[wvns] Nation of Islam Calls for Impeachment
Growing tide of voices raises the call for impeachment of Bush
By Askia Muhammad
May 15, 2007
http://www.finalcall.com/artman/publish/article_3484.shtml
Poll: Two-in-Five Americans Would Impeach Bush (AR Global Monitor,
05-10-2007)
Web Video: Farrakhan calls for impeachment of entire Bush
Administration (FCN, 04-25-2007)
Democratic presidential hopeful Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio,
announces articles of impeachment against Vice President Dick Cheney
on Tuesday, April 24, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Rep. Kucinich
holds a copy of the atricles. Photo: AP/World Wide Photos
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'To fail to identify actions of President Bush and Vice President
Cheney as impeachable offenses, high crimes and misdemeanors, is for
Congress to be in full complicity with the assault on the Constitution
and the rule of law'
—Debra Sweet
Director, World Can't Wait
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WASHINGTON (FinalCall.com) - The grassroots movement to impeach Pres.
George W. Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, and other high officials
is gaining momentum nationally.
On Capitol Hill Apr. 26, members of several anti-war groups even
staged a noisy disruption in the atrium of the Hart Senate Office
Building, unfurling banners from the seventh floor, which draped to
nearly the fifth floor. One banner read "Your silence, your legacy,"
while the other was simply the article of the U.S. constitution
providing for impeachment of the president, and Vice President,
according to D.C. Indymedia.org. As the banners unfurled, the crowd on
the atrium floor yelled "Impeach!"
The protestors also conducted a mock military funeral, before 14 were
arrested.
Meanwhile, in Vermont, several Town Hall Assemblies, as well as the
State Senate have voted to instruct the state's Congressional
delegation to support impeachment. Other cities have passed similar
resolutions.
In the House, Rep. Dennis Kucinich has introduced a measure to impeach
Vice President Dick Cheney. "Because I believe the vice president's
conduct in office has been destructive to the founding purposes of our
nation, today I have introduced House Resolution 333: Articles of
Impeachment of Richard B. Cheney," Rep. Kucinich said on Capitol Hill
Apr. 24.
Mr. Kucinich says the Vice President should be held accountable for
manipulating the intelligence process and deceiving the public to
build support for the invasion of Iraq.
But that measure does not go far enough, according to a more than 100
prominent activists who gathered at the Capitol Apr. 25. The coalition
included Washington State Senator Eric Oemig; Mayors Rocky Anderson of
Salt Lake City and John Shields of Nyack, N.Y.; Vietnam-era government
official Daniel Ellsberg; "Peace Mom" Cindy Sheehan, whose son was
killed in Iraq; and retired Army Colonel and diplomat Ann Wright, who
resigned the day the Iraq war began.
"Oh that's just the first step," Ms. Sheehan told The Final Call.
"What we have to do now as grassroots, is to pressure our
congressional members to co-sponsor that resolution with Dennis
Kucinich. If we could get 100 to 120 co-sponsors, it actually would
come out of the committee, and may come up for a vote.
"The most important thing we can do as grassroots America is show
Congress that we are on board, and we will support any Congress member
who does introduce articles of impeachment. Now, we only need articles
of impeachment introduced against George Bush. I support HR-333," Ms.
Sheehan continued.
"The winds of impeachment are sweeping the country," former U.S.
Attorney General Ramsey Clark said in a statement Apr. 24. Mr. Clark
accuses Pres. Bush and V.P. Cheney of "actively deceiving the country
with false propaganda aimed at justifying an unprovoked war of
aggression." Mr. Clark has mobilized nearly 900,000 signatures on an
on-line petition at www.VoteToImpeach.org.
"There comes a time when voices of conscience must sound the alarm and
recommend the remedy," Debra Sweet, director of the World Can't
Wait—Drive Out The Bush Regime, and another impeachment coalition
member said in a statement.
"To fail to identify actions of President Bush and Vice President
Cheney as impeachable offenses, high crimes and misdemeanors, is for
Congress to be in full complicity with the assault on the Constitution
and the rule of law," said Mr. Ellsberg, who released the classified
Pentagon Papers in 1971, which revealed that Pentagon officials knew
all along that the Vietnam War could not be won.
The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan sounded a similar alarm in
Detroit during his Saviours' Day address Feb. 25 when he said that
members of Congress should impeach Pres. Bush and his entire
administration for its "wicked policies," and for "lying to America."
Min. Farrakhan then added, as he turned to face Rep. John Conyers,
Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, who stood and gestured in
solidarity: "If you won't impeach him, sanction him."
The movement demanding impeachment is now gaining momentum. "We have
seen that Congress can be moved," said Mr. Clark. "The Bush
administration is reeling from its own wrongdoing. The horror its war
of aggression has wreaked on the people of Iraq and thousands of U.S.
service members, must trouble the sleep of every sentient American.
"All over the country, supporters of impeachment are intensifying
their efforts. Our focus must be on Congress and the priorities of
full troop withdrawal and the impeachment of President Bush, Vice
President Cheney, Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez, Secretary of
State Condoleezza Rice and other culpable officials within the
administration," Mr. Clark continued.
Impeachment now would also not be politically "divisive," according to
Ms. Sheehan. "George Bush and his administration have clearly, clearly
committed impeachable offenses," she told The Final Call. "And it is
really the Constitutional duty of Congress to put forth these articles
of impeachment, have them tried, and we'll see what happens.
"The Republicans did it against Bill Clinton for totally spurious
reasons, and George Bush—his regime is responsible for killing
hundreds of thousands of innocent people; for spying on Americans
without due process; for institutionalizing torture; and for leaving
the people of the Gulf states hanging off their roofs to die during
Hurricane Katrina.
"George Bush has admitted to breaking a federal offense, the FISA Law,
which is also in direct opposition to the Fourth Amendment against
unreasonable search and seizure, and the Eighth Amendment against
cruel and unusual punishment, which also violates the Geneva
Convention. So clearly, they have committed these high crimes and
misdemeanors. Now, let's give them a trial. Let's air them out in
public. Let's see what happens.
"The country's not very clearly divided anymore. Dick Cheney has a 9
percent approval rating. George Bush has in the high 20s, and low 30s.
So, most of this country wants the war to stop and they want to get
George Bush and Dick Cheney out of power.
"I just think this is a time in history when it's urgent for every
single American to become involved in the process. We have to remember
that we are the ones who are sovereign, and we only elect our
officials to do our bidding, and not the bidding of the special
interests. That's just something we all have to realize. We have to
claim our part in democracy and exercise it before we lose it," said
Ms. Sheehan.
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