Ralph Lopez

                 

Ralph is the author of a new book "Truth in the Age of Bushism."

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Tuesday, October 7, 2008
Senator William Blount Was Impeached, Impeach Pelosi for Complicity in War Crimes
(5 comments) The Constitution allows for the impeachment of "The President, Vice President, and all civil officers of the United States." The impeachment of Senator William Blount in 1798 shows that "all civil officers" includes congressmembers and senators.

Thursday, September 25, 2008
This Impeachment TV Ad Now Running in Conyers' District
(1 comments) The 110th Congress is far from over, and it comes back to a full workload and schedule of hearings after the Nov. 4th election. Bush's case is far more open and shut than Clinton's ever was, since their offenses are admitted and in the public record, including the most recent impeachable offense: the defiance of congressional subpoenas.

Thursday, September 25, 2008
This Impeachment TV Ad Now Running in Conyers' District
The 110th Congress is far from over, and it comes back to a full workload and schedule of hearings after the Nov. 4th election. Bush's case is far more open and shut than Clinton's ever was, since their offenses are admitted and in the public record, including the most recent impeachable offense: the defiance of congressional subpoenas.

Friday, September 5, 2008
2014
(5 comments) Legal analysts lamented that, at every stage of the way, precedents had been allowed to stand unchallenged which led to the next expansion of executive powers. The precedents which the Bush-Cheney administration of the past had set, which at the time had been called by a small minority of activists "impeachable offenses" which constituted "breaking the law," were breaking the law no more.{Back to Future story]

Saturday, August 30, 2008
Bush and the Rest on Film Saying One Thing Then Exactly Opposite
(3 comments) One of the most moving videos I have ever seen, of Bush Cheney and the rest saying one thing then exactly the opposite. Alex has captured them in their own words coming from their own mouths. Shame on Democrats, shame on Republicans for not getting it. No one will finish watching this short video unaffected.

Friday, August 29, 2008
Will the Charge of "Treason" Stick to George Bush?
(2 comments) There has been discussion within the impeachment movement over whether George Bush can formally be accused of treason, or if such accusations, though arguable, would not meet legal muster. I believe they would.

Thursday, August 28, 2008
Would a Charge of Treason Stick to George Bush?
(1 comments) There has been discussion within the impeachment movement over whether George Bush can formally be accused of treason, or if such accusations are fanciful and would not meet legal muster. I believe they would.

Saturday, August 16, 2008
Breaking: Conyers Calls Committee Back from Summer Recess to Investigate Suskind Allegations
(27 comments) Participate in the campaign to reach Judiciary members' campaign contributors, to ask them as one citizen to another to withhold contributions until the member does this clearest of patriotic duties. Why this route? Because congressmen have shown themselves to be impervious to any amount of constituent pressure.

Saturday, August 9, 2008
Did Bush Lie About Saddam and 9/11? Authorization to Use Force REQUIRED Bush to Make the Link
(7 comments) It doesn't matter that it's August. It took Nixon less than a week-and-a-half to resign after the House Judiciary Committee adopted a single article of impeachment, on obstruction of justice. Ordering Rove to defy subpoenas is enough to impeach Bush

Sunday, August 3, 2008
Bush Appointee Bates: Meirs Must Testify, Sets Up Constitutional Crisis
(7 comments) If congress does not cancel summer recess, referred to in the official calendar as their "District Work Period," we must be clear that we will be camped on their front lawns with signs. They will come out and talk to us and explain why they aren't in Washington doing their jobs. There will be no fiddling while Rome burns.

Tuesday, July 22, 2008
Impeachment Hearing This Friday, July 25
(1 comments) How wrong that these courageous soldiers are not the ones making decisions for our country, while the ewes in congress tremble before the power of George Bush to do something bad to them.

Friday, July 18, 2008
Executive Privilege, Why Aren't They Hollering "Cover-up?"
(1 comments) The congressional game is to attempt to appease the impeachment movement with some sort of action while keeping it as quiet as possible, lest the general electorate catch wind. We need to ask them why they aren't hollering "cover-up!" to Bush's recent claim of executive privilege.

Thursday, July 17, 2008
Nine Republicans Break Party Ranks: Send Impeachment Article to Judiciary for Hearings
(9 comments) In a stunning development which fell with the silence of a feather yesterday, nine Republicans broke with their iron-fisted party to put country first, and voted to send Rep. Dennis Kucinich's article of impeachment HR 1345 to the Judiciary, where Chairman John Conyers will hold a hearings on abuses of power by the Bush administration, according to the Congressional Quaterly's CQToday.

Friday, July 11, 2008
Appeal to American NSA Officers: Join Us
(2 comments) No law may be made which is contrary to the Constitution, which is the "Supreme Law of the Land." The Constitution can only be changed by Constitutional Convention, and ratified by all 50 states. Any law which violates the Constitution is illegal.

Thursday, April 10, 2008
A New 9/11 Commission: Defining Amnesty
(1 comments) If you believe 911 was an inside job, and you believe that in order to get at the truth, it may be necessary to grant officers in the military and in the civilian branches like the CIA some sort of immunity, that is, full or partial amnesty for their role or knowledge of the events, how do you determine who gets what?

Thursday, April 3, 2008
It Has Happened: I'm a 9/11 Truther; A New Investigation, Broad Amnesty, and Forgiveness
(34 comments) The biggest problem with the 9/11 Truth Movement is where it leads: a place dark and evil beyond imagination. Even if deep down you believed it was an inside job, you would need to deny it. So when hundreds of American military officers, pilots, engineers, and CIA veterans stepped forward to say they believed the official story to be a monstroThe conspiracies led to the deep dark hole that we are ruled by criminal psychos.

Thursday, March 27, 2008
New Hampshire State Reps to Vote on Impeachment Resolution, Please Call
(1 comments) Nixon resigned just one and 1/2 weeks after three articles were adopted, there is plenty of time. The New Hampshire State House of Representatives will vote on an impeachment resolution filed by 87 year-old State Representative Betty Hall sometime in early April, employing little-known "Jefferson's Manual" rules in an effort to force Congress to begin impeachment hearings against George Bush and Dick Cheney.

Thursday, March 27, 2008
An Impeachment Resolution in Every State; One Way to Jump-Start Impeachment
(1 comments) Here's the dirty little secret: it's really easy. All you need to do is print out a version of the below resolution, walk it to an amenable state representative (or assemblyman/woman), and have them enter it into State House business. Now you have an active impeachment resolution in your state. 50 states having impeachment resolutions in the works would make Congress's I-See-Nothing position untenable.

Tuesday, March 18, 2008
A Call for Alliance Among Impeachment Advocates; Immigration Reform, Constitution, War on Al Qaeda
(1 comments) There comes a time in the struggle for freedom when Americans must unite. At times we unite with those whose priorities may not be ours, and those whom with we disagree on many things. I launch this call because I will do anything to save my Constitution. My call is to my countrymen in the Immigration Reform Movement, who believe that George Bush must be impeached for aiding unacceptable levels of illegal immigration.

Sunday, February 24, 2008
Al Qaeda, Impeachment, and Iraq
(1 comments) I hope to show that not only is our presence in Iraq beneficial to Al Qaeda; they actually need us there to survive. Al Qaeda is neither wanted nor liked in Iraq. The sooner we pull out, the sooner the local populations will identify and expel them, or kill them.

Monday, February 18, 2008
Congressman Reyes Takes On Bush Lies on FISA, American Safety
If our nation is left vulnerable in the coming months, it will not be because we don't have enough domestic spying powers. It will be because your Administration has not done enough to defeat terrorist organizations – including al Qaeda -- that have gained strength since 9/11.

Monday, February 11, 2008
ObaMO
(1 comments) Keep ObaMOMENTUM going, circulate this essay, go to ObaMO.org.

Saturday, February 2, 2008
The Forever Wartime Powers Coup
(2 comments) When George Bush declared war on an enemy which, for the first time ever, cannot be seen, and never knows when he's beat, it should have set off alarm bells.

Friday, February 1, 2008
Foreign Policy Advice for Barack Obama
You can have a muscular foreign policy without being militaristic. You can apologize without surrendering. You can use that line if you want, Barack.

Thursday, January 24, 2008
20 Years: What Political Prisoners Can Expect in the Future
The Bush administration has managed to carve out an illegal authority to pick anyone up off the street, lock us up incommunicado for at least a few years, and send us to trial knowing that, after what they did, we'd be pretty much useless in our own defense. Today's sentencing of Jose Padilla is not about Padilla. This is about you. After the next terror attack, it will be easy to include any bothersome political diarists.

Sunday, January 20, 2008
The Crimes of Dick Cheney
(2 comments) On July 22, 2005, Special Forces Colonel Patrick Lang said before a congressional committee that, as a result of the exposure of Valerie Plame, our ability to know when terrorists would "carry 10-pound bags of explosive in subway stations" would "go right down the drain." The media never reported this. Instead it was busy chasing the White House spin that Plame was not a covert agent.

Sunday, January 13, 2008
Admirers of Constitution Booted for Wearing Impeach T-shirts in DC
(6 comments) With the original First Amendment "Freedom of Speech" looking on, admirers of the U.S. Constitution in the Washington D.C. National Archives Building today were ordered to leave for wearing tee-shirts reading "Impeach Bush and Cheney." Many of the tourist-activists were in town to hail the arrival of impeachment marcher John Nirenberg, the 61 year-old college professor who has just walked from Boston to D.C.

Tuesday, January 1, 2008
Why We Should Not Mess With Iran
The people of Iran are not our enemy. They don't hate us.

Monday, December 31, 2007
A Conservative's Case for Impeachment
(9 comments) An "Eisenhower-Teddy Roosevelt Republican" calls for an accounting for the violation of Americans' rights. Even John Ashcroft from his hospital bed couldn't stomach the NSA warrantless surveillance, and he's not exactly liberal.

Saturday, December 29, 2007
Pakistan Totters as Bush's "Gift" to bin Laden Bears Fruit
With the assassination of Bhutto, Pakistan is closer than ever to civil war. And ultimately, Islamist forces marching into Islamabad in victory, us tied down in Iraq and not able to do a damned thing about it. This is the first of the many dominoes bin Laden had envisioned, including the "apostate" regimes of Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and UAE. But most especially on bin Laden's list was Pakistan.

Saturday, December 29, 2007
Obama Campaign Hits Bullseye on Pakistan
We have exactly ZERO time left to get this, folks. Bin Laden is on a roll. He wants no change in American foreign policy whatsoever. Only for us to keep doing exactly what we have been doing.

Saturday, December 22, 2007
C.I.A. Tapes a Smoking Gun on American "Enemy Combatant"
Missing almost entirely from news coverage of the destroyed CIA tapes is the explosive fact that they involve Jose Padilla, the American citizen held incommunicado and without charges or a trial for nearly four years.

Wednesday, December 19, 2007
Senate Challenger Laurie Dobson, Maine
(2 comments) Laurie Dobson does not mince words. The"mother bear in defense of my children and their future", as she describes herself, says she is "disgusted with the depravity and the cowardice of our leaders." The fifty-one-year-old mother of three who is running to unseat Senator Susan Collins spares no Democrat.

Thursday, December 13, 2007
The Padilla Tapes
And what could be so important in the destroyed CIA tapes that are the object of current controversy, that despite the criticism which would certainly follow, they were destroyed anyway? Abu Zubaydah, a subject of the tapes, is none other than the foreign national whom Padilla's lawyers say was tortured into linking Padilla with Al Qaeda.

Thursday, December 6, 2007
Thomas Paine the Impeacher
(2 comments) As we shop and consume our way toward tyranny and fascism, let us remember Paine's words, and remember that as overweight, addicted, and alcoholic as we are as a nation, we are also one other thing: We are free. We are still free to demand these criminals be brought to justice. We are still free to demand they be impeached. Rich, poor, conservative, liberal, powerful, powerless, we are all just Americans now.

Friday, November 23, 2007
Next Impeach Target: Major Campaign Contributors
Wars will come and go, even Iraq, but once the Constitution is gone, it's gone forever. Begin dialogue with congressmens' major campaign contributors to force Congress to do its duty to impeach Cheney and Bush.

Monday, November 19, 2007
Expanding NSA Power Bad, Fourth Amendment Good
(1 comments) Did the Founders, who took pains to enshrine freedom from "unreasonable search and seizure," without "probable cause," understand what the Stasi, Hitler, and the KGB all understood? That knowledge is power, and absolute knowledge of peoples' lives becomes absolute power?

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