Thread: New Bill Could Make Bush President For Life

Bush Plans For A Third Term Presidency
Congress Repeals The 22nd Amendment



New Bill Could Make Bush President For Life
Prison Planet | June 14 2005

A House bill has been introduced that would change the 22nd amendment and enable George Bush to remain President for the rest of his political life. The bill would repeal limitations on a President holding office for a maximum of two terms.

An even darker scenario, Arnold Schwarzenegger is elected as President in 2008 and shorty after the 22nd amendment is abolished, making the Hitler admirer our permanent Fuhrer.

This is the modern day version of the Enabling Act, which allowed Hitler to officially declare himself dictator.

http://www.govsux.com/enable.htm

The bill, which can be found at the Library of Congress website here,

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c ... .RES.24.IH: reads as follows.
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Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to repeal the 22nd amendment to the Constitution. (Introduced in House)
HJ 24 IH
109th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. J. RES. 24
Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to repeal the 22nd amendment to the Constitution.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
February 17, 2005
Mr. HOYER (for himself, Mr. BERMAN, Mr. SENSENBRENNER, Mr. SABO, and Mr. PALLONE) introduced the following joint resolution; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

JOINT RESOLUTION

Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to repeal the 22nd amendment to the Constitution.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled (two-thirds of each House concurring therein), That the following article is proposed as an amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which shall be valid to all intents and purposes as part of the Constitution when ratified by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States within seven years after the date of its submission for ratification:
`Article --
`The twenty-second article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is repealed.'.
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The 22nd amendment as reprinted on the FindLaw website http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/data/cons ... endment22/ reads as follows.

Section 1. No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once. But this Article shall not apply to any person holding the office of President when this Article was proposed by Congress, and shall not prevent any person who may be holding the office of President, or acting as President, during the term within which this Article becomes operative from holding the office of President or acting as President during the remainder of such term.

Section 2. This Article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States within seven years from the date of its submission to the States by the Congress.

Annotations

Limitation of Presidential Terms
''By reason of the lack of a positive expression upon the subject of the tenure of the office of President, and by reason of a well-defined custom which has risen in the past that no President should have more than two terms in that office, much discussion has resulted upon this subject. Hence it is the purpose of this . . . [proposal] . . . to submit this question to the people so they, by and through the recognized processes, may express their views upon this question, and if they shall so elect, they may . . . thereby set at rest this problem.'' 1

http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/data/cons ... endment22/

Giving George W. Bush a Third Term

Submitted by davidswanson on Thu, 2006-01-26 23:28. Media
By Jozef Hand-Boniakowski, Veteran For Peace and co-editor of http://www.metaphoria.org

Recently, I dropped into my town's local Vermont country store to pick up a
couple of bottles of a diet tea beverage. I typically avoid the local
Vermont country store as it often has a tendency to elicit the worst in
vocal political discussion. My town is both provincial and conservative,
perhaps, one of the most conservative of all in Vermont. In this instance,
there were a few local townsfolk who were delivering petitions for the
upcoming Town Meeting. Town meetings take place across Vermont in early
March. They are opportunities for Vermonters to discuss the issues and
express themselves prior to voting. Most voting takes place the next day by
Australian ballot. Two of the petitions being delivered had to do with
local town elections and adding names onto the ballot. Since my position is
that those who volunteer to serve the public deserve the opportunity to do
so, I signed these petitions. The remaining petition was a petition to the
town select board to adopt a resolution that thanks the members of the
military for their service. Being a veteran, I know and understand the
intent of the petition. However, I could not sign the petition. I am
eternally grateful for those who volunteer to help make society and the
world a better place. I am grateful to the working class who build the
roads, construct the hospitals, teach children how to read, help the sick,
comfort the mournful, and uplift those in poor spirits. I am most grateful
for the peacemakers. There is a special place for them in the scheme of
things within humanity. I am not, however, grateful for the war makers and
those who make war possible, nor for those who profit from making war. A
special place for them also, exists in the scheme of things within humanity.
They will held accountable.
Needles to say, not signing the petition led to a dialogue regarding the
illegality of the Iraq war and its associated terror. Actually, I brought
this up. This was followed by my comments about George W. Bush and his
impending impeachment and trial for crimes against humanity. Outflanked,
three-to-one, my fellow Vermonters proffered that, "If he could have a third
term, I would for him again". And so, the straw broke the camel's back. To
wit I replied, "George W. Bush is a criminal who had deliberately misled a
nation to war and he will be taken up on charges and held accountable for
his crimes." From their reaction, I could tell these were not comments they
hear very often. I can only surmise that a daily mega-dosage of FOX news,
Rush Limbaugh, Mike Savage, and Bill O'Reilly has carved a fascist niche
into the psyche of otherwise decent people. The last retort that I received
was that, "Bush is our president." To which I responded, "He is not my
president". The comeback was, "The people elected him president". Did we
now? How quickly people forget? Or is it, that they make up history in
order to justify accepting and documenting their own lies and that of their
maximum leader? Al Gore received a-half million more votes than George W.
Bush in the presidential election of 2000. That election was stolen by the
Supreme Court by a plurality of just one vote. The "democratic process"
within the United States, then, was subverted as a-half million more votes
for Gore were subjugated to just one more vote for Bush. The improprieties
of the Bush administration and the Republicans in the 2004 election have
consolidated the theft of both elections in the minds of many millions of
voters. Millions in the United States, including this writer, no longer
believe that federal elections, and perhaps, all elections, can be conducted
in a fair and impartial manner. We see that elections are being bought and
stolen by those who possess the capital and power to buy and steal them.
Elections are won through lying, cheating, deceit, disinformation, character
assassination, gerrymandering, stuffing the ballot box, letting the dead
vote, and denying qualified people the right to vote. Both Democrats and
Republicans can be thusly accused, but the Bush administration and the
neo-conservatives have raised the impropriety to both a science and an
art-form. They have institutionalized deceit by incorporating it into their
business plan.
If George W. Bush could run again for president (if that were possible) and
should he have won, then in actuality he would be serving his first term as
president as the man is merely taking up residence inside the People's
(White) House. There is an impostor acting as president. Here are a few
reasons why, perhaps, my fellow townspeople believe that the pseudo-monarch
George W. Bush deserves a "third term" in the White House:
Initiating a war of aggression. John Pilger in his April 11, 2003 article
published in countercurrents.org entitled, "Crime Against Humanity" reminds
us that,
"To initiate a war of aggression," said the judges in the Nuremberg trial of
the Nazi leadership, "is not only an international crime; it is the supreme
international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains
within itself the accumulated evil of the whole." In stating this guiding
principle of international law, the judges specifically rejected German
arguments of the "necessity" for pre-emptive attacks against other
countries.
Use of Illegal banned weaponry and torture. In their May 20, 2004, open
letter to Representative John Conyers as published in counterpunch.org, Tom
Stephens and John Philo write that Bush and his cabal have,
...conspired to start an unlawful war of aggression, justified by lies. Then
they carried out their illegal conspiracy. It included unlawful killing of
thousands of Iraqi civilians, destruction of civilian infrastructure, and
use of weapons of mass destruction like cluster bombs and depleted uranium
against the civilian population of Iraq. Throughout this conspiracy, they
have implemented policies and practices for unlawful arrests, detention,
interrogation, beatings, abuse, humiliation and torture, in violation of
fundamental human rights protected by law.
Fallujah. The destruction of this city in order to save it, is the 21st
century equivalent of Guernica. I doubt my fellow townspeople will read
Saul Landau's "Fallujah, the 21st Century Guernica". Everyone should. I
doubt many in my home town know what Guernica is?
The hurricane Katrina disaster. The installation of unqualified cronies
within the administration and the Bush regime's incompetence says it all.
Destruction of Global Environment. The Bush regime is responsible for the
distortion of science and the obstruction of international efforts to stem
global warming (Citizens Tribunal, bushcommission.org). This being mid
January, the local Vermont lake is unusable for ice-fishing. It has been a
warm winter. While there may or may not be a direction connection between
global warming and this phenomenon, the Bush regime's outright disregard for
facts supporting global warming and its inaction to deal with them are
egregious.
Attacks on Global Public Health and Reproductive Rights. The Citizens
Tribunal, bushcommission.org emphasizes in "particular" the "reference to
the potentially genocidal effects of enforcing abstinence only, global gag
rule, distortion of science, and restriction of generic drugs."
Lying to the people of the United States and the world. There are too many
lies to list them all, and new ones are told daily, especially by the
Minister of Fact Reconstruction, Scott McClellan. Many of the lies are
documented at the website, http://www.bushwatch.com/bushlies.htm For me,
the lies that require nothing less than impeachment are the lies that led us
into war, and the absurdity of the staged aircraft carrier jet landing where
Bush stated, "Mission accomplished." By themselves, the Downing Street
Memo(s) are evidence enough for impeachment. The downingstreetmemo.com
website explains,
The Downing Street "Memo" is actually meeting minutes transcribed during the
British Prime Minister's meeting on July 23, 2002. Published by The Sunday
Times on May 1, 2005 it was the first hard evidence from within the UK or US
governments that exposed the truth behind how the Iraq war began.

Please write your local representatives and tell them your views on a third term in office for President Bush/Cheney.

http://www.congress.org/congressorg/iss ... ongressorg

I DON'T THINK SO.......NOT IN MY LIFETIME...........ALL I CAN SAY IS HE BETTER HURRY UP AND GET THIS PLAN OF HIS DONE WITH BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE FOR HIM TO DO IT.

It'll never happen. What amazes me is that such an amendment was even submitted.

Yes that amazes me as well MW, they are dreaming if they think they can get another term let alone lifelong presidency for this traitor to the american people. Another waste of our tax dollars for them to even debate this issue. I did send a letter to this effect to my congressman.

With our government as corrupt as they are today, nothing they do would surprise me anymore

Millions in the United States, including this writer, no longer
believe that federal elections, and perhaps, all elections, can be conducted
in a fair and impartial manner.

I absolutely agree with the above sentiments. It is amazing how politically unaware I was just a few short years ago. I mean, my gawd, I voted for Bush thinking nothing of the Bush/Gore election debacle 4 years earlier. How could I have been so utterly naive!

Like the blinded Bush supporters in the Vermont store, I too have friends, who I otherwise hold in the highest esteem, that support Bush, no matter what he does, for the simple fact that HE IS OUR PRESIDENT! It is as sad as it is sickening.

I think that the fact that it's gotten this far shows the potential of actually going through, it's just a matter of time. As it is, the politicians are ignoring us on everything else. We're already having to take matters into our own hands.

If/when this does happen, I think things will unfortunately get very ugly.

REMEMBER this the author of this bill is Steny Hoyer a DEMOCRAT from Maryland. It has been in committee for a year and a half. Don't panic yet but I do believe it is important that we let our representatives know we are aware of the shenagons.

It'll never happen. What amazes me is that such an amendment was even submitted.

NEVER SAY NEVER! Look at what has been accomplished behind closed doors bringing us to the point we are at today.

I SUGGEST writing each and every member of the judicial committee VEHEMENTLY opposing this. I suggest you submitt your letter to your local editor for publication. IT is our responsiblity to begin (if you haven't already) using all the information gathered at this site in the archives and HOUNDING the living .... out of your local newspaper and that miserable Public Television who has NO clue what is going on.


I wonder? Is Lou Dobbs aware of this. He would love to sink his teeth in something like this.

P.S. I think it is time to start lobbying our state governments to make sure there are PAPER trails for each election that occurs! IF they have to have someone notorizing statements of vote at the polls in November so be it!