This is an excerpt from a talk by Chris Daly to the World Can’t Wait Organizing Meeting in San Francisco September 7th. Chris Daly is a San Francisco Supervisor and author of measure on the San Francisco ballot calling on the Congress to impeach and remove from office Bush and Cheney.
If you think about the movement that it will take to remove Bush from office — and let’s be honest, Bush will probably not step down, these guys are dug in so they will have to be driven from office – the constitutional mechanism that we have is for the House of Representatives to impeach and the senate to try and remove. They call the Senate an ‘august’ body but what that really means is that it is filled with multimillionaires and the political elite, so to get this body to act to remove a seated president and vice-president is going to take significant action.
I think it’s going to take action on every level, not the least of
which is mass mobilization and massive demonstrations, probably you’re
talking about months long or even years long occupation of the Mall in
Washington DC. And on October 5 there needs to be significant mass
mobilization, and it can’t just be about October 5, but October 5 needs
to be allowed, it needs to be strong and these guys need to be put on
notice. It needs to build from there. I’m proud to work alongside the
sisters and brothers of World Can’t Wait to make sure that the Bush
administration and members of Congree realize the extent of the
discontent of the American people. We know that worldwide this
administration is incredibly unpopular. It’s also incredibly unpopular
in the United States of America among everyday people. The atrocities
of the illegal war in Iraq, the illegal wiretapping, the illegal
torture, the complete malfeasance in response to Katrina in New Orleans
and the entire Gulf Coast – the discontent of the American people is
enormous. And anything less than Bush and Cheney gone from office and
institutions of justice and rightousness in the country, anything less
than that is not sufficient. The World Can’t Wait!