To the barricades! Let the Revolution begin!

As our old tophatted comrade Pogo declared decades ago, "We have met the enemy, and it is us!" Let those with ears to hear listen!

The United States government and the elite ruling class minority it represents have, together, become a formidable enemy of the People. Our national government and its allied military-industrial complex have, together, become the greatest threat to peace and security the world has ever known. Today, under the mendacious, maleficent usurpation of Richard B. Cheney and George W. Bush, we have finally realized a dire state that the founders of our nation, in the 1776 Declaration of Independence, foresaw with stern resolve.

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that [all persons] are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights . . . That to secure these rights . . . Governments are instituted . . . deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed . . . whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government . . . Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes . . . But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.”

The time has come for the Cheney/Bush regime to be decisively, forcibly, forever removed from power. The United States Congress has the Constitutional authority, and now the political wherewithal, to impeach the pretenders to the Presidency and the Vice-Presidency, for the commission of many high crimes and misdemeanors against the people of our country.

Furthermore, these outlaw executives have engaged our armed forces, and clandestine operatives, and armies of sociopath mercenaries in continual criminal wars of international aggression, in defiance of all applicable norms of international relations. Many more than one million human beings have been murdered, maimed, and tortured, in direct consequence of the Cheney/Bush junta’s policies and directives, for no other purpose than the corporate greed and sheer power lust of ruling class elites.

Though more than two thirds of our citizens, and majorities in Congress oppose them, the bloodthirsty White House dictators now demand the lives of tens of thousands more of our sons and daughters, to follow the hundreds of thousands who have gone before them, to be sacrificed for the idols of Mammon, on the bloody altars of this regime’s unholy wars.

The plurality of the governed no longer consents to the powers so unjustly wielded by the representatives of the miscreant junta who have seized control of our nation’s executive offices and the Pentagon. It is high time to alter the present state of executive power, to abolish the rule of the Cheney/Bush regime, to dispatch all their co-conspirators and accomplices, to rid the precincts of our Capitol of their evil and corruption.

It is our right; it is our duty, to overthrow that unjust and illegitimate government that now defies even the will of the United States Congress, in its hell-bent determination to escalate its wars in the Middle East.

The New American Revolution has begun; it is even now under way. The first sign of the confrontation between the People and the Presidency was the 2006 midterm election, in which Republican Party representatives were turned out of office in droves, and new majorities of opposition Democrats were elected, in both houses of Congress. The People’s Mandate was and is unmistakable: No more war! The People demand a complete, permanent withdrawal of U.S. forces, and their bases, from Iraq – and by logical extension, from the entire Middle East, East Africa, and Central and South Asia.

Yet Cheney and Bush scorn and despise the expressed will of the People. “I fully understand they could try to stop me,” Bush said of the new Democrat-run Congress. “But I've made my decision. And we're going forward.”

Now, Congress must make its decision, to go forward with equal resolve, to impeach Cheney and Bush, to deny the Pentagon any further funding to escalate, or even to continue to wage this war, and to expeditiously reverse the criminal regime’s military deployments, returning what remains of our occupation forces to the places they belong – at home with their families and loved ones.

The warlords of the Cheney/Bush regime have made the United States of America public enemy number one throughout the world. The time has come for the American people to declare them public enemies at home, and to decisively drive them out of the seats of executive power.