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.

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With Judge Bates ruling against immunity for Harriet Meirs, and ruling that "executive privilege" claims are invalid against orders to produce certain documents, it is clear that congress has no business going into recess in the middle of a constitutional crisis. They have just been handed a major victory, by a Bush appointee, no less. Republicans of integrity are emerging from the shadows, most dramatically with the nine who broke with the party to vote for having the hearings which took place on July 25. Judge Bates said: Even if you're my friend, George, you still have to, um, obey the law.

The next order of business is to prevail upon congress to cancel its summer recess, to complete the unfinished business of restoring the Republic over the New Executive Branch Monarchy, through impeachment. The most common argument by the well-meaning American for why impeachment is a "waste of time" is that they will be out soon. This is like saying, while a gang is robbing a bank and down to carting away the furniture, they'll be done soon.

You don't wait until they're done. You intervene.

The damage to the Constitution and the rule of law cannot be allowed to stand, as the partisans in any party which holds a majority in the future will be able to say, "well Bush did it." Start a disastrous war based on lies? Well Bush did it. Trample the rights of even born-and-bred American citizens? Well Bush did it. Torture prisoners of war who later turned out to be innocent, caught in the wrong place at the wrong time? Well Bush did it. All because Americans have forgotten who they are and have begun acting like sheep every time Bush plays the Fear Button. Our forefathers on the nation's battlefields of generations past would disown us, to see how soft and cowardly 60 years of prosperity have made us.

The only warning we needed that these people were out of control was when Bush declared the radical doctrine of wartime powers which over-ruled the Fourth (search and seizure) and Sixth (jury trial) Amendments of the Constitution, forever. He took powers which existed in previous wars then applied them to "a new kind of war," meaning: The permanent kind. The power to throw someone in a dungeon to rot or to ransack his home, without a warrant, are the powers of a monarch. And in America, we don't do monarchs.

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.

Contact your own congressman

Phone numbers for House Judiciary Committee (has outstanding subpoena to Harriet Meirs, has held one impeachment hearing).

What Price Freedom, and the Way of Life We Have Enjoyed? Of the 56 Signers of the Declaration of Independence:

-Five signers were captured by the British as traitors, and tortured before they died.

-Twelve had their homes ransacked and burned.

-Two lost their sons serving in the Revolutionary Army; another had two sons captured.

-Nine of the 56 fought and died from wounds or hardships of the Revolutionary War.

-Carter Braxton of Virginia, a wealthy planter and trader, saw his ships swept from the seas by the British Navy. He sold his home and properties to pay his debts, and died in rags.

-Thomas McKeam was so hounded by the British that he was forced to move his family almost constantly. He served in the Congress without pay, and his family was kept in hiding. His possessions were taken from him.

-Vandals or soldiers looted the properties of Dillery, Hall, Clymer, Walton, Gwinnett, Heyward, Ruttledge, and Middleton.

-Legend has it when Thomas Nelson Jr was told the British General Cornwallis had taken over his home for British headquarters, he replied, "Blow the damn thing down." Nelson's house is still standing at Yorktown and there are cannonballs embedded in its east wall.

-Francis Lewis had his home and properties destroyed. The enemy jailed his wife, and she died within a few months.

-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:

"In the history of our nation, we have never encountered a moment where the actions of a President or a Vice President have more strongly demanded the use of the power of impeachment."

Again, it was censored by [MSNBC OR WHICH]

Finally, on July 16, 2008, nine Republicans broke with their party and voted along with Rep. Dennis Kucinich to hold the July 25 hearings on an article of impeachment. This enormous news of Republicans transcending party affiliation was, and still is, met with compete silence by [MSNBC OR WHICH]

Of course news content will never be to everyone's liking, but this goes far beyond such daily judgments. These omissions make the institution of the press in America a farce.

I look forward to continuing to buy your company's products, once this Orwellian omission in [ MSNBC OR WHICH] news coverage has been corrected. Rest assured that your company's products are not being singled out. The nationwide boycott will encompass many news outlets and their sponsoring product lines. Until then, I cannot in good conscience continue to direct my consumer dollars to the sponsors of such a fairy tale version of the news.   Please know that your concern for democracy, expressed by pulling your ads, will be favorably remembered at Christmas time.  The public's "right to know," a phrase used frequently by the media, is at stake here. The network you are now supporting with your advertising dollars is making a mockery of this.

Yours Truly,

FOR FULL BOYCOTT CAMPAIGN NEWS OUTLET AND ADVERTISER INFORMATION PLEASE GO HERE

Master list of advertisers is being compiled as we go, so far what we have is the following list posted at http://nationalimpeachment.org/?page...

also here is a Brands-to-avoid shopping cheat sheet.

To re-iterate what to do:

1. Customize the [BRACKET ENTRIES] in the letter below.

2. Send the letter to the advertiser.

3. Send a copy of each letter to an advertiser to the TV station emails and addresses provided.

TV News Stations and Their Advertisers

NBC News

Email for Nightly News with Brian Williams: nightly@nbc.com

Editor's email: letters@nbc.com say "Please forward copy to General Manager Dave Abrams"

NBC News
30 Rockefeller Plaza
New York, N.Y. 10112

NBC News Advertisers

Scottrade

Public Relations:

Kelly Doria, ph: 314-965-1555 x1231 kdoria@scottrade.com
Patricia L. Lee ph: 314-965-1555 x3581 pllee@scottrade.com

Unilever

Snuggles fabric softener ads list of Unilever brands HERE. Boycott of Unilever products is tough if you like Skippy PB.

MediaRelations.USA@unilever.com say "Please forward copy to CEO Patrick Cescau"

Call media relations and tell them you're a blogger - start one today! - ask them if they have any comment on the boycott of Unilever products by the Impeachment Movement. See if that gets to ol' Patrick.

CEO Patrick Cescau
Unilever US
700 Sylvan Avenue
Englewood Cliffs
NJ 07632
T: +1 201 894 7760

Anything GE, General Electric owner of NBC

Yes, mighty peculiar that a company which makes aircraft engines for the Pentagon owns NBC?  Can you say Military-Industrial-Media complex?    Besides the fans and fridges, over half of GE's revenue is derived from financial services:  GE Capital, GE Commercial Finance, GE Money and GE Consumer Finance.

Gary Sheffer
Public Relations
gary.sheffer@ge.com "Please Forward copy to CEO Jeff Immelt"
+1 203 373 3476

Trevor A. Schauenberg
Investor  Relations
ir.contacts@corporate.ge.com  "Please Forward copy to CEO Jeff Immelt"
+1 203 373 2468

general contact form

CBS News Katie Couric
Advertising/Sales Dept. contact form cut-and-paste letter into the form

Contact form  "Please forward to CBS News Director Sean McManus

CBS News
555 West 57th Street
New York, NY 10019

Main Number:
212 975-4114

CBS News Advertisers

Nationwide Insurance

Jerry Jurgensen, CEO

Nationwide World Headquarters
One Nationwide Plaza
Columbus, OH 43215–2220

Contact form

Customer Relations:         1-800-882-2822

Discover Card
David Nelms, CEO

Emails "Please forward to CEO David Nelms":
Media Relations: mediarelations@discoverfinancial.com, 1-224-405-1747
Investor Relations: investorrelations@discoverfinancial.com, 1-224-405-4555
Community Affairs: communityaffairs@discover.com

Research In Motion makers of Blackberry phone, hold off on that upgrade!

CEO: Jim Balsillie
Research in Motion
295 Phillip Street
Waterloo, Ontario
Canada N2L 3W8
tel: 519 888-7465
fax: 519 888-7884
Investor Relations Contact form "Please forward to CEO Jim Balsillie"

Mars, Inc., Snickers ads

Product list oh no!  Now that's committment

Mars, Incorporated
6885 Elm Street
McLean VA 22101
Tel: +1 703 821 4900

General Motors Saturn ad, brands

G. Richard Wagoner Jr., CEO

General Motors Corporation
P.O. Box 33170
Detroit, MI 48232-5170

Email: ""Please forward to CEO Richard Wagoner"

Feedback page

Email Stockholder Services

Colgate-Palmolive Colgate toothpaste, brands

Ian Cook, CEO
c/o Office of the General Counsel
Colgate-Palmolive Company
300 Park Avenue
11th Floor
New York, NY 10022-7499

directors@colpal.com "Please forward to Ian Cook, CEO"

ExxonMobile I know, this guy must be a hard-core Bush supporter.  Email him anyway tell him you ain't buying his durned gasoline.

Rex Tillerson, CEO

Email form

ExxonMobil Shareholder Services
1-800-252-1800 within the U.S. and Canada

FOX News

1211 Avenue of the Americas, NY, NY 10036
Email: yourcomments@foxnews.com

Partial list of FOX News Advertisers there are already quite a few boycotts cranked up against advertisers on FOX News.  Thanks to the Alliance for Integrity in Media for the following list.

Bayer Corporation
Corporate Communications
100 Bayer Road, Building 4
Pittsburgh, PA 15205
phone: 412 777-2000

Busch Gardens
Post Office Box 9158
Tampa, FL 33674
Phone:888 800-5447

Circuit City
9950 Mayland Drive
Richmond, VA 23233
Phone: 804 486-4000

LazBoy Furniture
1284 North Telegraph Road
Monroe, MI  48162
Phone: 734 456-2005

Marriott Hotels
10400 Fernwood Road
Bethesda, MD 20817
Phone: 301 380-3000

Nikon
1300 Walt Whitman Road
Melville, NY 11747-3064, U.S.A.
Phone: 631 547-4200

PetMeds
1441 SW 29th Ave
Pompano Beach, FL. 33069
Phone: 800 738-6337

Pfizer Viagra
235 East 42nd Street
NY, NY 10017
Phone: 212 733-2323

Proctor & Gamble Head & Shoulders
The Procter & Gamble Company
P.O. Box 599
Cincinnati, OH 45201-0599
Phone: 513 983-1100

Ramada Hotels
1910 8th Avenue, N.E.
P.O. Box 4090
Aberdeen, SD 57402

Miralus RenewIn
2710 Thomes Avenue, Suite 700
Cheyenne, WY 82001
Phone: 877 373-3436

Sandals Resorts
Unique Vacations, Inc.
4950 SW 72nd Avenue,
Miami, Florida 33155
In North America, call toll free:
Phone: 888 SAN-DALS

Sanofi-Aventis AmbienCR
55 Corporate Drive
Bridgewater, NJ 08807-5925
Phone: 908 981 5000

Smart Balance
115 W. Century Rd Suite 260
Paramus, NJ 07652
Phone: 201 568-9300

Tempur-Pedic
1713 Jaggie Fox Way
Lexington, KY 40511
Phone: 859 514-4757

TransUnion
Post Office Box 2000
Chester, PA 19022

Johnson and Johnson Healthcare Products Visine
P.O. Box 726
Langhorne, PA 19047-0726
Phone: 800 494-4855

ABC News coming soon, hint: Buy nothing Disney owners

CNN advertisers coming soon

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Brands-to-avoid shopping cheat sheet.

Authors Website: https://ralphlopez.wordpress.com/

Authors Bio:

Ralph Lopez majored in Economics and Political Science at Yale University. He writes for Truth Out, Alternet, Consortium News, Op-Ed News, and other Internet media. He reported from Afghanistan in 2009 and produced a short documentary film on the situation. He has also been published in the Boston Globe and the Baltimore Sun.

Website: https://ralphlopez.wordpress.com/