POLL.
The Founding Fathers gave us a Republic based on the rule of law, not a
Democracy subject to the whim of man that they rightly despised. But our
nation is slipping past democracy into "poll-ocracy" where decisions of
national importance are supposed to be based on a minuscule sampling of
public opinion. As Georgia Republican, Bob Barr, one of the House
Managers, incisively commented: "Polls played no part in the great and
glorious decisions, decisive decisions, that made America a nation and
kept it free and strong." He wondered aloud:"Will principles embodied in
our Constitution and our laws be reaffirmed, wrested from the pallid hands
of pollsters and pundits and the swarm of theorists surrounding these
proceedings?"
As has frequently been the case, weak Republicans were given cover
by neo-conservative figurehead William F. Buckley, who stated during a
television interview on January 8th, 1999:"If I were a consultant to the
GOP concerned exclusively with the fruits of power, I would beg the
leadership to just drop the whole thing and kick a little censure motion
and go on to things like IRAQ and Social Security."
And Pat Robertson did likewise the day after the President's
January 19th,1999 State of the Union address, a speech he should have
characterized as a Clinton Socialist Manifesto. Instead, Robertson
claimed that the President had "hit a home run" and that Republicans
"might as well dismiss this impeachment hearing and get on with something
else because it's over as far as I'am concerned."
After the acquittal vote, Senator Diane Feinstein and 36 Senate
co-signers offered a censure resolution designed in part to give Clinton
partisans the cover they may need when next facing the voters. It admitted
that "the President gave false and misleading testimony." That anyone
could agree to such a resolution,after voting against the perjury and
obstruction of justice charges, is a measure of the dominance of
Washington double speak.
The Clinton friendly New York Times stated editorially on December
16th that "the evidence presents an ironclad case that he lied, by plan
and repetitiously,while under oath in a civil suit and before a grand
jury." But those lies were not "nation-threatening." said the TIMES.
White House counsel Charles Ruff insisted that it would not "put at
risk the liberties of the people" if the President were retained in
office. He and many others in positions of authority and influence,
evidently believe that undermining the entire judicial system by
sanctioning presidential lying under oath doesn't jeopardize "the
liberties of the people."
OPPORTUNITY IN DISGUISE
But the way the curtain came down on this first impeachment of an elected
President may backfire for the President and his partisans. It gave
evidence of the depth of the depravity that has gripped our government.
Watch for the public to be far more receptive to the information contained
in the "Chinagate" special issue of THE NEW AMERICAN.If this hugely
deficient impeachment charade taught us anything, it instructed us that
our nation is in grave danger, and it's time for millions of Americans to
get involved in the process of rescuing it from its internal enemies.
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