Sure, I'm vaguely annoyed that Clinton was not impeached for the reasons I would have chosen. But mostly I want Bush and Cheney impeached for the illegal war, the spying, the leaking, the lying, the bombing, the napalm, the white phosphorous, the depleted uranium, the illegal propaganda, the disastrous energy policy, the destruction of our education system, of the right to organize, of our pension system, the attack on Social Security, the global warming, the neglect that led to the Katrina disaster, the neglect that led to the 9-11 disaster, the complete disregard for the rule of law, the mistreatment of veterans, and the unprecedented low standing of the United States in world opinion.
At www.afterdowningstreet.org I've posted a list of some of the things, large and small, that you can do to help end the war, ranging from not buying gasoline to conscientious objection, from wearing an anti-war shirt to helping other cities pass impeachment resolutions. But the most important thing we can do is to pressure Congress. That means pressuring the media, but it also means pressuring Congress directly. And after three years, with more people dying every day, it's time we got aggressive about it.
We need to speak truth to power. We've made a lot of phone calls and sent a lot of Emails. We've held a lot of meetings. We've seen a lot of Resolutions of Inquiry fail in committee, including one today on the illegal spying.
"If some kind of inquiry would be beneficial to getting a resolution to this issue, then sure, we should look at it. But if the inquiry is just some kind of punitive inquiry that really is not focused on finding a way out of this, then I'm not so sure that I would support that."
Enough is enough. A coalition of groups, including Progressive Democrats of America, Democrats.com, Gold Star Families for Peace, Hip Hop Caucus, Velvet Revolution, After Downing Street, Democracy Rising, and Iraq Veterans Against the War is announcing this week a campaign to organize protests every weekend outside the homes of Congress Members, demanding an end to the war and the impeachment of Bush and Cheney.
You can sign up to get involved at http://www.democrats.com/cd
Democrats.com is not the Democratic party, and we are organizing protests outside the homes of Democrats and Republicans.
We are leaving it to the judgment of local organizers to make exceptions for the very best congress members, with whom we'll request more meetings before moving to protests.
We're asking that members cosponsor Murtha's bill to withdraw troops and McGovern's to end war funding, and that they cosponsor Conyers' bill to create an investigation into grounds for impeachment, and that they introduce articles of impeachment.
About 10 members have done three out of four. A great many have done two. Sam Farr and Mike Honda have done two. Anna Eshoo has done one. I encourage you to persuade Farr and Honda to sign onto McGovern's bill, and persuade Eshoo to sign onto McGovern and Conyers. And then ask each of them if they would like to become an instant international hero by introducing articles of impeachment.
How many of you would be willing to work on that?
You can sign up at www.democrats.com/cd
We are also encouraging people to lobby the California state legislature to send impeachment charges to the US House of Representatives.
How many of you would support that? Contact Sherry or one of the other organizers of this event to get involved.
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