Hurrah to the brave resdients of Brattleboro, Vermont, who are what I consider to be some of the last patriots left. They’re voting at a  town meeting on whether President George Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney should be indicted and arrested for war crimes, perjury or obstruction of justice if and when they come to town.

Not likely that these two corporate-backed terrorists ever will, but it shows some real community back bone and how global issues really are important to small town America, which actually can make a difference. Now, there are some (such as the newspaper’s editorial board referred to in this link) who say American communities have no place in taking positions on where their nation is headed.

That, of course, is an incredibly un-American stance to take and carries the trait of parochial finger-wagging that plagues so much of corporate media. The volks in Vermont are now getting a taste of it as well.

The template has been set for other communities to replicate. It’s now up to everyone else to decide whether they want to be lumped with the tide of complacent goose-stepping cowards while the death toll in Iraq tops one million, or whether they want to join the rebellion launched last week in Brattleboro.

The Brattleboro Selectboard approved the measure last Friday. Voters vote on the  resolution in  March. Here it is:

Shall the Selectboard instruct the Town Attorney to draft indictments against President Bush and Vice President Cheney for crimes against our Constitution, and publish said indictments for consideration by other authorities and shall it be the law of the Town of Brattleboro that the Brattleboro Police, pursuant to the above-mentioned indictments, arrest and detain George Bush and Richard Cheney in Brattleboro if they are not duly impeached, and prosecute or extradite them to other authorities that may reasonably contend to prosecute them?

As an absentee voter still registered in Thurston County in Olympia, WA, I’d love to see a version of this text on my next mail-in ballot.

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