Vermont activist threatens President Bush and Vice President Cheney with arrest. I swear I just got a chill.

“We’re planning to arrest, detain and extradite him,” said Kurt Daims of Brattleboro, an activist who has sought to impeach President George W. Bush and is now trying to up the ante. “There’s a fundamental question here. If Congress doesn’t do this, shouldn’t it be done anyway?”

Daims hopes to gather the 440 signatures necessary to place an article on the Town Meeting warning that would call for the Brattleboro Police Department to arrest Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney and cart them off to unspecified foreign entities.

“Shall the Selectboard instruct the Town Attorney to draft indictments against President Bush and Vice President Cheney for crimes against our Constitution, and publish said indictment for consideration by other municipalities?” Daims’ proposed article reads.

“And shall it be the law of the Town of Brattleboro that the Brattleboro Police, pursuant to the above-mentioned indictment, arrest and detain George Bush and Richard Cheney in Brattleboro and extradite them to other authorities that may reasonably contend to prosecute them.”

I simply do not understand why this is not something that most of the country would not endorse at this point.

I mean is there anybody who is not yet aware of just how many laws this administration has broken?

Starting an illegal war based on lies. Signing statements which completely gut new laws and rules. Outing a CIA agent. Secretly and illegally spying on our own citizens. The list is almost endless.

If any ONE of these would have been done by a Democratic President, the Republicans would have had him tarred and feathered. But we cannot get up the gumption to even slap George Bush's hand.

My most fervent desire is to see George Bush and Dick Cheney in a court of law being charged with treason. And in my opinion it would be an open and shut case.

And afterward I would have the biggest party that you ever saw. And you are all invited.