Stay at home Dad Kurt Daims must spend a lot of time hitting DailyKos. How else do you explain a 54 year old “man” creating petition to have George Bush and Dick Cheney arrested which includes dubious and debunked facts that sound more like a leftarded rant by a bong smoking conspiracy theorist than something which would get on the ballot.
He’s not alone however, as the town of Brattleboro will in fact be voting on his measure. Apparently they’re all kooks:
BRATTLEBORO — 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.
“It is an advisory thing,” said Daims, a retired prototype machinist and stay-at-home dad of three daughters.
So far, Vermont is the only state Bush hasn’t visited since he became president in 2001.
Daims said the most grievous crime committed by Bush and Cheney was perjury — lying to Congress and U.S. citizens about the basis of a war in Iraq.
He said the latest count showed a total of 600,000 people have died in the war.
Daims also said he believed Bush and Cheney were also guilty of espionage for spying on American people and obstruction of justice, for the politically generated firings of U.S. attorneys.
Voting to put the matter on the town ballot were Chairwoman Audrey Garfield and board members Richard Garrant and Dora Boubalis.
Voting against the idea were board members Richard DeGray and Stephen Steidle.
Daims said the names submitted to the town clerk’s office were the second wave of signatures the petition drive had to collect, because he had to rewrite the wording of the petition.
He said he gathered nearly 500 signatures in about three weeks, and he said most people he encountered were eager to sign it. He started the petition drive about three months ago.
“Everybody I talked to wanted Bush to go,” he said, noting that even members of the local police department supported the drive.
“This is exactly what the charter envisioned as a citizen initiative,” Daims said. “People want to express themselves and they want to say how they feel.”
Yes, yes. How someone feels is all important. Typical boomer pablum, and of course time well spent for a father of three.
Update: JamieWearingFool has a post which includes a picture of Daims. It explains a lot. The Che like beard, red beret and black sweater all look like props from a play about beatniks. Looks like somebody’ s less a revolutionary and more a L.A.R.P.er from Clan Avakian:
This is exactly what I thought he’d look like when I first heard this story. Exactly.
Just to get your panties in a bunch:
TOP TEN SIGNS THAT YOU ARE AN UNQUESTIONING CHRISTIAN
10- You vigorously deny the existence of thousands
of gods claimed by other religions, but feel
outraged when someone denies the existence of your god.
9- You feel insulted and ‘dehumanized’ when
scientists say that people evolved from lesser life
forms, but you have no problem with the Biblical claim
that we were created from dirt.
8- You laugh at polytheists, but you have no problem
believing in a Trinity god.
7- Your face turns purple when you hear of the
‘atrocities’ attributed to Allah, but you don’t even
flinch when hearing about how God/Jehovah slaughtered
all the babies of Egypt in ‘Exodus’ and ordered the
elimination of entire ethnic groups in ‘Joshua’ —
including women, children, and animals!
6- You laugh at Hindu beliefs that deify humans, and
Greek claims about god sleeping with women, but you
have no problem believing that the Holy Spirit
impregnated Mary, who then gave birth to a man-god who
got killed, came back to life and then ascended into
the sky.
5- You are willing to spend your life looking for
little loop-holes in the scientifically established
age of the Earth (4.55 billion years), but you find
nothing wrong with believing dates recorded by
pre-historic tribesmen sitting in their tents and
guessing that the Earth is a couple of generations
old!
4- You believe that the entire population of this
planet wi th the exception of those who share your
beliefs — though excluding those in all rival
sects — will spend Eternity in an infinite Hell of
Suffering. And yet you consider your religion the
most ‘tolerant’ and ‘loving’.
3- While modern science, history, geology, biology,
and physics have failed to convince you otherwise,
some idiot rolling around on the floor, speaking in
‘tongues,’ may be all the evidence you need.
2- You define 0.01% as a “high success rate” when it
comes to answered prayers. You consider that to be
evidence that prayer works. And you think that the
remaining 99.99% FAILURE was simply the will of God.
1- You actually know a lot less than many Atheists
and Agnostics do about the Bible, Christianity, and
church history — but still call yourself a
“Christian.”
I’d be more offended if I was actually a Christian. I would take issue wit your point in #7, in that the myth of God sending plauges and the reality of modern slavery of Black Africans by Arabs, the genocide in Darfur, female genital mutilation, the Jihad against the Buddhists, etc. are vastly different. You see that right?
Anyway, again not a Christian, so try again kid.
There is now a National petition in support of the Brattleboro movement.
Bush and Cheney have done more harm to the US and it’s economy then they have against Iraq.
The economy must be piss poor indeed if you can afford to sit around your house commenting on blogs at noon and I can respond just before my afternoon nap. Oh the humanity!
While you sit there on your computer, watching your color television and carrying around 20-40 extra pounds you’re going to tell me that the last eight years have been bad for you? Really?