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By David Swanson

A radio show reported yesterday that Republican Texas Congressman Ron Paul said the following:

“I would have trouble arguing that he’s been a Constitutional President, and once you violate the Constitution and be proven to do that I think these people should be removed from office.”

And this: “Congress has generously ignored the Constitution while the President flaunts it, the courts have ignored it and they get in the business of legislating so there’s read more

By David Swanson

Last night was the 30th Anniversary of the pedestrian Downtown Mall in Charlottesville, Virginia. Thousands of people came out to celebrate, and the Bush Chain Gang joined them, to help pick up trash and clean walls.

 

Members of the Bush Chain Gang, supervised by the Charlottesville Center for Peace and Justice, handed out these cards,

 

and these bumperstickers…

 

as they went along. We handed out stacks and stacks of them, plus flyers about this read more

David Swanson Interview on the Ed Schultz Show
June 30, 2006
Transcript by David Dixon, www.OperationImpeachment.org

Link to Audio

Jim Lampley: David Swanson is best known as the former press secretary for Dennis Kucinich in his 2004 bid for the presidency. He is a cofounder of AfterDowningStreet.com and if you follow the blogosphere you know, of course, what the Downing Street memo was and what it revealed about the Bush Administrtion’s advance determination to invade Iraq. He’s also behind read more

By David Swanson

Veterans for Peace has drafted a Declaration of Impeachment using nothing but excerpts from the Declaration of Independence (plus a few words in parentheses). It reads as follows, and should be read at picnics and protests on the Fourth of July:

…whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, read more