Call it meaningless if you want...but Berkeley takes impeachment to voters

Berkeley Places Impeachment on the Ballot; National Education and Lobbying Campaign to Follow
Submitted by davidswanson on Wed, 2006-06-28 15:21. Impeachment
www.constitutionsummer.org

Last night, the City of Berkeley made history.

Working with Constitution Summer, the nonpartisan youth-led campaign dedicated to advancing a serious case for impeaching President Bush and Vice President Cheney, the Berkeley City Council voted 9-0 to take the question of impeachment directly to the people of Berkeley. Specifically, the Council voted to place an initiative on the Berkeley municipal ballot that advocates impeachment based on four key charges:

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1) illegal domestic spying in violation of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and the 4th Amendment;
2) misleading the country into a war of aggression in Iraq based on fraudulent claims;
3) indefinite detention, extraordinary rendition, and torture;
4) abuse of executive authority and subversion of the Constitution.

This November, the nearly 75,000 registered voters in Berkeley will be able to judge for themselves whether these charges constitute High Crimes and Misdemeanors that warrant the impeachment and removal from office of the President and Vice President. The electoral process will also help spark a crucial public dialogue we hope will spread.

The charges listed above are based on articles of impeachment drafted by the Center for Constitutional Rights. This summer, Constitution Summer will be working with CCR and their publisher, Melville House, to organize a series of film screenings and teach-ins on the case for impeachment all over the country, starting July 19th with a 600-person kickoff event in the San Francisco Bay Area.

By fall, Constitution Summer will have identified and equipped leaders on campuses all over the United States with the tools necessary to use their schools as social and intellectual catalysts for the passage of impeachment resolutions in their communities.

The rest of the article is at: http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/12484

""... You know, if
one person, just one person does it they may think he's really sick and
they won't take him. And if two people, two people do it, in harmony,
they may think they're both faggots and they won't take either of them.
And three people do it, three, can you imagine, three people walking in
singin a bar of Alice's Restaurant and walking out. They may think it's an
organization. And can you, can you imagine fifty people a day,I said
fifty people a day walking in singin a bar of Alice's Restaurant and
walking out. And friends they may thinks it's a movement."

http://www.arlo.net/lyrics/alices.shtml

Someone has to be FIRST. Actually, a town in Maine did this first as someone on DU had posted it.