Impeachment

Civil Liberties and Constitutional Rights

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By David Swanson

Remarks made on May 24, 2008, in Radford, Va., at the Building a New World Conference: http://www.wpaconference.org

Our First Amendment has been locked up in a chain-link Free Speech Zone.

The Fourth Amendment is under warrantless surveillance and scared for its life.

The Fifth, Sixth, and Seventh Amendments have been detained without charge.

And the Eighth Amendment is presently undergoing waterboarding.

We are losing our original Bill of Rights as well as basic rights that underpin read more

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Economic Exploitation and Empire

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By David Swanson
This combines remarks made on two panels on May 23, 2008, in Radford, Va., at the Building a New World Conference: http://www.wpaconference.org

Key to enforcement of US economic exploitation of people outside the US is the use and threat of military force. The dominance of the military in US public life and the US economy is also key to the economic exploitation of Americans. Our largest export is weapons, and our largest and longest public investment is in killing. With corporations read more

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Cindy Sheehan to Speak in Charlottesville VA

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Sheehan to speak at Omni
By Erika Howsare, Cville Weekly

Peace activist Cindy Sheehan will speak in Charlottesville on May 22. She was in town almost exactly two years ago, speaking against the war in Iraq and about the death of her son there, and stopped here again last July for a rally in support of the impeachment of George Bush and Dick Cheney.

At that last appearance, Sheehan was talking about running for Congress in California’s Eighth District if the incumbent there, House Speaker Nancy read more

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Cindy Sheehan to speak in Charlottesville, Va., on Thursday, May 22nd, from 7 to 9 p.m.

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Cindy Sheehan is a candidate for Congress in California’s 8th District, challenging House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

Pelosi has overseen the spending of hundreds of billions of dollars of your grandchildren’s borrowed money to occupy Iraq.
Can you find $20 to challenge her agenda?

Pelosi has removed impeachment from our Constitution. Jefferson’s rolling in his grave.
Can you help restore our republic?

Join us on Thursday, May 22nd, from 7 to 9 p.m. in the Preston Room at the Omni Hotel read more

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One Hundred and Eleven (111) Pro-Impeachment Candidates (!!!)

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By David Swanson

I’ve done no survey. There are probably a heck of a lot more candidates out there who haven’t contacted me or I haven’t happened to run across. But I have put together a list, thus far, of 111 candidates for Congress, the Senate, or the White House who support impeaching Bush and Cheney. Here’s the list, organized by office and by state / district:
http://afterdowningstreet.org/2008candidates

Most of the candidates on the list are Democrats, either incumbents read more

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Funny Math, Part II: Impeachment

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By David Swanson

There is a widespread myth that an impeachment cannot happen in the space of the nine months Bush and Cheney are scheduled to remain in office. But I’m unable to find any past impeachment that took as long as nine months. It’s messy comparing one impeachment to another, as they are complicated and varying processes. But a few things are clear: most impeachment efforts achieve important results quickly, without actually achieving impeachment (think Elliot Spitzer read more

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