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Impeachment Article to be Introduced Thursday
afterdowningstreet.org — From Congressman Dennis Kucinich WASHINGTON, D.C. (July 8) -- Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) sent the following letter today to his colleagues in Congress: July 8, 2008 When the Commander in Chief lies to go to war, he must be impeached. A single article of impeachment will be brought to the floor on Thursday. Please co-sponsor.
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- keymanjim2, on 07/08/2008, -6/+3Dennis Kucinich (D'OH)
Define insanity. - chipndale, on 07/08/2008, -3/+3keymanjim, Define patriotism. Define fascism.
- keymanjim2, on 07/09/2008, -1/+2This is how we use the reply button.
A lose interpretation of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again expecting a different result.
The democrats will never impeach Bush during an election year. It would make them look petty and show that all their bush bashing was *****. Not to mention the fact, if there are any substance to his list, that many of them can be impeached for many of the same reasons the kookie has outlined.
- keymanjim2, on 07/09/2008, -1/+2This is how we use the reply button.
- bradnewsham, on 07/09/2008, -2/+2Dennis Kucinich is a gift to the nation and an inspiration to all of us who are angry and frustrated from having seen our country and our world pummeled by a bunch of grifters from the oil industry.
- mentalhead, on 07/09/2008, -1/+2Kucinich is such an idiot. Are we going to impeach most of congress too then? They approved of going to war for the same reasons President Bush did.
- Bastet62, on 07/10/2008, -0/+1We Need a Movement to Bring All This to A Halt!
The World Can’t Wait – Drive Out the Bush Regime June 2008
When a government practices torture as policy, invades other countries that do not threaten it, thus committing, according to the UN Charter, the highest war crime of all, carries out raids and mass detentions of people, muzzles science and scientists, fires and bans the books of professors and teachers that dissent from its policies, outlaws abortion rights, repeals the right to challenge your indefinite detention, openly spies upon all of its citizens, declares itself above the law, and moves aggressively to install a narrow, extremist brand of theocracy upon the people … when that government is your government … then what is your responsibility?
Seven years ago, the Bush regime set out to radically remake society, in a fascist way for generations to come. People looked at all of this and thought of Hitler, and they were right to do so. Since then, with the active participation of both major political parties, the regime has radically altered the shape of U.S. society and locked in a global trajectory of wars for empire with no regard for human cost or conscience.
This new normalcy, greased by official LIES, the terror of U.S. sponsored torture, and a passive populace, sets the stage and framework for the ’08 Presidential contest.
Will the defining elements of this direction be legitimized and codified by the ‘08 election? Putting hopes and energies into a savior from the Democratic Party -- when this direction is not being challenged -- only serves to de-mobilize people.
While Barack Obama and John McCain, each in their own way, distance themselves from the debacle of the Bush years, neither of them, and no significant force within the halls of power, is challenging this fundamental direction. Both have endorsed a military attack on Iran as an acceptable option.
No significant voice in your government is demanding the global network of U.S. detention centers, the rendering of U.S. captives to even less-restrained torture states, or the U.S.’s own policy of torture – codified in the Military Commissions Act which passed with bi-partisan support – be repealed.
No serious presidential contender is staking his campaign on reversing the PATRIOT Act, the widespread domestic wire-tapping, the prosecution of journalists who blow the whistle, or the firing of professors setting a chill in academia.
Neither major candidate is insisting on an immediate end to the Gestapo-style raids of immigrants or to the criminalization of a whole generation of black youth and others that has resulted in the largest prison population in the world.
No major politician is denouncing the very narrow and hateful brand of Christian fundamentalism which is massively restricting abortion and birth control and exporting “abstinence-only” programs to AIDS ravaged countries around the world with potential genocidal impact. Rather than repudiating its intolerance, bigotry and ignorance both presidential nominees are maneuvering to seize the mantle of traditional morality. And as the planet is imperiled by environmental disaster, neither is fighting without compromise against the undermining of science itself, including the foundational scientific fact of evolution.
The "pendulum” is not “swinging back." Never before has a sole-super power held so much of the world in such peril. Never before have the crimes of one empire threatened the future of so much of humanity.
This is what sets the terms of debate among those vying to be the new Commander-In-Chief.
Only you – not your government! – can bring this whole fascist direction to a HALT!
As men and boys are hooded and shackled under U.S. occupation, as hundreds of thousands of new detention facilities are constructed within U.S. borders, as walls go up between the US and Mexico and in Baghdad and Gaza, as concentration of weapons of mass destruction are trained on yet another country, Iran – which has not attacked the U.S. -- silence and paralysis are NOT acceptable.
The words from the original Call to Drive Out the Bush Regime ring even truer today: "That which you will not resist, and mobilize to stop, you will learn -- or be forced -- to accept.”
A country at peace with being at war is a country of Good Germans.
There is nothing – no legacy, no individual pursuit – that will shine brighter in the eyes of future generations than the dark shadow this program is casting over the world. We must bring it to a halt!
A spirit and ethos of resistance to war crimes and crimes against humanity must spread – breaking out of the terms and stepping out of the confines of official politics. Calling out to the millions who today are passive, to those succumbing to the deadly illusion and often self-delusion that the Bush nightmare is somehow going to “just go away,” but who are agonized and outraged by what is being done in their names, we must set an example of political resistance, massive protest, official defiance, and fearless truth-telling that clarifies and rallies others into this fight for the direction of humanity.
What will things look like the day after the election? Will people, through their passivity and through having restricted themselves to mobilizing themselves and others behind one or the other major candidate, make legitimate the results of an election that is taking place on terms inhospitable to people and basic principles of justice the world over? Will millions around the world look on in horror at what the American people have allowed? Will the millions in this country who want so badly a different future be demobilized, desensitized and caught up in a new sense of dangerous patriotism and national unity?
Or will the clarifying examples of resistance; churches defying racist vigilantes and the pogroms of Homeland Security by sheltering immigrants targeted for deportation; psychologists refusing to participate in U.S. torture; lawyers fighting to disbar John Yoo for authoring Bush’s “Torture Memos;” and high school students who defied the assault of rightwing thugs and police to shut down the Marine recruiter center in Berkeley, be upheld and spread?
Will increasing numbers of people be challenged by those of you reading this statement and wearing the color orange – on a ribbon, bandana or button every day – learn that we must not be restricted to the choices being put before us by a political apparatus that continues to push ahead crimes that shock the conscience of the world? Will those people be jolted awake with an example set that there IS ANOTHER WAY and that we ourselves must take responsibility for forging it?
On the day after the election – no matter who is the next president – will we have strengthened the pole in opposition to all this? Will there be an increasingly visible independent political force of RESISTANCE that people can join and persevere with until this whole direction is brought to a halt?
Join with World Can’t Wait NOW to shut down the military recruiters; to shine a light on and stop the terrorizing raids on immigrants; to get the torture architect John Yoo fired from UC Berkeley, disbarred and tried as a war criminal; to challenge and reverse the suffocating genuflection to the “morality” of religious fanatics, and bring forward a completely different dynamic that does not stop until this whole direction is brought to a halt.
“The point is this: history is full of examples where people who had right on their side fought against tremendous odds and were victorious. And it is also full of examples of people passively hoping to wait it out, only to get swallowed up by a horror beyond what they ever imagined. The future is unwritten. WHICH ONE WE GET IS UP TO US.” From the Call to Drive Out the Bush Regime June 2005
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