By Ben Broeren

“The British called impeachment ‘the most powerful weapon in the political armory, short of civil war,’” said Buzz Davis, a member of Veterans for Peace. “But I do not want civil war.”

Davis, along with David Schwartz, a UW law professor and member of the Center for Constitutional Rights, and Ben Manski, a fellow with the Liberty Tree Foundation, presented arguments for impeachment of President Bush to a crowd of nearly 120 people Wednesday at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The event was part of a national network of teach-ins organized by the center.

“Impeachment is the most patriotic thing we can do,” said Manski. “It’s a debate over executive power versus popular power. We are struggling over the soul of a nation.”

In a video, the Center for Constitutional Rights proposed four articles of impeachment: warrantless surveillance and wiretaps, using torture and denying due process to detainees at Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib, misleading Congress into the Iraq war, and violating the separation of powers.

Schwartz said impeachment would begin if the U.S. House of Representatives found the articles adequate reason to investigate the president.

Read More at The Capital Times

TAKE ACTION: This event is part of a larger organized effort: A National Teach-In. Action Kits are available to those who want to host a Teach-In.

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