Over 1000 Form "IMPEACH" On San Francisco Beach
Protestors Join In S.F. To Impeach BushOver 1,000 Join Beach Bash
By: Noel Cisneros
Jan. 6 - KGO - To voice their displeasure with the current administration, hundreds of people lined up on Ocean Beach Saturday morning to call for the impeachment of President Bush.
Over one thousand protestors decided to make a stand - by lying down.
Protestor: "I'd like to see him impeached for every crime he's committed since he was appointed to his office."
Fingers up - heads down - they lined Ocean Beach, to form the word impeach -- exclamation point included.
Dan Brook, Protestor: "Every great idea starts with people -- it has to start with people or it will never happen -- so it has to start with us."
ABC7's Noel Cisneros: "Do you think the country has the stomach for another impeachment?"
Dan Brook: "I think we don't have the stomach for another two years of Bush."
The "Impeach on the Beach" project is the brain child of Brad Newsham -- who got the idea from looking at Google satellite images with his daughter.
Brad Newsham, Event Organizer: "I hope we send a message of what a great country we have, and what horrible leadership we have, and we hope the message gets back to Washington -- and impeachment gets put back onto the table where the American people want it to be."
ABC7 Legal Analyst Dean Johnson: "You can't impeach a president for incompetence."
Dean Johnson is a former prosecutor and he says the strongest legal case against Mr. Bush would likely be for the National Security Agency's warrantless wiretaps of millions of American telephone calls.
This really could work into a thing. Think about it. What if all the people who owned farms started cutting their crops into "IMPEACH" designs? People whose homes' roofs are visible to airports or other mass transit? Or even a sign between two windows in an apartment in a big city?
Cross posted at Daily Kos......
3 comments:
Great Picture! Do you have a larger version? It took 1,000 people?
That's the only pic I have, but if you click over to the link to Daily Kos, TONS of people in the thread have linked to pictures & other stories about it.
The first link in my story is to the local ABC affiliate, and they have video.
It was over 1k!!
Well, our chance to convince Nancy Pelosi to Impeach Bush/Cheney is this Monday Jan. 15th..
Pelosi most likely said impeachment was "off the table" to remove any appearance of conflict-of-interest that would arise if she were thrust into the presidency as a result of the coming impeachment.
What we need to do is to pressure Pelosi not to interfere with impeachment maneuverings within her party. Sending her Do-It-Yourself impeachments legitimizes her when she is forced to join the impeachment movement in the future.
Sacks and sacks of mail are about to arrive in Nancy Pelosi's office initiating impeachment via the House of Representative's own rules this Monday January 15th. This legal document is as binding as if a State or if the House itself passed the impeachment resolution (H.R. 635).
There's a little known and rarely used clause of the "Jefferson Manual" in the rules for the House of Representatives which sets forth the various ways in which a president can be impeached. Only the House Judiciary Committee puts together the Articles of Impeachment, but before that happens, someone has to initiate the process.That's where we come in. In addition to a House Resolution (635), or the State-by-State method, one of the ways to get impeachment going is for individual citizens like you and me to submit a memorial. ImpeachforPeace.org has created a new memorial based on one which was successful in impeaching a federal official in the past. You can find it on their website as a PDF.
You can initiate the impeachment process and simultaneously help to convince Pelosi to follow through with the process. Do-It-Yourself by downloading the memorial, filling in the relevant information (your name, state, etc.), and sending it in. Be a part of history.
http://ImpeachForPeace.org/ImpeachNow.html
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