-John Hart was driven from his wife's bedside as she was dying. Their 13 children fled for their lives. His fields and his gristmill were laid to waste. For more than a year he lived in forests and caves, returning home to find his wife dead and his children vanished.
Contact your own congressman
Phone numbers for House Judiciary Committee (has outstanding subpoena to Harriet Meirs, has held one impeachment hearing).
And Announcing: The Impeachment Media Boycott
The impeachment/not-yet-impeachment hearing in the House Judiciary Committee last week was impressive. The problem is, not one in a hundred people knows it happened. It turns out the media has quite a black-out operation going. Even my Republican old man would concede, "I don't agree with them, and it's Bush-bashing, but sure, something like that should've been on the news." Luckily there is a long and cherished tradition of media advertiser boycotts in this country, on the right and the left, from CBS pulling "The Reagans" to Imus being pulled from MSNBC for his offensive remarks, to Michael Savage to Ron Paul supporters protesting Fox's exclusion of him from the debates. The surprise is, the success rate for media advertiser boycotts is fair. Man, who was the smart dude who said Money Talks? The following is the beginning of the Impeachment Media Boycott, based on the idea that citizens deserve to know what's happening in their democracy, especially when it involves a rarely-used constitutional remedy for the presidential abuse of power. That's all. It might work, it might not. Even if not a large dent is made in dollars, company advertising departments are controversy-allergic, and will shy away from anything that smells like bad press. That's not the point for me. There may be some things I HAVE to do in this society, like pay taxes. But damned if I have to give my own money to the sponsors who support this Pravda censorship crap. "The most important office in a democracy is that of citizen." - Justice Louis Brandeis FOR FULL BOYCOTT CAMPAIGN NEWS OUTLET AND ADVERTISER INFORMATION PLEASE GO HERE Suggested letter to advertisers: Dear Sir/Madame, This is to inform you that I will be participating in the nationwide boycott by the impeachment movement of your company's products until your company ends its sponsorship of [MSNBC OR WHICH] news programs, which have been completely censoring extraordinarily newsworthy events in the US House of Representatives regarding the impeachment of President Bush. I will also urge all my friends and family to do the same. I am asking you as an American to please pull your ads from this station. The Fourth Estate, the Press, is the only profession in America to be granted special protections under the First Amendment of the Constitution. As such, it has a responsibility to report news of vital importance to all Americans. Many stories and categories of news could be debated as to whether or not they fall under the description of "vital," but the subject of impeachment is not one of them. Last Friday,July 25, the House Judiciary Committee convened in packed chambers to hear a panel of star witnesses, both Republican and Democrat, broach the subject of the impeachment of the president. All reporting of this momentous event was strenuously and efficiently buried by every television news network and newspaper in America. You may not know this. How would you? The same unacceptable censorship occurred on November 6, 2007, when Congressman Dennis Kucinich rose on the House floor to call for a vote on HR 333, for the impeachment of Vice President Dick Cheney. Despite the attempts of the leadership of both parties to "table," or kill the resolution, a flood of phone calls from C-Span viewers in favor of the resolution caused the Congress to, instead, send it to the Judiciary Committee. This dramatic House action was completely censored by network news, as well as by all American newspapers. And again on January 15, 2008, Congressman Robert Wexler rose on the House floor to introduce another resolution for the impeachment of Cheney, saying: Next Page 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 (Note: You can view every article as one long page if you sign up as an Advocate Member, or higher).
