I got this nugget of news related to the Qwest court case from JustAnotherCoverup:
“New evidence conclusively demonstrates that Bush began the illegal surveillance of Americans long before September the 11th, 2001 - and in fact began as early as February 27th, 2001. This new evidence suggests that Bush began illegally wiretapping Americans shortly after he was installed in office by the Supreme Court.”
This quote refers to the court case of Joseph Nacchio, former CEO of Qwest, who is using in his defense, information indicating that George W. Bush began pushing Qwest to participate in warrantless surveillance of Americans’ private communications on February 27, 2001, just one month after becoming President, and before there was any reason at all to conduct the illegal spying for the sake of security.
This is a clear high crime. It’s against FISA, and Bush knew it, and has tried to cover his behind with the Protect America Act.
Will that maneuver work?
Will the Democrats in Congress be too weak to investigate this clear evidence of high crimes?
If they won’t stand against this, they won’t stand against anything.
An Imprison Bush shout out goes this morning to a web site that brings creativity to the movement to impeach Bush and Cheney. Beach Impeach shares photographs of large groups of people coming together to form the word “impeach”.
Someone asked me why people would want to do such a thing. What’s the point?
The point is that photographs like these show that the impeach Bush movement isn’t just a few people here and there. There are a lot of people dedicated to the cause, and they’re able to organize.
Keep up the good work, Beach Impeach. We need you.
Change.org is a web site that takes the idea of MySpace and FaceBook, and elevates it to a higher level. Instead of merely encouraging people to talk about entertainment, Change.org asks people to identify the changes they want to see in the world, and then encourages them to actually do something to contribute to that change.
You must be the change you want to see in the world, so goes the saying by Mohandas K. Gandhi. So, get on over to the following three impeachment-focused centers on Change.org, and get active:
A28.org is the central resource web site for a day of protest across America. On April 28, people from coast to coast will join in protests demanding the impeachment of George W. Bush and Dick Cheney. Check A28 to see where there is a protest planned near you - or to register a protest yourself.
Today, the A28 organizers declare that a summer of impeachment will begin this spring. Perhaps that’s a bit reaching, but the intent is in the right place. Join in the April 28 protests for impeachment, if you want to see a chance for a return back to America the land of the free.
It’s a provocative image. It captures my attention. It makes me want to look exactly where the message is. Is there anything wrong with that?
Prudes from the religious right might say so. They might say that this kind of image promotes indecency. Really, though, is there anything indecent about this image?
This young woman chose to make this political display using her body. No one forced her to do it. She seems to know that she’s attractive to look at, and celebrates that. Isn’t that her right, and isn’t it my right as the viewer to agree with her?
It seems to me that the protester you see in this image made a decision about her priorities. Surely, she doesn’t go around with her shirt off all of the time, and she probably wouldn’t like to. However, she decided that it was worth converting her body into an object of sexual attention in order to gain power through political communication. She decided that the sacrifice she chooses by displaying her body for strangers was less than the sacrifices that are forced upon her by President Bush.
I agree. Even if you’re offended by the sight of a nearly naked woman (and I’m not), isn’t that offense trivial in comparison to the offense of an illegal war, a massive program to spy against American citizens, a campaign of torture, and a President who has placed himself above the law in many other respects?
I think she’s got the right idea, and if I thought that anyone would be interested in looking at my nearly naked body, I’d do the same thing.
Not all is lost in the online world dedicated to impeaching Bush. I see that Zzpat over at Bravehost.com is still keeping a light burning in the hopes that the criminal George W. Bush will be brought to justice. Zzpat’s Impeach Bush web site is “Dedicated to exposing the lies and impeachable offenses of George W. Bush.”
I admire that ongoing dedication. We’re here, burning the oil at darkest midnight along with you, reporting the news related to the effort to impeach Bush, and put him behind bars, where he belongs, whether that news is good or bad.
Lately, the bad is much stronger than the good. Ironically, the Democrats have done more to douse the idea of impeaching Bush than the Republicans ever could have done. Still we’ll remain on watch, with our eyes wide open.
Once, we linked to a web site called Impeach Bush Now, which was found at impeach-bush-now.org
When they said now, I guess they meant later, or maybe never. They just gave up, and shut down their shop. Now, if you go to visit that domain, you’ll find a filler generic web site that has been automatically generated, and includes such repulsive material as a link promising free articles written by Ann Coulter from the right wing resource site Human Events.
This is what happens when you give up the fight - it’s worse than just a subtraction of your efforts. In the place of your work to hold George W. Bush to account, advertisements for right wing radicals are erected.
We’ll no longer link to Impeach Bush Now. If you’re a member of a pro-impeachment group that would like a link, however, give us a holler.
This is the third in a short series of links to online movies about why America needs to impeach Bush. This one was created by the group Impeach for Peace up in Minnesota. It shows, in a fair, calm, and rational manner, how easy it is to spread the word of impeachment. The group didn’t have to get an advertisement in a big newspaper in Minneapolis. Instead, they simply got a big banner made, and unfurled it for a couple hours over a busy downtown street.
They seem like great folks. Keep up the good work!
I came across this photograph this morning as I was looking at the web site for the