I appreciate Basel's article in general and especially want to echo his call for citizen activism on the Bush impeachment.  In our town of Kingman, AZ a couple of recent high school grads and i have been standing on street corners with signs and handing out flyers, albeit rarely, with contact info for our US representative, Trent Franks. We've also made disposable "IMPEACH"posters and stapled them on prominent abandoned buildings aaround the area.

This is a very redneck/red state town so we frequently get yelled at inanely and measure our effectiveness by how many times someone shoots us the finger, but the vast majority of those who respond from their cars at the stop lights or while driving by are positive. In many cases you can see their joy at seeing someone stand up and say something. We become the voices they wish they could find in themselves. What a great gift it is to give to people you don't even know: the voice inside themselves they wish they could find.

Citizens in America, at least in this 21st century America, are taught to believe they don't have a voice and so seeing us stand up and express ourselves is indeed a powerful example to them and to ourselves. It reduces that sickening feeling of impotence we get from watching the steady train of abuses coming out of DC.

I implore all readers to do something personal to promote te idea of impeachment. It helps your community and you and, maybe, just maybe ....

You just won't even know how much impact your protests can have till you try.

mikel  

by mikel weisser (49 articles, 3 quicklinks, 15 diaries, 87 comments [3 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Monday, Jun 23, 2008 at 10:05:46 AM

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The deafening silence following the actions by Kucinich is appalling. Instead of the momentus uproar that accompanied the Clinton impeachment proceedings, this affair has been met with no more interest on the part of the public and the press than the swatting of a mosquito.

This is a major event and a stunningly important occurence and should be viewed and reported as a watershed moment in American politics. It casts a palor and a dark cloud of shame on the Presidency of the United States and it has been doused out like an insignificant campfire by the MSM. It's disgusting.

The goverment is a broken and maimed animal. And those we have elected to represent us have become a blight on our existence. Despite what they say in front of a microphone, Pelosi et.al., have become our contemporary symbols of the outright neglect and deference with which these public servants treat us. There is no concern for the welfare of the people and the general moral and political health of the country. The only pre-eminent concern is for the battle between the right and the left and who garners the most money in the process. Every other boast or claim they make is simply a lie.

The blatant efforts by the media and the members of congress to sweep the 35 articles under the rug (and hope no one will notice the huge bump in the carpet) is nothing short of shameful. This subdued coverage and complete under-reaction is despicable.

by Ivan Hentschel (12 articles, 0 quicklinks, 10 diaries, 302 comments [4 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Monday, Jun 23, 2008 at 11:31:06 AM

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 " But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security ".

by Keystone (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 2 diaries, 299 comments [78 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Monday, Jun 23, 2008 at 3:00:17 PM

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I support and supported the impeachment of Bill Clinton. Perjury is not something that should be tolerated by our Presidents. What we are dealing with here with Bush is nothing short of a blatant disregard for the rule of law and civil liberties. What we have here is a broken system. The checks and balances have been thrown out the window. The Executive branch has been given free reign to do whatever they want with no oversight. There have been many failures here but who do I see as the worst offender? The media. They alone have the job of educating the American people and bringing these important matters to our attention. They have the moral and intrinsic obligation of providing fair and unbiased coverage to the millions of Americans who trust in them. They abuse that trust and are traitors to the people. They control the people's thoughts and actions. They choose the Presidents. They hide their mistakes when convenient to their interests. They regularly practice lies and deceit. They diminish the people's interests in the areas that should be most important to them and they direct the people's interests to mundane and unimportant issues. Issues that the people can't do anything about. Whoever controls information controls the people. What we need is a revolution against the press. Until that happens and we achieve fair and unbiased press coverage, people will ignorantly allow our government to trample on our civil liberties and grind this country into dirt. We can't really blame the government. They are doing exactly as we and our forefathers who founded this country have expected them to do. If we were well-informed in our rights and we were well-informed in the actions of our country we would know that we don't have to sit back and ignore it. We have constitutional rights to oversee and change our government and take an active role in what's happening. But the media would rather we be passive and ignorant. The media is the real traitor here. They have put their own interests above the rights of the people. They control us, they control everything.

by Ron R. (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 7 diaries, 152 comments [11 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Monday, Jun 23, 2008 at 4:32:22 PM

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First we were tongue-tied for fear of upsetting the "patriotism" cart. Then we were frustrated at how the House didn't see our plight. But now we are getting mad about four-dollar gas and grocery bills going through the roof. Regardless of where we live, the floods on the Mississippi are ours to deal with.

Come Labor Day the pols will parade at Denver and Minneapolis, spouting empty rhetoric. Like they say in ads: Don't get mad, get glad. And the GLAD means Government Let America Down! Impeach!

by Margaret Bassett (45 articles, 2909 quicklinks, 42 diaries, 1853 comments [99 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Monday, Jun 23, 2008 at 5:29:33 PM

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Has anyone asked Mrs. Pelosi why impeachment is off the table?

by Robert McElroy (3 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 15 comments) on Monday, Jun 23, 2008 at 5:41:52 PM

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http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/bilderberg_s_oil_orders_141.html

by Keystone (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 2 diaries, 299 comments [78 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Monday, Jun 23, 2008 at 5:47:52 PM

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When OEN informed me that Kucinich was speaking in impeachment I went to Google News to see how it was being covered.

Front page nothing.

I searched "impeach".  It was front page news in many countries, but barely a mention in the US.

by John Haigh (1 articles, 0 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 118 comments) on Tuesday, Jun 24, 2008 at 2:52:35 AM

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