Guess what? YOU can initiate Articles of IMPEACHMENT.

[ClassWarrior]

Seems a Minnesota peace group has found a little-known clause in the Constitution that allows ordinary citizens to file articles of IMPEACHMENT themselves. (Thanks Thom Jefferson!!)

I've done it. You should too. Check out the DIY IMPEACHMENT Page, with step-by-step instructions, downloadable forms, etc.:

http://impeachforpeace.org/ImpeachNow.html

Visualize it. Then DO something to make it happen.

NGU.

[SnoopDog]

1. What article and section are you referring to....?

I would like to read it myself.

[ClassWarrior]

11. Click thru - all the info's at the site...

http://impeachforpeace.org/ImpeachNow.html

NGU.

[calimary]

2. Hey, this is GREAT!

Kicked and Recommended!

Everybody should see this!

Needs to be said, read, and SPREAD.

ESPECIALLY spread.

:toast:

[katinmn]

3. Send some now and some on October 12

Hold on to the other copy of the two letters until October 12th when we're having everyone send them in.

That's right — to make a big impact, we're having everyone send it in on the same date (Over 30,000 downloads so far). We hope to flood the Judiciary Committee and John Conyers office with sacks of mail and cause a newsworthy event to further pressure the Congress to act on the memorials. Although, it's important to keep in mind that in the 1826 precedent, impeachment resulted as a result of a single memorial. Yours might be the one.
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Thanks for posting this. Impeach for Peace is a great group.

[serryjw]

5. Can I collect signatures for it?

Or does each one have to be done individually?

[katinmn]

10. Well, the beauty of this is that it may spur impeachment by an

individual act. If you want to gather sigs on a petition, MissionImpeachable has reprinted a list of resources compiled by Yours Truly and originally published on OpEd News http://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_kathlyn__060727_people_empowering_pe.htm
:)

How To Get Involved!
http://missionimpeachable.org/

After Downing Street, http://www.afterdowningstreet.com Site owner David Swanson is an indefatigable writer/activist for impeachment, peace and holding politicians accountable. Provides hosting space for Fearn’s Impeach for Peace & Justice site, hosts numerous impeachment resources such as resolutions, letter templates, a petition and more.

Center for Constitutional Rights http://www.articlesofimpeachment.net/ Articles of Impeachment and “How to Impeach a President” video trailer.

ImpeachBush.org, http://www.impeachbush.org Mission is to bring visibility to the impeachment movement, lists articles of impeachment against Bush, Cheney, Rice, Rumsfeld and Gonzales; major petition drive, ads.

Impeach for Peace & Justice, http://www.ifpj.org (In English and Spanish) Provides tools and information.

Impeach For Peace http://www.impeachforpeace.org, is a national effort maintained by the Minnesota chapter of World Can’t Wait. Features the “Do It Yourself Impeachment Kit.”

ImpeachPac, http://www.impeachpac.com Impeachment news and endorsements of pro-impeachment candidates, “A Citizen’s Guide to Impeachment,” (In English and Spanish), sample text for resolutions, sample letters, talking points, organizing tips.

Progressive Democrats of America Impeachment Working Group http://www.pdamerica.org/impeach-wg.php
World Can’t Wait, http://www.worldcantwait.org Mission is to remove Bush from office
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[serryjw]

16. BIG FUN!

thanks for all these links

[ClassWarrior]

20. Are you partially responsible for this, kat? Shoulda figured...

...that a DUer in good standing is involved. B-):thumbsup:

Thanks for all you do!

NGU.

[katinmn]

22. Not directly, but Mikael and Daniel and I are all working for peace and

impeachment and we help each other.

Thanks for all YOU do!

NGU. :hi:

[ClassWarrior]

27. Minnesota rocks!

:hi:

NGU.

[acmavm]

4. Now this is a cause worthy of the DU Activist Corps

[FogerRox]

6. 2 states have already introduced bills, we're doing this in NJ soon

folks...... you really need to contact your state Legislators and State senators, tell them you want your state to do this under Jeffersons rules of the House. Statr by getting one state leg to sponsor the bill, that the big step.

[texpatriot2004]

7. I have always loved Jefferson. I will impeachforpeace! Thanks

Class and NGU!

[ClassWarrior]

18. Yeah we're movin' on uuup... to the East Side...

Ohhhhh... Jefferson. Not the... ohhhh nevermind...

:hi: Visualize it, tex!!

NGU.

[AZBlue]

8. Hate to burst everyone's bubble...but...

It still has to go through the same process as any other Articles of Impeachment and go through the House. This will never get out of the Judiciary Committee. We need to take back the House first - otherwise it is (1) wasted time and money and (2) something else to hand to the Republicans to use against us.

Donate your time and money now to getting Democrats elected this year and then worry about Impeachment - later, when something can actually be done about it.

[ClassWarrior]

13. Even better... Build a groundswell for IMPEACHMENT while...

...donating your time and money to getting Democrats elected this year, and then we'll be ready to IMPEACH when something can actually be done about it.

(1) Hell, it only takes 30 minutes and a handful of postage stamps to do this. Wasted time and money? Please.

(2) Something else to hand the Cons to use against us? Unlike you, I refuse to let them intimidate me into not doing the right thing.

NGU.

[bleever]

9. Aw jeez,

this "We the People" stuff sure sounds like a lotta work.

Can't we just trust trust Eddie Haskell to do the right thing?


:thumbsup:



NGU.

[texpatriot2004]

12. Definitely not! He hasn't done the right thing yet eh. nt

[ClassWarrior]

14. The last time you trusted Eddie...

...you ended up breakin' rocks in Gitmo. And boy did Dad clobber you for that one!

C'mon bleev, just IMPEACH those creeps and be done with it.

NGU.

[concerned citizen23]

15. The bigger the "ground swell" movement

The better...

File this petition AND turn out and Voter Revolt!

Pull out all the stops to get this regime out of office!

[midnight]

17. I come here everyday to see that word-Impeachment.

I know the time is here, but ever manuver we take is hindered by the gop in secrecy, and law breaking.

[calimary]

19. So do I. And not just to hear it, but to FURTHER it.

I will be pushing it til I run out of arms and legs.

NGU!

Keep visualizing...

And then go DO something about it.

[ClassWarrior]

23. Then we just have to keep making maneuvers...

Eventually we'll make the right one.

B-):thumbsup:

NGU.

[deaniac21]

21. This sort of reminds me of Gomer on the Andy Griffith Show

when he yelled, "Citizen's Ah-reeeessst"!

[ClassWarrior]

24. Sorry, no sitcom mixing allowed on this thread.

I'm the only one allowed to do that. B-)

NGU.

[deaniac21]

29. I extend my sincere apology...

:blush:

[Name removed]

25. Deleted message

Message removed by moderator. Click here to review the message board rules.

[ClassWarrior]

26. To be a Leftie today, you must believe there's a tombstone...

...in your future. But thanks for helping keep the thread kicked!

NGU.

[onenote]

28. Guess what! YOU really CAN'T do this all by yourself

Sorry to rain on your parade. You can write all the Memorials you want. But you need a member of Congress to present it to the House. That's what happened in the Peck case. And if you have a member of Congress who is willing to present a memorial from you or me, or anyone else, in order to commence an impeachment proceeding, why wouldn't that member have already initiated the proceeding on his or her own motion? There is no way you can force a member of Congress to present your "memorial".

Enough with the impeachment wet dreams. Focus on the real way we're going to regain control of the government: by electing Democrats this November.

[ClassWarrior]

30. Guess what? Nobody ever claimed...

...that you can "do this all by yourself." In fact, if you're responsible enough to click through to the link, you'll see that the people organizing this effort do an excellent job of explaining what we as citizens can and can't do, given the current realities in DC.

But thanks for keeping the thread kicked.

NGU.

[onenote]

31. self-delete

self-delete

[onenote]

32. let's talk about resopnsibility

Is it "responsible" to call this a "do it yourself impeachment"? Is it responsible to suggest that the memorial process makes it possible "for Americans to do what our representatives have been unwilling to do."?

Is it responsible to suggest that the memorial process is a "vehicle" for a citizen to get an impeachment motion to the floor of the House without having to rely on a member of Congress?

The DIY Impeachment website does all those things, when in fact the memorial process is no more or less effective than any petition or letter writing campaign. Why build up something to be more than it is? Creating false hope and expectations is just a distraction. If folks want to go the memorial route, so be it. But let's not pretend its any different, or likely to be any more effective, than any other method that exists for communicating to John Conyers and others a desire for an impeachment process. And let's not pretend that any such process, if begun before the Democrats capture control of the House, simply results in the matter being referred to the Judiciary Committee, where it will disappear forever unless the Democrats take control of the House

[ClassWarrior]

33. Sorry you were fooled. I doubt that was the organizers' intent.

NGU.