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Brattleboro to vote on arresting Bush, Cheney

"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.
The Brattleboro Select Board voted 3-2 Friday to put the controversial item on the Town Meeting Day warning.
According to Town Clerk Annette Cappy, organizers of the Bush-Cheney issue gathered enough signatures, and it was up to the Select Board whether Brattleboro voters would consider the issue in March.
Cappy said residents will get to vote on the matter by paper balloting March 4.
Kurt Daims, 54, of Brattleboro, the organizer of the petition drive, said Friday the debate to get the issue on the ballot was a good one. Opposition to the vote focused on whether the town had any power to endorse the matter.
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"Everybody I talked to wanted Bush to go," he said, noting that even members of the local police department supported the drive.
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Daims had no compunction in comparing Bush and Cheney with one of the most notorious people in history."If Hitler were still alive and walked through Brattleboro, I think the local police would arrest him for war crimes," Daims said."

Notice that opposition to this didn't dispute that the fascists were guilty as charged, but was centered on whether they had jurisdiction. This is exactly what every town, city, county and state should be debating. The criminals should be frightened to death to step foot outside of their Washington bubble.