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United States v. George W. Bush et al.
The Genius of Impeachment: The Founders' Cure for Royalism
Articles of Impeachment Against George W. Bush
The Impeachment of George W. Bush: A Practical Guide for Concerned Citizens
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Impeach the President: The Case Against Bush and Cheney
George W. Bush versus the U.S. Constitution: The Downing Street Memos and Deception, Manipulation, Torture, Retribution, and Cover-ups in the Iraq War and Illegal Domestic Spying
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The Twilight of Democracy: The Bush Plan for America
Frustrated Anti-War Leader Pleads for Congress to Impeach
By Josiah Ryan, CNSNews.com
(CNSNews.com) - One of the organizers of this week's anti-war protests in Washington, D.C., is pleading with House Judiciary Chairman John Conyers (D.-Mich.) to make good on his repeated threats to begin impeachment proceedings against President Bush.
David Swanson, who runs After Downing Street, a coalition that includes hundreds of prominent liberal activist groups, including Veterans Against the Iraq War and Code Pink, prompted cheers on Tuesday when he called for Bush's impeachment at a rally in front of the White House. About 70 people attended the rally.
Swanson told Cybercast News Service he has grown frustrated with Conyers' posturing about impeachment. "He doesn't mean it," said Swanson. "He isn't really working on it with anyone in the House. It's just an applause line."
Nonetheless, Swanson is not giving up on urging Conyers and the Democratic leadership to take action on impeaching President Bush before the end of the year.
"This is up to you, Congressman Conyers, this is your chairmanship," said Swanson. "We won it for you. We voted for lousy Democrats all across the country so you could have the chairmanship and act on your promises and impeach these criminals."
"Congressman John Conyers has an outstanding record," said Swanson. "But now he is treating our Constitution as a joke and treating us as idiots. This is offensive to all of us.
"Congressman Conyers, do not throw it away," said Swanson. "Don't make your legacy be the destruction of the Constitution, and do not blame it on Sen. Barack Obama."
Swanson was referring to Conyers's comment to Cybercast News Service on Tuesday that he would like to impeach President Bush but was afraid the action would prevent Obama (D-Ill.) from being elected president. (See story)
Conyers said he was afraid Republicans would use an impeachment attempt to hammer Democrats in the campaign -- "and that we end up getting McCain (as president)," Conyers said. "I would regret that for the rest of my life. That's the only reason. That would be my fear."
Conyers admitted, however, that he was "struggling" with a decision on whether to try impeaching Bush before the election. The Judiciary Committee, which Conyers chairs, would ordinarily conduct an impeachment inquiry, if there is one, and approve any Articles of Impeachment for consideration by the full House.
(In 1998, the Republican-controlled Judiciary Committee conducted impeachment proceedings against then-President Bill Clinton. Rep. Conyers says that he introduced the first resolution to impeach Richard Nixon, and he also wanted to impeach President Ronald Reagan over the invasion of Grenada, introducing a resolution to that effect in Nov. 1983.)
Swanson isn't the only one who doubts Conyers will actually attempt to impeach Bush. A former Conyers aide, who asked not to be named, told Cybercast News Service he agreed with Swanson's analysis. "He will never do it," said the former aide. "This is just rhetoric, and it is not part of the agenda. It's mostly just a red herring to the Republicans."
In 2005, the liberal magazine The Nation named Swanson's organization, After Downing Street, as America's most valuable progressive watchdog group and lauded it for trying "to create an actual opposition party in America"
Conyers's office did not respond to requests for comment.
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Justice not expediency!
The question is not whether Democrats can win the White House? The real question is whether the US Constitution will be defended as John Conyers swore to do when he took his oath of office? To this there can be only one answer. Justice! Not political expediency. This is one reason why I WILL NOT BE VOTING FOR DEMOCRATS ever again.
Jozef
John Conyers Letting the Clock Run Out on the 110th
John Conyers PREFERS TO WAIT until it's WAY TOO LATE to do anything about it. THEN, low and behold, a long, detailed, brillant "Article" by John appears entitled "Why I Should Have Impeached....". But John didn't count on all those independent and progressive voters, count me in, getting thoroughly disgusted with the democratic majority for NOT restoring the Constitution and the "rule of law" when they had the chance, so the dems get themselves booted out of office. Another John gets in by a landslide and the Republicans even take back both Houses of Congress with big veto proof majorities. FIRST ITEM on McCain's agenda is issuing pardons' for the Cheney/Bush team, who did such a wonderful job for the nation and the world, as McCain explains to the nation, just in case they might have made a few minor mistakes during their long imperial reign. John Conyers ENDS up in the TRASH BIN OF HISTORY, a total disgrace, has been and scoundrel, and he takes his Article with him.
well, maybe Conyers has a passport file?
Something strange is going on with all these democratic chicken $hits.
EW
Conyers needs to prove he's not a traitor...
...by initiating an impeachment investigation NOW.
Otherwise, he might as well just publicly announce his willing complicity in the crimes of the Bush administration.
What's it going to be, Mr. Conyers?
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Conyers is a traitor and he
Conyers is a traitor. He has publicly announced his complicity with Zionist Pelosi and Bush by lying to us. I promised this disgusting 'man' that I would not bother calling him again. What a wretched coward. Whatever happens history will never forget the legendary cowardice of Pelosi/Conyers or their pathetic excuses for betraying the United States of America.
The only reason we haven't seen martial law is because patriots still have guns. DO NOT allow the Zionists to con you out of them. My late father, a decorated WWll officer, would have already made preparations for civil war and I highly recommend that all patriots maintain a status of alertness. Be especially alert during national holidays. We must pass information to friends and family in the law enforcement and military communities for the survival of our Republic. The "blackwater thugs" are hopelessly outnumbered by us and the knuckle dragging sycophants are of little consequence, even the neocruds know this.
One way or another, Cheney, Bush, Perle, Rove, Wolfowitz, Rumsfeld, Ashcroft, Bush Sr., Neil Bush, Jeb Bush and other neocruds will be extradited to the Hague. Our broken "justice system" cannot accommodate them. They will be investigated for the 9/11/01 murders, election frauds, treason, environmental terrorism, extortion, obstructions of justice, domestic espionage, slanders, media manipulations, war crimes, torture, genocidal mass murders, grotesque war profiteering and attempting to engage more illegal wars of aggression. They will be given a fair trial, publicly prosecuted for all to see and imprisoned for life or executed.
Humanity needs closure from their Zionist ugliness in order to deal with challenges coming in the near future.
Conyers is a useful idiot
Conyers is a useful idiot for an illegal regime that is bankrupting our nation with disaster capitalism and a bogus war on terror.
Why should Conyers and Congress consider impeachment hearings when they don’t even know what’s going on? See Greenwald’s column www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/?last_story=/opinion/greenwald/2008/03/2...
"And in one of the most under-discussed stories of the year, The Wall St. Journal reported two weeks ago that the NSA -- unbeknownst even to most members of Congress and with no judicial oversight at all -- "now monitors huge volumes of records of domestic emails and Internet searches as well as bank transfers, credit-card transactions, travel and telephone records."
Why would anyone trust the current administration and subsequent administrations -- not just their political officials but the thousands and thousands of permanent government and private employees -- to spy on Americans, and store and collect extremely invasive information about Americans' private lives, with no oversight or requirement to demonstrate probable cause to a court -- as the Founders required -- to believe that the citizen being spied on has actually done something wrong? Whatever the outcome of the Obama passport investigation is, whoever the parties responsible are and whatever their motives, shouldn't this rather conclusively demonstrate the complete folly, the serious dangers, of continuing to vest in the government powers to spy on and collect data about Americans with no oversight?"
"Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel." -Samuel Johnson
Is It Possible For The Left To Organize...
and EVERYONE move to the GREEN side--VOTE GREEN OR NADER--and let the cards fall where they may?! We're going to end up with a jackass in the White House no matter what--so vote AGAINST ALL THE SHILLS!!!!
Enough of this settling for the LEAST WORST of the two criminal, corporate, cowardly parties!!!
SPREAD THE WORD!!!
Waiting for the Damn-NO-crats to do anything is like waiting for Abraham Lincoln to get off his chair in D.C. and walk back to his log cabin in disgust! Constant complaining and railing against a situation with NO EARS will accomplish NOTHING!!!