October 3, 2007 at 19:58:10
A Spell from San Francisco: Impeach. Reason: Treason

by Elizabeth Ferrari    Page 1 of 1 page(s)

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"I may be wrong but it's likely that the impeachment demonstration we held in San Francisco on September 15 was the largest one outside of D.C. My friend, an entrepreneur with a laptop, a cell phone and a credit card, got us all together again to spell out "Impeach" with our bodies and filmed it against the backdrop of the San Francisco Bay and the Golden Gate Bridge. This is our third outing. About a thousand of my neighbors are now the June Taylor Dancers of protest here in Nancy Pelosi's district. There was no ugliness, no rants from an amplified stage. The cops drank coffee at the edge of Crissy Field and we all enjoyed a rare moment of no tension between the First Amendment and law enforcement in a post Patriot Act world.


The organizer hired a helicopter to film us. You haven't done San Francisco until you've lain down in a field between two strangers and are buzzed by a black helicopter. On my left was a dad with two kids under three. To my right, a woman who works for the city and just happened to be walking by. Both of us are too old to be flash mobbing but desperate times really do call for desperate measures.




And, the "liberal" media went silent. Hundreds of people, beautiful images, tourists gathering on the walkways to watch. But, shhh! Please do not spill the secret that the progressive community in Nancy Pelosi's district is being shunned. And that's not hyperbole. Code Pink was there, PDA was there, the Greens were there, Iraq Veterans Against the War, present. The World Can't Wait, Impeach Bush Cheney, civilians who've never protested anything were there. Who am I leaving out? We were all there. And we will continue to be there until these criminals exploiting the structures of our government are sad history. But, it must be a real chore for our "liberal" media to ignore us all at the same time just as it must be difficult for Nancy Pelosi to ignore the expressed needs of her district.


I understand that the Democrats see an opportunity to enlarge their majority in 2008. But I don't see how anyone in the statesmanship business can discount the lives that will be lost in the next year. It only took Bush nine months to ignore every bit of intelligence that could have prevented September 11. It's taken about five years to get about a million Iraqis killed and about five million displaced – we could divide that number by five and do the math. We still don't know how many people perished when the levees breached in NOLA, and it's been two years. We know that the White House knew the levees failed and warned no one."