Education is goal of group pushing for president's impeachment


By John Waters Jr.
FOR THE STAR
Thursday, June 14, 2007 12:20 AM PDT

Inspired by speakers at a Healdsburg impeachment forum early this year, a group of Calistogans have formed the Calistoga Truth and Justice Coalition, hoping to raise awareness of the alleged abuses of the current White House administration — and possibly make a case for the president's impeachment.

"We were inspired by the speakers — especially Elizabeth de la Vega — at that event," said Nick Triglia. "We left with a feeling that maybe we could do something to get the community enthused about the erosion of liberties that has taken place in our country."

Triglia, along with local poet Kirk Fierensen, and Ernesto and Suzy Marron — all coalition charter members — urged author and former federal prosecutor Elizabeth de la Vega to state her case against the present Bush administration to the public in the Napa Valley.

Vega will speak at 7 p.m. Monday at the Community Presbyterian Church, Washington and Third streets in Calistoga.

In her best-selling book, the "United States v. George W. Bush," de la Vega brings 21 years of experience to bear on what some critics have called "the most important case of her career." The defendants are President George W. Bush, Richard Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Condoleezza Rice and Colin Powell. Their crime, she alleges, is conspiracy to defraud the United States, or, tricking the nation into war.

Numerous groups have been created to support impeachment. ImpeachBush.org Web site, for example, claims to have collected 897,673 signatures (as of June 5) on a petition to impeach Bush.
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(From the St. Helena Star)