by Allen L. Roland

Libby and his mentor Paul Wolfowitz laid out the case for the illegal invasion of Iraq just one week after the Twin Towers fell in 2001 ~ and both reported to Dick Cheney.

Guy Dinsmore, Financial Times UK, profiled Libby and writes;

” Together with the vice-president, Mr. Libby launched the push to invade Iraq …. And, together with Cheney, Libby has “worked hard to block signs of engagement with Iran, resist direct talks with North Korea, and undermine U.S. legislation prohibiting torture and degrading treatment of detainees.”

As such, Libby was Cheney’s disciple and hit man and was obviously chosen to out Valerie Plame by Darth Vader himself ~ Dick Cheney.

Expect a Bush pardon and eventually a medal if Libby is found guilty. Loyalty to the chief outweighs everything in this den of thieves.

However, the last thing Cheney wants is now happening ~ Fitzgerald digging deeper into Cheney’s secret government and other more flagrant crimes against peace.

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Activists Call for Cheney’s Impeachment

by Allison Brophy Champion

Two political activists from Leesburg set up outside the Culpeper post office Tuesday afternoon to hand out literature and call for the impeachment of Vice President Dick Cheney.

“Impeach Satan first,” said a poster hanging from their table, and at its center was a photo of Cheney with devil horns and a pitchfork. “Go with Larouche.”

“We’re out here to make sure everybody knows Dick Cheney is at the end of his rope,” said Gene Schenk, 52. “That we’ve got to stop Cheney from going to war with Iran.”

Both Schenk and co-activist, Leslie Vaughan, represented the political action committee of 84-year-old Lyndon LaRouche, a controversial political figure who has run, unsuccessfully, for president in every election since 1976. Vaughan declined to elaborate on her reasons for coming to Culpeper, saying, “Cheney is not a very nice man.”

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by Daniel Barlow

NEWFANE — Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan will headline a 10-town, three-day tour of Vermont in early March to raise support for a series of town meeting resolutions calling for the impeachment of President Bush and withdrawal of troops from Iraq.

Sheehan, who camped outside of Bush’s Texas ranch in 2005 after her soldier son was killed in Iraq, will join Newfane resident Dan DeWalt on the tour starting March 2. DeWalt kicked off a movement last year in Vermont to impeach Bush.

Between 30-50 towns are expected to have impeachment resolutions on their town meeting agenda this year and about 50 more could consider the question under the “other business” portion of the meeting, according to DeWalt, who said the movement has taken on a life of its own.

“When we voted to impeach Bush in Newfane last year we inspired a lot of people in Vermont,” said DeWalt, referring to the March 2006 town meeting season during which more than a half dozen towns in the state passed the measure. “But this has now become a true grassroots movement in the state.”

The tour, which might also feature author John Nichols, will stop in Montpelier, Middlebury, Burlington, Hardwick, St. Johnsbury, Rutland, Springfield, Manchester, Brattleboro and possibly Bradford or White River Junction.

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The Superior Daily Telegram has called for the impeachment of President Bush. The Telegram is the first area paper to do that, and one of the first in Wisconsin.

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by Steve Terrell

Two Democratic state senators on Tuesday introduced a resolution calling for impeachment of President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney, accusing the pair of misleading Congress over the Iraq war, torturing prisoners and violating Americans’ civil liberties.

New Mexico’s Legislature would be the first to pass an impeachment resolution.

But even though Democrats are in command of both chambers, the impeachment measure ran into immediate trouble.

Senate leaders immediately assigned Senate Joint Resolution 5 — introduced by Sens. Jerry Ortiz y Pino, D-Albuquerque, and Sen. John Grubesic, D-Santa Fe — to three committee hearings.

That many committee assignments generally is thought of as the kiss of death for legislation. Not only are there three chances to kill a measure before it gets to a floor vote, it also increases the chance that time will run out in the 60-day session before a measure can make it through both chambers.

No Republicans in the Legislature support the memorial, supporters acknowledge.

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by Kagro X

The transmission of charges from a state legislature must still be memorialized on the floor of the House by a Member. But if, acting on the instructions of his or her home state legislature, a Member of the House does in fact raise a direct proposition to impeach, the matter is highly privileged, “and at once supersedes business otherwise in order.” It would, under the rules, be entitled to one hour of debate, after which it would be subject to a motion to table, or send to committee for further investigation (or, alternatively, death). But if the charges are carried to the floor by a Member of the House, impeachment is the order of the day. Or at least the hour.

Last year’s discussion of the procedure led to the adoption of local resolutions in dozens of locations across the country, and ultimately the introduction of bills in the legislatures of four states: Illinois, California, Vermontand Minnesota (where it was introduced by then state-Rep., now Congressman, Keith Ellison).

For consideration of the political implications of bringing such a resolution to the floor, I refer you to the above-linked diary on the subject. At the moment, the focus needs to be on this:

State Senator Gerald Ortiz y Pino (D-Albuquerque), along with cosponsor John Grubesic (D-Santa Fe) will be introducing such an impeachment resolution when the 2007 session of the New Mexico Legislature convenes next week.

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by Mike Gleason

SHAFTSBURY — Residents are using a staple of small New England towns to achieve a national goal.Andrew Schoerke and others are trying to get the issue of impeaching President Bush considered at the annual town meeting this March. A petition to this effect has already been started.

This effort echoes a move made last year by Vermont towns to call for Bush’s impeachment.

“The idea originated last year, when five communities included a resolution in their town meeting agenda for impeachment,” Schoerke said. “There are now over 48 towns in Vermont where they’re trying to get a similar resolution considered.”

The towns involved last year were Newfane, Brookfield, Dummerston, Putney and Marlboro. The Bennington County Democratic Committee unanimously passed a resolution to have the state legislature support impeachment as well.

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source: KRQE News 13

The 60-session of the state Legislature convenes today with the agenda including cockfighting, water, minimum wages and a call for the impeachment of President Bush and his vice president.The session opens at noon with Gov. Bill Richardson delivering his State of the State speech soon thereafter.

Lawmakers won’t finish up until mid-March.

Richardson has already dubbed this the “year of water” with money for water projects statewide.

With 60-days to deliberate there will be a lot served up on the lawmakers’ table.

When time ran out on last year’s 30-day session, a lot was left on the table unsettled.

Lawmakers say you can expect to see those items again this year.

That includes raising the state minimum wage to $7.50 an hour over a two-year period similar to what Albuquerque and Santa Fe have already done.

Also on the agenda:

*  A 7-percent-plus raise for teachers costing about $69 million.

*  Health insurance for low-income working New Mexicans; $77 million.

*  $100 million-plus for water with money for long-term plans to deal with drought.

*  An attempt to ban cockfighting again ruffling feathers although this time the effort has Richardson’s backing.

Sixty days also allows lawmakers more opportunity to present pet projects and platforms like the resolution asking congress to begin investigation and impeachment proceedings against President Bush and Vice President Cheney.

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NEWFANE, Vt. –Dan DeWalt is hoping what he started in his small town a year ago will spread around Vermont this Town Meeting Day and eventually to the halls of Congress.

DeWalt a member of his town Select Board, got his meeting to vote last year to support a call for Congress to impeach President Bush. He said this year, people in 50 Vermont towns are circulating petitions to get the question before voters at Town Meeting, the first Tuesday in March.

“We will be barnstorming the state on this,” DeWalt said. “In towns where we do not get it on the warning” — the official agenda for the meeting — “we will try to have it taken up under other business.”

source: The Boston Globe

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by Chris Vanocur, ABC4

Salt Lake Mayor Rocky Anderson is saying he now supports the impeachment of both the President and Vice-President.

The mayor is reacting strongly to the President’s Iraq speech Wednesday night.

Anderson is opposed to any escalation of U.S. troops there and says he would like to see the President’s exit sped up.

Anderson said, “I’d like to see them both gone and the sooner the better and if there were a way to do that through impeachment I would be completely in favor of it.”

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source: TPMCafe.com 

This is a good source for Impeachment information if you are new and want to get involved:

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by Leah Barr

“Your rights are being taken away! Apathy is not the answer!”
Protestors kept a loud vigil in USI’s free speech zone throughout Tuesday. From 8 a.m. until evening, USI students and Evansville residents of diverse backgrounds and faiths raised a united voice with chants, drumbeats and signs.

“Jesus would be here,” said Kelly Adams, 27. “He rebelled against leaders who pushed false faith.”

The group collected over 400 signatures on their petition calling for the impeachment of President Bush.

The group varied in size, ranging from 15 up to 40 strong as bystanders joined in over the course of the day.

“We’re trying to raise attention to the fact that our President has been lying to us,” said USI student Michael Bruns.

Bruns said the group was confined to a small area of campus and he finds it ironic that a public school has such a small space to allow for public expression.

The protestors’ grievances with President Bush ranged from concern over privacy and personal freedoms to women’s rights and the War on Terror.

“Bush says he’s pro-life but then kills Afghan children,” Adams said.

Campus security officers did not break up the group’s efforts, but made them remove sticks from their handheld signs to ensure that the protest would remain peaceful. Bruns said security chief Barry Hart was “pretty understanding” and did what he could to keep the group able to safely protest.

“I think anyone who’s against the killing of innocent people should be able to stand up and say something, Bruns said.

“He’s breaking laws and he’s going against the Constitution that it was supposed to be his job to uphold.”

Check out a multi-media presentation on the protest at www.usishield.com

source: The University of Southern Indiana Shield

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NEW PALTZ, NY — Impeach Bush? Yes, says the New Paltz town board.

The board voted 5-0 last week in favor of a resolution calling for the impeachment of the president. Grounds for impeachment listed in the resolution were taken from a list of 13 legal violations compiled by groups who also support Bush’s impeachment.

“I’d say it’s an unfortunate time in our history that we have to do this,” Councilman Jim Bacon said.

source: Poughkeepsie Journal

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source: Times Argus

MONTPELIER, VT — Voters in the city will have a chance in November to voice their opinions on the legality of actions taken by President Bush and Vice President Cheney after the City Council agreed Wednesday to place a referendum on the ballot.

The referendum asks city residents to authorize the city to urge the state’s representative in Congress to call for investigations into Bush and Cheney and move for impeachment if any criminal wrongdoing is found.

Resident Craig Hill has been pushing the issue and said Wednesday that he has collected the 310 signatures necessary to place the question on the ballot.

City councilors approved the wording and the placement pending Hill’s submission of the completed signature sheets by the close of business today.

The referendum is the latest in a nationwide movement by cities, states and counties to call for impeachment. In March, five southern Vermont towns passed similar resolutions, calling on Rep. Bernie Sanders to push for impeachment.

State legislators have also expressed disapproval, and the Democratic State Committee voted in April to urge the U.S. Congress to begin impeachment proceedings against President Bush.

The Democratic Committees of eight Vermont counties have also called for impeachment.

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By Gregg Jocoy

Freedom Park in Charlotte, NC will buzz with speeches and music this Saturday starting at 1 PM. The goal of all the music and speeches is nothing less than the permanent removal of George Bush and Dick Cheney.

Offering speakers from across the Carolinas and the nation, the rally will call for the impeachment of the President and Vice President based in part on the lies told the Congress and the American people by them in the lead up to the war on Iraq.

Musical acts cover the gamut from individual performers, like Michael Sharpe and Peter Moore to groups like Bellyfull and Hardcore Lounge. Sponsors of the event include the NC, Charlotte and York County (SC) chapters of the Green Party, local branches of Code Pink and NOW, and local activist groups like the Action Center for Justice and the Charlotte Coalition for Peace and Justice.

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source: Associated Press

WISCONSIN RAPIDS, Wis. - The common council plans to vote Tuesday whether allow a nonbinding referendum asking local voters in November whether to impeach President Bush.

Bill Dolan of Wisconsin Rapids said he and Robert Hoch of Arpin collected 921 signatures to get a referendum put on the ballot.

“I thought it was a good cause and I think something has to be done, checked into, to get people aware of the things going on,” Dolan said Sunday.

The question would ask: “Resolved: The U.S. House of Representatives should start an impeachment against President George W. Bush and Vice President Richard Cheney now.”

The common council can vote Tuesday to accept or deny the resolution.

“People probably question why this question is on a ballot, but I guess, how else would you get on the ballot except through the local process?” Wisconsin Rapids City Clerk Vern Borth said.

The required number of signatures to get a direct legislative petition to a vote by a town board or city council is 15 percent of the number of votes cast for governor in the municipality during the last election. For Wisconsin Rapids, that number is 896.

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source: The Ann Arbor News

ANN ARBOR: A local Web site that sells yard signs calling for President Bush’s impeachment is back up and running after a brief hiatus imposed when Washtenaw County officials learned the site was indirectly supported by county resources.

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By Evan Lehmann

A Newfane (VT) selectman will coach activists visiting the nation’s capital this weekend on how to impeach President Bush.Dan DeWalt, who made national headlines in March by introducing an impeachment resolution in a town meeting, will unveil hints to those wishing to do the same.

DeWalt’s coaching will occur on the National Mall — within sight of the congressional hearing rooms where articles of impeachment would be rendered.

“It’s just like a mentorship for people who want to do this,” said DeWalt, who was invited to participate in “Impeachment Sunday” by the event’s organizers. “I’ll mostly be curious just to see what kind of traffic we’ll be getting from normal people.”

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By Mike Belt

Goodnow did the same thing 33 years ago in an effort to get Congress to impeach President Nixon because of the Watergate scandal. Nixon ended up resigning instead of facing impeachment.

“I never thought I’d be doing this again,” said Goodnow, of Terlingua, Texas. “Bush makes Nixon look like a Boy Scout.”

Bush should be impeached because of “lies and deceptions” in taking the United States to war in Iraq, Goodnow said. He also says that the Bush administration is breaking the law with its domestic surveillance activities.

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By Richard Tillotson

WILL you vote to impeach George Bush?” This is an appropriate question to ask all Democratic and Republican candidates running for Ed Case’s seat in Congress. Case himself as well as Rep. Neil Abercrombie and Senators Daniel Inouye and Daniel Akaka also should have an answer ready. If elected, they may well have to cast a “yea” or “nay” on the issue of impeachment.

National polls show a majority of Americans now favor the Democrats. If Democrats take both houses of Congress in the November election — an outside chance but a real possibility nonetheless — Democrats will run the committees and wield subpoena power. Even if the Democrats take control only of the House, a motion to impeach Bush could well come forward. If it does, how should our representatives vote?

The constitutional description of an impeachable presidential offense is “treason, bribery or other high crimes and misdemeanors.” What those “other” crimes and misdemeanors might be is for Congress to decide. Eight years ago, a Republican House voted that having a sexual relationship with a White House intern and lying about it was an impeachable offense. The Senate decided it wasn’t, but the House vote set the height of the bar. It seems ludicrously low compared to what is before us today.

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By Matthew Cardinale

DECATUR, GA – 20-30 activists rallied for the impeachment of US President George W. Bush, at a busy intersection in Decatur, a somewhat liberal suburb of Greater Atlanta.

Most of the activists were students from Decatur High School, and said they were with an informal student organization called SPAC, The Student Political Activism Club. Other participants included members of the International Action Center, World Can’t Wait, and the Georgia Peace and Justice Coalition.

SPAC has about 20 student members and its meetings are held in a social studies classroom after school, organizer Juan Cardoza-Oquendo, 16, a Junior at Decatur High School, told Atlanta Progressive News.

Many motorists passing by engaged in honking horns in support.

“It’s exciting. Sometimes you forget behind all those cars are people drving them. It’s symbolic,” Cardoza-Oquendo said.

Some nonsupportive motorists shouted homophobic slurs as well as “Get a Job.”

“I have a job,” Kirstin Williams, 17, a Senior at Decatur High School, said. “And if they’re in their car driving by, then they’re obviously not at work right now either.”

“I don’t support the war. Their social policy is repugnant, cutting taxes when they shouldn’t. To get votes. When there are so many problems at home, like levees in New Orleans, they’re spending so much on risky and negative war,” Maggie Breen, 16, a Junior at Decatur High School, said.

“I thought this was a good way to confront people to get them to think about issues on their commute to and from work,” Breen said.

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source: Cape Cod Today

Independent candidate for Congress Peter White will join in the National Impeachment Vigil on September 1 that is being coordinated by the organizers of After Downing Street and Progressive Democrats of America.

White will lead a demonstration in front of Representative Delahunt’s office at 146 Main Street, Hyannis, from 3:00 PM until 5:00 PM that Friday, and he invites all peace and justice supporters to join him.

“We the People must demand that Representative Delahunt follow his oath of office to uphold the laws and Constitution of the United States by introducing Articles of Impeachment of Bush/Cheney immediately,” said White. “He is letting them continue the War for oil in Iraq that has killed and maimed tens of thousands of our troops, and hundreds of thousands of innocent people in Iraq. Delahunt has admitted that Bush/Cheney’s policies of torture and illegal wiretapping are grounds for impeachment, and yet he refuses to start impeachment proceedings because he says that would be bad for the Democratic Party!”

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By Althea Peterson

Back in 1973, hundreds gathered in Washington to have President Richard Nixon impeached.

Now, remnants of the same group are in Norman with a similar cause.

Drivers at the corner of Flood Avenue and Symmes were greeted with a “drive-thru impeachment” table, encouraging drivers to stop and sign a petition to impeach President George W. Bush. The group, “Committee to Impeach the President,” has traveled through Washington D.C., Virginia, Texas and Oklahoma so far.

Jim Goodnow, 67, of Terlingua, Texas, said after protesting Nixon’s presidency in the ’70s, he never thought he would have to resurrect the group once again.

“You’re seeing history made in Norman,” Goodnow said. “This is the first and only drive through impeachment location.”

The “drive-thru impeachment,” which could be noticed from far away because of the large tour bus in the driveway, had several drivers stop to sign Saturday evening.

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By Carol Broulliet

Film makers, activists, candidates, researchers, outraged citizens, truth-seekers, are taking action, producing events, films, books, art, music to challenge the Big Lie about 9/11. On the fifth anniversary of 9/11, the country is divided into doubters of the official story and the misinformed. A bevy of 9-11 Truth events are coming up in the Bay Area, NY, all over the world.

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By Rebecca Ransom

WASHINGTON-In a reversal last week, Washington’s town counsel, attorney David Miles, advised the Board of Selectmen that it is not obligated to allow a special town meeting on a resolution calling for the impeachment of President George W. Bush.

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