VoteToImpeach.org- Impeachment Update

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Excerpts from the New York Times

Friday, January 21, 2005

 

Never before had the Park Service granted a protest group dedicated

space for the inaugural parade, organizers said ... Ramsey Clark, an

antiwar figure who served as attorney general under President Lyndon

B. Johnson, appeared early and told the crowd that the Bush

administration had " made the world a more dangerous place. It's

because of what we've done and what we're doing right now, " Mr.

Clark said, adding, " Impeachment now is essential to the integrity

of the U.S. government and the people of the United States. "

 

 

Dear ImpeachBush/VoteToImpeach.org member,

 

The response to our massive presence on the inaugural parade route

has been overwhelming.

 

 

The large bright yellow and black impeachment signs were all over

the inaugural parade route, as well as in the antiwar bleachers. CNN

carried the story " Thousands of demonstrators chanted `Impeach Bush'

as the presidential motorcade passed. " There was widespread coverage

on other television networks, the New York Times, Associated Press

and in media all over the world.

 

More than 10,000 people cheered as Ramsey Clark addressed the crowd

at 4th St. and Pennsylvania Ave. Thousands more were held two blocks

away behind a Secret Service check point at 3rd and C Sts. and

blocked from gaining access to the rally site but even there people

held their own spontaneous demonstrations.

 

 

 

We have included below the text of Ramsey Clark's address to the

January 20 CounterInaugural demonstration.

 

The impeachment movement got a huge boost through this important

effort. Thousands of people took off one, two or even three days of

work in order to get on buses and to travel by car caravan to

Washington DC from all over the country. In Washington DC,

volunteers worked night and day, overcoming all of the logistical

hurdles that were designed by the National Park Service and the

Bush/Cheney Presidential Inaugural Committee as a method for

preventing the demonstration from taking place. Many people who

could not come sent a financial contribution to help cover all of

the expenses. Everyone should feel very proud. There has never been

an inaugural day like the one on January 20 because of the efforts

of the ImpeachBush/VoteToImpeach.org members and other people of

conscience.

 

The next few months are critical. We intend to use all available

avenues to promote the impeachment movement so that Congress will

feel the pressure of this growing movement.

 

We can keep this work going because of the tremendous support from

individuals from around the country who believe that impeachment is

an essential tool to save the constitution and to hold Bush, Cheney,

Rumsfeld and others in the government accountable for their crimes.

We are depending on your support to help this effort grow. You can

make a contribution now by clicking here for access to the online

donation form and the secure server, where you can also get

information to write a check.

 

 

 

 

Ramsey Clark's address

to the January 20, 2005 CounterInaugural demonstration

at 4th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.

 

 

Let me warm you up for a minute by telling you about how cold it

was on January the 20th of 1961, literally. The Potomac River was

frozen over and I remember seeing a guy ride across it on a

motorcycle. And my feet haven't thawed out yet. I stood up for about

12 hours out here. There was over 20 inches of snow. And the best

scene of the inauguration was when a buffalo with a rider came

charging down Pennsylvania Avenue, reminded us that this country can

be a beautiful place where the buffalo roam, but no more.

 

 

We're the ones that are here really to support and defend the

Constitution of the United States. We have to take the Constitution

back. Back from Crimes Against Peace, from War Crimes and Crimes

Against Humanity. You know the Nuremburg Tribunal called the War of

Aggression the supreme international crime, and it is. And George W.

Bush has waged a war of aggression against Iraq. He's killed more

than 100,000 people. Were their lives worth nothing? Can we have a

moment of silence in memory of all the people who died in Iraq

because of the criminal acts of George W. Bush in waging this war of

aggression.

 

Every moment of their lives is fraught with danger right now because

of us. The world is the most dangerous place it's ever been now

because of what our country has done and is doing. And we have to

take it back. We can't wait four more years.

 

There can't be any more Fallujahs. Fallujah is the 21st century

equivalent of Guernica. We just went in and destroyed that city.

Drove the people out, killed them, thousands, we don't know how

many. They won't even bother to count whose been killed or how many

or estimate how many. They just keep killing. Almost every day we're

reading about another check point where some family got wiped out

cause they didn't do what they were supposed to do according to the

military there.

 

Abu Ghraib is unbelievable in the innocent times of 1961, that we

would torture people that way and on the instructions of the

President of the United States and his highest legal advisors.

Torture is okay, they said, go for it fellows. If we can't renounce

that and remove it from office then the Constitution doesn't work

anymore.

 

We've got to do more than take back the Constitution. There has to

be accountability for what has happened. The Constitution says that

the President, Vice President and other officials of the United

States shall be removed from office upon impeachment for and

conviction of high crimes and misdemeanors.

 

If you care about the Constitution you'd better start talking to

your member of the House of Representatives and say impeachment now

is essential to the integrity of the United States government and to

the future of the United States. We've had more than 500,000 people

sign on to ImpeachBush.org/VoteToImpeach.org. We need to get 5

million and we need to get 5 million on there quick.

 

And then the Congress will react. The Congress understands something

when the people demand it. And the power is in the people. It always

has been. The question is whether the people have the will to

exercise it.

 

 

 

I think the imperative challenge of the American people now is to

live up to the Constitution and demand the impeachment of George W.

Bush and other officials of the government who are responsible for

these crimes.

 

We encourage you to forward this email to a friend and urge them to

participate in the impeachment movement by voting online at

www.ImpeachBush.org.

 

--All of us at ImpeachBush/VoteToImpeach.org

 

 

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