[Marxism] Cindy Sheehan: It's Up to Us...

[Walter Lippmann <walterlx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

("I am committed to challenging a two party system that has kept us in
a state of constant warfare for the last 60 years and has become more
and more beholden to special interests and has forgotten the faces of
the people whom it represents.")
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From: Gold Star Famlies For Peace <gsfp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Jul 24, 2007 11:44 AM
To: walterlx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Journey for Humanity and Accountability 
It is up to Us..
by Cindy Sheehan 

Day 14

It's Up to Us 
Journey for Humanity and Accountability 
Day 14 
Cindy Sheehan

I am lying in my hotel bed at the end of a very busy, productive, yet
sad day.

About 300 people gathered today and marched the 3Â miles from the
ntrance of Arlington Cemetery to Congressman John Conyers' office to
demand impeachment and accountability from one of the leading figures
in American politics for the last four decades.

We were so thrilled with the turn-out and the energy of the group.
There was great media coverage and about one dozen freepers on the
opposite corner with signs like: "Traitors go to Hell" and "Cindy
Sheehan go to Hell." Nice. I have learned that hell can be on earth
and if there is anything worse than burying a child, I don't want to
know about it.

At the end of the march, Reverend Lennox Yearwood, President of the
Hip Hop Caucus, Ray McGovern (retired CIA analyst) and I met with
Congressman John Conyers to implore him to institute impeachment
proceedings against the pretenders to the White House who are
destroying our democracy, making a mockery out of our rule of law and
who are responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of
innocent people.

This was my third meeting with Congressman Conyers about impeachment.
I hold a special place in my heart for him and I revere him for his
decades long service to this nation but for the life of me, I cannot
understand why he will not go forward with impeachment now.

A year ago he introduced HR635 to impeach George Bush while he was
Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee and not even
chairman. He wrote the book on impeachment called: The Constitution
in Crisis and he readily admits that BushCo have committed
impeachable offenses.

It's about partisan politics, pure and simple. The Congressman claims
that there is absolutely no way that impeachment can go forward and
when I was nearing the end of my hope I cried out: "So, if the
people's house won't help us then we the people have no recourse
against the executive branch." To which he replied: "Yes you do, vote
the enablers out in '08." 

Firstly, Congressman Conyers told us to put Democrats back in
Congress to end the war and impeach BushCo. We did that and instead
of ending the war, they gave George Bush more money to wage it and to
conduct his deadly and tragic surge.

Secondly, '08 will be too late to hold George and Dick accountable.

Thirdly, thousands of more people will die in these last months of
the worst Presidency in American history and lastly: after Dick
proclaimed that he was not part of the executive branch and that his
office does not have to comply with requests to turn over documents
to the National Archives: 435 Congress Reps should have signed onto H
Res 333 to impeach Cheney. Only fourteen have co-signed Congressman
Kucinich's bill, so that makes 421 elected Congressional officials
enablers of the crimes of the Bush Regime.

At the end of this day, Speaker Pelosi has not supported impeachment
and has not upheld her oath of office to "protect and defend" the
Constitution. Like Congressman Conyers said almost a year ago, our
Constitution is in Crisis and we can't wait for more meetings and
more stalling from Reps who think the problem will go away in '08.
The Middle East is rapidly falling apart under this regime and our
country is sliding rapidly into a state of one-branch tyranny while
our "heroes" the Democrats fiddle.

It was with very heavy hearts that Rev. Yearwood, Ray, and I reported
back to the media that the Congressman had said that with over one
million signatures on petitions and with one phone call coming into
his office every 30 seconds supporting impeachment and with 300
activists in the hall to support him, he was still not going to move
forward with the most urgent duty of his career. The Rev and I were
particularly disheartened and broken because we do love the
Congressman so much, but we love our country and the people of Iraq
and the Middle East more. The Rev and Ray spent many years serving
their country in the military and the CIA and I had a son who gave
his life to do what the Congress is supposed to do: protect our
freedoms, not hand them over to the mob that runs our country.

It is also with a heavy heart that I announce my candidacy against
Nancy Pelosi in California's 8th. If anybody would dare think that 
I am not serious, I would hope that they would look back at the last
three years of my life and everything that I have sacrificed to
restore our nation to one that obeys the rule of law and can be
looked up to with respect once again in the international community
and not as the hated laughingstock on the block.

I am committed to challenging a two party system that has kept us in
a state of constant warfare for the last 60 years and has become more
and more beholden to special interests and has forgotten the faces of
the people whom it represents.

I am committed to using our strength as a country to wage peace and
to elevate the status of every citizen in our country by converting
the enduring war economy to a prosperous one with lasting peace.

Someone needs to step up to the plate to do this and I challenge
other Americans to do the same. Challenge the status quo, because the
status quo is no good. We need to become plugged into our government
once again as active participants not just passive voters.

It is up to us.

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WALTER LIPPMANN
Editor-in-Chief, CubaNews
writer - photographer - activist
http://www.walterlippmann.com
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