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The kick-off session of the new national movement for impeachment of President Bush (and Vice President Dick Cheney), Impeach for Change, held in Philadelphia's new Constitution Center just a block away from Independence Hall where the Constitution was written,
was a huge success.
Surprisingly, for a meeting of progressives, there was no dissention.
Instead, there was a broad acceptance of the notion that impeachment of
this president should not be a matter of partisan strategy, but rather
an imperative for defense of the U.S. Constitution.
As former Representative Elizabeth Holtzman, who served on the House
impeachment panel that voted out three articles of impeachment against
President Richard Nixon, put it at the forum, the Constitution is being
gravely threatened by Bush's abuses of power and his constitutional
crimes, and the American public is "way ahead" of a Democratic
leadership that is counseling caution and that is saying impeachment is
"off the table."
With a PowerPoint display cycling through a list of 10 impeachable
crimes on a large screen behind them, speakers from the After Downing
Street Coalition, Veterans for Peace, Progressive Democrats of America,
Democrats.com and Code Pink joined Holtzman in laying out a strategy
for pressing the new Democratic Congress to “do the right thing,” and
open impeachment hearings early next year.
Plans call for a national Impeachment Day on December 10, with town
hall meetings across the country voting for impeachment resolutions, to
be followed by a week spent lobbying congressional district offices.
Meanwhile, a coordinated campaign will begin encouraging grass roots
groups to set up impeachment lobbying offices in every one of the 435
congressional districts across the land. As well, activists will begin
collecting a planned one million signatures for presentation to the
House leadership in January, calling on them to initiate impeachment
hearings.
It is a bold, audacious plan, and one that will give real voice to the
aspirations of an electorate that made it clear on November 7 that they
want, as one participant put it, for a new Congress to "take out the
trash."
A session featuring progressive bloggers followed the initial forum,
with the discussion focusing on how to break through the corporate
media blackout on impeachment. It is clear that alternative media, and
particularly Internet-based news organizations, have managed to get the
impeachment story out there, which explains why a recent Newsweek poll
found 51 percent support for impeachment. But there is still a need to
force the mainstream corporate media to take impeachment seriously, and
to begin reporting honestly on how the current administration is
undermining constitutional government and the rule of law.
The session broke up at 4 pm after two hours of discussion, with
activists primed to go back to their own organizations to start working
for December 10, and to gear up for the big petition drive and for the
lobbying and organizing work ahead.
As one participant was leaving, he passed a young mother heading up the
long winding staircase in the atrium of the Constitution Center. She
was holding the hand of a very small, very tired little girl in jeans
and pigtails. “The Constitution has a lot of steps, Mommy,” the little
girl said, very seriously.
Indeed it does. And one of those steps is the impeachment clause, which
calls on members of Congress to hold a president to account who
violates his oath of office, abuses power, and lies to the people of
the country about the reasons for going to war.
Ten impeachable offenses committed by Bush and Cheney are: written by john,
November 13, 2006
Ten impeachable offenses committed by Bush and Cheney are: 1. Violating the United Nations Charter by launching an illegal war of aggression against Iraq without cause, using fraud to sell the war to Congress and the public, and misusing government funds to begin bombing without Congressional authorization. 2. Violating U.S. and international law by authorizing the torture of thousands of captives, resulting in dozens of deaths, and keeping prisoners hidden from the International Committee of the Red Cross. 3. Violating the Constitution by arbitrarily detaining Americans, legal residents, and non-Americans, without due process, without charge, and without access to counsel. 4. Violating the Geneva Conventions by targeting civilians, journalists, hospitals, and ambulances, and using illegal weapons, including white phosphorous, depleted uranium, and a new type of napalm. 5. Violating U.S. law and the Constitution through widespread wiretapping of the phone calls and emails of Americans without a warrant. 6. Violating the Constitution by using signing statements to defy hundreds of laws passed by Congress. 7. Violating U.S. and state law by obstructing honest elections in 2000, 2002, 2004, and 2006. 8. Violating U.S. law by using paid propaganda and disinformation, selectively and misleadingly leaking classified information, and exposing the identity of a covert CIA operative working on sensitive WMD proliferation for political retribution. 9. Subverting the Constitution and abusing Presidential power by asserting a "Unitary Executive Theory" giving unlimited powers to the President, by obstructing efforts by Congress and the Courts to review and restrict Presidential actions, and by promoting and signing legislation negating the Bill of Rights and the Writ of Habeas Corpus. 10. Gross negligence in failing to assist New Orleans residents after Hurricane Katrina, in ignoring urgent warnings of an Al Qaeda attack prior to Sept. 11, 2001, and in increasing air pollution causing global warming.
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... written by Carl Isler,
November 19, 2006
I urge you to impeach Bush and Cheney on all ten counts. My local US representatives in Arizona disgree stating Bush has not committed high treason, what about high crimes agaignst the American people, unjustified murder of our military forces and the Innocent civilians? Educate these rank and file Republicans. Prove them wrong. Impeach Bush and Cheney.
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1. Violating the United Nations Charter by launching an illegal war of aggression against Iraq without cause, using fraud to sell the war to Congress and the public, and misusing government funds to begin bombing without Congressional authorization.
2. Violating U.S. and international law by authorizing the torture of thousands of captives, resulting in dozens of deaths, and keeping prisoners hidden from the International Committee of the Red Cross.
3. Violating the Constitution by arbitrarily detaining Americans, legal residents, and non-Americans, without due process, without charge, and without access to counsel.
4. Violating the Geneva Conventions by targeting civilians, journalists, hospitals, and ambulances, and using illegal weapons, including white phosphorous, depleted uranium, and a new type of napalm.
5. Violating U.S. law and the Constitution through widespread wiretapping of the phone calls and emails of Americans without a warrant.
6. Violating the Constitution by using signing statements to defy hundreds of laws passed by Congress.
7. Violating U.S. and state law by obstructing honest elections in 2000, 2002, 2004, and 2006.
8. Violating U.S. law by using paid propaganda and disinformation, selectively and misleadingly leaking classified information, and exposing the identity of a covert CIA operative working on sensitive WMD proliferation for political retribution.
9. Subverting the Constitution and abusing Presidential power by asserting a "Unitary Executive Theory" giving unlimited powers to the President, by obstructing efforts by Congress and the Courts to review and restrict Presidential actions, and by promoting and signing legislation negating the Bill of Rights and the Writ of Habeas Corpus.
10. Gross negligence in failing to assist New Orleans residents after Hurricane Katrina, in ignoring urgent warnings of an Al Qaeda attack prior to Sept. 11, 2001, and in increasing air pollution causing global warming.