Putting Impeachment Center Stage

"They Took It Off The Table, So We Put It On The Stage."

On that defiant note, The Culture Project of New York has enlisted the help of Naomi Wolf, Lynn and Corin Redgrave, Lewis Lapham, Elizabeth de la Vega and dozens more scholars, artists, and activists to launch "A Question of Impeachment," promoted as:

An ambitious and unique new series gathering today's most brilliant and visionary minds to explore and debate the case for the impeachment of President George Bush and Vice President Richard Cheney.

Finally, backboned America has a forum besides Dennis Kucinich's website. For the impeachment-hungry who are unable to attend in person, highlights will be broadcast on The Culture Project's website. Enjoy the clip below, and visit the site for more media.

"A Question of Impeachment," is a 5-week series, continuing Sundays and Mondays through Sunday, December 16, 2007.

Visit The Culture Project here.

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[pswill]

19. Ordering the war crime destruction in 2004 of the entire Iraqi city of Fallujah and much of its civilian population of 250,000 under the code name of "Phantom Fury" in revenge for the killing of 6 Blackwater employees wrongly placed in a hostile zone by their employer. Then targeting Al Jazeera in an attempt to obstruct justice by covering up this crime against humanity.
20. Intentional failure to endorse the Kyoto Protocol which has exacerbated global warning to the "tipping point" that will seal the future deaths of millions including Americans.

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[pswill]

8. Violating the Geneva Convention and the Code of Military Justice by directly authorizing and inducing rendition, torture, and indefinite detention.
9. Violating attorney-client privileges of 9/11 prisoners as a matter of policy.
10. Violating the oath of office to faithfully execute duly enacted laws through the issuance of signing statements that pointedly disavow jurisdiction and emasculate enforcement.
11. Intentionally failing to enforce federal bidding and contracting oversight laws and suborning the waste, mismanagement and fraudulent payment of hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars to defense, military and government contractors both at home and in Iraq and Afghanistan for the covertly intended purpose of bankrupting the federal treasury, the American economy, and its government.
12. Willfully failing to warn, to protect, and then finally to reasonably, adequately, or substantively aid or favorably legislate for Hurricane Katrina victims during and years after the destruction of New Orleans in 2005 in order to facilitate the foreclosure and confiscation of the victims" private property for the benefit of corporate political donors.
13. Obstructing justice by first objecting and then failing to provide documents to the 9/11 Commission necessary in the determination of cause, liability, and culpability for murder of almost 3,000 American civilians.
14. Obstructing justice by refusing to allow duly subpoenaed aides from testifying before Congress.
15. Violating 4th Amendment and FISA by engaging in warrentless wiretaps.
16. Violating 4th Amendment by ordering telecom companies to invade and accumulate personal records of millions of Americans and then supporting their immunity from federal prosecution and civil redress.
17. First deceiving Congress to hastily enact and then signing the Patriot and Military Commissions Acts that abrogates the 800-year old Magna Carta right of habeas corpus for anyone arbitrarily designated an "illegal enemy combatant."
18. Knowingly engaging, legally immunizing and suborning Blackwater USA and International as contract mercenaries both before and after probable cause for the murder of numerous Iraqi civilians by the firm"s employees was found to exist.

[pswill]

Pelosi is accepting signed petitions for impeachment. Her fax # is below. So feel free to copy and paste. Don't forget to say "thank you" before signing your name above your typed name, address and telephone number.
To the Speaker of the House of Representatives:
202-225-8259
IMPEACH CHENEY AND BUSH NOW!
FOR:
1. Failing to protect the American people on 9/11/01 through appropriate military alertness after being briefed in writing of the terrorist dangers of airline hijacking by bin Laden on or about August 6, 2001.
2. Suborning and facilitating escape of all members of the bin Laden family in the United States before being interrogated or briefed by the FBI in the immediate wake of 9/11/01 terrorist attack.
3. Deceiving and intentionally terrifying the American people and the Congress with cherry-picked or otherwise false or falsified evidence of (a) weapons of mass destruction, (b) the imminent danger of nuclear, chemical and biological war, and (c) an Iraqi nexus with Al Qaida in order to engage in an aggressive, preemptive war with Iraq that it had planned BEFORE 9/11/01.
4. Violating UN Charter by engaging in illegal, aggressive, and preemptive war with Iraq without a Security Council resolution.
5. Feloniously disclosing and/or suborning the disclosure of the identity of a CIA operative and endangering the lives of her field contacts in order to politically destroy her husband who exposed and revealed the factual truth behind the Executive"s aberrant military justifications.
6. Obstructing justice by instructing the White House Press Secretary to lie to the public denying that no one in the White House criminally disclosed and/or suborned the disclosure of the identity of CIA operative.
7. Violating the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights through (1) profiling, (2) arbitrary no-fly proscription lists, (3) torture, (4) rendition, (5) domestic voter fraud, (6) arbitrary and indefinite detention, (7) effectively denying and punishing 1st Amendment freedom of assembly (8) politicizing and packing federal public civil service and law enforcement employment, and (9) the permanent radioactive contamination and military destruction of Iraq.

[freespeach]

Great idea and video too.

I'll be checking out that site and continuing to try to spread the word.

PS There are a number of very busy trolls at huffpo who pose as liberals while they wage a campaign against impeachment, and in support of DLC policies of more war, more fascism.
I encourage all who favor impeachment as a remedy for what ails our nation, not to give them free reign of this place.

[JimR]

It's a nice dream... but I'm afraid that's all it is.

[scinoir]

To the people who claim that impeachment is wrong because he has not done anything wrong. I would like one of you to go down the list of impeachable offenses that have been put together (listed on this sites and many others) and tell why each of these actions by the administration are legal

[3fingerbrown]

A bit late in the game for impeachment, isn't it?
We're talking about a lame-duck president with less than a year to the next election. Even supposing that Congress had the will to impeach, by the time the impeachment machinery is all cranked up, and the hearings and debates and votes and back-room deals and the "selling" of the idea to we the people are done, how much time would be left in Bush's term? Would all that work be worth it, just to give Bush a farewell kick in the ass with, at most, a month or two left in his presidency?
Better Congress should simply run out the clock--obstruct, reject, and deny everything that comes from the White House for the next 11 months--and then start over again in '08 with, we hope, an actual human being as president.

[jrockbg]

One of these days in the future all the far-leftists in this country will read history books discussing these times. They will simply state that a Democratic Congress could not manage to impeach President Bush because there is no evidence to do so.

The truth about being president is that many decisions they make will teeter on the line of legality. It's the nature of what happens when you wield governmental power. History will judge this president no more criminal than any other. It's sad to see the far-leftists abandon Democrat principles when there are real political discussions that need to happen.

[realitytrumpsbull]

Just say 'impeach'. Troops home, assholes out,
reforms starting from the word 'go'. Congresser
can establish energy policy...Paul and Kucinich
are talking about running on the same ticket...
Reform! Woohoo!

[Gary50]

So Bush and Cheney lied us into a war that killed 4000 Ameicans, severly wounded 20,000 Ameicans, killed half a million Iraqi's and destroyed a country while bankrupting us to the tune of a trillion dollars. So they tore up the Constitution, looted the treasury by giving their friends billions in no bid contracts, gutted the sevices the government is supposed to provide, such as disaster response to Katrina in New Orleans. So they outed a covert Cia agent in a time of war, covered it up and pardoned their co-conspirator. So they politicised the Justice department, firing lawyers who wouldn't bring false charges against their opposition or did bring charges against the wrondoings of Republicans. Does this rise to the level of lying about oral sex? Only a loony liberal extremist would think so.

[dandman]

richardhead. how appropriate. Know this.....sooner or later, the day of reckoning will come for king george and his band of jolly facists. And because of his high jinks, all of you repubs will be equipped with a permanent tattoo, one that lets everyone know who all of the co-conspirators are.

[loslobo]

It's really too bad "inside job" is off the table for this forum. But that would just be overkill.

[ronmac]

"A Question of Impeachment."

No question. Impeachment is the answer.

[rch]

If it takes humor along with creative dialogue to get the message across that George Bush has "desecrated" the office of the presidency and at the "least" needs to be impeached, then this is as viable an approach to the discussion as there is! Thoroughly enjoyed the presentation.

[Richardhead]

You and Rep. Kooksinech are dreaming... Bush and Cheney would have to do something that rises to the level.... I know nobody of credible importance in either the senate or the house that beleives they did...