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Letter to John Conyers
Replied Mar 24
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- I write my legislators about every week and say I won't vote for them, altho' are Dems and some voted against war -- because I won't reward anyone w/ my vote if they can't get their heads out of Pelosi's hindquarters and do the right thing. I've heard all their excuses and none are valid. I particularly find Conyers' recent pleas that we should somehow organize a public outcry despicable:
Dear Incumbent Seeking My Vote Next Election:
I wouldn’t vote for even a dogcatcher who won’t stand up for impeachment. How have you in Congress sunk so low? Conyers, once so noble sounding before Pelosi yanked his leash, recently piteously pleaded for a public outcry for impeachment – at a Lawyers Guild Convention calling for impeachment!?! He didn’t hear them? I read stories in the mainstream press about legislators who admit to having received a huge volume of mail and calls for impeachment; they admit it -- under condition of anonymity. It is YOU who are suppressing our voices. It’s sickening.
Conyers and his cynical foam-from-the-mouth calls for “public outcry” -- to whom? The earless, eyeless, mouthless benchwarmers in DC? We have cried in public and private -- all that's left for us to do is quit our jobs and surround the White House and sit in and stay there and allow no one to enter or leave till we're all shot dead. Ironically, I’ll have to come back from Beijing to do that.
Thanks, guys. I don't think our funerals will move you, I don't think public outcries will move you, I don't think anything will. And what of YOUR jobs? If I can help get the lot of you dumped, I will, though I have only my voice and a keyboard. You have the power. Shame on you all. Shame, shame, shame.
Sincerely yours,
ps. I will send in a write-in absentee ballot and vote for myself -- wasting my vote? It's you who have wasted my vote.
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Nancy Pelosi was entrusted with the responsibility of ending the war and took an oath to support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic. The war rages on and Nancy has refused to hold those accountable for this immoral war based on lies. Cindy for Congress is asking the country to stand up against injustice and stand with Cindy Sheehan again on August 6th
August 6th is Hiroshima Day. Hiroshima is a vivid example of the potential destruction US Foreign policy can bring to people all around the world. The USA is the only country to ever have used a Nuclear weapon in battle. It's time to stop!
We must hold the administration that led us into an unjust immoral war based on lies accountable.
August 6th is also the third anniversary of the day Cindy Sheehan first sat down in the ditch outside of George W Bush’s Crawford, Texas ranch to get him to answer the question, “For what noble cause,” did he send her son Casey to die in Iraq!
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August 6th can be the beginning of a shift in paradigm from policies of fear, murder and destruction toward a consciousness that fosters policies of trade, sovereignty, self-determination, cooperation and peace
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“At the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends,” Martin Luther King Junior~
Nancy Pelosi was entrusted with the responsibility of ending the war and took an oath to support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic. The war rages on and Nancy has refused to hold those accountable for this immoral war based on lies. Cindy for Congress is asking the country to stand up against injustice and stand with Cindy Sheehan again on August 6th~
August 6th is Hiroshima Day. Hiroshima is a vivid example of the potential destruction US Foreign policy can bring to people all around the world. The USA is the only country to ever have used a Nuclear weapon in battle. It's time to stop. We must hold the administration that led us into an unjust immoral war based on lies accountable. You don't have to live in the 8th District of California to see that Nancy Pelosi is not interested in PEACE and you have a stake in Cindy’s race for Congress! Send a message to Nancy Pelosi that she was wrong to take impeachment off the table and continue to fund BushCo’s war! Support Cindy Sheehan for Congress in her run against Nancy Pelosi in the 8th district of California!
August 3rd is also the third anniversary of the day Cindy Sheehan first sat down in the ditch outside of George Bush’s Crawford, Texas ranch to get him to answer the question, “For what noble cause,” did he send her son Casey to die in Iraq!
Stand with Cindy again on August 6th!
August 6th can be the beginning of a shift in paradigm from policies of fear, murder and destruction toward a consciousness that fosters policies of trade, sovereignty, self-determination, cooperation and peace~
Let’s make August 6th a day to let Nancy Pelosi know that we, as a nation are serious about peace and holding those accountable who do not stand with us~
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Pat
How's it goin'? U still abroad?
THIS WEEK, if you read this, please consider forwarding this flyer with anyone you think might distribute same / take action in the States!
Peace,
Pat
> striking here wouldn't do much for there.
Yeah--wasn't sure if you were still in Beijing. Meant to also write, "Please email any contacts you have residing in the States. And any online lists you belong to which may be read by Americans."
> I will send yet another letter to everyone.
Thanks! This time date (May 1) is set and a big union (ILWU) has already notified Pacific dockworkers and transport workers [these 3 unions are actually international, but I doubt it's within our power to get unions abroad to strike May 1 to protest the U.S.'s war on Iraq--might only hurt their people, not ours?] plus the AFL-CIO and the 7 unions comprising Change-to-Win (incl truck drivers at ports).
> Read a few days a go that Conyers said he couldn't have it on his conscience if impeaching led to a McCain win.
Guess he thinks any non-Democrat president is a fate worse than an end to freedom amd democracy.
John, John, John... You should read this opinion that Republicans are already planning (and having wet dreams) to do "whatever it takes" to coronate another of their own (McCain)--"Republicans Plan Double-Whammy"--and that the ONLY way to stop *them* (and/or their corporate puppeteers) IS impeachment.
Please read my post about the MAY 1st strike!
http://impeachspace.ning.com/profiles/blog/show?id=595326%3ABlogPost%3A63817
If you agree (please feel free to comment!), let everyone you know become aware... THIS is our (last?) chance--for impeachment, for ending the occupation of Iraq, AT LEAST for forcing our topics into the presidential campaigns!
Defending Freedom through National Solidarity!
Pat
This voting drove me crazy!
Here:
http://tinyurl.com/2ac7df
NAYs ---29
Akaka (D-HI)
Biden (D-DE)
Bingaman (D-NM)
Boxer (D-CA)
Brown (D-OH)
Byrd (D-WV)
Cantwell (D-WA)
Cardin (D-MD)
Dodd (D-CT)
Dorgan (D-ND)
Durbin (D-IL)
Feingold (D-WI)
Harkin (D-IA)
Kennedy (D-MA)
Kerry (D-MA)
Klobuchar (D-MN)
Lautenberg (D-NJ)
Leahy (D-VT)
Levin (D-MI)
Menendez (D-NJ)
Murray (D-WA)
Obama (D-IL)
Reed (D-RI)
Reid (D-NV)
Sanders (I-VT)
Schumer (D-NY)
Stabenow (D-MI)
Tester (D-MT)
Wyden (D-OR)
Not Voting - 2
Clinton (D-NY)
Graham (R-SC)
The link I gave on the votes was from the NYTimes, link that does not work anymore..However, Ys Obam voted against, but correct me if I am wrong: are not Senators required to be present for voting? Obam did vote against previoulsy as stated below:
Among the presidential contenders, Senator John McCain, Republican of Arizona, voted in favor of the final measure, while the two Democrats, Senator Barack Obama of Illinois and Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York, did not vote. Obama did oppose immunity on a key earlier motion to end debate. Clinton, campaigning in Texas, issued a statement saying she would have voted to oppose the final measure.
Go to:
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/02/13/america/13fisa.php?page=1
Thanks, Linda.
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