Impeachment

Starting at noon ET on September 1, 2006, and lasting 24 hours, websites and blogs all across the internet are being asked to replace their front pages with the single word “Impeach” in simple white text on a black background. Here’s an example: http://impeachnet.net

Visitors to those sites and blogs will be able to click and link to the sites’ usual front pages. But first they will see a word that, standing alone, is as powerful as any word right now: it is banned by our read more

The minority staff of the U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee, under the leadership of Congressman John Conyers (D., Mich.) has produced over the past many months a staggering report, just released, which documents the hard evidence of crimes and abuses committed by President Bush and his administration (breaking 26 specific laws). This report, “The Constitution in Crisis,” should provide the raw material for numerous news reports and point reporters toward fertile ground read more

Douglas Gillies asks David Swanson

“How can the American people impeach George W. Bush?”

By David Swanson

Can you name the one country on earth where the government can steal elections, strip away basic rights, spy on citizens, and launch wars based on lies, but where the people do not take over the nation’s capital in protest?

If you said the United States, you’ll be wrong on September fifth when Camp Democracy begins on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.
http://www.campdemocracy.org

At long last, Americans are preparing to say “Enough is enough,” and to read more

Impeachment: Why and How
By David Swanson

WHY

Many previous presidents and vice presidents have committed one or two of the following crimes. Never before has any approached this total level of assault on the Constitution. If we do not impeach now, we never can again, and the legislative branch will not maintain power over the executive or judicial. We will be unable to end the war, stop global warming, fund education, challenge stolen elections, win elections, or accomplish any of our other read more

National Impeachment Teach-In

Friday
July 21, 2006
6 to 8 p.m.
Busboys and Poets Restaurant
2021 14th St. NW
Washington, D.C.
Corner of V Street
Near U Street Metro

Watch a screening of the 30-minute documentary HOW TO IMPEACH A PRESIDENT, produced by the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR). Then join a discussion with David Swanson, Cofounder of AfterDowningStreet.org; Jamie Raskin, professor of constitutional law at American University; Steve Cobble, Cofounder of AfterDowningStreet.org, Andy read more

David Swanson of the Charlottesville Center for Peace and Justice drops by the studio to discuss the possibility of impeachment with Coy Barefoot on the July 18 edition of WINA’s Charlottesville–Right Now. LINK

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

By David Swanson

Supporting our troops and working to ensure that they not have died in vain are notions that no longer apply to the soldiers who died in the fields around my house in Virginia. The statute of limitations has expired, and the 4,435 who died to rid America of a King George are now in fact required – as a matter of patriotic duty – to have died in vain.

In vain their deaths to free us of a unitary executive.

In vain their deaths to establish freedom of assembly.

In vain their read more

Beginning today, you can go to http://www.articlesofimpeachment.net to learn about a “National Teach-In” on impeachment organized by the Center for Constitutional Rights and Melville House, launching nationwide on July 19 in cities and towns across the country.

Please join the effort:­ visit www.articlesofimpeachment.net and organize a Teach-In in your home or community center. An “action read more

OP-ED: California Can Impeach Bush and Cheney, PCH Press
http://www.pchpress.com/

by DAVID SWANSON afterdowningstreet.org | 5-27-06

There are three paths leading to impeachment of President Bush and Vice President Cheney. All three are being led by California.

37 HEROES

The first path is through a bill in Congress.

There are 398 Members of the House of Representatives who do not believe Congress should investigate the Bush Administration’s abuses of power, specifically its fraudulent case read more

By David Swanson

In the United States, our best journalism is published in books now and talked about on the radio and the internet. If you get your news from a television or a newspaper, you live in another world. This no doubt contributes to how divided we are politically. Dave Lindorff’s and Barbara Olshansky’s book could help bridge this national divide. The genius of this book is in its brevity. Lindorff and Olshansky have boiled the list of Bush and Cheney’s documented crimes read more

By David Swanson

Black is white. War is peace. Impeachment is good for Republicans. Haven’t you heard? The Republicans say so. The Democrats say so. It just must BE so.

And yet there isn’t a shred of evidence to support it. Usually when we hear that a minimum wage is bad for low-income workers or tax cuts for billionaires benefit the poor, or any such apparently upside-down fantasy, we are at least given semi-plausible theories for how those lies could be truths.

In this case, read more

By David Swanson

Glenn Greenwald’s new book “How Would a PATRIOT ACT? Defending American Values from a President Run Amok,” lays out a powerful, concise, and well-researched argument that President Bush is a threat to our government’s system of checks and balances and to our individual liberties.

Greenwald makes a point of saying that he used to be a supporter of Bush and trusted him as long as he was able. The voices Greenwald quotes are those of conservatives, the group read more

By David Swanson, PDA National Board Member / Co-Founder, AfterDowningStreet.org

Remarks at Progressive Democrats of America Lobby Training, May 21, 2006, Washington, D.C.

On Friday our President attended a fundraiser in Virginia Beach for a Republican Congress Member. But the Congress Member didn’t show up. This has happened a number of times, with both Bush and Cheney. Yesterday, the LA Times ran an article on the way in which AH-nold is backing away from Bush. Republicans are beginning read more