The last couple of weeks have brought confirmation—as if it were needed—even in the corporate media, that President George W. Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, and the gang of thugs and sycophants around them in the White House, engaged in a massive conspiracy to lie the country into a war in Iraq.
The release of a confessional book by former White House press spokesman Scott McClellan and the subsequent release of a long blocked report by the Senate Intelligence Committee make it clear that Bush, Cheney & Company deliberately lied to Congress and the American public back in 2002 and early 2003 about the threat posed by Saddam Hussein (there was none). McClellan also states that Bush and Cheney conspired to “out” CIA undercover operative Valerie Plame Wilson, as part of a compaign to prevent her husband from exposing a major part of that campaign of lies: the claim that Saddam Hussein was seeking to build nuclear weapons.
It would be hard to overstate the extent of or the damage caused by these crimes that are now exposed to the light of day.
Beginning in 2001, making the most cynical use of the tragic killing of nearly 3000 Americans in the 9-11 attacks, Bush and Cheney moved to aggrandize as much power as possible in the executive, and then, to consolidate that power grab, engineered a full-scale war against Iraq, enabling them to claim that any opponent of their dictatorial usurpation of power was a traitor to the nation.
It was all a lie.
Saddam Hussein had no links to Al Qaeda, and he had no nuclear program. He had no weapons of mass destruction. His country was broken, thanks to years of international sanctions and war.
As a result of these lies, we have a country that no longer even remotely resembles what the Founders had intended. The Congress has been shorn of its once exclusive authority to legislate, and even its Constitutional power to investigate the executive branch has been successfully defied. It is now an atrophied relic. The federal judiciary, right up to the Supreme Court, has been packed with administration sycophants and Federalist Society advocates of unfettered executive power.
We also have been saddled with an unwinnable war in the Middle East that has claimed the lives of 4500 Americans, destroyed the lives of another 30,000—or perhaps several hundred thousand, if we add in all those suffering psychological damage, or genetic damage from exposure to depleted uranium weapons. That war has also killed over 1 million innocent Iraqis, including countless chiildren, destroyed their country, bankrupted this nation, and made the US a pariah and a rogue state in the eyes of the rest of the world.
Most Americans long since came to the conclusion that the Bush administration was a gang of idiots. Just watching their handling of the Hurricane Katrina disaster unfold was enough to make that clear. But the new reports from McClellan and from the Senate Intelligence Committee should make it clear that this was not just stupidity. The disasters that have befallen this nation, or that it has brought on the rest of the world, over the past eight years have been the result of deliberate lying and deceit and of the conspiratorial policies of a cabal of leaders whose goal from day one was undoing the Constitution and establishing the presidency as a kind of dictatorship.
Most of the corporate media have been unable to bring themselves to state this clearly. They edge around the issue by talking about the White House having been “misleading” or “untruthful.” And little is said about the lasting damage that has been done to the Republic and the Constitution, or about what is to be done about a still bloody war that never should have been fought in the first place.
The answer is clear. Impeachment proceedings should be initiated against both Bush and Cheney. These two arch criminals must not be permitted to leave office with their titles intact. They need to be tossed out in disgrace, and then indicted for war crimes and for crimes like perjury, conspiracy and perhaps treason.
We are already seeing the long-term damage that has been wrought. John McCain, the presumed Republican nominee for president, is saying that the president’s use of the National Security Agency to spy, without any court order, on tens or hundreds of thousants, or perhaps millions of Americans, is legal, and would continue under a McCain administration. Barack Obama, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, has said that he would continue Bush’s use of “signing statements” to ignore Congressional legislation that he felt impaired his Constitutional powers as president.
The nation is at a dangerous crossroad. Either Congress reasserts its authority now, via impeachment, drawing a Constitutional line in the stand in defense of Article I of the Constitution—the article that defines the power of Congress as absolute in terms of passing legisation—or it forever surrenders that role, leaving us with what can only be called a dictatorship.
We clearly cannot count on the next president, whoever that may be, to surrender powers usurped by the current one. What leader in history has willingly and voluntarily surrendered authority, after all?
Such power must be wrested back by Congress, and the only way for that to happen is impeachment—a course laid out clearly by the authors of the Constitution for just such a crisis. ____________ DAVE LINDORFF is a Philadelphia-based journalist. His latest book is “The Case for Impeachment” (St. Martin’s Press, 2006 and now available in paperback edition). His work is available at www.thiscantbehappening.net
http://www.thiscantbehappening.net
Dave Lindorff, a columnist for Counterpunch, is author of several recent books ("This Can't Be Happening! Resisting the Disintegration of American Democracy" and "Killing Time: An Investigation into the Death Penalty Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal"). His latest book, coauthored with Barbara Olshanshky, is "The Case for Impeachment: The Legal Argument for Removing President George W. Bush from Office (St. Martin's Press, May 2006). His writing is available at http://www.thiscantbehappening.net
Mr. Lindorff, thank you for this deeply important article. Hopefully many other journalists and editors will come forward and speak up as you have.
Without question, this story should be the top headline news nationwide. Both Senators Obama and Clinton should be asked for their reactions on this. Given Scott McClellan's recent book and today's Senate Committee's findings, polls should be in full swing asking citizens how they feel about this and if they favor impeachment proceedings.
We need the news media to not fail us again.
As we have learned from Bill Moyers and his outstanding investigative documentary, “Buying the War”, most of the news media failed us to such a massive degree, outside of a few journalists such as John Walcott, Jonathan Landay and Warren Strobel of the, then, Knight Ridder newspapers. They burrowed deep into the intelligence agencies to try and determine whether there was any evidence for the Bush Administration's case for war. “Many of the things that were said about Iraq didn't make sense,” says Walcott. “And that really prompts you to ask, ‘Wait a minute. Is this true? Does everyone agree that this is true? Does anyone think this is not true?’”
President Bush and his White House Neo-Con-men (who signed the Project for the New American Century manifesto for world domination at all cost) should be put on trial before the public for the atrocities they have caused. They abused our trust in them.
And Speaker Nancy Pelosi should be investigated for aiding them, saying the issue of the Iraq War is “off the table”, and as she states in a recent letter to me, “I believe impeachment proceedings against Vice President Dick Cheney will distract us from our mission…”. Well, to Ms. Pelosi and all those who are relentlessly enabling this epic tragedy of senseless death, shattered lives, broken families, mind-numbing abuses of our hard-earned tax dollars, savage corporate exploitation; I say, JUSTICE IS NO DISTRACTION! There is no justice without impeachment!
And regarding Mr. Conyers, I hope he resumes the thorough and courageous work he began on impeachment proceedings. The time has come to stand with his allies in the Congressional Black Caucus who made passionate presentations in the House on the eve of the U.S. led invasion on Iraq. I shall forever remember that night in 2003—those powerful words of Rep. Maxine Waters. You have not seen these words because the press never reported that historic event. Ms. Waters:
“Mr. President, you cannot substitute a preemptive strike on Saddam Hussein for finding the terrorists. We want the terrorists to be found….
We want to secure the homeland. We are worried that you have been diverted, that you are about to do this preemptive strike without the documentation….
Yes, every country should be able to defend itself, but we are in no danger from Iraq. As a matter of fact, that is probably one of the weakest points on the globe for us to attack. We are not threatened by Saddam Hussein….
What we see and we are witnessing is the mismanagement of America. Someone today criticized Senator Daschle because he talked about the diplomatic disaster. Mr. President, it is a diplomatic disaster. We are watching before our very eyes the mismanagement of our beloved country. Our schools are falling apart. You said you wished to leave no child behind, but, Mr. President, you have not funded assistance to education that will have our children in the best possible situations where they can learn. Our health care system has fallen apart. In my city, in my county we are closing healthcare clinics. We are closing hospitals….
Mr. President, you are not able to tell us what this war is going to cost and what the cleanup, what the revitalization, the reconstruction of Iraq is going to cost. The American people need to know where our dollars are going. The American people need to understand the cost of this war and why….
Mr. President, we must raise these questions. We must raise these questions because we are patriots. We are folks who love this country. We are folks who have stood by this country no matter what, and we will continue to stand by this country. We will continue to stand by our soldiers. But, Mr. President, you are going to have to account for the leadership that you are giving, and I say to you and all those who are advising you, be it Wolfowitz, be it Secretary of State Colin Powell, be it Condoleezza Rice, be it Karl Rove, or any of those in the inner circle, you are going to be held responsible for what takes place in this world, what takes place with this preemptive strike, what takes place with our soldiers and our families….”
Indeed, justice is no distraction! Speaker Pelosi, Rep. Conyers, all members of Congress and the Senate, you must insure that justice be served, the American people deserve some real accountability.
"IT’S IMPEACHMENT TIME, STUPID!"
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Ellison Horne (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 8 comments)
on Friday, June 6, 2008 at 9:51:14 AM
As The possibility of a new regime rises to challenge the last defenders of a force that has had its roots solidly entrenched within the U.S. Government since WWII if not longer, the change we are promised will be exposed. Our dilema is greater then impeachment of these two ache villians.
The support for Impeachment is an indicator of character. We have a long series of Crimes that have been committed "In Secret". We as a nation have become our own legitimate enemy. How do we deal with that? Lines have to be drawn as to what have been crimes of the Union of our States and what are crimes of private individuals acting in secret.
We need healing. We need to regain our Honor that has been stripped from us by the actions of these private interrests acting within our Union of States. Our Declaration of Independence was drafted and signed by men of Honor. The Constitution was drafted and voted on by men of Honor. In its Ratification, it was again voted on by more men of Honor within our States.
These crimes were orchestrated and acted on by men and women who lack Honor. They are higher then crimes against our Union of States, higher then crimes against the People. They have resulted in International War Crimes. They have resulted in a War of Aggression.
Impeachment can position the Government of our Union of States into a position where it can redeem itself. These crimes need to be answered in order for us to reclaim our Honor. As long as our government refuses to police itself it will remain something less then Honorable.
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Sleeper (1 articles, 1 quicklinks, 6 diaries, 276 comments)
on Saturday, June 7, 2008 at 12:13:10 PM
Another useless drive by comment hits an innocent, thoughtful citizen. I reviewed your past comments, and I suggest you continue work on that post-graduate degree for a long, long time. You apparently have not learned much yet, for your comments sound more like spousal sniping than the logic expected from a philosophy student. If you have no substantive argument to add to the discussion, why not save the space you violate for true patriots?
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W.M.L. (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 323 comments)
on Saturday, June 7, 2008 at 6:54:01 AM
Skeptics who tell us to give up on trying are as irresponsible as the representatives who ignore us. It is never too late to impeach for an impeachable offense. Not to impeach would be even more disastrous. This will happen. Bush/Cheney will be impeached and hopefully end up going to jail where they belong.
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Nick van Nes (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 110 comments)
on Saturday, June 7, 2008 at 9:01:11 AM
and he has been been made impotent by Nancy and Harry...I have no hope that these appeasers, these enablers and traitors to our Constitution..will do any thing....stuff more stock (from defense contrators and oil companies) into their portfolios maybe...
The best thing we the people can do is throw the whole lot out...
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Susan Nelsen (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 268 comments)
on Friday, June 6, 2008 at 10:56:58 AM
It is not up to John Conyers. Joe Lieberman breaks a 50/50 tie by caucusing with the Democrats. I sure you can get all 50 Democrats counting Lieberman and ten Republicans to vote for impeachment-- yes, that work about like selling pig steak down at the Jewish kosher shop.
Phil
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pratliff94 (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 962 comments)
on Friday, June 6, 2008 at 11:38:05 PM
We need to organize and find out which reps are opposed to impeaching, kind of like an up and down vote. Insist on it. MoveOn.org might be a starting place. Where does your rep stand on this? We want to know NOW where our reps stand on impeachment. In favor of it? YES or NO. A "maybe" is not good enough. It counts as a NO. Everyone should know this about their rep and publicize it. Mine, Bill Delahunt, (D-MA) is opposed to impeachment because, agreeing with Pelosi, he feels it would be a "distraction." A "DISTRACTION ?!? What a bunch of BS. And these reps, who are supposed to be representing us and listening to us are now telling us how it's gonna be. This idea of "leadership" has gone to their heads. Really they are exactly the opposite. Leaderless, spineless, clueless, afraid to say or do anything against the poles or what they fear might keep them from being re-elected. To hell with principle and the Constitution. No where is this more apparent than in their reticence to impeach. They'll be the first to join the bandwagon, too, wait and see, once they conspire with the powers that be that tells them when it is in THEIR own best political interest to impeach but not WHEN the crimes were being committed, not when our country and the People most need it, to happen quickly, decisively, for good, moral and obvious reasons. Their reasons to not impeach, ("distraction, political inexpedience" etc.), are not legitimate reasons to NOT impeach. The only legitimate reason to not impeach would be because they feel no impeachable crime had been committed. But they can't and won't say this because they know it isn't true. Wexler, Waters, Kucinich, Ralph Nader, these are true leaders, courageous, fighting for our rights, not popularity, working to right wrongs and improve our lives. Look and watch with amazement on YouTube what Ralph Nader has to say about Congressman Olver's (D-MA) response, or lack thereof, to his constituency.
It is incredible. Write to Congressman Olver and demand that he repeats publically his reasons for not wanting to impeach. Such reasoning should not and cannot be kept a secret.
Who is your rep and where does he or she stand on impeachment? Find out now, before the tide turns and they begin to argue "they were always in favor of it." Be sure to hold them accountable next time in the voting booth. Impeachment is our most basic and fundamental right, being stripped from us by a paranoid and weak congress which is, inadvertently, only encouraging further corruption at the top. To not impeach when it is so blatantly called for sends the worst possible message to our future elected representatives. That they have failed us is their fault. That we do nothing about it is ours. After impeachment, the Bush administrtion must be held accountable and tried by the UN for War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity. If found guilty they must not be pardoned by the next president. No one is above the law and the law is there for a reason. The truth will out. This story is not over. Do not listen to skeptics who tell us impeachment will never happen. Their comments, like those of our representatives, are irresponsible and self-defeating. It is up to us to make it happen and it will. Impeach now before it is too late and the country and world, our children, must live with our inaction and apathy.
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Nick van Nes (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 110 comments)
on Saturday, June 7, 2008 at 6:31:47 AM
And to think Impeachment is still off of the table
An excellent article as usual Dave.
Unfortunately, you have a better chance at winning a Nobel Peace Prize, than these two malevolent usurpers who continue to wreak havoc and treason upon our country and the world, being impeached.
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Munich (0 articles, 66 quicklinks, 12 diaries, 831 comments)
on Friday, June 6, 2008 at 12:45:56 PM
We have been demanding Impeachment for how long now?
Answer, four years.
Yet, you all REFUSE to hold those who do not Impeach, themselves accountable.
THAT is why there is no Impeachment.
PDA has as much as taken Impeachment off the table because of this.
Dave, you and I are in the New Broom Coalition. I have made this case about PDA needing to hold the Dem leadership accountable and once I did the issue went dead.
You all will not even answer me on this.
Wake up, develop some political courage for God's sake.
Stop proving Cindy Sheehan right.
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Michael Cavlan (8 articles, 0 quicklinks, 3 diaries, 225 comments)
on Friday, June 6, 2008 at 1:13:07 PM
EXIT STRATEGY: General Strike USA starts on Sept. 11, 2008
A general strike is called for September 11, 2008, the anniversary of the 9/11/2001 attacks on New York City and Arlington, Virginia.
General strikes shut down the normal operations of a city, state, or nation for a period of time. These strikes aim to force action on a single issue or broader set of concerns. The 9/11/08 General Strike has a central location - http://www.votestrike.com - on the Internet, which is linked to and reproduced on a variety of other internet sites. The site states the rationale for the effort:
The General Strike is a national call to action, from citizens to other citizens.
It is not about a single issue. It is not an anti-war protest, a civil rights protest, an election fraud protest. It is not about torture, surveillance, corporate media, or the environment. This strike is about all these issues and more.
We all have different concerns, but we all have the same concern: we are being lied to and this government does not represent us. Join millions of Americans in demanding truth, justice, and accountability.
This is our country. And our world.
A National Call to Action: Thursday, September 11th, 2008 No school. No work. Buy nothing. Hit the streets!
The strike targets key issues facing the American public, issues that have not been addressed in any meaningful way by any branch of government. Unions, corporations, & the major parties have failed to deal with pressing matters of war & peace, income inequality, crime & punishment & the meaning of citizenship itself, it has fallen to the American people to set things right! Public protest is an important part of democracy, just like a free press, a judiciary, and congress. Our causes are many but it's time to make our voices as one.
Citizen discontent & other concerns of the strike include massive violations of civil rights. The strike campaign argues that under our system of checks & balances when the judiciary & Congress fail in their duty it is then up to the American people to defend the Constitution, Bill of Rights & our way of life.
Call to action: No work, No school on September 11, 2008. It also includes “no shopping;” a suspension of all purchasing during the strike. 75% of our economy is consumer spending, when Bush says to shop, we must STOP!
The general strike calls for participants to “Hit the Streets.” But whyspend our time protesting in DC to be ignored? Unless we get in the streets outside our rep.s personal residences- who is going to care?
We need to mobilize locally- & demand national action. Few of us could go to Washington, DC- but many of us- can go to our city halls or state legislatures- or local Congressional offices.
Tell the government that we're fed up with war, torture, corruption, & special interest funding our elections & our media.
Strikes have brought civil rights in the U.S. & around the world. Help make our voices louder than the mainstream media & corporate dollars.
"It is not the function of our Government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the Government from falling into error".
U.S. Supreme Court, in American Communication Association v. Douds, 339 U.S. 382, 442
In order to get involved, here are the five best steps to take now:
1) Sign up with your email address HERE in order to get updates,
2) Mark the day on your calendar and plan to be at a protest in your community,
3) Send this URL to all your friends, post it to forums, put it on your personal pages, http://www.votestrike.com There will be ZERO mainstream media discussion of this General Strike BEFORE it happens. ZERO. So, we must BE OUR OWN MEDIA and promote it. Link to this site from sites and blogs. Mention it with links in your comments on blogs. PROMOTE IT.
4) Join the Consumer Fast already underway. Click here: Shut'EmDown
5) Take the lead and help organize a protest on 9/11.
The Dems' refusal to impeach poses the question -- Do we as
the citizens of this country accept the current institutional power structure or not?
If the Dems were willing to impeach, that would be the easy way out for the public, because then there'd be a chance of justice being achieved while remaining inside the framework of current institutions.
But since the Dems are not willing to impeach, the public has a much harder decision to make. Taking the path of least resistance means pushing impeachment under the rug, & tacitly agreeing to simply forget that terrible crimes have been committed. It means averting the eyes & focusing instead on the next election, and hoping that the next administration won't be as criminal.
But even if the next administration isn't as criminal, leaving the Bush-Cheney crimes unaddressed will mean concretizing the precedents of Bush-Cheney. All future presidents will be able to do what Bush did, & simply point to his precedents. Even if Obama is elected, and behaves far better than Bush, there would be nothing to stop the president after him from being another Bush-like tyrant. (And of course, Obama himself would have the power to arbitrarily arrest anyone for any reason, throw him or her in a secret prison, torture them, spy on Americans, or start wars based on lies, etc. The mere fact that he might not exercise these powers would stem only from his personal preference for magnanimity, not from any Constitutional guarantees.)
This path of action -- or rather, inaction -- basically means agreeing to abandonment of the Constitution & substituting a soft dictatorship for it, as Lindorff says. Terrible damage has been done -- not only to Iraq and the position of the US in the world, but to the entire social fabric of the US. A strategy of averting the eyes is hardly going to fix all that. Indeed, it only makes inevitable that the malignant disease that Bush represents will continue to spread & eat away at the foundations of our society -- even if there's a temporary pause in the process (which is the best that an Obama victory might amount to, if he leaves the Bush crimes unaddressed -- which he shows every indication of doing).
The US political system can survive one corrupt party. But it can't survive two corrupt parties that collaborate in undermining the Constitution.
The question before us is what to do when both parties have been unequivocably shown to be completely corrupt. Yes, it's true that we can try to ignore this question (trying instead with a kind of desperation to rejoice in Obama's pretty speechmaking). I feel sure that this attempt to ignore the terrible crimes that have been committed will be rewarded precisely as such cowardice deserves to be rewarded.
The Dems' refusal to impeach, and the public's matching cowardice in refusing to draw the obvious conclusions about 2 parties that collaborate in perpetrating terrible crimes & refusing all accountability -- this is a toxic combination that can only bode ill in the longer term. Allowing things to continue in this direction just because that's easier (in a short term sense) is a guarantee of future disaster. It's the equivalent of refusing surgery for malignant cancer now, because "surgery would be such a bother."
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Richard Mynick (2 articles, 3 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 1168 comments)
on Friday, June 6, 2008 at 2:48:24 PM
I will vote for Ralph Nader unless the House impeaches Bush and Cheney. The Democratic leadership has become accessories to criminal conduct by their failure to impeach. And Obama is on record opposing impeachment. Apparently, they believe that Bush and Cheney are above the law.
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David Diderot (0 articles, 3 quicklinks, 5 diaries, 12 comments)
on Friday, June 6, 2008 at 3:03:41 PM
For the lazy people who are so sure impeachment will never happen, I feel sorrow. They have no claim to any worthwhile achievement. Their cynicism has never found comfort in the company of those who’ve proven perseverance furthers.
For those of us who are pro-active, we are often successful because our experiences have led to many positive outcomes, yielding many benefits to strengthen society. So it will be with impeachment.
Today, there are many in this country who weep at the mere sight of the empty chair at the dinner table, knowing their loved one will never return to break bread in the sacred fellowship of family.
This is about truth and justice. Without impeachment there can be no justice. And the truth is, justice will be done!
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Ellison Horne (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 8 comments)
on Friday, June 6, 2008 at 8:24:24 PM
Let me tell you where the SIC was in my paper today ...
on page 8 ... page 8 ... no big deal, hey psst! President lied us into an unnecessary war. Over a million dead for no reason. But, that was what ... 5 years ago? Why bother, old news.
I don't know what else to tell you to do than what I've already posted many times ... email your reps, if they don't respond satisfactory, write them, if they don't respond, call them, if they don't respond go see them, if they continue to ignore you go back again and again and again until they have to do what we say.
We have done most of these things, but now we need to take it to another level. If we have to clog the halls so no business can get done until they start doing our business, this is what we need to do.
Funding a war to stop the war is bull-shit and we need to make them aware that we're simply not going to take Orwellian Double-speak another minute.
Don't tell us you don't have the votes - our numbers alone should tell you you do. It's time we screamed, "We're not going to take it anymore!"
If we had any sand at all everyone of us should have descended upon the Bilderberg Meeting this week and exposed these cretins for who they are - we might even have surprised Obama and Clinton during their "meeting."
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Mr M (4 articles, 0 quicklinks, 12 diaries, 1425 comments)
on Friday, June 6, 2008 at 8:43:09 PM
how many American families are faced with that empty chair at the table, how many innocent civilians have died? Must we just let this murderous administration pass? Impeachment is the only way our Constitution can live on. We are a nation of laws that work if we let them. Thank you Mr. Lindorff.
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zephyr (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 64 comments)
on Friday, June 6, 2008 at 10:25:06 PM
The "Laws" of this country are strongly influenced and manipulated by the politics of money. The most entrenched money power is that of the Military Industrial Complex and the Oil Industry, they have both profited handsomely by this war and the selected representatives in Washington are paid handsomely, wined and dined and represent them. We vote once every 4 years, the Money Interests get the representation.
Impeachment will not happen until their is enough political will of the people. Do Something. Wherever you are. Drape a wooden box with an American flag and stand on a street corner with friends holding a sign that says "Impeach". Hang banners on overpasses that say Impeach Now, Try for Crimes against Humanity.
Organize a nightly vigil if you're in a big enough city and begin rotating the people - in a highly visible public place.
Or you can pretend nothing is happening and go on about your lives like nothing has happened.
... haven't seen a local protest in this Republican town - yet.
But I know there are a lot of unhappy campers - and more as Country Wide gets gobbled up and more jobs fall...
Do Something - March, hold signs, write letters, make phone calls, don't stop until the criminals are prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
Sure seems like a Bush Cheney Rice Powell Rumsfeld et al should at a minimum be in a prison. I think Treason carries a much higher penalty if I'm not mistaken...
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August Adams (10 articles, 0 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 442 comments)
on Friday, June 6, 2008 at 10:59:19 PM
I'm not so sure a general strike is the right tool. It would hurt everyone. How about just deciding to never buy a newspaper that does not do the right thing?
The right thing includes putting the admin's deceptions on the front page where they belong. It includes supporting a new independent investigation into 9/11.
Even if the papers only lost 20% of their sales would they not suffer?
This strike could start now - it wouldn't be just an anniversary hit.
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gravity32 (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 157 comments)
on Friday, June 6, 2008 at 11:02:55 PM
I am sure they can do that having a majority of ONE in the Senate and can caucus as the Marjority Party because of none other than Joe Liebermann. Surely, you are dreaming. If Joe Lieberman met with the Republicans, it would be a tie of 50/50 decided by the Vice President of the US-- Guess who the VP is?
Phil.
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pratliff94 (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 962 comments)
on Friday, June 6, 2008 at 11:34:44 PM
