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July 06, 2007
Impeach Cheney
Today is the launch of ImpeachCheney.org. It's an effort by Robert Greenwald's Brave New Films and a big coalition of progressive organizations to try to put the impeachment of Cheney on the national agenda in a serious way. (I'm currently doing some work for After Downing Street, which is part of the effort.)
The first step is for as many people as possible to sign the Impeach Cheney petition. Then before long there will be further news, including fancy national spokespeople and further actions to take for those who want to get more involved. Those with blurves can start by posting these logos on their site.
So I strongly encourage you to go sign the petition now. And if you haven't yet, sign Moveon's Cheney petition too. In all of American history, has there ever been a government official who deserved impeachment more than Dick Cheney? Let's get our act together and do it.
Posted at July 6, 2007 09:49 AM | TrackBack
Deport Cheney and everyone who voted for him. Just spin a globe, point your finger randomly and there you (they) go!!!!
I ask everyone who posts on this board; What is the point of maintaining civility with these "people" anymore? I don't know, I guess I am just struggling to find a reason.
Posted by: at July 6, 2007 12:55 PMI'm all for impeaching Cheney but, damn, that's an ugly video. I usually don't mind Greenwald's style but this one horrible typography, a cheesy voice over, murky video, and boring editing. As long as I don't have to watch the video again, I'm on board.
Posted by: anon at July 6, 2007 05:21 PMI'd like a nice 'Impeach Cheney' or 'Impeach Cheney First' logo for my blog, but I'm not going to use the hideous images at that site.
I signed the petition; don't get me wrong. But I think the graphics are repellent even to the already convinced. And I have to agree that the video is underwhelming, too.
Posted by: Nell at July 6, 2007 09:11 PMHi,
I went around today in Portland, OR with a sign-in sheet for folks to let me know if they're in favor of impeaching Cheney. I got it off the web from People's e-mail Network. Is that something Impeachment.org would be interested in? I would be happy to forward them to you, if that's kosher. Let me know. Thanks!
What is the point of maintaining civility with these "people" anymore? I don't know, I guess I am just struggling to find a reason.
Because if you stare into the abyss long enough, it will stare back at you. If I had to sum up the problem with humanity in one sentence, it would that everyone uses the bad behavior of others to excuse their own. Keep decorum and do the next right thing. You will be happier and the world will be better off.
Peace
Posted by: new day at July 7, 2007 02:03 AMI signed.
Posted by: Mike Meyer at July 7, 2007 02:43 AMhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Rs9sinZJ_4
Posted by: Adam at July 7, 2007 08:58 PMhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Rs9sinZJ_4
Posted by: Adam at July 7, 2007 08:58 PMhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Rs9sinZJ_4
Posted by: Adam at July 7, 2007 08:58 PMI don't get it. Yeah, Cheney is Satan, but Bush is the president. All the power Cheney has is what Bush has given him. This seems ridiculous to me.
Posted by: Brett at July 8, 2007 07:19 AMBrett: EXACTLY. This is a version of the old "Mutt and Jeff" routine. Mutt is shaking your hand while Jeff is slapping the piss out of you.
Posted by: Mike Meyer at July 8, 2007 12:33 PMNo one has any "power" in this damned administration ladies and gentlemen. This is why they fail so much. No one in the entirety of the world really likes them. But saying that "staring into the abyss", somehow guarantees failure is, to say the least, weak hearted, impotent and a complete display of historical ignorance.
The human race has lived, died, failed and ultimately thrived in the abyss forever. The ebb and flow will happen Ghandites. Don't get any sand in your vagina's about it either. Because it will be violent as well as non-violent , but ultimately it will be revolutionary. It will make you uncomfortable. You will not be pleased with the outcome because in the end, all we really want is to be ruled by a king who is for hire and sale, not to share with our own brothers.
Posted by: at July 8, 2007 06:25 PMi want what that last person is having. how;s the weather up there?
Posted by: almostinfamous at July 9, 2007 07:29 AMBetter than where you're at, obviously. Your misery and doubt scream of it. Why don't you go die of it and stop infecting others?
Posted by: at July 9, 2007 08:45 AMI want a toke of that too, must be some kind of skunk.
Posted by: Mike Meyer at July 9, 2007 11:23 AMThere may well be a case for impeachment of Vice President Dick Cheney, but the video does not make it.
If this movement is going to succeed, it's going to have to come up with some real articles.
You're going to have to cite chapter and verse of criminal law. You know, "high crimes and misdemeanors."
Plus, you've provided no evidence that Cheney's mere words against Iran have threatened the national security.
Look at the Nixon articles of impeachment. The first draft had the same kind of mushy stuff you're peddling here.
The second Nixon draft, as yours should be, was harder -- and simpler -- to grasp.
For example, Nixon was impeachable because he had committed crimes in office by improperly using the FBI and IRS to hurt his enemies at particular times and dates.
To make your case, you're going to have rewrite the Cheney articles to cite specific actions (not dates of his speeches or TV appearances), dates, times and places and match those to sections of the federal criminal code and portions of the US constitution.
For now, the video -- and your campaign -- looks like a political strategists hatchet job.
I agree with Ego (although I believe you meant easier, not harder to understand.)
Take this Nixon impeachment article, for instance:
"Article Two: . . . [for having] engaged in conduct violating the constitutional rights of citizens . . . and impairing the due and proper administration of justice . . . by:
-using confidential tax return information to initiate tax audits in a discriminatory manner
-misusing the FBI, Secret Service, and other government employees by allowing their information to be used for purposes other than national security or the enforcement of laws
-allowing a secret investigative unit within his office
-using campaign contributions and the CIA in an attempt to sway the fair trial process
-has failed in faithfully executing the law
-knowingly misusing the executive power by interfering with agencies within the executive branch ..."
I agree with Ego (although I believe you meant easier, not harder to understand.)
Take this Nixon impeachment article, for instance:
"Article Two: . . . [for having] engaged in conduct violating the constitutional rights of citizens . . . and impairing the due and proper administration of justice . . . by:
-using confidential tax return information to initiate tax audits in a discriminatory manner
-misusing the FBI, Secret Service, and other government employees by allowing their information to be used for purposes other than national security or the enforcement of laws
-allowing a secret investigative unit within his office
-using campaign contributions and the CIA in an attempt to sway the fair trial process
-has failed in faithfully executing the law
-knowingly misusing the executive power by interfering with agencies within the executive branch ..."
I agree with Ego (although I believe you meant easier, not harder to understand.)
Take this Nixon impeachment article, for instance:
"Article Two: . . . [for having] engaged in conduct violating the constitutional rights of citizens . . . and impairing the due and proper administration of justice . . . by:
-using confidential tax return information to initiate tax audits in a discriminatory manner
-misusing the FBI, Secret Service, and other government employees by allowing their information to be used for purposes other than national security or the enforcement of laws
-allowing a secret investigative unit within his office
-using campaign contributions and the CIA in an attempt to sway the fair trial process
-has failed in faithfully executing the law
-knowingly misusing the executive power by interfering with agencies within the executive branch ..."
OUTING A CIA AGENT IN TIME OF WAR IS TREASON AGAINST THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. WE were/are at war(GWOT). Ms. Plame (if that REALLY is her name as she works for the CIA and I'm suspicious.) was UNKNOWN to all of us (the public) until this Administration ADMITTEDLY LEAKED her name (?)to the WHOLE DAMN WORLD. WE ALL BELIEVE she worked/s for the CIA. WAR+CIA OUTING=TREASON. She may just mop floors and make coffee there, DON'T MATTER, she is STILL CIA and possibly privy to STATE SECRETS, DURING A WAR. IMPEACH FOR THE CAUSE OF TREASON.
Posted by: Mike Meyer at July 9, 2007 08:20 PMP.S. You know the CIA may well be a bunch of troublesome assholes, as I've heard some say, and NOT worth bothering about over this OUTING OF THEIR AGENT, but they are OUR ASSHOLES, WE PAY THEM, THEY BELONG TO US AND THEY FOLLOW ORDERS LIKE ANY OTHER SOLDIER. They put their LIVES on the line, FOR US, be it what may. THAT'S WHAT MAKES IT THE WORST KIND OF TREASON.
Posted by: Mike Meyer at July 9, 2007 08:27 PMTreason? Yeah, you go ahead and make the case of treason to the VERY GOVERNMENT THAT WAS COMPLICIT FROM THE TOP/DOWN, LEFT AND RIGHT IN SAID TREASON!
Don't you get it? EVERYONE was complicit in this crime because everyone in power stood to benefit if the war started off without a hitch (almost everyone in congress invests in big oil and their subsidiaries). And of course they did.
I think YOU should give me YOUR sack back man, I don't think YOU can safely imbibe what it is YOU'RE smoking Mikey!
Posted by: at July 10, 2007 02:48 PMTRUE (whomever you are), you make a fine case for an overall CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT TREASON. That's why the NEED for the SENATE HEARINGS concerning IMPEACHMENT, that way we get EVERYBODY'S NAME involved and PROSECUTE THEM. (I've done it so long safety is no longer a concern)
Posted by: Mike Meyer at July 11, 2007 11:22 AMHow to Impeach Cheney and Bush and Stop WW III
A good way to break into the mainstream media with 9-11 Truth and our plans to impeach Cheney and Bush would be a 60 second commercial played as part of a local congressional campaign with national implications (i.e. the Pelosi Sheehan race here in San Francisco.) What we would do is to go to http://www.WTC7.net and get a few of the clips of WTC Tower 7 collapsing in 6.5 seconds. Then we have a voice over explaining that Tower 7 collapsed in 6.5 seconds despite the fact that it was not hit by a plane on 9-11.
The narrator can point out that the video reveals there obviously was no fire sufficient to cause the collapse and that the smoke was coming from the buildings behind it. The narrator can also say that steel might begin to melt at 2,000 degrees but that before the fire got to 2,000 degrees it would have gotten to 900 degrees which would have popped out all the windows. But not one was melted. Not one window was out of place. Tower 7 was obviously brought down by a controlled demolition and not by a fire. This demands a Congressional inquiry and any congress person opposed to a real investigation is just part of the cover up. This could be posted on YouTube and everywhere else and used by anyone who wants to run for Congress, Senate or even President. It could be up and running on the Internet within a week. We allowed the Warren Commision to lie to us about the Kennedy assassination but we will accept no more lies.
I have an idea for a second commercial and it zeroes in on the corruption of both political parties and reveals specific reasons for impeaching Dick Cheney. This commercial would appeal to the Republican base and would expose Cheney's role in the conspiracy against the Pentagon on 9-11. We begin the second commercial with the admission by Donald Rumsfeld on 9-10-2001 to CBS News that he could not trace 2.3 trillion dollars in Department of Defense spending. On 9-11-2001 Acting Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations , Robert Andrews -the top civilian official in charge of special operations under Secretary of Defense - was going to the Counter Terrorism Center in the Pentagon when he saw and heard a bomb explode destroying the center and killing 40 of 41 auditors next door. These 41 military officers were attempting to trace the 2.3 trillion dollars in missing money. Please remember that this deadly explosion happened 3 1/2 minutes before the plane hit the Pentagon!! This would indicate to me that the primary target was the auditors. The plane that hit the Pentagon was originally on course to hit Donald Rumsfeld's office, but did a 270 degree turn and a power dive to avoid hitting the Pentagon brass so it could take out the people examining the books.
Auditing procedures in all federal departments are nonexistent so that billions of dollars can be stolen by Wall Street approved elites who are allowed to plunder billions of dollars a week under both Republican and Democratic administrations in almost all departments even including Social Security. This explains why Republicans participated in the cover up of the Kennedy asssassination and Democrats with the exception of Max Cleland covered up the Truth of 9-11. Catherine Austin Fitts, the former managing partner at Dillon Read and the Deputy Secretary of HUD in the first Bush administration, said she once found one block in San Diego that had 10 HUD guaranteed loans on buildings that never existed.
Dick Cheney was the one who on 9-11 refused permission to the DOD to shoot down Flight 77 which is alleged to have struck the Pentagon despite Rumsfeld's admission that Flight 93 had been shot down precisely so it could not strike it's intended target in Washington D.C. It is very likely that Cheney needed a plane to hit the Pentagon to cover up the bomb that destroyed the CTC and killed 40 auditors next door. That makes Dick Cheney a party to murder and treason which are capital offenses. If there is time the narrator could point out that according to the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology there was no Arab DNA on Flight 77.
As soon as one or both of these commercials hit YouTube, we can encourage an army of unemployed to go into busines for themselves selling Impeach Bush and Impeach Cheney tee-shirts. They would need a portable TV with a tape of the commercials on continuous play. Hopefully, they will stick to safe areas where the police will not beat them up. Any TV station that refuses to play our commercials will have complaints filed against them with the FCC. Candidate commercials are supposed to be allowed on the public air waves.
This is both an educational campaign and an incendiary to spark a nonviolent revolt against the Establishment. It will also protect us against any future "terrorist events" staged by our oppressors in Washington.
I would also like to revive an old idea I had for getting out the Truth about 9-11. We could have actors read eyewitness testimony of men and women who saw and heard bombs go off before the planes hit their targets. Men like Robert Andrews the former Green Beret officer is a credible witness. His testimony could be read by an actor in 60 seconds and placed on YouTube for wider circulation. Other witness testimonies could be read into 60 second video clips also to be posted on YouTube.
Be of Good Cheer. The End is Nigh.
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References
Catherine Austin Fitts has done a lot of work on the theft of taxpayer's money through intentionally unaudited federal government contracts. You can read more about her work here: http://www.solari.com/learn/articles_risk.htm
The best site forpeople new to the 911 Truth movement is www.WTC7.net
If you want to recommend another good place for a novice to start, then point to this site: http://www.911proof.com/
This website has eyewitness testimony from those New York firefighters who were not killed by the bomb blasts: http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/911_firefighters.html
The testimony of the janitor who survived the bomb blasts in the sub-basement can be found here: www.ArcticBeacon.com/12Jul-2005.html
You can read an excellent article that explains the impossiblity of the WTC collapse was anything other than a controlled demolition. Go here:
http://janedoe0911.tripod.com/BilliardBalls.html