RALLY TO CALL FOR IMPEACHMENT in Ashland, OR
Concerned Citizens Stand UP, 23.10.2007 08:24
RALLY TO CALL FOR IMPEACHMENT
Saturday October 27th
11am
Ashland Library march to the Plaza
No. It is NOT too late.
October 27 is the National Mobilization to End the War in Iraq. We the undersigned invite you to join us on that day for a MOBILIZATION FOR IMPEACHMENT.
We believe that the Republican Administration is "royalist". It is working to dismantle our democracy by centering power in the Executive branch. Impeachment is the tool the Constitution gave Americans to defend its system of checks and balances against royalist aspirations of an Executive. In his oath of office the President vowed to "preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States," In his zeal to implement his own questionable agenda, he has manifestly violated his oath.
At 11 o'clock on October 27, everyone who shares the fear that a reckless and ruthless administration has done vast harm to American democracy can assemble at the Ashland Public Library and walk to the Plaza. We will stand there lining the sidewalks and displaying our posters. We can give away "Impeach" buttons. We can sign petitions to send to our Legislators urging Congress to undertake Impeachment proceedings against the President and/or the Vice President. We can stand with Women in Black at 12 o'clock.
Doing this will help heal us of a sense of powerlessness, and it will pressure the Congress to act.
The following is a short list of impeachable offenses that should be investigated by the House Judiciary Committee presided over by Rep. John Conyers for the purpose of drawing up Articles of Impeachment.
The President and the Vice President:
manipulated the intelligence process to deceive the citizens and the Congress to justify the use of the United States armed forces to invade Iraq,
asserted presidential power to create military commissions which combine the functions of judge, jury and prosecutor in the trial of war crimes,
initiated kidnappings, secret detentions and torture in Eastern Europe prisons of suspected international terrorists,
contend that military power may be unleashed to kill or capture any American citizen on American soil if suspected of association or affiliation with al-Qaida,
invoked a Presidential power to torture in contravention of federal statutes and treaties,
employed signing statements that defy provision of bills he has signed into law that he proclaims are unconstitutional, for example a requirement to obtain a judicial warrant before opening mail,
instituted the National Security Agency's warrantless domestic surveillance program targeting American citizens on American soil in contravention of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978,
evoked executive privilege to conceal from Congress secret spying programs to gather foreign intelligence,
flouted Congress by blocking the testimonies of Karl Rove and Harriet Meyers regarding the firings of the U.S., Attorneys,
assert a "Unitary Executive Theory" that gives unlimited powers to the President,
obstruct efforts by Congress and the Courts to review and restrict Presidential actions.
We believe that not even ending the war in Iraq is more urgent than calling the President and the Vice President to account. It is possible that if the powers seized by these men were passed on to another Administration the protections of our liberties, constructed carefully by the Founding Fathers, will be lost forever. Impeachment is NOT, cannot be, "off the table."
Please join us on October 27.
Priscilla High 541-201-0162
Jack Seybold 541-488-3306
Tom Harrington and Jamie Hutchinson 541-482-0794
John Fisher-Smith 541-482-3269
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Impeachment Rally on Brain Labor Report 24.10.2007 - 10:43 Today's Brain Labor Report highlights plans for Ashland's Impeachment Rally. The guest interview is with Priscilla High who is one of the organizers for the rally... Listen Here  http://www.kskq.org/brainlabor/?p=93
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