Save the Republic!�/Granny D still going at at!!

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Sat, 4 Feb 2006 22:51:41 EST

Save the Republic!/Granny D still going at at!!!

 

 

 

 

Dear Friends,

 

Not too many speakers today know that an outdoor speech to a standing

crowd is quite a different thing from an indoor speech to a seated

audience. But Granny D hit it right this morning in Washington, D.C.

with a speech before the World Can't Wait protest on Constitution

Avenue. Those of us who have traveled with her on her past walks and

protests are no longer surprised when, after a particularly good

truth-telling by Granny at an outdoor rally, it rains. It has

happened too many times to ignore. So it did today, pouring after she

spoke.

 

Her remarks:

 

Good morning, dear fellow Americans!

 

Soon, we will all march to the White House, to give physical witness

to our concern that America’s values lay in tatters as a result of

Mr. Bush’s sociopathic behavior. I am here this morning to tell the

Members of Congress that, although we march to the White House now,

our hopes and hearts and expectations look backward down this street

to Congress.

 

Every Member of Congress has taken an oath of office to uphold the

Constitution.

 

But what of us? The highest office in a Republic, of course, is the

citizen. Why is it that we who were fortunate enough to be citizens

by way of birth do not nevertheless take an oath? Let us swear each

other in today, for we have hard work ahead. Raise your right hand,

if you can, if you dare, and repeat after me:

 

I do solemnly swear (the members of the crowd responded by raising

their hands and repeating)

That I will support and defend

The Constitution of the United States

Against all enemies, foreign and domestic

So help me God

 

Now what are our duties? To sit and allow the destruction of a free

democracy? (The crowd roared " No! " ) Indeed, not.

 

To allow the rise of a dictatorship, which is the name for a state

where the president calls himself commander and purposes to be above

all laws? (The crowd responded, " No! " ) Indeed, not

 

Our responsibility is clear, and our main duty now is to elect a

Congress this year that will uphold its oath, incumbent or not,

Democrat or not. (A great cheer went up.)

 

If you Democrat incumbents are listening, do not think the old donkey

has a skirt you can hide under to avoid doing your duty that is upon

you this day, this year. We have no use for you if you will not

uphold the notion that no man is above the law in this great Republic.

It is time for you to demand impeachment hearings, for the President

has declared war on law and the constitution, and you have no choice.

You have your duty now.

 

To adopt the harsh language of the day, you are for the Republic or

you are against it, and the people are prepared to see you ridden out

of town, tar and feathered and on a rail if you are against this

Republic---this Republic for which so many of our sons and daughters

have died, and atop whose columns all our dreams for a better world

are yet inscribed.

 

Citizens, think of the oath that our Congressmen and women have taken!

 

For them to make excuses for this budding dictator, or to say it is

far to early to talk about impeachment†" is this savvy politics or is

it, to their oath, betrayal?

 

(The crowd roared, “Betrayal!â€)

 

Think of the oath that our Congressmen and women have taken!

 

For them to turn the other cheek when a corruptly-elected President

uses lies to start a war and kills our children, is this hesitation a

calculated moderation--is it keeping one’s powder dry for a better

moment--or is it, to their oath, betrayal?

 

(The crowd roared, Betrayal!)

 

Think of the oath that our Congressmen and women have taken!

 

For them to go to lunch and raise their campaign dollars while a mad

President orders the torture of human beings against all the world’s

civilized convention, is this the way things go, or is this, to their

oath, betrayal?

 

(The crowd roared,Betrayal!€ and " Shame! " )

 

Congressmen and Congresswomen, you share in the crimes of a criminal

President if you have gone along as his Quislings, his enablers, his

cowardly house dogs. We send you to Washington to be the check. and

the balance. If you will not be that, you betray your oath. You

betray America and its ideals in a criminal way. You will be ushered

from your offices in tar and feathers and, while I speak in metaphors,

an angry America should give you pause, for an angry America does not

act in metaphors.

 

I ask my fellow citizens to take action in their own towns and at

their local offices of their Members of Congress. Let us co-ordinate

our actions at Tar and Feathers.org and be at their gates with our

demands that they fulfill their oaths and protect our Constitution,

our Republic.

 

We are a serious nation, a serious people, upset that our Constitution

is at risk from the most corrupt band of criminals ever to occupy the

White House and the Congress. Our Members of Congress do not think

themselves corrupt. They think that wealthy interests send them big

checks because they are fans of good government. In their deep

hearts, of course, they know better. They need to wake up to what they

have become, before we the people come to pull them from their high

horses in shame.

 

We are not joking. We are a serious people.

 

Members of Congress, hear me. You have your high salaries, your

lifetime health care, your lifetime pensions, your free dining halls

and free trips around the world and your limousines. We are used to

pampering you and we will allow you all these things even now, even

forever, if you will do one thing: if you will uphold your oath of

office in the time of our Constitution’s great crisis.

 

Let me propose a new law. Let me propose that it shall, under the

law, be a criminal conflict of interest if a Member of Congress acts

on any issue, votes on any issue, which might give the appearance of

favoring any group or individual who bankrolls their political career

through campaign contributions, perks, or job offers for themselves,

their family or their staff.

 

If such a law is passed, only a few minutes will expire before they

will also pass the free television time and the public financing of

campaigns needed to restore our Republic to its people.

 

Let the list of those who will introduce and co-sponsor such a

conflict of interest law, and who will act now to preserve our

Constitution, be the only list of men and women we will support in the

coming elections. And to the others, let history sweep them away,

along with Mr. Abramoff and Mr. Bush and the corrupt band of traitors

to our Constitution.

 

Citizens, if you agree with the necessity of these words, shout

“Save the Republic!†three times, loud and clear so they might

hear us on both ends of this street of ours. Thank you all!

 

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