Swami Beyondananda Calls for Impeachment
“It’s Time for We the People to Put the ‘Decider’ Through the Decider Mill”
As a devout FUNdamentalist (accent on “fun”) dedicated to bringing about Nonjudgment Day, I try to avoid judging and blame. In fact, I think people who judge are terrible, and those who blame are the cause of all the world’s problems. And as a Swami — even a fake one — I feel obliged to be above politics. But no matter how high I try to rise above it on my magic carpet, the smell is unavoidable. The perpetrations of this Administration stink to high heaven.
Now we know the whole idea of impeachment is tinged with partisanship, particularly in the light of the Bill Clinton affair. Indeed, Clinton publicly lied about a private matter and the Republicans gleefully made his privates public. But now even Republicans must face the sad truth that America has traded one lie-about for another who will lie about anything and everything. Not to excuse cheating on Hillary, but our current lie-about has been unfaithful to the Constitution and the rule of law. Bush and Cheney have been cheating on all of us. (And yes, both must be impeached. If we want justice to be done, we have to go right up the Cheney-of-command.)
In addition to producing and directing The Iraqi Horror Picture Show — and using G-rated trailers to hide X-rated content — the Bush-Cheney Administration has instituted a disturbing policy of “ethic cleansing.” This cleansing of ethical people from positions of power not only has caused our entire moral compass to go south, but has allowed “psychopathogens” (opportunistic organisms with a poisonality disorder) to infect the body politic, and the political discourse. Meanwhile, the “fear-gnomes” — little gnomes of gnawing fear — the Administration injected into the mainstream lowered our resistance to Mad Cowboy Disease, an affliction we’re still suffering from.
But, as the saying goes, the truth shall upset you free. George Bush has been an enlightening rod to enlighten and awaken a slumbering body politic to an issue that is bigger than politics — the rule of law vs. the overrule of law. …
There’s new life in the accountability movement! The People v Bush: One Lawyer’s Campaign to Bring the President to Justice and the National Grassroots Movement She Encounters Along the Way (Chelsea Green) has just been published. Author Charlotte Dennett will be in Cambridge January 20 at the Harvard Bookstore at 7 pm to discuss it and the following day, January 21, at 7 p.m. in New York City at the 92nd St Y. Vincent Bulgiosi is flying all the way from the west coast and will join Naomi Wolf in helping her launch the book on the 21st.