Wednesday, March 15, 2006
Pacifica Commentary for March 15, 2006
Welcoming The Wounded
Last night we welcomed Alaa Khalid Hamdan and her father Khalid Handan Abd at the Venice Methodist Church. Cole Miller brought them to the United States to represent the millions of Iraqis who have suffered under sixteen years of war from Washington. Her brother and her three cousins could not attend because they are dead. This is the collateral damage described by General Tommy Franks when he said, "We don't do body counts." In other words, these people don't count.
As citizens of this country we must take immediate action to remove this criminal administration. Mr. Bush and his personal falange of organized crime must step down. How do we do that? First we take to the streets. Saturday, March 18th at Noon, we will meet at Hollywood and Vine to denounce three years of preventative war, illegal weapons, occupation, torture and summary execution.
On the following day, Sunday March 19 at 12:30 PM the peace movement will meet at the Westwood Federal Building at Wilshire and Veteran and march together with Fernando Suarez del Solar, Pablo Paredes, Aidan Delgado and Camilo Mejia to the Santa Monica Pier and the Arlington West Memorial. The veterans and their supporters will continue that march to La Paz, California, the burial place of Cesar Chavez and on to San Francisco.
In addition to the marches we recommend three legislative actions for impeachment: The State of Vermont is in process of following rule 603 for the impeachment of the president by way of state legislatures. That rule written by then Vice President Thomas Jefferson speaks of removal of the president by way of charges from the state legislatures. The rule still stands in our House of Representatives.
We must insist that our California legislators follow the good example of Vermont. There is also Congressman John Conyers' House Resolution 635 which calls for the impeachment of the President. All Citizens are invited to sign on to this one.
And in the Senate of the United States we have the Russ Feingold resolution to censure the president for breaking the law. a censure of this kind is looked upon as the first step toward impeachment.
This is not only a federal and state issue. The San Francisco City Council has just passed a resolution to impeach Bush and Cheney.
Friends, the greatest myth in our midst is that of powerlessness. We are not powerless.
Last night we welcomed Alaa Khalid Hamdan and her father Khalid Handan Abd at the Venice Methodist Church. Cole Miller brought them to the United States to represent the millions of Iraqis who have suffered under sixteen years of war from Washington. Her brother and her three cousins could not attend because they are dead. This is the collateral damage described by General Tommy Franks when he said, "We don't do body counts." In other words, these people don't count.
As citizens of this country we must take immediate action to remove this criminal administration. Mr. Bush and his personal falange of organized crime must step down. How do we do that? First we take to the streets. Saturday, March 18th at Noon, we will meet at Hollywood and Vine to denounce three years of preventative war, illegal weapons, occupation, torture and summary execution.
On the following day, Sunday March 19 at 12:30 PM the peace movement will meet at the Westwood Federal Building at Wilshire and Veteran and march together with Fernando Suarez del Solar, Pablo Paredes, Aidan Delgado and Camilo Mejia to the Santa Monica Pier and the Arlington West Memorial. The veterans and their supporters will continue that march to La Paz, California, the burial place of Cesar Chavez and on to San Francisco.
In addition to the marches we recommend three legislative actions for impeachment: The State of Vermont is in process of following rule 603 for the impeachment of the president by way of state legislatures. That rule written by then Vice President Thomas Jefferson speaks of removal of the president by way of charges from the state legislatures. The rule still stands in our House of Representatives.
We must insist that our California legislators follow the good example of Vermont. There is also Congressman John Conyers' House Resolution 635 which calls for the impeachment of the President. All Citizens are invited to sign on to this one.
And in the Senate of the United States we have the Russ Feingold resolution to censure the president for breaking the law. a censure of this kind is looked upon as the first step toward impeachment.
This is not only a federal and state issue. The San Francisco City Council has just passed a resolution to impeach Bush and Cheney.
Friends, the greatest myth in our midst is that of powerlessness. We are not powerless.
