Brattleboro residents will vote at 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 they ever step foot in Vermont....
...So far, Vermont is the only state Bush hasn't visited since he became president in 2001....
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He said he gathered nearly 500 signatures in about three weeks, and he said most people he encountered were eager to sign it. He started the petition drive about three months ago.
"Everybody I talked to wanted Bush to go," he said, noting that even members of the local police department supported the drive.
So yea, I'm actually not surprised that people want Bush 'n' Dick arrested. What I was surprised about was in one of the paragraphs of that article.
He said the idea is spreading: Activists in Louisville, Ky., are spearheading a similar drive, and he said activists were also working in Montague, Mass., a Berkshires town.
Montague is the town I grew up in. Brattleboro where this vote is taking place is not even 20 minutes away. I do read the local paper every day but this is the first I've heard of this kind of talk. I mean, I know a couple of towns in both New Hampshire and Vermont want to secede from the US but these towns have got to be literally populated by <100 people.
So, if this motion gets passed, and Bush goes into Vermont, do you really see him getting arrested? I mean, these Vermonters, they'll stick to their word and if the police won't do it you will literally have farmers going after him.
For sure, something like this won't get passed in Massachusetts, but I could see it happen in Vermont.
