[img_assist|nid=918|title=U.S. Senate candidate Laurie Dobson wants the Kennebunkport Board of Selectmen to indict President Bush|desc=|link=none|align=right|width=175|height=262]Laurie Dobson, an independent candidate for the U.S. Senate, doesn’t want President Bush or Vice President hanging around her neighborhood. If they come to Kennebunkport, she wants them arrested.

It sounds pretty outlandish at first. But Dobson has developed a plan to have them indicted in her town for war crimes. She said she’s consulted with her lawyer, and it’s legal.

Brattleboro, Vt. is doing it too.

Kennebunkport is home to a compound belonging to former President George H. W. Bush.

Dobson will file a formal writ of indictment next Tuesday at Kennebunkport Town Hall. It will go before the town’s Board of Selectmen. If they pass it, the indictment will go before voters.

“Our nation has reached a point where it is imperative for us to take action to hold this administration accountable,” Dobson said in a release. “The Constitution gives citizens the right to pursue these war criminals and bring them to justice.”

The indictment reads: “Shall the Kennebunkport Board of Selectmen instruct the Town Attorney to draft indictments against President Bush and Vice President Cheney for crimes against our Constitution, and publish said indictments for consideration by other authorities, and shall it be the law of the Town of Kennebunkport that the Kennebunkport Police, pursuant to the above-mentioned indictments, arrest and detain George W. Bush and Richard Cheney in Kennebunkport if they are not duly impeached, and prosecute or extradite them to other authorities that may reasonably contend to prosecute them.”

Dobson will file the writ at noon Tuesday, followed by a press conference.

She said she has not discussed this with town officials. Reached by phone Friday, Mathew Lanigan, chairman of the Kennebunkport Board of Selectmen, said he was not familiar with her initiative. However, after hearing the general concept, he said he would not support it.

In Brattleboro, Vt., a similar indictment is going before a town meeting March 22, CNN reports.

According to the article, the Vermont Attorney General has sued the Bush Administration over environmental issues. At the time the story was written, he has not done any research on the proposal, "But at first blush, if this passed, they'd have really uphill sledding trying to have it be legal and enforceable."

If Dobson’s plan was to come to fruition, and Bush did decide to make a visit to Kennebunkport, it wouldn’t be the first time he was arrested in Maine. In 1976 he was arrested for driving under the influence by his parents’ compound.