Contact Pivotal Democratic Congressmen!

[Philip A. Bralich, Ph.D.]

Here are some email addresses of pivotal democratic congessmen
in this debate.

david.skaggs at mail.house.gov, lane.evans at mail.house.gov,
Ron.Kind at mail.house.gov, texas17 at mail.house.gov, budmail at mail.house.gov,
telljim at mail.house.gov, CongMcIntyre at mail.house.gov,

CONTACT THEM AND LET THEM KNOW THAT IMPEACHMENT IS AN OBVIOUS ASSAULT
ON THE SEPARATION OF POWERS.

For those of you who are too busy to compose I have included the letter
which I sent (partly borrowed from a friend).

Phil Bralich

The following is quoted from a friend's email, but it says exactly
what I feel needs to be said in this matter and I would like you
to have multiple copies of a nice statement of the problem rather
than forcing you and your staff to sort through a lot of variations
on this one theme.

DO NOT VOTE FOR IMPEACHMENT.  It will be very important for me and
others with whom I meet in the 2,000 election.  It is just two more
years to that election and the threat to the constitution over this
right wing abuse of power.  Any one who votes for this impeachment
must be taken as suspect and should not receive funding, votes or
support for their policies.  All the policies they support should
be looked at with a very jaundiced eye toward an agenda that would
remove the balance of power in favor of an unelected elite.

THE QUOTED STATEMENT FOLLOWS THE SIGNATURE.

Phil Bralich

Philip A. Bralich, Ph.D.
President and CEO
Ergo Linguistic Technologies
2800 Woodlawn Drive, Suite 175
Honolulu, HI 96822
(808)539-3921
(808)539-3924


>Please vote against this absurd and destructive impeachment resolution.
>If this action succeeds, IT WILL UNDERMINE THE CONSTITUTIONAL SEPARATION
>OF POWERS THE FOUNDING FATHERS PUT IN PLACE.  IT WILL WEAKEN EVERY SUCCEEDING
>PRESIDENT.
>
>The American people do not want this, as they signalled in the 1992,
>1996, and just now again in the 1998 elections, and as the polls continue
>to show.
>
>75% of Americans believe Starr completely overstepped his proper bounds.
>
>400 Distinguished Legal Scholars, and again 400 distinguished historians
>wrote open letters to Congress expressing that the current proceedings
>would do grave damage to our Constitutional process of government.
>
>The way to 'hold the president accountable' is by censure, not impeachment.
>
>[The impeachment charges are flimsy, trumped up, and not supported by the
>facts.]
>No amount of rhetoric, no amount of grandstanding by Mr Hyde or Mr Starr,
>no matter how many reams of so called evidence can obscure two facts:
>       1)  The impeachment charges are flimsy, trumped up, and
>       do not stand any legal scrutiny.
>
>       The only real charge Mr. Starr and the committee can make is that
>       Mr Clinton gave narrow and misleading answers to ambiguous questions
>       in a civil deposition unrelated to his functions in the US Government.
>
>       Even Mr Starr did not accuse the Presdent of 'perjury', a charge which
>       would be impossible to prove, given legal definitions used by the Jones
>       attorneys.
>
>       2) Even if a charge of perjury in a civil deposition were sustained,
>       there is nothing that remotely justifies an impeachment proceeding.  These
>       other articles alledging 'abuse of power' are trumped up, even laughable.
>       The only grounds for impeachment are serious abuses of power concerning
>       the executive functions of government, such as entering into illegal
>       activities.
>
>[Mr Starr has debased the Office of Independent Counsel]
>       On the other hand, it is clear that Mr. Starr has cynically abused
>and disgraced his role as the Independent Counsel and used it, not for
>impartial fact-finding but for a political witch-hunt.  In addition, he
>violated the law by 24 instances of leaking supposedly sealed grand jury
>testimony, and the OIC
>is now under investigation for this.
>
>[The Judiciary Committe has acted with partisan, criminal irresponsibility]
>       It is also clear that the Republicans on the Judiciary Committee have
>engaged in blatantly partisan tactics, completely unlike the bipartisan
>deliberations undertaken 24 years ago in Mr. Nixon's case.
>
>The Republican majority has shamelessly, cynically, engaged in a propaganda
>campaign to bring down Mr. Clinton because they dislike him and disagree
>with his policies.  But this is not the ground for an impeachment proceeding.
>
>An impeachment is not an appropriate instrument for censure. It is an
>attempt to remove from office.
>No one expects the impeachment trial to succeed in the Senate. Then why is
>it being brought? Evidently in the hopes it will force the President to
>resign.  But this also would set a very dangerous historical precedent.
>
>This Constitutional crisis is being manufactured by a right wing agenda
>for partisan, narrow and short sighted purposes.  IT WILL BEING REAL HARM
>TO THE COUNTRY, IS CRIMINALLY IRRESPONSIBLE AND MUST BE DEFEATED.
Philip A. Bralich, Ph.D.
President and CEO
Ergo Linguistic Technologies
2800 Woodlawn Drive, Suite 175
Honolulu, HI 96822

Tel: (808)539-3920
Fax: (808)539-3924
bralich at hawaii.edu
http://www.ergo-ling.com

Philip A. Bralich, President
Ergo Linguistic Technologies
2800 Woodlawn Drive, Suite 175
Honolulu, HI 96822
tel:(808)539-3920
fax:(880)539-3924