Graduate Student to Walk from Chicago to D.C. Calling for Peace through Impeachment of Bush & Cheney

[babylonsister]

http://impeachforpeace.org/impeach_bush_blog/?p=1004

Graduate Student to Walk from Chicago to D.C. Calling for Peace through Impeachment of Bush & Cheney


Mario Penalver, a graduate student in the Humanities Program at the University of Chicago, is walking the seven hundred miles from Chicago, Illinois to Washington D.C. to demand an end to the Iraq War and in protest of the impending attack on Iran. Penalver calls for this to be done through the impeachment of President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney as the chief architects of these acts of aggression in violation of international treaties and for other crimes, misdemeanors and abuses of office.

In an e-mail to World Can't Wait and Impeach for Peace last week, Peñalver said:

"There must be some basic understanding amongst us, as organizers, as leaders of impeachment, as to why all our actions must face the doors of the White House. I could state that understanding in my own words. But I would rather begin with the words of one far greater than I, one whose method has proven itself in the history of civil rights. "I'm here," Martin Luther Kind said from a Birmingham jail, "because injustice is here."

Marching to DC is the pinnacle of our efforts because that is where our voices have stopped. Our efforts, in protest - in letter-writing campaigns, in our optimism at the polls - have stopped at the doors of the White House, in which stands one man with his ears covered and his mind set on defiance of the national conscience. How can we continue in our local processes, when those processes, in and of themselves, find no resolve where they matter most?"

Peñalver has committed to embark on his quest on Thursday, June 21st and arrive in our nation's capital by Friday, September 21st.

In accordance with an idea from impeachment activist Sgt. Daniel Fearn through ImpeachforPeace.org, Mr. Peñalver will be carrying with him a small rock, which he will place in a location to be determined near the White House - possibly in the Constitutional Gardens as a memorial to the Constitution of the United States. It is Peñalver's assertion that the Constitution - the citizen rights of which were suspended by Patriot Acts I & II and the Military Commissions Act - is dead. Anyone wishing to meet Mario Peñalver in Washington D.C. and lay a stone with his on September 21st is invited and encouraged to do so.

One stone is insignificant. Piles of stones, or cairns, historically indicate important locations established at critical times. If a hundred people join him, it will be a pile. If a hundred thousand add their rock, a monumental mound will be established.

Anyone wishing to host Mr. Peñalver along the way, providing him with lodging, food, water and other necessities or to arrange for a press conference or speaking engagement along the route can contact either Mario directly or Mikael Rudolph of ImpeachforPeace.org:

[izzie]

1. Good

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[GreatCaesarsGhost]

2. "peace through impeachmrnt"

i like the sound of that. peacr and impeachment - a two-fer.

[thedeanpeople]

3. <delete>

[ThomWV]

4. I Will Join Him When He Passes By Our Way

And I just might join him as he and hopefully hundreds of thousands more arrive in Washington.

[pat_k]

5. Hear, Hear! Those who want out of Iraq need to forget Iraq

. . and demand impeachment.

Impeachment is the ONLY thing capable of stopping Bush and Cheney and changing the dynamics in a way that would allow us to extract ourselves.

[Cha]

6. Recommened~ What an

amazing person to be doing this for our country. It's only right that bush and cheney are impeached.

bush just sneak appointed sam the swiftboat funder fox as ambassador to Belgium after they withdrew his name from the Senate because they thought it wouldn't go through.

"BREAKING: Bush names Swift Boat funder as ambassador. AP reports:

“President Bush named Republican fundraiser Sam Fox as U.S. ambassador to Belgium on Wednesday, using a maneuver that allowed him to bypass Congress where Democrats had derailed Fox’s nomination. …

Recognizing Fox did not have the votes to obtain Senate confirmation, Bush withdrew the nomination last month. On Wednesday, with Congress out of town for a spring break, the president used his power to make recess appointments to put Fox in the job without Senate confirmation.

This means Fox can remain ambassador until the end of the next session of Congress, effectively through the end of the Bush presidency.”

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x577544

[pigpickle]

7. k&r