Forum Planned in New Jersey
By Paul Surovell, chairperson, South Mountain Peace Action, a local affiliate of NJ Peace Action in Maplewood and South Orange, NJ.
SMPA is sponsoring a public forum on February 8th in Maplewood that will discuss the main withdrawal proposals in Congress, and some citizen group proposals, as well as the Administration's "National Strategy for Victory."
We'll have presentations of the proposals by members of the community and then commentary by Ray McGovern and Paul Martin. The meeting will also feature parents of Marine Corporal Augie Schroeder, who was killed in Iraq in August 2005, Paul Schroeder and Rosemary Palmer. Paul wrote an Op-Ed piece in the Washington Post a couple of weeks ago.
There's a notice about our meeting and a link to a listing of withdrawal proposals, arranged for presentation at our meeting in six categories on the SMPA homepage:
http://www.BeAboutPeace.com
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Criminal proceedings against Bush and Co
Ours is not a time for legal niceties. Catastrophe is upon us. Abortion rights are important but Unitary Executive tramples it all. So Revolutionary Alita must be stopped. But only as the first step.
Immediate start of simultaneous impeachment proceedings against George W Bush and Dick Cheney are absolute must for the Democratic Party not to be obscured by trivial political considerations like having current Speaker of the House as our 44th President. Only impeachment with the harshest sentences possible under penalties for high treason, breach of domestic and international law may stop slippage into world anarchy, slippage triggered by Bush Administration. Nuclear proliferation is upon us and international trust in American current state of government is at all times low.
Our long term allies may still be smiling but return to the Hobbesian war of all against all a la pre-1914 is almost guaranteed if only American people do not push their representatives to send them the clearest sign that checks and balances provided by our Constitution are doing well and still unshaken.
Preview of Coming Distractions
I and my fellow seekers of peace (a.k.a. "traitors" to the war boosters) quite frankly celebrated the expose of the scandals afflicting our Republican masters, now surfacing in Washington, and are confident we can expect more, much more to come as one greed merchant after the other turns upon his brothers.
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But now we must take pause to reflect that a beast is never so dangerous as when cornered. The lights are burning in the Administration's offices tonight. Those entrusted to do the people's business are working hard and late, and they're perspiring.
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Are they working on a strategy to declare their innocence, to defend the guilty, to demonize their prosecutors? No, that will be handled by some brilliant young albeit partisan mind from the Justice Department, and delivered summarily by history's most disingenuous press secretary.
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What they're sweating over tonight is diversion, a diversion so monstrous that even you and I will forget about a "little thing" like a multi-million-dollar buyout of our government, because the security of our nation is about to be threatened anew by an international (or should we say out-of-Washington) menace. This menace may have been kicking around in the background someplace just waiting for the opportunity or the necessity to be trotted out. Well, it looks like the time has come for it (whatever it is) to take top billing, certainly higher billing than a little old political corruption scandal.
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Is someone about to attack us? Will we launch a preemptive attack? Will it involve North Korea? Iran? Syria? Goodness, China? Luxembourg? Kansas City? What exactly will be the threat? Where will it come from? Who will the enemy be?
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Not to worry. These and other questions will be clearly answered by the overtime crew just as soon as the scandals assume sufficient proportions to threaten their job security.