The Impeachment Hearing Room

“It is not if we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists will we be?” — Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies - or else? The chain reaction of evil - hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars - must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

I just want to do God's will. And he's allowed me to go to the mountain. And I've looked over, and I've seen the promised land! I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

I submit that an individual who breaks the law that conscience tells him is unjust and willingly accepts the penalty by staying in jail to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the very highest respect for law.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

I submit to you that if a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Stop, Look, Listen; Open Your Eyes.

Things Americans Don’t Want To Hear But Are Going To Have To Live With Whether They Like It Or Not Because Everyone Is Being Swept Into The Coming Conflict! Wake Up America!

You know, I don’t care if it’s not proper for a Congressional candidate to say: “horseshit.” I don’t care if it is not a good “tactic” to get kicked out of a Congressional non-impeachment hearing that was just a bunch of horseshit anyway. I don’t care if I get accused of being too “extreme” for bucking the (cyst)em by doing everything form camping in a ditch in Crawford, Tx to non-violent civil disobedience to, lately, running for Congress as (oh no!) an independent.

If people can’t see how this nation is teetering on the precipice of financial ruin and dragging the rest of this planet down with us as we destroy our ecology, too…and if people don’t realize how desperate our situation is, then I must say, that’s horseshit!

I am angry. No, I am incensed that hundreds of thousands of people are dead, dying, wounded, displaced from their homes or being imprisoned and tortured by the sadists that reside or work at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue with the approval of their accomplices down the road in Congress. I am furious that I buried my oldest son when he was 24 years old for the unrepentant lies and the unpunished crimes of the Bush mob. Are you incensed? If not, maybe you should ask yourself: “Why?” Hypothetically: “Why am I not enraged that my country has killed or hurt so many people for absolutely no noble cause in my name and with my tacit approval?”

I am steamed that the working class has to, once again, pay for the excesses of the capitalist criminals that feeds its rapacious appetite with the flesh and blood of our children and won’t rest until it owns every penny in this world and has all the power.

You may say, “But Cindy, it is not polite to be angry or to use such strong language in public.” Horseshit! In my opinion, every citizen in this country should rise up in anger and DEMAND that George Bush and Dick Cheney not only be impeached and removed from office, but be tried and convicted for murder and crimes against the peace and humanity!

We should all walk off of our jobs and refuse to work and refuse to be cogs in the wheels of psychotic consumerism until our troops, military contractors and permanent bases are removed from Iraq and Afghanistan. We should, but most of us won’t. We won’t because it may mean that we would lose something of “value.” Material possessions are so transitory, as are our lives. We can leave a lasting impression by our courageous activism and moral sacrifice, or we can leave a pile of rusting metal or rotting wood. I choose the former for myself.

We should come out of our comas of too much TV news and not enough non-biased information to push for alternatives to fossil fuels that are clean and renewable and protest nuclear facilities and off-shore oil drilling like we used to in the olden days when people actually cared enough about not poisoning our world to get off of their couches or (today) out from behind their computer screens to do something constructive instead of complacently shelling out hundreds of dollars a week for gasoline and food.

I get so pissed off when one of my supporters has a tooth ache and can’t afford to go see a dentist to fix it or when my sister has had a cough for almost two years and doesn’t have the health insurance she needs to get fully well. And when I think that almost 50 million people in this country are non-insured or under-insured, I see red. Why, in one of the wealthiest countries in the world, do some have the “privilege” of being fully insured and healthy, when health care is a basic human right, not a privilege for the elitists?

My heart hurts every night when the men who sleep propped up against my campaign office, huddled under their blankets against the San Francisco chill, wish me a “good night” and I can’t choke the same words back to them, or do much of anything but give them coffee to keep warm and books to read to help pass the time. My campaign office is being visited on a daily basis by Iraq war vets who can’t access the help they need to get physically or mentally healthy—and I am “extreme” because I actually want things to really change and choose to act on this desire and not sit around passively pretending that this horseshit doesn’t exist?

Since Casey died, even though every day I am filled with pain and longing, I have tried to be the poster-mom for this pain telling my neighbors and fellow Americans how it feels to be profoundly hurt by the Military Industrial Complex and that it wouldn’t be too long before the cancer of BushCo would strike every American home and now that this prediction is awfully coming true, I see more and more apathy and less and less action.

Three years ago today, I first sat in a ditch in Crawford, Texas and three years later, we are in dire straits, my friends, and the prognosis is not good, unless we all make a conscious effort to sacrifice some of today’s comfort for the sake of our children and grandchildren’s futures.

Sixty-three years ago today, the monsters of the US war machine dropped a WMD on hundreds of thousands of innocent women and children and since then, this nation has just descended into a further spiral of war and profiting from war and preparing for war and more profiting from war; which is destroying every aspect of our society and we MUST reclaim our very souls from the Military Industrial Complex before it is too late.

Please don’t wait for November, or January or for the Dawning of the Age of Aquarius because every second we allow this demented pattern to continue, is one second too long!

Get moving! by Cindy Sheehan

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America’s Ready: The Seven Steps To Revolution!

7 steps of revolution- It appears to the sociologists and historians that we’ve met or exceeded all the criterion for r3volution at any price, even a violent one!

Be advised that this is an extremely left leaning article, and something that the Dems will try to take ‘credit’ for- though they’re one with the oligarchs that have been bringing about the demise of the country. Here are the 7 steps:

The first criterion is that of a soaring economy that then crashes. Serious contractions in the standard of living put people in a rotten mood.

Second: the class war, which has become so great that the distance between the rich and the poor is as great or greater than it was during the Great Depression.

Third: deserted ‘intellectuals’ which I would interpret as deserted or betrayed leaders that we can believe in. The assassination of the Kennedys was like that- the country NEVER got over it, hope died with Bobby and we never really got it back. Nobody would miss the pseudo-intellectuals of the thought police, except themselves, but that is what this article claims.

Fourth: ‘incompetent government.’ Banging that old drum- the fact is that they weren’t incompetent: they’ve planned all this and DONE IT ON PURPOSE.

Fifth: (and this is laughable) ‘gutless wonders’ in the ruling class. The fact that there even is a ‘ruling class’ in the first place- the Bush Clinton Dynasty and those who hold their puppet strings is a betrayal of EVERYTHING the Constitution and Bill of Rights stands for. We are sick of being betrayed.

Sixth: Fiscal irresponsibility. Our problems have gone WAAAAY beyond ‘irresponsibility.’ It has been deliberate and purposeful plan to bankrupt the country and all the people in it, in order to make a way to claim it for the very few. It could never be done with a free, happy and prosperous American populace. We had to be forced into a total economic collapse and starvation- or else there would be too many cowboys to take this crap.

Seven: Inept and inconsistent use of force. Our government has destroyed our Constitution so that it gets free reign to use any type of violence and force it so chooses, and has corrupted judges and law enforcement all over the country, to do it. This is a HUGE violation of our law- the job of the government is to protect the people from all enemies, both foreign and DOMESTIC, and those who should have been hung or shot for treason bought their way out of justice.