Fw: Zogby Impeachment Fund

 

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From: Donna.NeverSurrender

To: Undisclosed-Recipient:;

Sent: Friday, September 30, 2005 9:17 PM

Subject: Zogby Impeachment Fund

PLEASE FORWARD THIS EMAIL TO EVERYONE THAT YOU FORWARDED MY ORIGINAL EMAIL TO

 

A few days ago I sent you an email announcing a campaing to raise enough money to hire Zogby International to poll Americans on the possible impeachment of GWB.

 

I had been waiting for some developments to occur before I contacted you again and now, I have an announcement.

Shortly after I sent out my request for donations to create the fund to hire Zogby International to poll the public on the Impeachment of George W Bush, I was contacted by AfterDowningStreet.org. They had seen my request and were offering to add their support to the effort.

In the meanwhile, several people had contacted me, both personally and as representatives of larger groups.  They indicated their support for the idea of my campaign, but said they were reluctant to donate money to an unknown entity or individual.

After discussing the campaign with AfterDowningStreet's David Swanson and carefully considering the pros and cons of my options, I have concluded that the campaign has the best chance of success if it is run and organized by an established organization like ADS rather than by a private individual.

ADS has set up a page at their website, Polling on Impeachment, http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/polling, and a separate PayPal account, Marginalized Majority Polling, for all donations to the Polling on Impeachment campaign. They will be sending out requests for donations to the mailing lists of both AfterDowningStreet.org and Democrats.com. I am transfering all the funds I have collected so far to the ADS account and will provide them with the activity logs from the original account.

Below is a copy of the email that ADS sent out today. Please visit the site and if you agree with what I said and what ADS and Democrats.com are saying, then please donate whatever you can afford.

The purpose is the same, nothing is different, the only change is that now AfterDowningStreet.org will be running the campaign.

Thank you for your support and for your continuing committment to saving our democracy.

Sincerely,

Donna Cinelli

----- Original Message -----

From: David Swanson

To: david@davidswanson.org

Sent: Friday, September 30, 2005 4:17 PM

Subject: After Downing Street Update

 

  

 

Polling on Impeachment
Does the public favor an investigation into grounds for impeachment of President Bush? We have no way of knowing, because the pollsters aren't asking. The After Downing Street coalition has begun collecting donations to hire mainstream professional pollsters to ask the questions that need to be asked.  It doesn't take much money, but can have a tremendous impact.  Learn more and contribute here:
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/polling

 

Please help spread the word by linking to the page with this image:You can do so with this code:
<a href="http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/polling"><img src="http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/images/pollinglink.gif"></a>

 

 

Please include the following announcement or something like it in an Email to your members:

POLLING ON IMPEACHMENT

Does the public favor an investigation into grounds for impeachment of President Bush? Does a majority of the public want impeachment right away? What are the most popular reasons for wanting Bush impeached? What does the public think about various other proposals to hold accountable the architects of this war?

We have no way of knowing, because the pollsters aren't asking. One pollster did ask about impeachment in June. A Zogby poll from June 30, 2005, found that a remarkable 42 percent of Americans favored impeachment if Bush lied about the reasons for the war. Various polls have found that a majority of Americans believe that Bush did so lie. That 42 percent is significantly higher than the percentage of the public that wanted Clinton impeached. But Zogby has not asked the question again, and no other pollster has asked it at all. 

The After Downing Street coalition has begun collecting donations to hire mainstream professional pollsters to ask the questions that need to be asked.

Keeping Pressure on Congress We need to build on the momentum of the the recent demonstrations by having each member of Congress hear personally from you, their direct constituents, to demand that Congress pass legislation to end the war now, refuse any additional funding for the war, prohibit the establishment of permanent military bases in Iraq, and investigate the claims of the Bush administration that were used to justify the war.  Go to: http://www.millionphonemarch.com

 

 

Tomdispatch Interview with Cindy Sheehan
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/3204

 

The Relevance of Marching: A Reply to David Corn
By David Swanson

http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/3203

 

Permanent Occupation

By Rep. Barbara Lee, In These Times

http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/3207

 

George Bush in Hell
by David Michael Green
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/3167

 

A Grassroots Organizer’s Perspective: PDA Strategy Day

By Mike Hersh, PDA

http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/3180

 

Grassroots Lobby Day

By Mike Hersh, PDA

http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/3181

 

What Noble Cause? Vietnam Combat Veteran Not Welcome at Vietnam War Memorial

By Jozef Hand-Boniakowski

http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/3197

 

Notes on London Interviews With Iraqis Re Peace Process

By Tom Hayden

http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/3219

 

Group Announces Whistleblower Award Fund
RAW STORY

http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/3228

 

 

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Audit Assails the White House for Public Relations Spending -NYT

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/30/politics/30cnd-educ.html?hp&ex=1128139200&en=366c3a62f5665c5a&

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September 30, 2005

Audit Assails the White House for Public Relations Spending

By ROBERT PEAR

WASHINGTON, Sept. 30 - Federal auditors said today that the Bush administration had violated the law by purchasing favorable news coverage of President Bush's education policies, by making payments to the conservative commentator Armstrong Williams and by hiring a public relations company to analyze media perceptions of the Republican Party.

 

In a blistering report, the investigators, from the Government Accountability Office, said the administration had disseminated "covert propaganda" inside the United States, in violation of a longstanding, explicit statutory ban.......

 

In other words, the federal government spent taxpayer money to push its legislative agenda, which is clearly illegal. 

 

Is this not an impeachable offense?  Time for Bush to go!

 

Luke 10: 18 Jesus said, “I have observed Satan fall like lightning from the sky."

 

In the name of the Prince of Peace,  Carol Wolman

Fw: Polling on Impeachment

 

----- Original Message -----

From: David Swanson

To: 00David Swanson

Sent: Friday, September 30, 2005 11:15 AM

Subject: Polling on Impeachment

AfterDowningStreet has launched a new initiative at
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/polling

The purpose is to collect donations and use them to pay mainstream respected pollsters to include in their public opinion surveys questions about impeaching President Bush and related matters.

Please help spread the word by linking to the page with this image:


You can do so with this code:
<a href="http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/polling"><img src="http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/images/pollinglink.gif"></a>

Please include the following announcement or something like it in an Email to your members:

POLLING ON IMPEACHMENT

Does the public favor an investigation into grounds for impeachment of President Bush? Does a majority of the public want impeachment right away? What are the most popular reasons for wanting Bush impeached? What does the public think about various other proposals to hold accountable the architects of this war?

We have no way of knowing, because the pollsters aren't asking. One pollster did ask about impeachment in June. A Zogby poll from June 30, 2005, found that a remarkable 42 percent of Americans favored impeachment if Bush lied about the reasons for the war. Various polls have found that a majority of Americans believe that Bush did so lie. That 42 percent is significantly higher than the percentage of the public that wanted Clinton impeached. But Zogby has not asked the question again, and no other pollster has asked it at all. 

The After Downing Street coalition has begun collecting donations to hire mainstream professional pollsters to ask the questions that need to be asked.

Learn more and contribute here:
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/polling

 

 

 

Fw: URGENT -HAS TO BE DONE TODAY-election reform

 

----- Original Message -----

From: Donna.NeverSurrender

To: Undisclosed-Recipient:;

Sent: Friday, September 30, 2005 10:33 AM

Subject: URGENT -HAS TO BE DONE TODAY

Sorry for the short notice, but this comment WILL count. PLEASE SEND FAR AND WIDE AS SOON AS YOU HAVE SENT YOUR EMAIL. Remember to include your name and address.

We have 36 hours to help ensure that every American vote will be counted in the 2008 election and beyond.

The Federal Election Assistance Commission closes the public comment period on their proposed Voluntary Voting System Guidelines at 5 p.m. this Friday, September 30, 2005.

 

NOW IS THE TIME!!! 

 

Please send an email with the following phrase or whatever you would like to express on the proposed guidelines immediately to votingsystemguidelines@eac.gov  (Just click on it to open an email). Many technical people are submitting detailed comments, but we learned yesterday that governments around the world are WATCHING to see what America - YOU - think.

I want Section 6.8 to require a voter-verified paper audit trail for ALL voters and voting systems. It should be mandatory.  The reasons why should be obvious. 

The current proposal does NOT require voter-verified paper audit trail.

(I also added the following:)

Also to be included in the proposed guidelines:

- No secret, proprietary code for any voting systems.

- No voting machine companies to be used as the "central tabulating" center during elections or in any other capacity.

- No voting machine employee or executive, no state official or state employee that is involved in election planning or execution can be associated with any particular party's political campaign. (e.g. Blackwell as Sec. of State of Ohio AND Chairman of the Republican Party in Ohio - ridiculous and obviously flagrant conflict of interest.)

Signed,

Your name and address.

For fair elections, Nancy Wallace Co-founder, TrueVoteMD.org

Bobbie Brinegar Senior Political Adviser, VerifiedVoting.org

Nancy Wallace

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"Suppose...": Arguments for an Impeachment Resolution By Bernard Weiner

http://www.democraticunderground.com/crisis/05/030_bw.html
"Suppose...": Arguments for an Impeachment Resolution

September 27, 2005
By Bernard Weiner, The Crisis Papers

Suppose it could be proven that the integrity of the vote-
counting in the 2004 election had been seriously compromised,
and that Bush-Cheney probably lost. What would you do about it?

Suppose it could be proven that the Bush Administration told
huge lies to get the U.S. military into Iraq, thus leading to
the deaths of thousands of American soldiers, the maiming of
tens of thousands of others, the deaths of more than 100,000
innocent Iraqi civilians? What would you do about it?

Suppose it could be proven that the Bush Administration
effectively has turned over the writing of pollution-control
legislation to the corporations that create much of the
pollution? What would you do about it?

Suppose it could be proven that the Bush inner circle knew that
a huge terrorist attack was about to go down in the Fall of
2001 and chose, for whatever reason, to ignore the warnings.
What would you do about it?

Suppose it could be proven that high officials of the Bush
Administration, for political reasons, deliberately revealed
the identity of a covert CIA officer, and that of a CIA mole
inside Osama bin Laden's inner circle? What would you do about
it?

Suppose it could be proven that the Bush Administration
concocted a legal philosophy that would permit the President to
ignore laws passed by Congress, and has "disappeared" a number
of American citizens into military-base prisons away from
public or legal scrutiny - in effect, making the President into
a kind of dictator? What would you do about it?

Suppose it could be proven that under rules devised by the Bush
Administration, confidentiality between lawyer and client no
longer exists, federal agents can enter your home and conduct a
search without you being present or even being told it happened
("sneak & peek," it's called), can hack into your computer and
read your private emails without you being informed, can check
what library books you're reading and prevent librarians from
telling you they've done that. What would you do about it?

Suppose it could be proven that the Bush Administration devised
legal rationales for torture of suspected terrorist-prisoners
in U.S. care - with more than 100 dying while being
interrogated - and that key detainees are being sent to U.S.-
friendly countries where extreme torture methods are used? What
would you do about it?

Suppose it could be proven that because of their incompetence
and delay in responding to the Gulf Coast Katrina catastrophe,
more than a thousand innocent American citizens drowned or
starved to death? What would you do about it?

Suppose it could be proven that the Bush Administration,
hostile to science, has denied the reality of global warming
and its effects on regional weather changes, such as the
increase in monster hurricanes like Katrina and Rita, and thus
devoted little or no attention to the deadly implications. What
would you do about it?

"WHAT DO I CARE WHAT YOU THINK?"

Well, you get the idea. You or I could continue this list
forever - civil liberties, church and state merging, humongous
deficits, activist judges enlarging the power of the central
government, treating certain citizens (especially women and
gays) unequally, etc. etc. And then we'd always come back to
the same closing question: "What would you do about it?"

The reason I ask is that the Bush Administration has been
caught in the spotlight on these issues for the past four-and-a-
half years, with documented evidence reported in the mainstream
media. Scandal after scandal, corruption after corruption, high
crimes and misdemeanors - and yet, nothing happens.

As Bush himself once said about his critics, almost in these
words: "So what, I'm the President. What are you going to do
about it? What do I care what you think?" As long as Bush is in
the White House, with all the power at his command, with all
his loyalist toadies keeping real-world consequences away from
him, he feels that he and his inner circle in the bunker with
him are untouchable.

And, to date, he has been. So what are you, what are we, going
to do about it?

ALMOST AT CRITICAL MASS

I suggest that anti-Bush critical mass is just about achieved
in the body politic, especially after the disgraceful, shameful
neglect and bungling associated with the Katrina scandal, which
led to the deaths of so many American citizens. Nearly two-
thirds of those polled these days agree that the Iraq War is a
mistake, and the troops should be brought back home soon.
Bush's approval rating is now in the high-30% range. If and
when in the next few months indictments are unsealed against
key Bush Administration officials - perhaps including not only
Karl Rove and Scooter Libby but John Bolton and, maybe as
unindicted co-conspirators, Bush and Cheney - true critical
mass could be achieved.

At that point, we don't want to be just sitting there watching
the unfolding of the Bush Administration's self-destruction, or
witnessing their last, dangerous, martial-law death throes. We
need to have protected ourselves, and helped prepare the way
for the moral/legal/political turnaround that is coming.

One way to lay the necessary foundations is to get the
citizenry talking seriously about the possibility of
impeachment. Now. And, in addition to raising the issue amid
the chattering class, perhaps the best way of getting the word
out more widely is for an impeachment resolution to be
introduced in the House. Now.

As I see it, such a move will not have a chance of success if
such a resolution were introduced only by a single, and easily
dismissible, member of Congress. No, this impeachment
resolution - calling for hearings into the alleged high crimes
and misdemeanors of Bush and Cheney - ideally should be
introduced by a huge number of Representatives, including
whatever courageous Republicans can be convinced to join.

There also is strength in numbers, perhaps giving members
courage to take the giant step in the company of many of their
peers. Who will start the process by talking along these lines
to their fellow members of Congress? My guess is that if
someone with the stature of John Conyers and Jim Leach began
talking up the idea of an impeachment resolution, others might
well consider signing on. Even better would be if Minority
Leader Nancy Pelosi were to bite the bullet and join in. I'd
say a minimum of 40 names would be necessary to break through
into the major media as a "serious" movement afoot.

WHY MANY REPUBLICANS MIGHT JOIN IN

Why would Republicans want to abandon the Bush cabal that
helped turn them into the majority party in Congress? Well, for
one thing, they want to get re-elected and Bush could well be
an embarrassing and politically radioactive albatross around
their necks in 2006. If Bush and Cheney were to go, they could
run campaigns devoid of their association with that pair, and
might well return to their seats of power in the Congress.

Likewise, CEOs and other business types, including stock market
brokers and economic powers that be, see the damage being
inflicted on the budget, on deficit financing, on the economy,
and so on, and might well believe that three more years of this
bumbling, ideologically-driven administration could well take
the country down with it. Better to cut their losses now by
abandoning Bush & Co. to the retribution of the public for four-
plus years of reckless rule, and then stabilize things and get
the country back on track.

So many retired military leaders and traditional Republicans,
conservatives all (in the pre-Bush meaning of that term),
already have cut themselves loose from a party kidnapped by far-
right extremists. It's not outside the realm of possibility
that these GOP forces might coalesce into a movement that sees
the forced eviction of Bush & Co. from the White House as in
the best interests of themselves, their party, the economy, and
the American people in general.

Now, introducing such a resolution calling for impeachment
hearings could well fail when it comes up for a vote. But Bush
& Co. may have gone so far over the acceptable edge, it's not
outside the realm of possibility that such a bill could pass.
(Members of Congress were talking about the impeachment of
President Nixon in the early-'70s and, though no such
resolutions passed, they helped set the stage for Nixon's
resignation later as the Watergate scandal unfolded.)

In any event, discussing the reasons for impeachment outside
the fringes of internet discourse - actual governmental
officials talking about it - would significantly alter the
respectability of the topic being raised in the public sphere.
Suddenly, it would be a serious issue being discussed
seriously, both out on the street (where there would have to be
unrelenting rallies and civil disobedience) and in the
corridors of industry and political power.

NO SEX BUT PLENTY OF DEAD BODIES

The basis for impeachment of Bush-Cheney would not be a
personal indiscretion a la Clinton - extremely bad judgment,
but a private sexual act between consenting adults - but crimes
and misdemeanors that have resulted, and continue to result, in
the death and destruction of American citizens and their
property, both abroad and at home.

As for the wording of such a resolution, my guess is that the
experts in such things will opt for a simple, all-inclusive
indictment rather than a laundry-list of specific offenses,
which will come later. For example, Bush and Cheney took their
oaths of office swearing to "preserve, protect and defend" the
Constitution and, by implication, the citizens of the United
States. They have done neither.

The Constitutional protections designed to shield citizens from
an overbearing federal government are in shreds; citizens are
being killed in a war based on lies; we Americans are less
secure than we were before the invasion of Iraq; and monster
storms have become more deadly because of unfeeling
incompetence and a denial of scientific realities.

It is long since time to take corrective action. Many
progressives and Democrats have been moving in that direction
for a long time, but the time may be ripe, or may soon be ripe,
for significant factions of the Republican Party to join in the
movement to pry the grasping fingers of Bush & Co. from the
levers of power.

Introducing a resolution calling for impeachment hearings is
the first serious step along that road back to political sanity
and moral accountability for our country. Let's demand that our
Representatives in Congress do it, and if they won't, we will
elect those who will.

Bernard Weiner, Ph.D. in government & international relations,
has taught at various universities, worked as a writer/editor
with the San Francisco Chronicle, and currently co-edits The
Crisis Papers. For comments, write crisispapers@comcast.net.

Jeremiah's Law by Carol Wolman and Robert Mendelson

Jeremiah's Law by Carol Wolman and Robert Mendelson

As the Bush empire crumbles, the United States of America is in deep trouble.  So many crimes against humanity have been committed in our name that we are have become a rogue nation.  There is very little sympathy left in the rest of the world for the country which has spread uranium dust around Iraq and Afghanistan, flouted international law at every turn, disrupted the UN, undermined the treaties which hold nuclear weapons in check, hastened global warming, set up an international gulag/torture chamber, trampled the sovereignty of another nation, etc.

 

At home, the country is in shambles.  The treasury is bankrupt, there are no disaster plans in place, faith in the political system is nil, the price of fossil fuel is skyrocketing and there is no orderly transition plan to sustainable energy, lowlying cities are drowning, there is no organized opposition with plans to set things right.

 

We had better start praying:

 

Psalm 79: 4 We have become the reproach of our neighbors,
the scorn and derision of those around us.

8 Remember not against us the iniquities of the past;
may your compassion quickly come to us,
for we are brought very low.

 

Many are prophesying doom for the US.  We have stirred up great hatred against ourselves in the Muslim world, and provided a ready-made recruiting and training ground for urban guerillas in Iraq.  Our economy is teetering on the brink of a crash.  The corruption in our federal government is deep and wide, and our voting machines are rigged. 

 

A sizable portion of our citizenry is locked into a suicidal religious psychosis called the rapture cult, which believes in burning up the environment, leading to a nuclear armageddon. 

 

Most People of the Book are taught a bloody event at the Last Hour, Armageddon, is required to fulfill scripture.  However, as a general rule, prophecy is completely misunderstood.  Prophecies of doom are warnings. They will be fulfilled, but it's the manner in which they're fulfilled that matters. Figuratively (peacefully), or literally (mass destruction). It's our choice.   How we respond determines the form of fulfillment-life, or death.  This principle  is spelled out in what I call...

 

                        Jeremiah's Law
Jeremiah 18:7-11 (NIV);
7   If at any time [including Revelation] I announce
that a nation or kingdom is to be uprooted, torn down and destroyed,
and if that nation I warned repents of its evil,
then I will relent and not inflict on it the disaster I had planned.

9    And if at another time I announce that a nation or kingdom is to be built up and planted,
10   and if it does evil in my sight and does not obey me, then I will reconsider the good I had intended to do for it."

Verses 7-8 say when God makes a prophecy of doom if we heed the warning and repent (destroy what we're doing wrong.like foreign policy) we'll be spared, but 9-10 says if we ignore  Him we'll be destroyed literally.

www.armageddonoftheego.org   by Robert Mendelson

 

If we Americans are to be spared the worst, we had better return to the path of justice, truth, and love for our neighbors.  To start with, we must impeach Bush, Cheney, and the other criminals in high places.  We must elect a new, clean Congress that will represent the people rather than cater to the military/energy corporations that are sucking us dry and leading us to disaster.  We must make amends to other countries, and take our rightful place as a nation cooperating with other nations to benefit the planet as a whole, and solve global problems.

 

In the name of the Prince of Peace,  Carol Wolman