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Independent Senatorial candidate Laurie Dobson delivered a writ of indictment to Kennebunkport officials for President Bush and Vice President Cheney today.

If they come to her town, she wants town authorities to arrest them on spot for being war criminals.

From there, it will be up to the town to decide the punishment.

She said she is using her roles, both as a private citizen and as someone running for a leadership position, to get towns involved, “So they can repudiate lawlessness and fight to regain the means which will provide their best defense so that our townspeople can rest assured that they exist in a civilized society which will not fall into the hands of barbaric individuals who mistreat people.”

Town Manager Larry Mead explained to Dobson, when the document was received, that the town would have no authority to enforce such a measure. Dobson said she had legal proof that they could.

This was the first time Mead saw this document. There’s no way it will get through, he said.

“The municipality doesn’t have this authority,” Mead said after the conference. “This was an attempt by Laurie Dobson to use this as a forum to promote her candidacy and her agenda.”

Dobson hopes to get the matter on the warrant for the June town meeting, but she’s already pushing the deadline, Mead said. She can move this issue forward either by convincing the selectmen to approve it, or gather signatures on a petition which would then go before the select board.

About 15 people – both press and observers – came to Dobson’s announcement. Dobson’s campaign manager said she had a short time frame in between the idea and the event, hence why she went to the media before town officials. She will bring it before the town selectmen at an upcoming meeting, she said.

“If government acts in a criminal manner against the will of the people, the people have rights as individuals and groups to attempt to compel the government to act lawfully,” Dobson said.

Kurt Daims of Brattleboro, Vt. pitched the idea to Dobson. He is pushing a similar measure in Brattleboro, which goes before voters at town meeting Mar. 4.

Unlike Kennebunkport, Brattleboro has no direct connection to the Bush family – in fact, Vermont is the one state President Bush hasn’t visited.

Daims said he pushed the concept hoping other towns would follow.

Dobson's indictment reads, in part: “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.”

"Anyone who does not fight war crime is condoning war crime," Dobson said in her announcement.