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December 8, 2007

IT'S TIME TO CALL FOR THE RESIGNATION OF CERTAIN POLITICIANS FROM PUBLIC OFFICE! READ HERE:

By Kathryn Smith

Includes not only an idea, but a game plan for action. Please add your proactive ideas to the list by commenting with concrete action suggestions. Thank you!

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Okay, folks. If the attacks on the Constitution are unprecedented, and if rushes to war based on lies are unprecedented crimes, then it's time for us also to act in a way that is unprecedented in American history.

If politicians think they can literally get away with murder; if they think that they can even propose the very idea of clamping down on American freedom of thought; if they can so much as suggest that the Internet is a breeding ground for terrorists (S.1959);

 And if Congress complicitly refuses to act on our behalf;

Then be it resolved that We the People of the United States of America, and the tax PAYers, demand the resignation from public office of:

 Rep. Jane Harmon, for introducing S 1959, legislation to clamp down on free thought in America
Sen. Collins and Coleman, for introducing S 1959 into the Senate

Dick Cheney and George Bush, for spouting lies and fears to the public in order to rush us to yet one more war with Iran

Rep. Nancy Pelosi, for blocking impeachment (What's UNDER the table, Nancy?)

HERE'S HOW WE CAN GET THESE RESIGNATIONS TO EXIST IN REALITY AND NOT JUST IN DREAM LAND:

 1) Write your favored activist organizations such as but not limited to:

Democrats.com, Center for COnstitutional Rights, Moveon.org, Credo, True Majority, The Pen, Courage Campaign et al

I did not mention the ACLU because having been a volunteer board member, I know for a fact that they keep a neutral position where candidates are concerned. So they won't get behind requesting the resignation of any official or of endorsing their candidacy.

2) Write a letter to your public editor urging the politicians above to step down, based on the facts linked in the articles/websites below. NOTE: It's important to state calm, cool facts and not ranting opinions. THe last thing we need is to turn people off! We need to convince them of the necessity for this unprecedented call, and facts are the tools we have to our disposal. Emotional rants will only hurt our campaign.

3) Quote as back-up to your positions the attorneys of national stature who themselves state that S 1959 clamps down on free thought, not on actions:

Caroline Frederickson, ACLU Legislative Director http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/112907.shtml

Center for Constitutional Rights echoes the same concern: www.ccrjustice.com enter Homegrown Terrorism into the search box and the fact sheets will come up

Another attorney weighs in with very insightful concerns about S 1959 here:

http://www.opednews.com/maxwrite/link.php?id=46990

Full PDF text if the bill:
http://tinyurl.com/3a3y2z

Status of the bill in the House and Senate:

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h110-1955
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=s110-1959

THIS IS NOT A GOVERNMENT OF THE CORPORATIONS, BY THE CORPORATIONS AND FOR THE CORPORATIONS (HALIBURTON, BUSH OIL CO). THIS ALSO IS NOT A GOVERNMENT OF THE POLITICIANS, BY THE POLITICIANS AND FOR THE POLITICIANS, SERVING THE POLITICIANS FIRST AND PROTECTING THE PEOPLE LAST (S. 1959). THIS IS A GOVERNMENT BY THE PEOPLE, OF THE PEOPLE AND FOR THE PEOPLE. WE *PAY* THE GOVERNMENT TO UPHOLD, PROTECT AND DEFEND THE CONSTITUTION.

THEREFORE AS QUOTED IN OUR DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE, WHEN THE GOVERNMENT BECOMES A THREAT TO "THE PURSUIT OF LIFE, LIBERTY AND HAPPINESS, IT IS THEIR (THE PEOPLE'S) RIGHT, IT IS THEIR DUTY, TO ALTER OR ABOLISH IT" (the government).

 Time to speak out, folks. Time to write our editors, our college newsletters, our activist organizations, post to blogs, dial in to radio talk shows, arrange speaker events...and quote the nationally-recognized attorneys above to influence public opinion leading to....the demand that the politicians above resign. And right away, too, and no kidding around about it!

We are their employers: They work for us, not the other way around!

They are clamping down on free speech and free thought for one obvious reason: They are scared! Scared of us! Scared of the light of truth exposing them for who they are!

So we are going to do just exactly what they are scared of: Take out our publicizing pens and trumpet it all over the nation, and the world, just what they have done by attempting to squelch not only free speech, but free thought itself; and by attempting to rush us to yet one more war with Iran based on lies. And we are going to trumpet all over the independent media and the Internet and College campuses  what they now must do: STEP DOWN!

GAME PLAN: Convince the independent media and get them behind this first. Enlist the help of college campuses nation-wide. Post to blogs and dial in to radio talk shows. Get grassroots organizations to endorse the calls for resignation.

 THEN, LAST OF ALL, the mainstream media will finally "Get it" and get behind it. The groundswell must happen independently, first!

Are politicians ignorant enough that they don't realize that free thought, let alone free speech, are musts where democracy is concerned? If they need that much of an education about the Constitution, they are not fit to serve.

The more likely scenario is that they know exactly what they are doing. In that case, perhaps they have a lot to hide.

Only crazies are so interested in control that they do the equivalent of holding guns to peoples' heads, as with S 1959 which would jail people for "radical" thought (whatever that is conveniently interpreted to mean). Only chops-licking bloodhounds lead a nation to wars and more wars based on lies.

Dynamo, let's go! Let's get them out! It's time! It's time that we Americans are ENcouraged, not DIScouraged! It's time that we take care of our own Constitution! It's time to put an end to corruption without end! It's time to say "ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!"

Okay, let's get real.
If this plan doesn't actually end up forcing their resignation, then the least it can do is this: Slap the politicians on the wrist and give them a good public embarrassment. And hopefully, in so doing, they will never attempt such a thing again. The bloodhounds just might even crawl into their caves with their tails between their legs. And that's the worst-case scenario. Maybe if we get enough of a groundswell going, they even WILL resign!
The only guarantee that it won't work is not to try.

I think with the right grassroots entities behind us, with the right groundswell, success might even be possible. It occurs to me that we might contac the Salt Lake City Mayor who publicly reprimanded Bush, Cheney and Congress, asking him to make another similar public statement concerning S. 1959 and asking the officials who introduced it to step down.

Please join me in writing the grassroots entities and the right public officials and attorneys who will back this and give it credibility! Thank you.

Dynamo, let's go!



Authors Bio:
This quote summarizes the nature of my concerns and the content of personal experiences which stir my activism:

"Necessity is the plea for every infringement on human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves". --Paul Revere, House of Commons

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