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Subject: RE: BS: A Declaration of Impeachment From: Amos Date: 22 Jul 06 - 06:21 PM See also this press release. A |
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Subject: RE: BS: A Declaration of Impeachment From: Amos Date: 22 Jul 06 - 06:18 PM What do you think? Email this story to a friend Printer-friendly format Tell us what you think? Write a letter to the editor More Headlines Winkie kills Tennessee handlerNurse's drug error caused teen's deathLegion on a mission to take care of its 'family' Forums Kevin Barrett: A matter of trust Drug error caused teen's death? Editorial: Jack Abramoff, Reed & Green Shortage of horse exercise space troubles fair participants Editorial: Bush and the stem cell lie Bush foes explore impeachment road 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. Sam Johnson, one of several supporters of President Bush in the audience, countered that impeachment posed a threat to the two-party system. "It is a conspiratorial action that is not helping our democracy," he said this morning. He added that he thought impeachment is unnecessary because such things as the Abu Ghraib abuses and wiretaps are being addressed. With regard to the lead up to Iraq, Johnson, who is vice president of Vote No to Cut and Run, said there are always problems weighing intelligence. John Nichols, associate editor of The Capital Times, said war is not a reason to withhold judgment. Manski told the crowd that they must take action by writing to their representatives and putting impeachment on the ballot. Davis has contacted Democrats across Wisconsin to push for local votes in November to support impeachment. The referendums will send a message to state legislators, he said. They can adopt a joint resolution requesting the U.S. Congress impeach Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney. "All it takes is one state to demand it," Davis said. (Madison, Wisconsin) |
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Subject: RE: BS: A Declaration of Impeachment From: Amos Date: 22 Jul 06 - 01:15 AM Well, do what you can DV. Every spark makes a little difference, A |
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Subject: RE: BS: A Declaration of Impeachment From: dianavan Date: 22 Jul 06 - 12:22 AM From your last post, Amos - "...there is an even greater need than there was under Nixon for millions of Americans to rise up in protest, and millions of Americans have failed to do so." I have a theory for that. We used to all be bleeding heart liberals. It was fashionable for the middle classes who had been well educated. We ached for the Jews, we ached for the Blacks, we ached for Native Americans, we ached for the Japanese Americans who were sent to internment camps, we ached for the Vietnamese. We all put down our differences and joined forces to say STOP with one loud voice. Now Blacks (African-Americans) are integrated and many have reached middle class, the Jews are aligned with the policies of the Bush administration, and the middle classes are fat and happy riding around in their SUV's, how many people are actually going to 'put themselves out' for someone else? Not many. In fact, the 'dumbing down of America' by underfunding education and feeding them a steady diet of t.v. has created a generation of people who are totally self-centered. Add to this 911, control of the media, the climate of fear and any fascist would have a cake walk. That is exactly what George Bush is doing. Don't get me wrong. Harper is doing it in Canada and Blair has done it in Britain. Millions of people do not protest because millions of people don't give a damn. |
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Subject: RE: BS: A Declaration of Impeachment From: Amos Date: 21 Jul 06 - 11:37 PM From the above link: Add Obstruction of Justice to the List Tuesday, July 18, 2006 "Well, we can now add "Obstruction on Justice" to the list of impeachable offenses. According to the AP and testimony by Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez, Bush personally blocked the Department of Justice's probe into illegal wiretapping. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said Tuesday that President Bush personally blocked Justice Department lawyers from pursuing an internal probe of the warrantless eavesdropping program that monitors Americans' international calls and e-mails when terrorism is suspected." |
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Subject: RE: BS: A Declaration of Impeachment From: Amos Date: 21 Jul 06 - 11:33 PM Most Recent Posts from the Impeach Bush Coalition A |
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Subject: RE: BS: A Declaration of Impeachment From: Amos Date: 21 Jul 06 - 09:02 PM Other thoughts on the subject from John Dean as discussed by David Swanson: John Dean, former legal counsel to Richard Nixon, is 95% recovered from a long bout of conservatism, and he doubts that many others can make the same recovery, but I don't. Dean's published two excellent books on the Bush-Cheney administration's abuses of power. The first was "Worse Than Watergate." The new one is "Conservatives Without Conscience." The title is a play on former Senator Goldwater's "The Conscience of a Conservative," and Dean originally intended to co-write it with Goldwater. In the new book, on pages 70 and 71, Dean lists in two columns the beliefs and characteristics of "Conservatives Without Conscience" and "Conservatives With Conscience". From my earliest memories, I have been disgusted by the very idea of conservatism, but - with the exception of one of the characteristics - I turn out to be a Conservative With Conscience. That is to say, a "Conservative With Conscience", as defined by Dean, turns out to be a progressive, a leftist, or even a - dare I say it? - liberal, or at least not in disagreement with those people. If I were to list the characteristics of a progressive, I would add a number of things that are not in Dean's list, but I wouldn't need to change or remove the existing items. One almost gets the impression that Dean is clinging to the idea of an unshameful, non-destructive conservatism simply out of....well, conservatism. I say "almost", because there is an area in which Dean's thinking in this book clashes drastically with my own and with that of many on the left, an area in which he is still a conservative and an authoritarian. A "Conservative With Conscience" actually turns out to be a liberal without a movement, without populism, without any faith that masses of people can do anything to improve their lives. Dean begins his book with a lengthy preface which ends with these words: "Much of what I have to report is bad news. But there is some good news, because while authoritarians have little self-awareness, a few of them, when they learn the nature of their behavior, seek to change their ways. Thus by reporting the bad and the ugly, it may do some good. At least that is my hope." Dean places his hope in actually saving members of the Bush administration from their authoritarianism, not in urging the public to force Congress to impeach them and remove them from office. Dean stresses this point again in the final pages of the book: "It was not public opinion that forced Nixon from office....Nixon resigned 'because [Nixon's] attorney had forced the disclosure of evidence so damaging that it seemed certain he would be convicted of high crimes by the Senate.'...The reason Nixon did not go to trial was not his loss of support on Capitol Hill...but rather because he lost the support of his defenders, principally on the White House staff." But the strength of the evidence disclosed does not dictate conviction in the Senate or even impeachment in the House or even the initiation of an investigation. Dean himself has noted elsewhere that Bush is the first president to have confessed to an impeachable offense (violation of FISA). You don't get much stronger evidence than a repeated public confession, but the current House and Senate are not prepared to act. Why? It's not, I would argue, because Cheney or Addington has failed to receive Dean's therapy. It's because - given the increased corruptness of our media and of our electoral system - there is an even greater need than there was under Nixon for millions of Americans to rise up in protest, and millions of Americans have failed to do so. |
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Subject: RE: BS: A Declaration of Impeachment From: Amos Date: 21 Jul 06 - 09:00 PM A brief dialogue from Slashdot: ""By denying security clearance to federal attorneys from the Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) seeking to gather evidence in the NSA illegal surveillance scandal, President Bush has effectively blocked the Justice Department's investigation into the matter of who exactly authorized the illegal actions to take place. The president is apparently able to strictly control who does and does not have security clearance to examine documents regarding the program, citing that giving more people access would endanger national security. His denial is the first of its kind in American history. To quote the article, 'Since its creation some 31 years ago, OPR has conducted many highly sensitive investigations involving Executive Branch programs and has obtained access to information classified at the highest levels,' chief lawyer H. Marshall Jarrett wrote in a memorandum released Tuesday. 'In all those years, OPR has never been prevented from initiating or pursuing an investigation.'" He sure as hell wouldn't have done that had it been an opportunity to point the finger at any of his rivals. Even if he wasn't responsible, he's now responsible for the cover up. If American voters aren't happy with his decision they can always vote him out. I'm sure by the time of the next election there'll be some other bogeyman to deal with - presumably lebenese or syrian terrorists, angry at all the US built/paid for planes and tanks pounding lebenon. If there was a vote for impeachment that the public could vote in, I would vote. But the only things I can do, is spread the word, and send a letter to my congressman. Then hope my congressman helps set up the process for impeachment. So, technically, the only way this is going to get started is if my congressman wants to discipline the president. Otherwise, everything I do and say is for naught. |
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Subject: RE: BS: A Declaration of Impeachment From: Amos Date: 21 Jul 06 - 08:01 PM Impeachment Teach-Ins Seek to Oust Bush, Sell Books By Nathan Burchfiel CNSNews.com Staff Writer July 21, 2006 (CNSNews.com) - A coalition of liberal groups this week launched a nationwide campaign to educate Americans on impeachment and encourage them to support impeaching President Bush. "Since 9/11 it has been clear that the principle enemy of democracy has been in the White House," said Bill Goodman, legal director for the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) in the group's documentary "How to Impeach a President." The group claimed that Bush should be impeached because of the warrant-less wiretapping program, alleged torture of Muslim detainees in U.S. custody, and because he "committed fraud on Congress." In order to promote the video and its goal of impeaching Bush, CCR has teamed with AfterDowningStreet.org, CODE PINK and Iraqi Americans for Peaceful Alternatives to organize "teach-ins" in at least 27 cities around the country. CCR is a civil rights advocacy group that promotes reparations for descendants of slaves and urges the government to lift the travel and commerce embargos against Cuba, among other causes listed on its website. |
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Subject: RE: BS: A Declaration of Impeachment From: Amos Date: 21 Jul 06 - 02:00 PM I'd like to see them both impeached on the same charges. They coudl blame each other. A |
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Subject: RE: BS: A Declaration of Impeachment From: GUEST,Larry K Date: 21 Jul 06 - 11:10 AM 69 messages from Amos including 21 of the last 23. Nice to have a dialog with yourself. (roses are red and violets are blue, I'm a schizophrenic and so am I) Name the 67 senators that will vote for impeachment. (dream on) If hell freezes over, folk music is played on top 40 radio, the earth stops spinning, Bobert buys an SUV, and Bush is impeached... I have two words for you PRESIDENT CHEYNEY! |
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Subject: RE: BS: A Declaration of Impeachment From: Amos Date: 20 Jul 06 - 11:49 PM Top cities (normalized) Number of searches at Google for "Impeach Bush": 1. Madison, WI, USA 2. Portland, OR, USA 3. San Francisco, CA, USA 4. Seattle, WA, USA 5. Pleasanton, CA, USA 6. Irvine, CA, USA 7. Denver, CO, USA 8. San Diego, CA, USA 9. Sacramento, CA, USA 10. Minneapolis, MN, USA |
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Subject: RE: BS: A Declaration of Impeachment From: Amos Date: 20 Jul 06 - 05:08 PM Bush foes explore impeachment road 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. From the Madison, WI, Capital Times http://www.madison.com/tct/news/index.php?ntid=91803&ntpid=4 |
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Subject: RE: BS: A Declaration of Impeachment From: Amos Date: 20 Jul 06 - 05:05 PM July 20, 2006 at 12:24:25 Wanna bring peace to the Middle East? Get the Burning Man crew on the job! by Jane Stillwater http://www.opednews.com Let's dump the Bush bureaucracy. Whether by accident or on purpose, everything they touch falls apart. In the last six years, they haven't done one single thing to make America freer, more prosperous, more moral or even more safe. That's inefficiency! Let's impeach the Bush losers and bring in a team of guys who know what they are doing -- the folks who bring us "Burning Man" every year. Every year in September, these guys turn the Nevada desert into paradise. They can turn the deserts of the Middle East into paradise too. What's their secret? They CREATE instead of DESTROY. Is this such a difficult concept to grasp that it is totally beyond the Bush bureaucracy's mentality to even imagine? Duh, yeah. America needs to learn how to use fire to create and inspire -- not just to burn stuff down and blow stuff up. There's a BIG difference between creating a powerful sculpture under the stars of the Nevada desert and setting it afire in the name of peace and creativity and art -- and what is happening in places like Gaza, Afghanistan, Lebanon and Iraq. Pouring napalm on a five-year-old in Fallugah and watching it writhe in agony before it dies miserably in front of its mother's eyes or constantly bombarding the homes of innocent civilians in Beirut with thousands of TONS of missiles and bombs or setting a young girl on fire in some Iraqi village in order to cover up that she has been brutally raped by American soldiers? There's a big difference all right. Duh, yeah. The Bush bureaucrats are destroyers. The Burning Man folks are creators. Who would you rather have running YOUR show? PS: The apartment complex where I live is in the middle of a MAJOR rehab project. Just to keep the roofs from leaking and to bring the place up to code will cost six million dollars. Imagine how much more it will cost to re-build the inestimable numbers of buildings, shops and homes in Afghanistan, Iraq, Beirut, Haifa (yes, I said Haifa. What goes around comes around) and Gaza that the Bush bureaucracy and their cronies have destroyed. It will take generations to even begin to re-do the rabid destruction they have committed in just six short years. The mind boggles. PPS: Here's a typical "conservative" radio talk show host quote: "Let's go over there and bomb 'em all to bits!" You may feel that way now, buddy, but will you still feel that way if someone retaliates and bombs YOU to bits too? I think not. Bush's indiscriminate bombing spree is not making ANY of us safe -- and especially not Israel. Nope. Hiring the Burning Man crew is the only way out of this mess. And if the Burning Man crew was put in charge of fixing our shabby sorry failed Middle East foreign policy, even the most blood-thirsty neo-con "bring it on" lunatic in America would love it! All those macho adrenolin-rush fireworks? They'd be in hog heaven -- even if no one got hurt. And the Muslims would like it too. And so would the Jews. http://jpstillwater.blogspot.com http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_jane_sti_060720_wanna_bring_peace_to.htm |
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Subject: RE: BS: A Declaration of Impeachment From: Amos Date: 19 Jul 06 - 10:32 PM John Dean has been a student of impeachment, both at one remove and up close and personal as the first of Nixon's aides to come clean back in 1972-4. Here is an interesting essay by John Dean on the present face of Conservatism and the scenario for impeachment compared to the past instances. A |
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Subject: RE: BS: A Declaration of Impeachment From: Amos Date: 19 Jul 06 - 10:06 PM Impeach the President of the United States by William M. Cross, James C. Ryan, and Joseph J. Wojcik, West Point Graduates Against the War We have pledged to help reclaim the honor of the United States of America. Accordingly, we call for the impeachment of the president of the United States, George W. Bush. Since lying in combat could needlessly cost the lives of fighting men and women, West Point graduates have been trained to live by a code of honor, that is, neither lying, cheating, nor stealing. Since the military forces of the United States are responsible to civilian authority, that is, the president of the United States, we expect that same honorable behavior from the commander-in-chief. Sadly, such has not been the case with President George W. Bush, nor with his vice president, nor with many in the civilian chain of command. Furthermore, West Point graduates have been trained to lead by example. The example set by our civilian leadership has been deplorable and immoral, casting utter discredit upon the United States of America. Our organization, West Point Graduates Against the War, has described the lies told by President Bush, his vice president, and others in his command. We have cited the numerous laws, treaties, protocols, and conventions, including the Constitution of the United States, that this administration has violated. The time has come to hold the president of the United States accountable for these high crimes and misdemeanors. We call for the impeachment of the president of the United States, George W. Bush. Clearly, he is unfit to lead. As West Point graduates, we bring a unique perspective to this issue. As we reflect upon our academy days, we remember that if a cadet was found guilty of an honor violation, there were direct consequences, that is, dismissal from the academy. Many hopes and aspirations of young potential officers were abruptly terminated by violations of the honor code, regardless of the "severity" of the lie. Yet, our President, the commander-in-chief of our armed forces, having lied to the world about our need for entry into the war in Iraq, is still not being held accountable for his deceitful behavior. Incredibly, he is still allowed to perform his duties without rebuke, indeed without any negative consequences whatsoever, to him. Meanwhile, thousands of our young people have died, tens of thousands have been grievously maimed, hundreds of thousands of Iraqis have been slaughtered, yet the president and his dishonorable ilk remain in command. The deceit of President Bush continues to place our fighting forces, and our nation, in grave peril. The president must be impeached. We know of no other action but impeachment that can remedy this dire situation. Time is of the essence. William M. Cross, USMA 1962 James C. Ryan, USMA 1962 Joseph J. Wojcik, USMA 1962 Cofounders West Point Graduates Against the War |
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Subject: RE: BS: A Declaration of Impeachment From: Amos Date: 19 Jul 06 - 05:49 PM July 19, 2006 Readers' voice section from the Charleston, WV, Gazette "Since the DEP determined the terrible slide at Coonskin Park was "an act of God," I suppose that God was at the controls of the backhoe shown in the picture accompanying the article. Considering the increase in dangerous criminals in this country, the billions spent in Iraq could be much better used for prisons and police. Crime is our No. 1 growth industry in the U.S. If you are out there and you are pro-life based on your beliefs of the Bible then consider that God said he breathes your soul into you. When you breathe your first breath you get your soul. Let's impeach Bush and Cheney. Let's have some good government. The Republicans lie about the tax cuts. The fact is the tax cuts are jackpots for the wealthy and peanuts for the peons." A |
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Subject: RE: BS: A Declaration of Impeachment From: Amos Date: 19 Jul 06 - 05:32 PM From the Contra Costa Times regarding a recent session of Berkeley's City Council: "...In another matter, the council made Berkeley the first city in the country to ask its citizens to vote on whether to impeach President Bush and Vice President Cheney by approving a ballot measure for the November election. The measure would be purely advisory, since only Congress has the power to remove a president or vice president. This is the latest in a long line of national and international issues on which Berkeley has taken an early stand. In many cases, Berkeley's position eventually became majority opinion, including desegregating the schools, opposing the Vietnam War, ending apartheid in South Africa, and mandating curb cuts for wheelchairs. The council also approved two other ballot measures. One would allow conversion of rental units to condominiums, providing sitting tenants are protected and an affordable housing mitigation fee is paid to the city. The other is an advisory measure supporting aggressive efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions...." A |
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Subject: RE: BS: A Declaration of Impeachment From: Amos Date: 19 Jul 06 - 04:27 PM From Manitoba, a review of Crospy, Stills, Nash and Young in their current "Freedom Tour" -- or should that be French Tour? "Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young shuffled onstage of the MTS Centre shortly after 7 p.m. on Friday, June 15 for the fourth show of their "Freedom of Speech '06" tour. A sold-out crowd comprised predominantly (but not exclusively) of balding quasi-hippies was clearly delighted by the performance, or, more specifically, by the presence of local favorite Neil Young — who used to live here, as we will never, ever tire of reminding ourselves. Young, ever lovable and ever snarling, fresh from being awarded the Order of Manitoba (a ceremony which unceremoniously took place in the Manitoba Moose dressing room), clearly dominated the band both physically and musically: he looked the most comfortable on the stage and the gargantuan set list, when not democratically focused on CSNY songs, was full of rollicking numbers from his recent Living with War album, including opener "Flags of Freedom" and personal favorite "After the Garden." Young's newest material was also accompanied by video screens featuring assorted Iraq-war imagery: portraits of fallen soldiers, tanks rolling into Fallujah and spoof-CNN-style graphics. For "Impeach the President" the band was backed by video (and audio) of George W. Bush saying, as he tends to do, an assortment of stupid things. Though the presentation wasn't subtle, there was a certain satisfaction to be had in witnessing the outpouring of Young's ire. In light of all this, CSNY classic "Ohio" felt genuinely relevant, though it also led some credence to the belief that without Young, CSN would be a nostalgia act and little else. ...[snip]... A |
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Subject: RE: BS: A Declaration of Impeachment From: Amos Date: 18 Jul 06 - 08:41 PM From the Brattleboro, Vermont Reformer: Impeaching a president By ANDY ROSEN, Reformer Staff Tuesday, July 18 BRATTLEBORO -- Area political organizers have scheduled an "Impeachment Teach-In" this week, hoping community education will accelerate efforts to hold President Bush accountable for his actions. The event runs from 7 to 9 p.m. Wednesday in the community room at Brattleboro Savings & Loan on Main Street. Organizer Dan DeWalt said the teach-in is designed to shed some light on the impeachment process, because there many public misconceptions about it. Impeachment, he said, is not as drastic a measure as some people think it is. It's not an immediate removal from office, but a public process to hold officials accountable. "This is a primer in one small aspect of our constitutional rights as citizens," DeWalt said of the teach-in. "There are certain things we can do to trigger a response." He said this event will be an opportunity to learn about the types of recourse available to those who feel that President Bush has broken the law. The teach-in is one of several being held around the country by the Center for Constitutional Rights, an advocacy organization. It will feature a screening of the center's film "How to Impeach a President," followed by a discussion about the process, and the center's case for impeachment. The center has outlined four separate charges against Bush. One takes issue with his authorization of a domestic surveillance program. Another accuses him of misleading Congress in advance of the war in Iraq. A third alleges that Bush violated laws against torture, and the final charge says Bush has breached the constitutional separation of powers. The discussion will be moderated by Jeffrey Taylor of Clarendon. A former U.S. Department of Justice attorney, Taylor wrote the "Rutland Resolution," adopted by that county's Democratic Committee. One focus of that resolution was the role that state legislatures can play in the impeachment process. DeWalt said if the Vermont Legislature passed an impeachment resolution, the U.S. House of Representatives would have to bring it up for discussion. Several towns in the state, including Newfane, Brattleboro, Marlboro, Dummerston, Putney and Rockingham, have called for some action against Bush. So have most of Vermont's county Democratic committees, and the statewide Democratic committee. A petition is also circulating in Westminster that calls for a town vote on impeachment. DeWalt said residents of any town can call for such a vote by gathering signatures. In many small Vermont towns, he said, less than 200 voters would have to sign on to call for a special town meeting. In a news release, the Center for Constitutional Rights calls the teach-in non-partisan. DeWalt said this event isn't about politics, it's about reining in the power of the executive branch. "Impeachment is there to deal with a government that's abusing power," DeWalt said. "This is a crisis, so in my mind, impeachment is a fairly measured response, and it's a response that's outlined in the Constitution." |
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Subject: RE: BS: A Declaration of Impeachment From: Amos Date: 18 Jul 06 - 07:12 PM From a small-town press in Rhode ISland reporting on a town meeting: "The changes in the bills were passed by the Chariho School Committee, but did not make it through any of the three town councils. Leaving some to think the Chariho Act has been violated. There were two different versions of the school budget bill, which added to the confusion. None of the bills were passed by any of the three town council's. "We have been told by our legislators that they would not approve any legislation that was not approved by all three towns," said Deborah Carney, President of Charlestown Town Council. Carney went on to say, "There is no guarantee this won't happen again. I'm not really concerned with the all-day referendum or disposal bill but the fact that the general assembly passed the bill despite protests from the town councils. Hopkinton openly protested the disposal bill and was ignored. No town got preferential treatment, we were all equally ignored." "Right now the only thing we have are the words 'in each town', if those words are left off any bill passed out of the general assembly all three towns loose their individual veto power, and there is nothing stopping them from doing that." Governor Carcieri's office said the bills were allowed to go into effect because they would still require voter approval. In other events during the meeting was the motion by 83 year old resident John V. Hardiman of Indian Trail. He spoke to the council and asked them to motion a resolution for the impeachment of President George W. Bush. The driving force behind his the motion was to scale back the war effort in Iraq and "stop killing the kids". Councilor Forrester Safford retorted, "You personally are putting young men and women in danger. Insurgents look at the propaganda."" Curious that asking folks to stop killing each other is viewed as propoganda. Hmmmmmm. A |
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Subject: RE: BS: A Declaration of Impeachment From: Amos Date: 18 Jul 06 - 07:09 PM San Francisco Rep. Nancy Pelosi is the most dangerous liberal in America, who would open U.S. borders to immigrants and terrorists, raise taxes, retreat from the war on terror, and attempt to impeach President Bush if she wins the speakership of the House of Representatives in November. That's the charge from current House Speaker Dennis Hastert in a sharply worded e-mail to Republican donors. "You can be sure that under a Pelosi-led Congress, the conservative ideals of family values and an unwavering commitment to our troops will be ignored, while the interest of San Francisco liberals and trial lawyers will be heard loud and clear by Nancy Pelosi and her liberal friends," the letter reads. The undated appeal asks for contributions from $50 to $500 in the next 48 hours to "help me make sure the Pelosi agenda doesn't become law." Republicans have used Pelosi's liberal credentials before as a way to rally conservatives, though Hastert has mostly refrained from singling out the House Democratic leader. "Let's be honest for a moment. This is a tough year for conservatives. Democrats and their friends in the media are anticipating a victory in November and unless we stop her, Nancy Pelosi will take over my chair as Speaker of the House and control Congress. I don't know about you, but that sure sounds like a nightmare scenario to me," Hastert's plea reads. A prediction: look for the GOP-controlled elements of the press to do all they can to exaggerate Pelosi's weaknesses and dramatize her flaws with vitriol and falsification to the point of demonization. Mark my words. They's gonna Dean her if they can. A. |
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Subject: RE: BS: A Declaration of Impeachment From: Amos Date: 18 Jul 06 - 07:06 PM Madison: Dump Bush, eat brats By Doug Moe MADISON MAY have dropped out of Money magazine's top 50 best small cities in which to live in America, but we are the No. 1-ranked city in the entire world when it comes to wanting to see President George W. Bush impeached. I can make this startling - well, maybe not so startling - statement after spending much of Monday playing with a new toy from the wired minds at Google. Google Trends, which you can access at google.com/trends, allows you, in Google's words, to "compare the world's interest in your favorite topics." You can enter a phrase and see how often it has been searched for on Google. Better yet, you can learn in which cities the most searches originated. On Monday, when I typed "impeach Bush" in on Google Trends, I got a list of the 10 cities where people have searched the most for that phrase. Madison ranked first, followed by Portland, Ore., San Francisco and Seattle. If you wonder, as I did, how Google knows where the searches originate, you can visit the "About Google Trends" link on the site and read the answers to nine questions about methodology and privacy issues. Unlike me, you might even understand it. On Monday I was having too much fun finding out what Madison Google users were searching for to worry about it. Madison showed up all over the place. Maybe the new city motto should be, "When in doubt, Google." |
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Subject: RE: BS: A Declaration of Impeachment From: DougR Date: 18 Jul 06 - 06:05 PM Impeachment! Has he been sneaking into the White House galley with young female interns? Damn! I missed tht story in the NY Times. DougR |
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Subject: RE: BS: A Declaration of Impeachment From: Amos Date: 18 Jul 06 - 09:50 AM From a recent speech by David Swanson, "Containing the Military Industrial Complex": ...The Secretary of the Navy came from General Dynamics, and the Deputy Secretary of State from Raytheon and Boeing – a company that Karl Rove owned $100,000 to $250,000 worth of stock in. Then there are those, like James Woolsey, who serve on advisory boards to the Bush Administration, while simultaneously profiting from the policies they advise on. The LA Times had a lengthy article a year ago yesterday on the long list of people who helped promote a war on Iraq and then set up new companies to profit from it. Bush himself has an uncle and two brothers profiting from this war. But then he had a grandfather who profited from the Nazis and worked with one of Hitler's top funders. So there is a substantial family tradition to uphold. Speaking of which, well known people connected to the Carlyle Group include not just the bin Laden family, but also James Baker, Frank Carlucci, and George Bush the First. The Carlyle Group owns an arm of the British Ministry of Defense, a former branch of the Italian military, and the company in Santa Clara, United Defense, where Bush Jr. gave a speech after waddling across a flight deck to declare mission accomplished. And then there is Cheney. As Secretary of Attack he paid Halliburton to write a report recommending shifting more work to companies like Halliburton, which got most of the work. Cheney then worked for Halliburton for 5 years and $44 million before going back to what he calls governing. But he continued to receive a salary and hold stock options. We've moved beyond the sort of war profiteering that Truman called treason. We've moved into a threat to our democracy that is exactly what Madison and Jefferson meant by high crimes and misdemeanors. There is only one thing we can decently do, and that is to impeach the criminals and remove them from office. And while it is obscene to put electoral considerations ahead of our duty to impeach, those who do so should attempt to remember that no matter how many times they're told impeachment is good for Republicans, all of the evidence points exactly the other way. .... |
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Subject: RE: BS: A Declaration of Impeachment From: Amos Date: 17 Jul 06 - 10:03 PM From "OpEd News" - a private citizen's essay: Gods Among Ordinary Men by Charles Sullivan http://www.opednews.com When a man abuses the power that was entrusted to him by the people there is clearly a void between what the people want and what they receive. Such abuse stems not only from immense hubris, but from contempt for the people and for civil law. The president, we will recall, is a man who referred to the Constitution to one of his Whitehouse aides as "...just a god-damned piece of paper." Bush and his cacophony of neo-conservative fascists clearly hold the most sacred institutions of this nation in contempt, including the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. The Bush regime's contempt for human rights and their disdain for the earth are systemic. They have resulted in a litany of abuses that would rival those of Hitler and Mussolini combined. Most of the key players cut their teeth in the Reagan regime where they perfected the dark arts. These abuses occur equally at home and abroad. Characterized by hypocrisy without bounds, they are reflected in a foreign policy that is putting the world in peril as never before. Those policies have resulted in imprisoning people indefinitely without criminal charges and without access to legal council, widespread torture, extraordinary rendition, unprovoked attacks upon sovereign nations, occupation, and unprecedented secrecy and domestic spying on law abiding citizens on a broad scale. The Bush regime operates in unprecedented secrecy under the pretense of fighting a war on terror. They are, in fact, waging a war of terror and they and their corporate pay masters are the terrorists, not Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda. Their success depends upon keeping the people and thus democracy out of the equation. Democracy, as opposed to the Plutocracy we have in America, operates in the open under the supervision of the citizenry. Democratic government is transparent, not secretive. In a democracy the people know what the government is doing and are active participants in the decision making process. Clearly that is not the kind government we have. Mr. Bush's extraordinary contempt for the law is in part the result of his Plutocratic upbringing. It is reflected in his unprecedented use of presidential signing statements which, in effect, allow him to circumvent the law and do as he pleases. Don't like a law that keeps a corporation from spewing toxic waste into a river? Just issue a signing statement and ignore it. Bush has used presidential signing statements more than 750 times since his inauguration-more than all of the other presidents combined during the 230 year history of our nation. He has yet to veto any legislation that the corporate lobbyists have put before him. Civil law is essentially a social contract that is supposed to guarantee justice to all of the people, regardless of their social position or economic status. What does it say about a president who flagrantly thumbs his nose at the law and routinely violates that social contract? If the government does not respect the law why should any citizen? Why should the government operate outside of the law while the citizens remain subject to it? If one group of people is forced to adhere to a specific code of conduct and another group is not, what will be the result? We have only to look around us for the answer. The ruling elite believe they should enact the laws which the rest of us have to obey, which gives them dominion over us. It is imperative that the citizens see to it that the government, especially the president, obeys the law; or impeach him. Perhaps that is the very definition of patriotism. If the law does not apply to everyone equally and at all times, it should not be applied to anyone at any time. If that is the case, then let us have anarchy. Bush and his cadre of neo-conservatives may think that they are above the law and that they can act with impunity and without consequences. They may think of themselves as Gods who operate above the strata of ordinary mortals, as the result of their socioeconomic privilege. That is because other people have always born the cost of their wrong doing. When a president behaves as if the law does not apply to him in essence he is expressing his contempt for the people and the rules that govern civil behavior. That is why we have the enormous gulf between rich and poor, tax cuts for the wealthy, Iraq and the whole Middle East debacle. George Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice and the entire supporting Plutocratic cast, truly believe that they are better than the rest of us. Like the spoiled brats they are, each of them became who they are because no one ever held them accountable for their actions. We are not holding them accountable now and innocent people are paying the cost. Not only should these Cretins be impeached, they should be permanently warehoused in an asylum for the criminally insane. Their visions of grandeur are getting a lot of innocent people in trouble, or killed. Other people should not be forced to incur the cost of crimes committed by their so called leaders. Make the criminals pay for their own misdeeds. Force them to take ownership of the reality they are forging. Government that is not accountable to the people is a monstrosity. Some refer to it by its more common names: dictatorship and totalitarianism. That is what we will soon have if we are not careful. Charles Sullivan is a photographer, social activist and free lance writer residing in the hinterland of West Virgina. |
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Subject: RE: BS: A Declaration of Impeachment From: Amos Date: 15 Jul 06 - 11:50 AM America's bread and circuses From staff reports Lake County Record-Bee, Lakeport CA Let's impeach the neo-cons before they do any more damage, or before Bush declares himself the Emperor of America for life ... He has already named himself the "Decider", probably because he has not yet learned to pronounce the word emperor. The "decider" remark was a joke of course, but his claims of unprecedented and unchecked executive powers are not, and are about as un-American or as anti-American as anything could ever be, because they oppose the constitutional balance of powers upon which this government and this nation are founded. There is a growing, nationwide movement to impeach Bush and Cheney; impeachment resolutions have been introduced in state legislatures in Illinois, California and Vermont so far, and resolutions supporting impeachment have been passed in the following California cities, among other cities in the nation: Santa Cruz, Arcata, San Francisco, Berkeley, Sebastopol and Fairfax. Perhaps the breaking of some domestic laws, the disregarding of the Bill of Rights and of congressional authority, the breaking of some international laws such as the Geneva Conventions, all of these things and more, which are said to warrant impeachment by people who are a lot more informed and knowledgeable than I am, could be eclipsed by a transgression which, in the myopic eye of the media, is supreme, if Bush and Cheney were to fool around outside of their marriages as did Clinton. After all, who really cares about the Constitution when a president can be dragged into a soap opera, the supreme American entertainment! (Let them have bread and circuses, as the Roman Emperor Nero said with an arrogance which sounds familiar ... ) Raphael Montoliu Lakeport |
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Subject: RE: BS: A Declaration of Impeachment From: Peace Date: 14 Jul 06 - 11:40 PM Neat site here, too. |
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Subject: RE: BS: A Declaration of Impeachment From: Amos Date: 14 Jul 06 - 11:03 PM Teach to impeach Events nationwide aim to educate public about impeachment By Kathryn Casa | Vermont Guardian Posted July 14, 2006 at http://www.vermontguardian.com/local/072006/TeachImpeach.shtml Here's an impeachment pop quiz: true or false? If impeached, a public official is removed from office. One U.S. president has been impeached. Impeachment can occur only at the federal level. The answers are: false, false, and false. Impeachment is the first of two distinct phases to remove a government official. Presidents Bill Clinton and Andrew Johnson were impeached. Impeachment can occur at the state and federal levels. Many in the United States don't know much about the impeachment process, according to organizers of a national day of impeachment teach-ins. So on Wednesday, they are seeking to change that. Impeachment teach-ins have been organized in more than 100 U.S. communities, including three in Vermont — Waitsfield, Burlington, and Brattleboro — where they are precursors to a month-end impeachment organizing effort featuring anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan. The July 19 teach-ins will feature the premiere of a short documentary, How to Impeach a President, featuring lawyers from the Center for Constitutional Rights who have developed a legal case for the impeachment of Pres. George W. Bush. The New York-based center, along with Melville House Books, has developed an impeachment how-to kit, including the video and a 144-page handbook, Articles of Impeachment Against George. W. Bush. The pamphlet details four articles of impeachment on four separate charges: warrantless surveillance, misleading Congress on the reasons for the Iraq War, violating laws against torture, and subverting the Constitution's separation of powers. "We were interested in making a book that would be like a handbook to the legal case for impeachment," said Melville House publisher Dennis Johnson. "We wanted an inexpensive handbook that the average person can buy to understand what's going on, the relevant rules and laws, and that the Constitution has a means in it to deal with exactly this kind of situation." |
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Subject: RE: BS: A Declaration of Impeachment From: Amos Date: 14 Jul 06 - 09:33 AM Website Seeks to Impeach Bush Grassroot website seeks impeachment of the President. (PRWEB) July 14, 2006 -- A new grassroots website, whose sole purpose is to impeach President George Bush, has made its debut on the internet. The website, http://www.timeforchanges.com/ , seeks to gather signatures for a petition that will be forwarded to select politicians, as well as the White House itself. who thinks that he does not have a say anymore. Now they can have their say The impetus behind this website is one Vashek Pokorny of Eatonville, Washington. "The President has overstepped his bounds", Pokorny said. "The war in Iraq is getting worse, and our personal freedoms are starting to disappear. What next – a personal crusade against Muslims throughout the world?" The website looks to gather millions of signatures in order to make its statement heard in the Capital. "There are just too many problems throughout the world," Pokorny continued. "We have the ability and capacity to change things. All we need to do is make the effort, and the obvious start would be to impeach the President." "We are engaged in a war that no one wants – least of all the Iraqis. Our personal liberties are slowly, but surely, being taken away. It seems that the only happy people are big business, especially oil companies who have posted record profits. And we all know how the Bushes made their money," Pokorny added. The website is not limited to problems in the U.S. only. People from around the world can now let their voices be heard. Anyone, from any country with political instabilities, can post their concerns on the new website. "Our website is geared to accommodate the "average Joe" who thinks that he does not have a say anymore. Now they can have their say," Pokorny added. "It's about time that politics goes back to where it belongs – with the people." http://www.timeforchanges.com/ |
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Subject: RE: BS: A Declaration of Impeachment From: Amos Date: 13 Jul 06 - 07:35 PM Santa Cruz residents could vote to impeach Bush By Shanna McCord SENTINEL STAFF WRITER SANTA CRUZ — City residents unhappy with the way President George W. Bush is leading the country may have the opportunity to vote for his impeachment in November. Such a vote, which a group of community activists is seeking to put on the Santa Cruz ballot Nov. 7, would do nothing to actually remove the president from office. Instead, supporters say it would be something more than an opinion poll that would send a message to Washington, D.C. "He's has broken so many laws, and he doesn't seem to take the laws seriously," said Sherry Conable, a member of Santa Cruz Peace Coalition, one of the local groups organizing the ballot initiative. "He's spied on American people without authorization; he's ignored the Geneva Conventions and the outting of Valerie Plame — all of these things are illegal." Conable and others are asking the City Council to put a measure on the November ballot that calls for Congress to begin an immediate investigation into alleged impeachable offenses by the president. Similar measures are already slated for ballots in Berkeley and communities in Wisconsin and Vermont. At least one Santa Cruz council member, Tim Fitzmaurice, supports the idea, and is working on a formal proposal for the council to consider at its meeting July 25. Support from four of the seven council members is required to get the initiative on the ballot. |
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Subject: RE: BS: A Declaration of Impeachment From: Amos Date: 13 Jul 06 - 03:58 PM From the Pasadena Weekly: As part of a national day of action to build support for the movement to impeach President Bush, Green Party congressional candidate Bill Paparian will host an impeachment teach-in Wednesday at the Pasadena Hilton hotel. Paparian, a former mayor of Pasadena, will be joined at the event by constitutional law attorney and past ACLU of Southern California President Stephen Rohde, Green Party state Assembly candidate Ricardo Costa and Iraq Veterans Against the War activist Chris McCray. McCray will speak of his experience in Iraq as a cavalry scout for the Army's First Infantry Division. "This imperial president has to be removed from office so we can preserve the Constitution and restore sanity to our country in both foreign and domestic affairs," said Paparian. The Pasadena event and dozens of others throughout the country are being sponsored by the Center for Constitutional Rights and Melville House Publishing, which recently published a short book laying out a case for impeachment and produced the brief documentary "How to Impeach a President," which will be screened at all events. |
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Subject: RE: BS: A Declaration of Impeachment From: Amos Date: 13 Jul 06 - 09:05 AM SANTA CRUZ — City residents unhappy with the way President George W. Bush is leading the country may have the opportunity to vote for his impeachment in November. Such a vote, which a group of community activists is seeking to put on the Santa Cruz ballot Nov. 7, would do nothing to actually remove the president from office. Instead, supporters say it would be something more than an opinion poll that would send a message to Washington, D.C. "He's has broken so many laws, and he doesn't seem to take the laws seriously," said Sherry Conable, a member of Santa Cruz Peace Coalition, one of the local groups organizing the ballot initiative. "He's spied on American people without authorization; he's ignored the Geneva Conventions and the outting of Valerie Plame — all of these things are illegal." Conable and others are asking the City Council to put a measure on the November ballot that calls for Congress to begin an immediate investigation into alleged impeachable offenses by the president. Similar measures are already slated for ballots in Berkeley and communities in Wisconsin and Vermont. At least one Santa Cruz council member, Tim Fitzmaurice, supports the idea, and is working on a formal proposal for the council to consider at its meeting July 25. Support from four of the seven council members is required to get the initiative on the ballot. "Let me count the ways," Fitzmaurice said as reasons for Bush's impeachment. "At the top of my list is the war and the errors and deceptions in the way the war was promoted. "A pre-emptive war is something I find reprehensible." Supporters predict a Bush impeachment question in the general election would be an easy win in this left-leaning city of 55,000 residents. |
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Subject: RE: BS: A Declaration of Impeachment From: Amos Date: 12 Jul 06 - 11:04 PM LINK TO LIST OF RESOLUTIONS PASSED AND INTRODUCED AROUND THE COUNTRY Here is a two-page citizen's guide to impeachment. Here is a 10-page PDF booklet called A Guide to the Impeachment of George W Bush and Richard Cheney. It includes: What Is Impeachment? / Grounds for Impeachment of Bush and Cheney / Legal Basis for city and State Impeachment Resolutions / Why Cities and States Should Pass Resolutions / Model Resolution. This guide to passing an anti-war resolution is a good model in most details for passing a pro-impeachment resolution as well. Model Impeachment Resolution for City, Town, County, or State Sample letter to city or town council. About Jefferson Manual, Rules, History, Grounds, Impeachable Offenses, and further legal precedents |
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Subject: RE: BS: A Declaration of Impeachment From: Amos Date: 12 Jul 06 - 10:43 PM Town of Fairfax Urges Congress to Impeach Bush and Cheney Submitted by davidswanson on Mon, 2006-07-10 15:50. Impeachment http://www.impeachbush.tv The Town of Fairfax California voted unanimously last night to impeach George Bush and Dick Cheney. Their resolution will be sent to representatives in Congress and to the House Judiciary Committee urging them to investigate and impeach the President and Vice President on a variety of charges. The most serious charge was for intentionally misleading Congress about the threat from Iraq as justification for war. Other charges related to the torture and illegal detention of prisoners, and the illegal wiretapping of American citizens. The resolution also tied into local issues by describing how White House actions are negatively impacting Fairfax. The town was hit heavily by floods last winter. The resolution describes how there is less money available for disaster relief, and fewer National Guard troops available for emergency aid, because of the war in Iraq. A sign of how strongly Fairfax supports impeachment is the fact that two resolutions were being worked on independently. A group of Marin County citizens had prepared a resolution and were planning to have it voted on in August after slowly building grass roots support. In the meantime, Millie Barrett of Fairfax, feeling a sense of urgency because of the ongoing war in Iraq, started her own resolution without realizing one was already in progress. She quickly collected 200 signatures and was able to get the resolution on the Town Council agenda for July. When the two groups realized that they were both working on impeachment they immediately joined forces. Millie wanted to add Dick Cheney to her original resolution because many people signing the petition had expressed concern over having Cheney replace Bush. When she learned that the other group's resolution was very similar but included Dick Cheney, she graciously agreed to use it instead of hers. At the meeting Wednesday night in Fairfax, David Glick read the text of the resolution he had prepared. Many people from the town spoke in favor of the resolution charging Bush with violating our Constitution. Two people expressed opposition to the resolution citing concern over whether it was inappropriate town business, or that it would be ineffective. Larry Bragman, Vice Mayor, said that even though the resolution is largely symbolic, it was better to do something than to do nothing. |
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Subject: RE: BS: A Declaration of Impeachment From: Amos Date: 12 Jul 06 - 08:49 PM CONGRESSMAN PAUL: LOOK AT MISDEEDS Tuesday, July 11, 2006 - FreeMarketNews.com Texas Congressman Ron Paul wants us to remember the real misdeeds of the President, and not his political party affiliation, if impeachment proceedings move forward. According to an online news site report, Paul was interviewed this weekend by Alex Jones, and laid out his views on the potential for impeachment proceedings, reportedly saying, "I'd be surprised if they win both [houses]," but predicting that if there was a 10 or 15 vote margin, "that would be a political thing - it would be payback time." He cautioned that instead of acting "under the umbrella of partisan vengeance," Congress should seriously consider impeachment, "for ceaselessly breaking the laws of the land," citing Bush's repeated violations of Constitutional protections, from wiretapping to the treatment of detainees at home (as well as Iraqis abroad). He also predicted that the underlying agenda behind the attempts to unify the U.S., Canada and Mexico into a single cooperative unit was becoming clearer each day: "I think the goal is one world government. We have not only the U.N. [but] the WTO, the IMF, the World Bank, then we have all the subsidiaries like NAFTA and hemispheric governments, highways coming in. I just hope and pray that we can wake up enough people." - ST |
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Subject: RE: BS: A Declaration of Impeachment From: robomatic Date: 12 Jul 06 - 04:12 PM C |
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Subject: RE: BS: A Declaration of Impeachment From: Amos Date: 12 Jul 06 - 02:47 PM David Swanson, writing for OpEdNews.com, says: July 12, 2006 at 09:19:38 Republican Congressman Says Bush Should Be Removed from Office by David Swanson http://www.opednews.com By David Swanson A radio show reported yesterday that Republican Texas Congressman Ron Paul said the following: "I would have trouble arguing that he's been a Constitutional President, and once you violate the Constitution and be proven to do that I think these people should be removed from office." And this: "Congress has generously ignored the Constitution while the President flaunts it, the courts have ignored it and they get in the business of legislating so there's no respect for the rule of law." And this: "When the President signs all these bills and then adds statements after saying I have no intention of following it - he's in a way signing it and vetoing - so in his mind he's vetoing a lot of bills, in our mind under the rule of law he hasn't vetoed a thing." And Paul said the United States had entered a period of "soft fascism." The report of these statements might surprise some people, especially people who rely on the corporate media for their news, but it fits with previous remarks by Congressman Paul, including these wonderful speeches recently made on the floor of the House of Representatives by Rep. Paul and Rep. Walter Jones, a Republican from North Carolina: http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/12673 The report also comes from a media outlet that has repeatedly interviewed Paul, and they've posted a link to the audio of the interview here, although you have to join the site to hear it: http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/july2006/100706impeachbush.htm Rather than do that, I phoned up Congressman Paul's communications director in Washington this morning. More than confirming this report, I wanted to ask Rep. Paul why he would declare that the President should be removed from office, yet fail to introduce an article of impeachment or even sign onto Congressman John Conyers' (D., Mich.) bill, H. Res. 635, to create a preliminary investigation. I also thought I wouldn't mind knowing why Paul used the plural: "...these people should be removed from office." Whom would he include along with Bush? Cheney? Rumsfeld? Rice? Paul did give something of an answer in the interview to why he would not act on his conviction that impeachment was merited, namely he asserted, without any evidence, that the Democrats, if they won a majority, would probably try to impeach Bush for the wrong reasons: politics and revenge. There are a couple of problems with this excuse of Paul's for his inaction: 1. Out here beyond the Beltway it's progressives who couldn't stand Clinton and have no use for defending him and spend their time these days attacking his wife who are pushing impeachment. 2. The Democrats, even if they have a majority, will have to be dragged kicking and screaming to attempt impeachment, having - as they do - significantly less in the way of spine than Congressman Paul, who is probably failing to realize entirely how timid and useless they are. 3. If a president has committed high crimes and misdemeanors - as we all know this one has - then whether some Members of Congress might support impeachment for impure reasons can in no way justify a failure to impeach. In persuading nonprofit groups to work for impeachment it is often necessary to explain to them that supporting such action by Congress is not partisan just because the President belongs to a party. Is it really necessary to explain to Congressman Paul that impeachment is not partisan just because Congress Members belong to parties? This is about defending the Constitution, and either you obey your oath to do so or you violate it." ... |
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Subject: RE: BS: A Declaration of Impeachment From: Amos Date: 12 Jul 06 - 12:59 PM Bob Nichols, who is deeply concerned witht he ramifications of uranium-laden munitions among other issues, says, among other things: "Upcoming war crimes trial The chief Nuremberg war crimes prosecutor speaks knowingly and directly across more than 50 years to resolutely instruct American citizens on exactly what our duty is today, right now: "Individuals have international duties which transcend the national obligations of obedience … therefore have the duty to violate domestic laws to prevent crimes against peace and humanity from occurring." [11] The statement was affirmed by the Nuremberg Tribunal and is now international law and, by extension, American law. It is our duty as Americans to prevent crimes against peace and humanity. The fascist administration now controlling America and the U.S. military cannot be allowed to continue these crimes. The world and international law holds us all accountable, and the price is dear. It is time to impeach and imprison members of our government for their war crimes commensurate with their degree of complicity and guilt. If the House will not impeach and the Senate will not put them on trial; then we, all 300 million Americans, have a problem. We all are citizens of this country and the world, and, as such, we must acknowledge the incontrovertible evidence of war crimes by the leaders of the American Expeditionary Forces in Iraq with the use of genocidal weapons. Bush and others crossed the line long ago when they lied to get us into the Iraq War. They continue to lie about the damage being done with uranium weapons. One of the comforts history provides us is a road map out of unthinkable situations, to a more or less tenable, workable future. The injured and maimed and families of the dead are due treatment and/or compensation, the cleanup must be initiated and whole countries rebuilt. That is the true legacy of the neocons, the new American Nazis. What people can do Every single day thousands of American military and government workers handle thousands of "sensitive" papers that "prove" the War Crimes of the American Government's senior political and military leaders. These thousands of people could, if they wanted to, create havoc in the fascist administration by providing these incriminating papers and the "smoking guns" of innumerable crimes they hold to the public: A "paper blizzard" to teach a whole new generation that what's right is right. About 40 years ago, it was thousands of pages of the "Pentagon Papers" that did the trick with the illegal Viet Nam War and President Nixon. Thousands more pages are needed now. The neocon or neolib papers like the disgraced New York Times or the conservative phantom Washington Post no longer will do the right thing. The timid NYT took almost a year to publish the proof of illegal NSA government spying on American citizens. Bush then bragged about the illegal spying on network prime time television. We do not need "timid" now. Far less than that forced Nixon to leave the president's office. Do what you think best." From this article. A |
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Subject: RE: BS: A Declaration of Impeachment From: GUEST Date: 12 Jul 06 - 09:59 AM A good description of Amos is Pious. As in: Professing or exhibiting a strict, traditional sense of virtue and morality; high-minded. |
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Subject: RE: BS: A Declaration of Impeachment From: Amos Date: 12 Jul 06 - 09:19 AM Berkeley CA ballot initiative to impeach Bush, Cheney - can voters impeach? John Gibson gets credit for effort, but he failed to shoot down guest Steve Freedkin, chairman of the Berkeley Peace and Justice Commission. on The Big Story today 6/27/06. Gibson says the Peace and Justice Commission has introduced a ballot item for Berkeley voters to call for the impeachment of Bush and Cheney, not surprising from that "hot bed of liberalism." Asked "what good" would that do, Freedkin first sets the record straight and says the ballot initiative is presented by a national organization, Constitution Summer, based primarily in law schools around the country. Their aim is to get a public conversation started so that people can start to understand the Constitution - what's in it, what are their rights, what is the balance of power, and how is this administration exceeding those. Gibson asked for a list of the particulars, but interrupted after the first one to challenge Freedkin, saying he'd take them one at a time. This tactic served two purposes: first, it prevented Freedkin from reciting the laundry list of grievances, which sounds damning when heard (read) altogether: 1) illegal domestic spying in violation of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and the 4th Amendment; 2) misleading the country into a war of aggression in Iraq based on fraudulent claims; 3) indefinite detention, extraordinary rendition, and torture; 4) abuse of executive authority and subversion of the Constitution... Michael: I don't know the answer; but as things evolve I believe someone will float to the surface. ;>) A |
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Subject: RE: BS: A Declaration of Impeachment From: michaelr Date: 12 Jul 06 - 01:28 AM Amos, maybe I didn't make my question quite clear enough. Who in Washington has the political will to seriously get behind a motion to impeach, in your opinion? It cannot be done without Congress appointing a Special Prosecutor, can it? Please try to answer the question. Cheers, Michael |
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Subject: RE: BS: A Declaration of Impeachment From: CarolC Date: 12 Jul 06 - 01:07 AM This study in particular... http://electionarchive.org/ucvAnalysis/US/Exit_Polls_2004_Edison-Mitofsky.pdf |
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Subject: RE: BS: A Declaration of Impeachment From: CarolC Date: 12 Jul 06 - 12:33 AM Here you go, Guest... http://uscountvotes.org/ Kerry shouldn't have conceded, but since the Democrats are owned by the same people as the Republicans, I'm not at all surprised that he did. |
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Subject: RE: BS: A Declaration of Impeachment From: Amos Date: 12 Jul 06 - 12:08 AM "Constitution Summer represents an emerging coalition of students and young people dedicated to defending the ideals of the Constitution and its Bill of Rights and to checking arbitrary abuses of power and authority, starting with a moderated, legitimate, mainstream, nonpartisan campaign to impeach President George W. Bush, Vice President Richard B. Cheney, and their administration. "Constitution Summer's is basing its call for the impeachment of the President and Vice President on four key crimes: 1) illegal domestic spying in violation of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and the 4th Amendment; 2) misleading the country into a war of aggression in Iraq based on fraudulent claims; 3) indefinite detention, extraordinary rendition, and torture; 4) abuse of executive authority and subversion of the Constitution. "It is the view of the members of Constitution Summer that each of these charges constitutes an impeachable offense, and that each has been substantiated to the extent that articles of impeachment can legitimately be brought. "Constitution Summer is organizing youth and students, who constitute a powerful cultural catalyst, in order to bring this issue further into the mainstream by remaining true to the following: 1) ConstitutionSummer.org will function as a central organizing and publishing tool. 2) We will attach our message to culture through music, comedy, art, and theater. 3) We will remind elected officials of their oath to uphold the Constitution through media, educational events, demonstrations, and public events. 4) Remembering that all politics is local, we will put pressure on local elected officials to represent our voice through the generation of local resolutions and referenda. 5) We will make sure that our elected officials know that we want to be safe and free, and that we will not advance freedom abroad by abandoning it at home. 6) We will remain nonpartisan, issue specific, and true to our purpose and ideals. "Constitution Summer originated at UC Berkeley, Yale Law School, Stanford Law School, Columbia Law School, Georgetown Law School, Boalt Law School, George Washington University Law School, UC Santa Cruz, UC Santa Barbara, UC San Diego, the University of Michigan, and the University of Maryland, and it continues to grow." See http://www.constitutionsummer.org/ A |
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Subject: RE: BS: A Declaration of Impeachment From: Amos Date: 12 Jul 06 - 12:05 AM Excerpts from http://zzpat.tripod.com/cvb/: Debt Created by Bush and GOP Congress as of: June 30, 2006: $2,681,846,151,710.62 July 9, 2006 An Impeachable Offense Congressman: failure to disclose the intelligence activities to Congress may be a violation of the law WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Bush administration was running several intelligence programs, including one major activity, that it kept secret from Congress until whistle-blowers told the House of Representatives Intelligence Committee, the committee's chairman said on Sunday. Rep. Pete Hoekstra, a Michigan Republican who chairs the House Intelligence Committee, said on Fox News Sunday he had written a four-page to President George W. Bush in May warning him that the failure to disclose the intelligence activities to Congress may be a violation of the law. July 7, 2006 Repeat after me: Gay soldiers are bad, Nazi's are good. Neo-Nazis infiltrating the US military "Neo-Nazi groups and other extremists are joining the military in large numbers so they can get the best training in the world on weapons, combat tactics and explosives," said Mark Potok, director of the center's Intelligence Project. July 8, 2006 US navy sonar use causes whales to beach themselves In her ruling, US District Judge Florence-Marie Cooper said there is "considerable convincing scientific evidence" that the high-intensity mid-frequency sonar, which the navy uses to detect quiet submarines, can kill and injure whales and other marine life. July 8, 2006 US marines negligent in Iraq massacre investigation WASHINGTON (AFP) - Top US Marine Corps officers in Iraq reportedly failed to properly investigate allegations that their own troops killed 24 civilians in the town of Haditha. July 7, 2006 Gallup: Almost Two-Thirds Want Iraq Withdrawal NEW YORK A new Gallup poll finds that roughly 2 in 3 Americans urge a U.S. withdrawal from Iraq, with 31% wanting this to start immediately. July 8, 2006 North Korea: Bigger threat under Bush At his news conference, Bush took pains to counter a question based on intelligence information that North Korea has expanded its nuclear weapons capability in recent years. When a reporter cited such reports. Bush declined to dispute the basis of the question, but challenged the reporter: "Can you verify that?" "We don't know -- maybe you know more than I do -- about increasing the number of nuclear weapons," Bush said. In a series of congressional hearings last year, top U.S. intelligence officials, including then-CIA Director Porter Goss, testified that North Korea's nuclear capability had increased since 2002, when intelligence assessments estimated it possessed one or two nuclear weapons. Goss in the Feb. 16, 2005, congressional appearance said: "They have a greater capability than that assessment. ... It has increased since then." July 9, 2006 Flip flopping amatures Bush offers bilateral talks with N. Korea U.S. envoy Christopher Hill was in Seoul on a tour of regional capitals to coordinate the international response to the North's test-firing of seven missiles on Wednesday. The tests caused an international outrage but also division over whether North Korea should be punished. July 8, 2006 Bush rules out bilateral talks with N Korea But he rejected conducting negotiations one-on-one, insisting that he needed China and other neighbors at the table so that North Korean leader Kim Jong Il did not make the United States appear to be the blockade to an agreement. "One thing I'm not going to let us do is get caught in the trap of sitting at the table alone with the North Koreans," Bush insisted, rejecting the criticism by Democrats who say such talks would be the only way to break the logjam. |
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Subject: RE: BS: A Declaration of Impeachment From: Amos Date: 12 Jul 06 - 12:01 AM An interesting textbook for the slow of perception. A |
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Subject: RE: BS: A Declaration of Impeachment From: Amos Date: 11 Jul 06 - 11:55 PM On Saturday night, April 29th, at the California State Democratic Convention, the hot ticket was to the Bush Impeachment Forum in the Crest Theater. The 900 seats were filled and folks were turned away at the door. The crowd was very enthusiastic and often interrupted the proceedings with cheers and standing ovations. Mike Malloy of Air America Radio was the moderator and clearly popular with the crowd. He gave some background on the history and process of impeachment and then led a forum discussion. Joye Swan from the Progressive Caucus of the Democratic Party, and one of the chief organizers of the event, spoke first. She described the reluctance of moderate democrats to take a stand on impeachment but that may be changing. [The party adopted this impeachment proclamation by unanimous consent at the convention.] Tim Goodrich from Iraq Veterans Against the War then described how he joined the US Air Force for patriotic purposes, not understanding the foreign policy behind his deployment. But he began to have doubts about Bush's leadership when he learned that the Air Force had been conducting intensive and secret bombing of Iraq since September of 2002. At the same time Bush claimed to be pursuing a diplomatic settlement in order to avoid war. Elizabeth de la Vega, a former federal prosecutor, then affirmed that the charges of defrauding Congress about Iraq, torturing prisoners, and wiretapping were all definitely impeachable offenses. The only difference between the fraud that Bush and his team have perpetrated, and the fraud that is prosecuted in courts every day across America, is that Bush's fraud far exceeds the typical fraud case in its extent and the severity of its consequences. Bob Fertik, President of Democrats.com and co-founder afterdowningstreet.org, described the current work of the impeachment movement, the city and state resolutions being passed, and the significance of the Section 603 of the Jefferson's Manual which says that impeachment may be initiated by charges transmitted by a state legislature. The crowd cheered when told that Ellen Tenney plans to personally submit an impeachment resolution from Vermont to the Speaker of the House, Dennis Hastert, on Monday May 1st. |
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Subject: RE: BS: A Declaration of Impeachment From: Amos Date: 11 Jul 06 - 11:43 PM CHARLESTOWN - A national debate on the war in Iraq spilled into Town Hall on Monday night, with members of the public calling for the impeachment of President George W. Bush. During public forum, several residents and a former state legislator expressed discontent over the Town Council's decision to remove a resident's petition from its June meeting agenda. The request, filed by John V. Hardiman of Indian Trail, asked members of the council to consider a resolution supporting the president's impeachment. Your bitter sarcasms and your practiced nastinesses don;t make the facts of Bush's administration go away or grow any less. Your problem is that you are unable to confront your own betrayal. When your head does pop out of the hypnotic rut is in, it will be painful for a while, but you will at least recover the ability to think for yourself. A |
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Subject: RE: BS: A Declaration of Impeachment From: GUEST Date: 11 Jul 06 - 10:34 PM Maybe he should - then his record will be perfect. |
