People-powered impeachment.

[marmar]

The People's Path to Impeachment
Submitted by davidswanson on Mon, 2006-06-26 13:57. Activism | Impeachment
By Onnesha Roychoudhuri, AlterNet
http://www.alternet.org/story/38042/

On June 6, Jim Bronke of Concord, Penn., addressed the Concord Township board of supervisors:

Township supervisors and friends, I come here today not as a Republican or as a Democrat but as an American citizen concerned for our way of life. I hope that you can view this package not as a political statement but as a plan for the future … Rules of the House of Representatives explicitly allow state and city legislatures to introduce resolutions. Our First Amendment guarantees any citizen, city, or state "to petition the Government for a redress of grievances." This is what I ask you to do with this motion.

Bronke requested that the board consider a motion to request an impeachment inquiry of the president of the United States. When a board supervisor told Bronke that the only path to impeachment was through U.S. senators and representatives, Bronke corrected the supervisor, stating that "there are multiple paths toward impeachment, this is another."

Bronke was absolutely right.

The Concord board is hardly national news. But taken in conjunction with the staggering number of state legislatures and city and town councils across the country that have passed impeachment resolutions, the lack of coverage of the movement is a conspicuous absence in mainstream media.

Illinois, Vermont and California state legislatures have impeachment resolutions pending. The Democratic parties of Vermont, New Hampshire, Alaska, Maine, North Carolina, Wisconsin, Nevada, New Mexico, Colorado, California and Hawaii have all passed resolutions. Then there are the 18 city and town councils that have passed resolutions, with seven more resolutions (including Concord) pending, to say nothing of the 27 local political groups and parties across the country that have adopted impeachment resolutions.

The rest of the article is at: http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/12378

[oscar111]

1. RECOMMEND button pleasse

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[marmar]

2. On a related note...

How to Impeach a President
Submitted by davidswanson on Thu, 2006-06-08 06:09. Impeachment in the News
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 kit" -- including a DVD documentary short, HOW TO IMPEACH A PRESIDENT, the handbook ARTICLES OF IMPEACHMENT AGAINST GEORGE W. BUSH, and other resources --is available at the website.

Join the CCR, the nation's leading institute of constitutional scholarship and activism, in making the impeachment of George W. Bush a reality.

www.articlesofimpeachment.net

[ellenfl]

3. k&r eom

[BR_Parkway]

4. And to the Greatest you go!

[progressoid]

5. Well, Brad & Angelina are back and that's more important news......

[intheflow]

6. Of course the people don't have to rely on elected officials to impeach.

But we do need to take to the streets in greater and greater numbers, to force the issue into the news. Maybe the way to best get it on the news is to protest at the news outlets themselves. I have participated in this kind of event before, and it worked locally. It would be nice if the national CM would be as responsive, however. x(

K&R'd. :kick:

[rman]

7. k&r

[WhiteTara]

8. we can not depend on our congresscritters to

have anything close to political courage. I just spent the day with mine and they were angry, and refused to consider the idea. They termed it as too devisive and had no chance of passing the state leg. They were actually hostile at the questions and suggestions. So, it really is an ownership society, and we are going to have to organize and conduct our own hearings and perhaps figure out a way to arrest him and his minions and masters.

[mopinko]

9. about the illinois resolution

the illinois legislature is in recess, until oct. (i think) at this time, it is stuck in the rules committee, where speaker flynn currie has stated it was found not to be a legal bill. (i do not think this was done officially, but i do not know.) if it gets out of rules, it will go to a substantive committee, probably executive. i have been told that there is no way majority leader madigan will let it on the floor.
the bill gathered 20 co-sponsors, and can acquire new ones over the recess. there are several more folks that have said they would be happy to vote for it, but i think these are all grateful that they can make this empty gesture. we are working on them, tho.
realistically, i do not think it is likely to get far. but, i think that it is extremely important to try, and to keep the measures in the news. i think the only way impeachment is going to happen is through these kind of local movements. it has to come from the people.

[Jeffersons Ghost]

10. Kicked and Recommended

[ClassWarrior]

11. .

[Doctor_J]

12. We can't even get them to raise the minimum wage

or provide health care. I see a people-powered impeachment as a long shot, in much the same way as me beating Carl Lewis in a foot race is a long shot.

[ClassWarrior]

13. Tell you what...

Why don't you just relax and take a vacation... We have plenty of strong, patient people who'd be willing to pick up your slack.

NGU.

[Senator]

14. Censure >> Impeach >> Remove >> Prosecute >> Repeat

Until all members and appointees of this never-elected, never-legitimate regime are gone.

Some of them to the Hague.

It is the ONLY moral, patriotic option.

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[calimary]

16. CANNOT argue with this one.

Until they're ALL gone. And preferably facing justice for their many, many crimes.

[Vidar]

15. k&R.