10,000 new voters cast ballots to impeach GWBush

Ten thousand new voters cast their ballots online for the impeachment of George W. Bush in the last week, and thousands more signed paper ballots. VoteToImpeach members are using the outreach and communications tools on the improved web site to reach new voters. Impeachment activists are setting up tables, flyering, bringing VoteToImpeach signs to rallies and demonstrations, sponsoring forums, debates and teach-ins.
Go to:
http://www.VoteToImpeach.org

Republicans made impeachment a painful lesson for the country
when they chose to impeach Clinton, but Bush has genuinely lied
to the country about the threats to the US by Iraq and to
not proceed with the Constitutional rights to remove a pResident
on these crimes would be to ignore our duties. Republicans
are going to make recall a painful lesson also, but to amend it
and then have a Republican governor installed who proceeds to
lie, loot and rise to real crimes and misdemeanors would be
would be unwise.

The most important act for Californians will be to vote no
on recall and end the coup of people who can't be elected by a majority of voters.

272,000 people have signed - it should be a million!

send out an e-mail with the address and reasons to impeach,
which are on the website.

www.votetoimpeach.org

BUT - we have 30,000 members here now on DU - certainly we can get more signatures than 272,000! I just don't understand how the numbers can be so low.

to impeach him?

to it that I don't think they understand if it is real or not.

http://wildcat.arizona.edu//papers/89/104/02_2_m.html
Society desensitized to increased violence

Arizona Daily Wildcat
John Keisling

Traveling in the Provence area of France some time ago, I missed the last train out of Arles and had no way to get back to my youth hostel, some 12 kilometers to the north. Since I couldn't afford a taxi, I decided to try l'autostop; that is, to hitch a ride.
As I walked along the highway that led out of town, I knew I should put out my open palm as a signal to the drivers. For the longest time, though, my pride wouldn't let me do it. I was genuinely embarrassed at having to ask for their help.

After about a mile of wrestling with my shame, I at last feebly stretched out my hand and managed to do so for every car that went by. This went on for about four hours, as the sun set and twilight faded into darkness, until at last a French student no ol der than I stopped and gave me a lift. What had struck me during all this was how fast my attitude toward hitchhiking changed, how fast I lost my proud independence. Not only was I unashamed to put out my hand, I very soon began growing angry at the drivers for not stopping, only because I had grown accustomed to asking them. Thus, in only a few hours, I had come face-to-face with a very serious human problem: the problem of desensitization.

Desensitization is of course not new. It is a consequence of the human ability to adapt to different surroundings, to get used to things. Sometimes this trait is very helpful, as it can allow us to weather difficult circumstances, such as a long-term debi litating illness. But it can also be a curse, deadening our reactions to things that should shock and affront us, making it all too easy to regard such things as normal and acceptable.

Some of this is deliberate - desensitization for its own sake. Groups like Queer Nation are notorious for being as high-profile as possible, so as to alter American perceptions of flagrant homosexuality via a sort of moral anesthetic. A Berkeley student n amed Andrew Martinez gained fame as "The Naked Guy" for his refusal to wear clothes, trying to desensitize the campus to nudity. NAMBLA does the same thing, albeit a bit more cautiously (pedophilia still being technically illegal). Doesn't prove one iota about right or wrong, but it's a good psychological tactic.

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