Support Impanelment of a Presidential Grand Jury Probe in New Mexico

To:  District Court for the County of Lincoln, New Mexico

DECLARATION: We, the undersigned People, hereby declare our support for the proposed impaneling of a county grand jury in Lincoln County, New Mexico, for the purpose of investigating, and reporting upon, the alleged criminality of U. S. President George Walker Bush and Vice President Richard B. Cheney.

BACKGROUND: A citizens task force in Lincoln County, N. M., is seeking to emulate the Muskogee, Oklahoma's petition drive for impaneling a presidential grand jury probe. (See the related web sites of http://www.bushbusiness.com/impeachment%20news.htm and http://www.PetitionOnline.com/gjprobe/petition.html .)

WHEREAS, we citizens of the Universe all have a stake in the outcome of the Bush-Cheney-impeachment movement throughout the United States;

WHEREAS, we accept the impeachment-process criteria published in Congress's "Jefferson Manual for Parliamentary Procedure" (particularly that provision permitting the impeachment process to be set in motion upon issuance of charges from a grand jury; and

WHEREAS, we now join in solidarity of spirit, purpose, and procedure with those petitioners in Muskogee County, Okla., and in Lincoln County, N. M., as we affix our electronic signatures hereon in moral support of, and gratitude for, the content of the formal petition now being fielded in Lincoln County, N. M. --

-- We hereby intend that our signatures hereon encourage all interested parties to e-sign, circulate, and favorably comment upon the formal N. M. petition's text, as quoted below (thereby helping make a difference in how our nation responds to Bush-Cheney's impeachable offenses):

== TEXT OF THE FORMAL LINCOLN COUNTY, N. M., PETITION ==

IN THE 12th JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT FOR THE COUNTY OF LINCOLN, NEW MEXICO

DOCKET NUMBER: _ _ _ _ _ _ DATE OF FILING: _ _ _ _ _

CITIZENS PETITION TO IMPANEL A LINCOLN COUNTY, NEW MEXICO, GRAND JURY to inquire into and report on or return indictments for all character and grades of crime allegedly committed by George W. Bush and Richard B. Cheney while serving as President and Vice President of the United States of America. *


1. By our signatures below, we, the undersigned electors of Lincoln County, New Mexico, hereby petition this court to order the immediate impanelment/convening of a grand jury for the express purpose of investigating, and reporting upon, the events, principals, and impact of various acts of alleged criminality on the part of U. S. President George Walker Bush and U. S. Vice President Richard B. Cheney.

2. In particular, we seek the grand jury's prompt collection, analysis, and reporting of any and all evidence discoverable in the form of sworn testimony, "leaked" official documentation, and subpoenaed material as regards any criminal acts allegedly committed by Bush and Cheney during their time in public office -- said (alleged) acts to include the following:

a. Lying to the public as to their true motives for launching military attacks upon the sovereign nation of Iraq;

b. Using their offices to retaliate against one or more whistleblowers who have come forward with behind-the-scenes revelations about the lead-up to the U. S. invasion of Iraq;

c. Authorizing the U. S. National Security Agency (in concert with other agencies) to conduct warrantless surveillance of electronic communications involving U. S. citizens on American soil (including New Mexico soil).

3. These wrongful, harmful acts fall within the jurisdiction of this court by virtue of their interstate transmission, negatively affecting all New Mexicans in one degree or another. These acts, therefore, deserve the full, prompt, and careful deliberation and exposure by the sought-for People's Panel. This petition further reflects the will of the people as exemplified by recent local governments' enactment of Bush-Cheney impeachment resolutions from coast to coast -- including the one issued by the townspeople of Newfane, Vermont.

4. We hereby solicit support for this petition from various public-interest groups committed to assuring (a) openness in governmental policymaking/operations, (b) full accountability for official acts of commission/omission, and (c) sound public safety and stewardship of national resources. In this regard, at least one online petition has been launched as a collateral instrument by which the world's general public may add their electronic signatures to this formal call for action.

5. By the weight and constitutional authority of our hundreds of signatures below, we hereby seek support from all interested parties in (a) determining what laws affecting New Mexico's public safety, commerce, civil liberty, and the public trust may have been (and still are being) violated by the alleged Bush-Cheney criminality; and (b) acquiring evidentiary material critical to the grand jury's role as a court of inquiry into what that criminality portends for our current and future society.

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* Prepared, circulated, and managed by the N. M. Citizens Committee for Impanelment of a Presidential Grand Jury Probe -- temporarily headquartered at Carrizozo, N. M. (Contact: Joe G. Thornton; P. O. Box 246, Carrizozo, NM 88301; Phone: 505-648-4447; E-mail: tme@tularosa.net).

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http://www.PetitionOnline.com/nmgrand/petition.html

Sincerely,

The Undersigned

The Support Impanelment of a Presidential Grand Jury Probe in New Mexico Petition to District Court for the County of Lincoln, New Mexico was created by and written by Larry W. Bryant (overtci@cavtel.net).  This petition is hosted here at www.PetitionOnline.com as a public service. There is no endorsement of this petition, express or implied, by Artifice, Inc. or our sponsors. For technical support please use our simple Petition Help form.

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