If you heard Al Gore’s speech Monday, and feel
the gravity of what he is describing…
Al Gore indicted the Bush administration’s “unprecedented
claims to a truly breathtaking expansion of executive power.” Speaking of
Bush’s domestic spying program, he said that “what we do know about this
pervasive wiretapping virtually compels the conclusion that the President) has
been breaking the law repeatedly and persistently.” Gore gave four compelling
reasons why we are in for “something more than another cycle of overreach and
regret.”
And he said this: “If the pattern of practice begun by this
administration is not challenged, it may well become a permanent part of the
American system.”
Can you come to grips with this and NOT act? Can you know the truth of what is going on
and NOT do everything you can to build the BUSH STEP DOWN protests planned for
January 31 and February 4?
Shakespeare said that there is a tide in the affairs of men.
With the Alito nomination, the wiretap scandal, and the new crisis with Iran,
that tide is now raging. Bush will try to use his State of the Union address on
January 31 to turn the current decisively his way. If there are not thousands
and thousands saying BUSH STEP DOWN at the tops of their voices, he may well
succeed. For us to fail to act is to invite disaster.
On the other hand, to act now ( to take up the challenge (
could make all the difference. There is a tide, but that tide can be turned.
If we don’t want the future that the Bush regime is jamming
down our throats, we can do something about it. There are millions who are agonizing. Reach out to them. Now. Volunteer. Donate.
Be there. Join us.
The world truly cannot wait. BUSH STEP DOWN.
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The International Commission of Inquiry on Crimes Against Humanity Committed by the Bush Administration will be holding its second session Jan.
20-22 in NYC at Riverside Church (Friday & Saturday) and Columbia
Univ. Law School (Sunday). The first session offered shocking evidence
of the scope
and depths of crimes this regime has committed. Just watching the
highlights from its DVD (available at bushcommission.org) will both horrify and compel you to do
everything to stop what is being done in our names.
The Commission has indicted the Bush administration on 5 counts: 1) Wars of Aggression, 2) Torture and Indefinite Detention, 3)
Destruction of the Global Environment, 4) Attacks on Global Public
Health and Reproductive Rights, 5) Knowing Failure to Protect Life
During Hurricane Katrina.
It brings together powerful testimony from the victims of this regime
to experts and activists, to defectors from the regime, and applies
rigorous standards in prosecuting its indictments. Witnesses
include: Brig. Gen. Janis Karpinski, former head of Abu Ghraib prison;
Craig Murray, resigned British ambassador to Uzbekistan; Scott Ritter,
former UN weapons inspector, Ray McGovern, ex CIA.; Katrina
victims…and more.
Everyone who can should come to NYC Jan. 20-22 for this historic
tribunal, and spread the shocking truth about this regime to everyone
you can.
Check out more about this Commission and statements from participants below:
Indictments Alleging Crimes Against Humanity Served by Citizens’ Delegation on Bush White House with letters to Alberto Gonzales and Harriet Miers.
Delivering a Powerful ‘J’Accuse’ — Right in Bush’s Brave New ‘Homeland’ by Larry Everest
More available at bushcommission.org, including a DVD from the first session, radio PSA’s, and schedule for the tribunal.
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If You Want the Bum IMPEACHED…
There is no doubt that Bush has committed ‘impeachable
offenses.’ There is no doubt that
millions of Americans ( and tens of millions of people in other countries! (
would jump for joy if he were to be impeached.
Impeachment, in short, is one way that this regime full of fascists could be driven from
power.
Yet not a single Democratic Senator has stepped up to the plate
on impeachment. People can debate why this is so, and should ( and some
of that debate is in the articles on this site.
The question we address here is how to change the political
equation in this country so that Bush is forced to step down.
To do that, there must be a political demand coming from the
grassroots. There must be thousands,
and then millions, in the streets demanding that Bush step down ( and that the
country change direction. ‘Power,’ as
the one-time slave and famous abolitionist Frederick Douglass once said, ‘concedes
nothing without a struggle.’
Without such struggle, there will be no impeachment. And without that happening soon, the
momentum that currently exists to oust Bush will dissipate, and even the new
outrages that have come to light will take on a patina of ‘legitimacy.’ Millions must be awakened to the scope of
Bush’s crimes and the danger of his agenda bringing need for him to go!
BUT THERE IS SOMETHING YOU CAN DO ( NOW!
Nationwide demonstrations are set for January 31 ( the night of
Bush’s State of the Union address ( to be followed by a massive demonstration
in Washington, D.C. on February 4. The demand?
BUSH STEP DOWN.
If you want Bush to go ( if you want to see him impeached ( this
is where the gauntlet is. Here. Now.
Pick it up.
The world can’t wait for there to be more Abu Ghraibs and
Alitos. The world can’t wait, lest the
controversy over Iran turn
into another unjust war, perhaps even more horrendous than the one still raging
in Iraq. It can’t wait as the Bush regime claims more
and more unbridled power ( power to spy on people, to imprison without charges,
to torture ( without even going through the motions of obeying the law. For more theocrats to be put into positions
of power ( including in the military.
Get
involved. Donate. Organize.
Spread the word. And be there.
The world can’t wait.