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Subject: We Can Make Impeachment a Reality in 2006
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We Can Make Impeachment a Reality in 2006
Impeachment Movement Announces Nationwide Action Plan
How you can join the January 6th-9th Lobby Days for ImpeachmentIn
2005, the Impeachment movement spread like wildfire. With
your energy, time, commitment, and donations, the movement
to remove the criminal regime in the White House has reached
a new threshold. Make a difference at this critical juncture
in support of the movement by donating your time and money
today.
More impeachable crimes revealed
Attempting to appear earnest and sincere, George W. Bush told
an American people anguished by the criminal war in Iraq and
the White House's trashing of the Bill of Rights that, “Anytime
you hear the United States government talking about wiretap,
a wiretap requires a court order.” Bush, the incorrigible
liar, spoke those words in Buffalo, New York in 2004, well
over two years into a super-secret spying and wiretap program
authorized by the President himself. The vast program launched
on the American people was designed precisely to avoid judicial
oversight - the need to obtain a court order before the wiretapping
of countless citizens and non-citizens alike. You need not
be the subject of any criminal investigation to have been
targeted by George W. Bush and Dick Cheney’s regime.
Under Bush, the people have lost the sacred right to due process,
to the presumption of innocence, the right to be confronted
by evidence in open court, the right to legal counsel, the
right to make phone calls and send emails or participate in
political protest without becoming the focus of intrusive
government wiretaps and spying. While routinely spying on
a large but still unknown number of Americans, the Bush White
House has set up secret prisons around the world, has systematically
engaged in secret and open torture practices and has engaged
in a worldwide campaign of secret assassinations. (NY Times,
December 28, 2005)
Nixon too thought he was above the law
The people must not and will not stand for this criminal conduct.
This President and Vice-President, upon their election (or
selection) into office, believed that they were given a special
waiver exempting them from adhering to the Constitution and
the laws of the land forbidding such a massive spy program.
In fact, these high officials took an oath of office to uphold,
not subvert, the Constitution and the cherished freedoms that
belong to the people.
Bush and Cheney are acting with the same imperial arrogance
as Richard Nixon. Twenty months after he was re-elected (in
a landslide, no less), Nixon resigned rather than be impeached.
Bush's impeachment can and will happen now because people
are supporting this movement with great enthusiasm and with
great commitment.
Today, millions of people in this country passionately support
the ImpeachBush.org movement. In 2006, we will do everything
in our power to make impeachment a reality. The naysayers
never make history. We do not wait for timid politicians to
lead. Throughout our own history it has been the grassroots
peoples movements that took the lead and the politicians that
followed. In the case of Nixon’s impeachment and resignation,
“official history” only records the congressional
hearings that led to Nixon’s demise, but those hearings
were the culmination, not the beginning, of a grassroots people’s
movement that spread coast-to-coast.
Keep the Heat On! Join the January 6-9 massive Peoples Lobby
for Impeachment
Between January 6-9, tens of thousands of people will use
the ImpeachBush.org/VoteToImpeach.org web site to send an
email or fax to their elected official demanding that Bush
and Cheney be impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors.
On these days, there will be an easy-to-use email mechanism
on the web site that will allow you to send an email letter
to your elected official telling them to uphold the Constitution
by supporting impeachment. Even if your Senators or congressional
representative are unsympathetic to impeachment, let them
know what you think. If you think that they are potentially
sympathetic, tell them to stop waiting and act now! We owe
it to ourselves and to our children to speak up, loud and
clear.
On January 7, impeachment will be the focus of town hall meetings
and rallies in communities around the country. Send us an
email and tell us how the event went in your area so that
we can post it on the ImpeachBush.org web site.
The January 6-9 Peoples Lobby for Impeachment will be just
the first steps of the Impeachment Action Plan to force impeachment
in 2006.
New York Times Ad in January
Shortly after the January 6-9 Peoples Lobby for Impeachment,
the full page newspaper ads in the New York Times and other
newspapers will be published. Radio spots and other advertising
will start to run. The ImpeachBush/ VoteToImpeach.org movement
will organize or form contingents in hundreds of anti-war
activities in cities and towns throughout the United States
on March 18-20 - the third anniversary of the criminal war
in Iraq. In April and May, there will be a huge impeachment
presence in the streets of this country.
We are succeeding in building this movement from the bottom
up. Congresspeople including John Conyers, John Lewis, Senator
Barbara Boxer and a few others are beginning to speak about
impeachment. But the elected officials are some of the most
timid opponents of Bush. If you consider for a moment that
the Zogby poll of a few months ago reported that 53% of the
people support impeachment if Bush lied about the reasons
for going to war in Iraq -- and everybody knows he did - you
would expect a wave of impeachment resolutions in congress.
But the truth is that in the United States, we must create
a tidal wave for impeachment from the grassroots before the
politicians finally act (it is the toxic side effect of corporate
campaign contributions polluting real democracy and the Constitution.)
If you believe Bush and his regime should be impeached, please
make a much-needed donation. The NY Times and other newspaper
ads, radio spots, printing of posters, leaflets, organizing
demonstrations and rallies all of this happens because of
the generosity and commitment of people who believe in upholding
the Constitution.
Hundreds of people volunteer countless hours for this movement,
others help by making a donation and some do both. By making
a contribution for impeachment we build a movement that insists
that the current and future leaders of this country be held
accountable for their actions. If Bush can succeed in shredding
the Constitution, a dangerous precedent has been set. Please
support the impeachment movement today. We are at a truly
critical moment in the history of this country and the time
to act is now.
-All of us at ImpeachBush.org
VoteToImpeach.org
Watch the video on Why Voting machines
Don't work Click Here
Questions are swirling around whether
the election was conducted honestly or not. We need
to know -- was it or wasn't it?
If people were wrongly prevented from voting, or if
legitimate votes were mis-counted or not counted at
all, we need to know so the wrongdoers can be held accountable,
and so we can prevent this from happening again.
Members of Congress are demanding an investigation
to answer this question. The decision on whether or
not there will be an investigation could come as soon
as Monday. Join us in supporting the call for one now,
at:
http://www.moveon.org/investigatethevote/
Then please invite your friends and colleagues to sign,
as well. We need to show Congress that hundreds of thousands
of Americans are serious about protecting the integrity
of the vote.
We're all hearing the stories and wondering what's true
and what isn't. But at least two cases of serious problems
are accepted beyond doubt:
* In Broward County, Florida, electronic voting machines
counted
backwards: as more people voted, the official vote count
went down. [1]
* In one Columbus, Ohio suburb, election officials have
acknowledged
that electronic voting machines credited Bush with winning
4,258
votes, even though only 638 people voted there. [2]
These are just cases where we know something went wrong.
There were also lots of reports of people being denied
ballots on Election Day. So far, these reports remain
anecdotal, but they must be compiled and examined. And
the Internet is abuzz with theories about why the official
counts were so different from the exit polls.
Do you have a story? Were you prevented from voting?
Tell us, at:
BY clicking
here!
Six prominent members of Congress have called for an
investigation. Representatives Conyers (D-MI), Holt
(D-NJ), Nadler (D-NY), Scott (D-VA), Watt (D-NC) and
Wexler (D-FL), have demanded that the U.S. General Accounting
Office:
immediately undertake an investigation of the efficacy
of voting
machines and new technologies used in the 2004 election,
how
election officials responded to difficulties they encountered,
and what we can do in the future to improve our election
systems
and administration. [3]
We've got to support their call by asking our own Representatives
and Senators to join them.
If you have a personal story of disenfranchisement,
tell us. These members of Congress have agreed to include
our stories and comments in their call for an investigation.
Please sign now -- we'll deliver our compiled statements
to them on Friday.
Even if you don't have a personal story, your signature
on our petition will still help build support for an
investigation.
To keep our faith in democracy, we need to know the
facts. Your signing this petition, and sharing your
story if you have one, will help.
Thank you.
Sincerely,
--Carrie, Joan, Lee, Marika, Noah, Peter, Rosalyn,
and Wes
The MoveOn.org Team
November 11, 2004
Footnotes:
1. Broward Machines Count
Backward, Palm Beach Post, November 5, 2004
2. Glitch Gave Bush Extra Votes in Ohio, AP carried
on CNN, November 5, 2004
3. Letters from members of Congress to David Walker,
Comptroller General of the United States, demanding
an investigation of the election: November 5th, 2004
& November 8th, 2004
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