Showing posts with label HR333. Show all posts
Showing posts with label HR333. Show all posts

November 28, 2007

Pelosi, impeachment, The Hague - RACKET UP THE PRESSURE!!

POSSIBLE EFFORT TO REMOVE PELOSI AS SPEAKER!!

Effort to remove Pelosi as Speaker, making way for impeachment. Congressional candidate has announced support for the plan:

http://cut-to-the-chase.blogspot...cost- nancy.htm

There are options on the table to assert the rule of law. The effort to discuss/pass proclamations to ask Congress to remove Pelosi as Speaker are consistent with this effort: The proclamations to ask Congress to impeach the President:

http://www.impeachbush.tv/impeac...h/ localhow.html

Some of you reading this may believe that nothing can be done. But there are others you are not aware of that are working with you. Here are some things that are going on, that you can learn from:

http:// shonbrunreport.blogspot.c...mpeachment.html

Heed the lessons from the attempted proclamations to impeach . . .and apply them to the effort to discuss/pass proclamations to remove the Speaker.

The same discussion that raised the issue of proclamations helped fuel the public discussion, and Kucinich heard the news. Each person who dares to raise their voice, even with just a blog, a private discussion with a friend, or an effort to get your city council or state legislators to act can make all the difference.

You can read the full report, lessons here:

http://ladybroadoak.blogspot.com...-latest- if.html


Here is a list of all the people/states which are aware of the Hosue Rule 603 effort, and who have discussed proclamations:

http://www.impeachbush.tv/impeac...ach/ states.html


Please note closely, that

there is a majority of the states which are already familiar with House Rule 603 --

permitting the Congress to respond to State Legilatures'/Assemblines proclamations calling on the Congress to start an impeachment ivnestigation.

This is very important:

A proclamation from a State is privilged, meaning that it shuts down all business.


The goal with the effort to remove Pelosi is not an effort by your State legislature to remove Pelosi; but simply your State legislature to ask the House to consider the motion to Remove.

This means that it is within your local-state jurisdication to pass these proclamations; discuss them; and use your leaders' reactions to these efforts to remove Pelosi as a test of whether your leadership is serious about asserting its oath. [Note: on this blog is an entry about California efforts to censure Feinstein. In that debate the Party Chair declared activists and bloggers as "worse than Bush".]

The goal here is to force the Congress to get the Kucinich resolution out of the House Judiciary Committee; and force an investigation of the Vice President.

However, the only option on the table -- at this jucture -- to force this to happen is to raise the credible threat of removing Pelosi as Speaker.

This is critical: Some argue that the DNC -- as a block -- would never support removing Pelosi.


The problem is that the DNC voted to support the Kucinich resolution.

Also, the GOP is already opposed to Pelosi.


One options is for the DNC and GOP Members of the House -- who oppose Pelosi's decision to block impeachment -- to form a New Caucus.

In exchange for the DNC and GOP agreeing to remove Pelosi,

the DNC and GOP may agree to support a new Speaker who is agreeable to the GOP.


It doesn't matter what might happen; the key is this -- the Speaker cannot be sure that the DNC and GOP will not make an agreement to support someone else who supports impeachment, but is from the GOP.

If that is what is required to defend the Constitution and ensure there is an investigation in the House of the VP and President, pleae be open to that.

November 26, 2007

Impeachment and Individual Action: Laurie Dobson (crosspost)

Go and leave Laurie a note at her blogspot, if you have a mind to support her. I remember all too well Dick Gregory's fast. Were the rest of us this strong ...

Sunday, November 25, 2007

Impeachment Proclamation Post, Day Three, Nov. 25

HUNGER STRIKE FOR IMPEACHMENT THIRD DAY

"To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based upon the fact that history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, and kindness. And if we do act, in however small a way, we don't have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents; and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself, a marvelous victory!"

Howard Zinn

This is my favorite quote, apart from Lincoln and the Bible. Today marks the third day I am on a hunger strike to make it as plain as I can that there needs to be truth in action--that those
candidates hoping to be our future leaders will act with the needed courage and call for
impeachment with no equivocation and to demand that others running for leadership in our state do the same.

I have been striking and I will continue until such time as one of these candidates, of whatever
party, stands with me in the call to Tom Allen to begin impeachment proceedings in the House by signing onto HR 333. I call on you Tom Allen to declare that you will do this, as you are uniquely charged to show leadership and as you hope to demonstrate a convincing courage to be shown to be fit for running for the Senate. I believe that I live in times which will bring a better tomorrow, if citizens do more than they are now comfortable with, and stretch to a new level of commitment and courage. I not only believe it can be done, I am staking myself to this belief in my fellow candidates and my fellow citizens.

To be true to the service to which we are called, we have to call to each other to rise to the
utmost challenge of our day. If this was not so imperatively desperate a crisis, if we could
believe that the world would not see a renewed invasion and that genocidal practices would not
continue by our evil administration, then I would not be seeing my way so vividly clear, by making such an extreme statement. I see no other way, nor better way, to make this evident for all.

As Gandhi said, you must make the injustice visible. I'm no Gandhi; nevertheless I will do this.
I hope for prayers attention and support for this endeavor to wake my fellow candidates to do what their conscience impels them and to help to get these criminals out of office by exerting the most strenuous effort forward to urge Tom Allen to sign HR 333.

I am sorry to make this type of strike as I know it creates discomfort and difficulty. I
understand that it may not be the best way, but it is my only way at this time to truly do my part to change this picture of doom. It has to end. I pray this shall affect the critical shift in attitude; I pray that my example will help to produce the needed effect--that minds will turn to hear the heart--that hearts will heed the soul and that souls will be mindful of the justice of the world which would find its home here now.
Laurie Dobson

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