PATHWAYS TO IMPEACHMENT

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IMPEACHMENT TIME HAS COME

 

 

 

OpEdNews.com

 

Original Article at

http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_carol_wo_060219_pathways_to_impeachm.htm

 

February 19, 2006

 

 

 

PATHWAYS TO IMPEACHMENT

 

Our Representatives must act on behalf of " we the people " .

 

By Carol Wolman

 

Impeachment is a legal process similar to arraignment, whereby a

public official is charged with criminal conduct. In the case of the

president and vice president, the House of Representatives acts as the

prosecuting attorney, for the people. Its job is to investigate

allegations of wrongdoing and, if warranted, to bring formal charges.

The case then goes to the Senate, which acts as judge to find the

official guilty or not guilty.

 

Basically, pressure has to be applied to our Representatives in

Congress to truly represent our interests, rather than the interests

of the corporations, the military-industrial complex, the energy czars

who want Bush to remain.

We have vested our authority as " we the people " in these

Representatives, and can vote them out this November if they don't do

what we want.

 

This essay will lay out several different pathways which can be taken

to induce the House to do its job.

 

1) Put pressure on the current Congress to start an investigation into

impeachable offenses. This has been tried for the past year, and is

going nowhere. Even with the fall of Tom DeLay, the White House

control of the House remains firm, and Congr. John Conyers House

Resolutions 635,636 & 637, calling for censure and investigation of

Bush and Cheney, don't get out of the Republican controlled Judicial

Committee. This is the only path that has been followed so far, and it

has led to great discouragement, since the White House simply

stonewalls all requests for information that could lay the groundwork

for impeachment.

 

2) Pressure the Democratic Party to come out for impeachment in the

upcoming election. We want them to go after Bush the way the

Republicans went after Clinton. The current Democratic congressional

leadership is too spineless to muster this kind of energy. We don't

know what sort of blackmail and threats they are being subjected to,

but we do know that key Democratic Senatorial leaders were anthraxed

with bugs from Fort Dietrick 2 weeks after 9-11, and that Paul

Wellstone and his family were yanked out of the sky 2 weeks before an

election. People based in Washington DC probably have good reason to

be frightened.

 

We are getting around the Washington blanket of fear by pressuring

Howard Dean, the chair of the Democratic National Committee, to work

for impeachment. He is ex-governor in Vermont and mounted the only

serious challenge to Bush's war presidency in 2004. Although the

Committee is dominated by those playing ball with Bush, Dean is an

independent thinker and might be persuaded that taking on impeachment

is the only way to win Congress in the fall.

 

 

 

We are mounting a letter writing campaign, via a handy link provided

by the DNC. http://www.democrats.org/page/petition/chairman/futfbu

Tell Dean that getting rid of the bad guys in the White House is our

number one priority, and we want the Democrats, all Democratic

candidates for Congress, to pledge to initiate an investigation into

impeachable offenses, if elected. Recent polls show that 80% of

Democrats want impeachment.

 

Tell Dean that we will give no money to the Democratic party until it

advocates impeachment.

 

You can write to him at

http://www.democrats.org/page/petition/chairman/futfbu

 

 

3) Pressure especially incumbents, to mention the possibility of

impeachment in their re-election campaign. people who are running for

Congress,Our goal is to make impeachment THE CENTRAL campaign issue.

 

4) Run our own impeachment candidates through the Green party. Some of

us are organizing on the internet to this end.

 

5) Work on an alternate route, via state legislatures, which can send

impeachment resolutions to Congress. Take impeachment resolutions to

city councils, boards of supervisors, and any other official bodies

you can think of.

 

6) Build your core group.

http://www.impeachBush.meetup.com offers a handy way to inform people

of meetings and other events. Our east bay group is active enough now

that we also have a where we can quickly exchange ideas

and chat.

 

7) Build the movement- reach out to the community. Table, get people

to sign petitions to Dean, share the mike at local events, make

speakers available to other groups, liaison with the Greens, the

Democrats, the peace movement, environmentalists, women and minority

activists, advocates for the poor, and your family, friends and

neighbors. Impeachment is a movement whose time has come. We The

People need to take our authority back!

 

Impeachment is peaceful, legal, and democratic. We can do this!

 

In the name of the Prince of Peace, Carol Wolman

 

 

 

Authors Website: activistsforimpeachment/

 

Authors Bio: Carol S. Wolman, MD is a psychiatrist in Northern

California. A lifelong peace activist, she has written extensively on

the psychology of our times. She is actively working to impeach Bush

and Cheney, and invites you to print out a letter to Bush from Rep.

John Conyers, informing Bush that censure and impeachment are

underway. You can collect signatures and fax them to your

representative and to Conyers.

http://deependnews.com/conyerscensure.htm She also suggests you join

or form a local group at http://impeachbush.meetup.com/