Howard Zinn, author of A People’s History of the United States, has written a new must read article in The Progressive magazine (February 2007 issue) titled “Impeachment by the People”. In it, Zinn points to the horrific crimes and incredible danger posed to the world by the Bush administration and calls on the American people to build a grassroots movement to impeach the Bush administration. Click here to read the full article. Excerpts:
Courage is in short supply in Washington, D.C. The realities of the
Iraq War cry out for the overthrow of a government that is criminally
responsible for death, mutilation, torture, humiliation, chaos. But all
we hear in the nation’s capital, which is the source of those
catastrophes, is a whimper from the Democratic Party, muttering and
nattering about “unity” and “bipartisanship,” in a situation that calls
for bold action to immediately reverse the present course.These are the Democrats who were brought to power in November by an
electorate fed up with the war, furious at the Bush Administration, and
counting on the new majority in Congress to represent the voters. But
if sanity is to be restored in our national policies, it can only come
about by a great popular upheaval, pushing both Republicans and
Democrats into compliance with the national will.…there seems to be a special viciousness that accompanies the current
assault on human rights, in this country and in the world. We have had
repressive governments before, but none has legislated the end of
habeas corpus, nor openly supported torture, nor declared the
possibility of war without end. No government has so casually ignored
the will of the people, affirmed the right of the President to ignore
the Constitution, even to set aside laws passed by Congress.The time is right, then, for a national campaign calling for the
impeachment of President Bush and Vice President Cheney. Representative
John Conyers, who held extensive hearings and introduced an impeachment
resolution when the Republicans controlled Congress, is now head of the
House Judiciary Committee and in a position to fight for such a
resolution. He has apparently been silenced by his Democratic
colleagues who throw out as nuggets of wisdom the usual political
palaver about “realism” (while ignoring the realities staring them in
the face) and politics being “the art of the possible” (while setting
limits on what is possible).