Should Obama be impeached?

You will not be surprised to know that I think he should!  In the run-up to the Zimmerman trial he made a flagrant attempt to influence the jury by making remarks to the effect that 'if he had a son he would look like Trayvon', the youth shot dead in the fracas.  Fortunately the ladies of the jury, all six of them from differing ethnicities, ignored his presidential nudge and voted 'Not Guilty'.  Even so, it is a disgrace that a president should so blatantly try to interfere with a court process.  Now we hear that the Feds, prompted by who, I wonder, are considering bringing charges against Zimmerman under Federal law.  Truly an example of the old saying 'if the left hand don't getcha then the right one will!'

Hot as he is to get Zimmerman done for murder, I can't help wondering if the president isn't culpable of the same crime given that he has ordered the execution of American citizens without trial by means of drone strikes.  And then there is his glove puppet Attorney-General, Eric Holder, who will no doubt claim that he was 'only obeying orders' when he allowed several hundred guns to be issued to Mexican cartel gangs and which resulted in the murder of an American policeman.  And he is also the man who, with approval from the White House, refused to bring charges against two black thugs who hung around outside a polling station carrying clubs.

The Great American Public seem oblivious to these crimes and misdemeanours so let's hope they never have to face the consequences.  Bearing in mind the execution of American citizens without trial perhaps they should ponder the paraphrase of this well-known line:

        First they came for the Muslims!

 

(I'm off until tomorrow evening - a night in a luxoury spa hotel courtesy of 'SoD' followed by a day in Bath plus lunch at the Priory Hotel.  I do think that when you've lived a clean and wholesome life one deserves this sort of thing, don'cha fink?)

 

Comments

[dearieme]

The decline of the standards of the USA since, roughly, the election of FDR is a wonder to behold.

[JK]

Here's you a "good" Chicago site David. I'll not be describing it of course - you being English (what's that? you're cousin to DM an' not "The" Lord Duff of Duff Arkansas? ... well ... I can't have imagined that ... I guess.

Anyways David, your Cousin Rahm Duff:

http://homicides.redeyechicago.com/date/2013/7/

(Mind - this is just 'so far' this July.)

[Furor Teutonicus]

XX Fortunately the ladies of the jury, all six of them from differing ethnicities, ignored his presidential nudge and voted 'Not Guilty'. XX

A jury has TWELVE.

THIS is a "Hung jury" (?), and should have gone for re-trial.

(Preferably in North Carolina, Alabama, or Texas, where they KNOW what to do with uppity young.... bastards, and would have let Zimmerman off with a MAJORITY vote.)

[dearieme]

It was a Florida jury, where apparently six will do. They found him not guilty, as the evidence required.

[David Duff]

Did it begin with FDR, DM? I'm not so sure, some point at Wilson, some at the earlier Roosevelt. Whatever, Obama is the worst and the most dangerous if only because the powers of government are now so huge.

FT, "calm down, dear", as DM indicates, it is an arcane detail of Florida state law that juries can be made up of only six. The fact that it was six women of differing ethnicities and that it was a unanimous verdict given after a sensible length of time gives it much more power than a split vote in, say, Alabama. Prior to the trial every 'legal eagle' outside of the Democrat party opined that there was no case to answer, indeed, even the prosecution couldn't make up its mind whether to go for Murder One, Manslaughter or Aggravated Assault.

[dearieme]

I greet with suspicion any jury less numerous than fifteen, but Florida law is what it is.

[backofanenvelope]

This illustrates one of the defects of the American system. There is no shadow President. If Cameron had intervened in a court case, as Obama did, even the current leader of the opposition would have been on his case.

[Dom]

Strictly speaking, the unofficial leade rof the Republican Party should have been on his case. But republicans are saddled with a reputation for racism, fully supported by the msm, so no, they said nothing.