From: <ActionCenter.actgen at action-mail.org> (Action Center) Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2003 00:28:05 -0500 Subject: [IAC] Impeach Bush: www.VoteToImpeach.org
VOTE TO IMPEACH http://www.VoteToImpeach.org
The anti-war movement has now inaugurated a campaign to impeach George W. Bush and other senior U.S. government officials for their criminal conduct. The planned war against Iraq and the destruction of constitutionally protected rights at home are the grounds for impeachment.
The articles of impeachment, drafted by former Attorney General Ramsey Clark, are the basis for a grassroots effort to remove Bush from office as we organize to stop the war. Please visit the site http://www.VoteToImpeach.org and cast your vote to Impeach Bush. Let your family members, friends and co-workers learn about the movement to impeach George Bush for high crimes and misdemeanors.
While we build mass street actions against the war it is important to utilize every avenue open to the people to hold the government accountable for its criminal conduct. The U.S. Constitution provides for a mechanism to hold administration officials culpable for criminal abuse of authority and usurpation of power.
The votes submitted in this campaign will be delivered to the House Judiciary Committee and the leadership from both parties on the committee. Representatives of VoteToImpeach.org will also carry out a campaign in the mass media publicizing the efforts of thousands of people in the United States to impeach George W. Bush and the architects of his unconstitutional policies.
See below for more information, or go directly to http://www.VoteToImpeach.org to see articles of impeachment setting forth high crimes and misdemeanors by President Bush and other civil officers of his administration, and to cast your vote!
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George W. Bush Must Answer to the People
[adapted from Ramsey Clark's address to the half a million demonstrators at the January 18th National March on Washington to Stop the War on Iraq organized by International A.N.S.W.E.R. (Act Now to Stop War & End Racism)]
The U.S. Constitution provides the means for preventing George W. Bush from engaging in a war of aggression against Iraq, and from advancing a first strike potentially nuclear preemptive war. It's called impeachment.
High Crimes and Misdemeanors
Impeachment is the direct constitutional means for removing a President, Vice President or other civil officers of the United States who has acted or threatened acts that are serious offenses against the Constitution, its system of government, or the rule of law, or that are conventional crimes of such a serious nature that they would injure the Presidency if there was no removal.
A Constitutional Imperative
Impeachment appears six times in the U.S. Constitution. The Founders weren't concerned with anything more than with impeachment because they had lived under King George III and had in 1776 accused the king of all the things that George W. Bush wants to do: Usurpation of the power of the people; Being above the law; Criminal abuse of authority.
Power Remains in the Hands of the People
Impeachment is the means by which We The People of the United States and our elected representatives in Congress can prevent further crimes by the President and the human catastrophe they threaten and force accountability for crimes committed.
Save the Constitution, the U.N., and Countless Human Lives
Congressional proceedings for impeachment can bring about open, fearless consideration of the most dangerous acts and threats ever committed by an American President. If courageously pursued, they can save our Constitution, the United Nations, the rule of law, the lives of countless people and leave open the possibility of peace on earth.
The Time for Action is Now
Each of us must take a stand on impeachment now, or bear the burden of having failed to speak in this hour of maximum peril.
CAST YOUR VOTE TO IMPEACH at http://www.VotetoImpeach.org
To view articles of impeachment setting forth high crimes and misdemeanors by President Bush and other civil officers of his administration, go to http://www.VotetoImpeach.org
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Your Help is Needed!
VotetoImpeach.org needs your help. This campaign relies on the generous contributions of time and money made by individuals across the country. This is a broad and popular movement of people pursuing justice and peace.
If you believe in these goals and have the ability to contribute to support the impeachment effort, we ask that you do so.
Online donations to the ImpeachBushNow! Campaign will be possible soon. Or donations may be mailed to: VoteToImpeach, 1901 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W., Suite 607, Washington, D.C. 20006. Please include your e-mail address on your check so we can stay in touch with you. Donations to the ImpeachBushNow! campaign are not tax deductible.
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