IMPEACHMENT FLASHMOB (1,200 people plus helicopter) Jan. 6, San Francisco, Ocean Beach

[omega minimo]

IMPEACHMENT FLASHMOB (1,200 people plus helicopter)
Sat, Jan 6, Ocean Beach, San Francisco, 10:30 a.m.

On Saturday, January 6, 2007 (just two days after the new US Congress convenes), 1,200 people will gather for a (Park Service-permitted) impeachment event in Nancy Pelosi’s back yard -- on Ocean Beach in San Francisco.

Early that morning, in 100-foot letters stretching 450 feet across the sand, volunteers from the Beach Impeach Project will outline the message:

                           I M P E A C H !

At 10:30 a.m., the 1,200 attendees will arrive and lay their bodies down inside the message’s lettering. At 11 o’clock a helicopter will arrive overhead and photographers will record the 1,200 bodies in the sand -- “IMPEACH!” -- with the San Francisco skyline and the Golden Gate Bridge in the background.

News editors will have compelling photos for the next morning’s Sunday papers; the nation and world will have convincing evidence of how badly the American people (even Ms. Pelosi’s own constituency) want their leaders held accountable for the Iraq disaster; and the impeachment movement will have powerful visuals to go with the words and chatter swirling in the air for months and months now.

To participate, please take 60 seconds to register yourself and your friends. If 1,200 people register in advance, this will be not just a frolic at the beach, but a NEWS story (the media are already interested). Also, I can communicate via just one email with all who are registered, instead of 1,200 emails. Please take 60 seconds to register:

-- go to http://www.volunteerforchange.org
-- hit "View the event calendar"
-- go down to "Saturday 1/6/07 -- Beach Impeach Project" (we're that day's only event)
-- follow the signup directions (takes about 60 seconds)
For more information:
http://www.beachimpeach.org  OR  http://beachimpeach.blogspot.com/

To see PHOTOS  taken from the helicopter during November 11 "run-through", and to get a sense of the power of the site and the potential of this project, please go to:
http://www.homepage.mac.com/bradnewsham/PhotoAlbum2.html

To see YOU-TUBE VIDEO taken from the helicopter during November 2006 “run-through” please go to:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlZAYOqYXIw

[shadowknows69]

1. YES!!!

Gods I love those Californians.

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

2. I Mean This Respectfully:

Let's be honest here. Really really honest. 1200 people laying down in the sand does not equate to "convincing evidence of how badly the American people (even Ms. Pelosi’s own constituency) want their leaders held accountable for the Iraq disaster". It just doesn't. C'mon.

Definitely sounds like it'll be a good picture though. I look forward to seeing it (though I don't agree with its putting the impeachment cart before the investigatory horse premise).

[omega minimo]

4. While California sends a message to Speaker Pelosi & the planet, you can stick your cart

wherever you feel like it.



The Genius of Impeachment
http://www.greenmountaindaily.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=748

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

9. I'll Be Sure To Put It Right Back In Front Of The Impeachment Horse, Where It Belongs!

But you didnt acknowledge the more substantive part of my post: Do you really consider that 1200 people laying in the sand for a photo op to be convincing evidence of how badly the American people (even Ms. Pelosi’s own constituency) want their leaders held accountable for the Iraq disaster? Do you Honestly,Sincerely and Genuinely Believe that premise you put forth? I'd wager that you'd have to have at the least 5 additional zeros towards the right of that number, in order for that sentiment to evin begin to be a possibility. But 1200? Nah.. Not a message that will impact Nancy, and most definitely an impact that will go largely unheard of around the world. C'mon, let's inject some reality here. This is just a feel good protest of those who believe strongly in a cause, that will get a nice picture of their get together out of it. But it falls far, far far short of the movement or caption you're looking for to truly send a message to the world. Cause trust me, the world isn't getting this one. Sorry.

[omega minimo]

11. Since you're on a first name basis with "Nancy" why don't you call and tell her about your horsey?

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

13. Because She's Intellectual Enough To Know That Already.

[Moochy]

16. Can you make one positive post today

for me?

:grouphug:

I'll buy you some chili cheese fries...

[Name removed]

17. Deleted sub-thread

Sub-thread removed by moderator. Click here to review the message board rules.

[omega minimo]

74. You were right, Moochy

"When I see 'Deleted Sub Thread' I'll know who it was.............."

[femrap]

20. Hey, Omega....I'm forwarding this post to

some folks who live in SF. I'm sure they would love to be involved.

BTW, I absolutely love that ingenuous feature called The Ignore Button. I see that someone is giving you crap....yet, I'm not reading it because this person is a gnat....a gnat that can be Ignored.

Use the Ignore Button on your gnat today!

[omega minimo]

25. Cool! And Yes You Are Absolutely, Indisputably, Correct About That

Time To Put The HorseFlies Before The FlySwatter. :hi:

:rofl:

[H2O Man]

28. Good answer

to your shadow.

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

29. Tell Me, How Is That A Good Answer, And How Is This Sending A Message To The Planet, When No One Out

of the SF area will even know about it?

Seriously. Let's have some rational thinking here. More power to the protest and all, but can we not agree that 1200 naked people spelling out the word 'impeach' is not going to do much more than make a nice picture that will only rally a statistically very small number of people, and not be some huge impact across the nation and globe, as the OP declared?

[omega minimo]

31. Yer beating a Dead Horse about impeachment and about media. Your cart ain't goin' nowhere

fast.

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

32. Actually, The Cart Is Yours, And You're Right. It Ain't Goin Nowhere.

(The horse is mine, the cart is yours.)

[omega minimo]

36. The Wheels Done Come Off Your Rhetorical Device. Your Horse Left A Flop.

Happy New Year, OCM

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

41. Utter Nonsense. Nothing More.

Not even sure what in the world it is you're trying to say anymore, or defend, or otherwise.

Happy New Year to you, MO

[H2O Man]

34. Horseflies,

fly-swatters.

Horse-swatters,
and fly-fliers.

You never know,
unless you do.

[omega minimo]

38. Grasshopper

*
*
*
Mosquito cloud whine
Shadow smears across the moon
Screaming eagle strikes

[H2O Man]

39. As the ear of the elk

ceases to seek
the heart of the cabbage
so does the honk of the gander
beckon the tortoise from its shell.


PS: Impeach Dick Cheney!

[omega minimo]

40. Well what's good for the gander is good for the cabbage

er sumthin...... :rofl:


ps :yourock:

[H2O Man]

42. sumthin ....

It is said of elk feathers
as it is said of eyes
in oak waters:
to bring down a rain of egg
is to pass over the hare.


Please do not share the key to this magic code.

[omega minimo]

44. I am the egg rain

Koo koo ka choo :spray:


:yoiks:

[H2O Man]

45. I am the rein egg ....

Expert textpert choking smokers,
Don't you thing the joker laughs at you?
See how they smile like pigs in a sty,
See how they snied.
I'm crying.

Semolina pilchard, climbing up the Eiffel Tower.
Elementary penguin singing Hari Krishna.
Man, you should have seen them kicking Edgar Allan Poe.
I am the eggman, they are the eggmen.
I am the walrus, goo goo g'joob g'goo goo g'joob.
Goo goo g'joob g'goo goo g'joob g'goo.

[Moochy]

47. So one of those Egg Council creeps got to you too, huh?

Homer: Hey! ( grabs Lenny's sandwich and stomps on it )
I saved your life! That egg sandwich could have killed you by
cholesterol.
Lenny: Pfft, forget it, Homer. While it has been established that eggs
contain cholesterol, it has not yet been proven conclusively that
they actually raise the level of serum cholesterol in the human
blood stream.
Homer: So one of those Egg Council creeps got to you too, huh?
Lenny: Aw, you've got it all wrong, Homer. It's not like that.
( a man in an egg costume creeps, then runs, away )
Homer: You'd better run, egg!

I L O V E E G G ! ! !

http://www.iloveegg.com/index.htm

[H2O Man]

52. Though his girlfriend

believed that Pee Wee Herman's favorite dish was an egg salad sandwich, it wasn't. Still know raison knot two impeach Dick Cheney.

[omega minimo]

49. "Semolina pilchard, climbing up the Eiffel Tower......"

:rofl: :rofl:
"Elementary penguin singing Hari Krishna."
:rofl:
"Man, you should have seen them kicking Edgar Allan Poe."
:rofl: :rofl:
ow :cry: :spray:



Oh that hurt so good. And thank you H2O Man for the correct sp. for

"Goo goo g'joob g'goo goo g'joob g'goo"

[H2O Man]

53. It just fit.

Not saying that part of the Universal Mind so intended it, but one never nose.

[Quantess]

35. I seriously doubt people will be "lying down on the sand", much less, "naked",

in early January in SF.

My first thought was, I wish I still lived in SF so I could participate. Are you jealous there won't be an impeachment pow-wow at your nearest beach? Is that why you're so cynical?

[Quantess]

37. My mistake. I didn't read the OP carefully enough

that they already found 1200 people willing to lie in the sand.
Can you imagine how many people would attend, if you could just stand up? They could definitely get more than enough locals to stand up and spell out the IMPEACH message! (That's not a bad idea...)

[omega minimo]

43. Maybe other locales will get inspired? The call for SF is still open, too.

The slideshow of a trial run with a small group filling the "!"

http://homepage.mac.com/bradnewsham/PhotoAlbum2.html


Happy New Year quantessd :toast:

[Quantess]

48. Thanks & Happy New Year to you, too!

There may be so many people who show up for this, it might actually be standing-room-only!

[ConsAreLiars]

6. Perhaps you are totally ignorant on the subject, but the impeachment

process includes investigatory hearings as a first step. Witnesses, evidence, that sort of stuff.

On the subject, great work by those who are organizing this event!

[omega minimo]

7. Respectfully put

:hi:

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

12. And Only After Those Thorough And Legitimate Investigations Are Over Can It Even Then Be Discussed

if impeachment is appropriate or forthcoming: Hence the putting the impeachment cart before the investigatory horse. Right now we need investigations to dig up whatever can be dug up. If there is enough criminal acts therein to warrant impeachment, then I'm sure the articles of Impeachment will be written. But before ANY of those investigations have taken place, to already be crying out in such a dramatic manner of 'impeach now impeach now impeach now ugh' is just quite simply futile and misguided.

So perhaps you were mistaken in your assessment, as I understand the process just fine.

Investigations first, followed by supportive evidence, followed by articles of impeachment, followed possibly by the act of impeachment. Some just want to recklessly hit fast forward and just get to the latter part. Just simply doesn't work that way. Investigations first.

And regardless, 1200 people laying in the sand crying for impeachment is far, far far from convincing evidence of how badly the American people (even Ms. Pelosi’s own constituency) want their leaders held accountable for the Iraq disaster.

[Moochy]

14. "Crying for impeachment"

Babies Cry.

Nice paternalistic frame there, adult-y.

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

15. So Silly.

:silly: :silly: :silly:

:crazy: :crazy: :crazy: :crazy: :crazy:

[Usrename]

60. Aren't you overlooking the three billion witnesses to their crimes?

Just sayin', your argument seems awful thin.

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

66. My Last Comment To All Those Immature Children Attacking Me:

You all need to seriously grow up and get a new hobby. Your behavior in this thread is sickening and does a huge disservice to DU. You all should be ashamed of yourselves. Pathetic. Just purely pathetic.

[beam me up scottie]

68. Yes, always blame everyone else. And so brave!

Lecturing everyone else on "growing up" after deleting all of your self-incriminating immature and childish posts.

[omega minimo]

75. If only we could believe that WOULD be your "last comment"

:applause: Well done! We hope you mean it! Please!!!

"You all need to seriously grow up and get a new hobby."

Start by taking your own advice. When the first reply to you says "Fine" if you think that and you have no further interest in the subject, why stick around?

This also applies to you:

"Your behavior in this thread is sickening and does a huge disservice to DU."

The comeuppance you received was not "attacking" or "sickening" -- although you might consider it "immature" because it was quite good-natured, humorous, relaxed....... and well-deserved by you. In fact it was "defending" all the Grand Principles that you claim to be so passionately Marching Forth about all the time.

The sad part is that the mask is off and the witnesses abound-- although the record is gone, the truth is not. You can't pretend otherwise. Yet you have learned nothing and came back to give a Big Middle Finger to the DU community you claim so Proudly and Obnoxiously to Defend. And that is:

"Pathetic. Just purely pathetic."

Happy New Year.

[illinoisprogressive]

3. It's a cool idea but,

Nancy won't be there. She'll be in Washington.

[omega minimo]

5. Yeah, she prolly doesn't read papers or magazines or watch TV or surf the Web or anything...

:eyes:


Maybe someone will tell her about it. :spray:

[MonkeyFunk]

8. wow

a scheduled, permit-approved flashmob!

[omega minimo]

10. A "FreeSpeechZone" fenced in by

the Pacific Ocean!!!!




Hey, MonkeyFunk are you snarkquestioning the flashmob's beachcred? ;)

[yellowdogmi]

18. Hey Omega,

You might have better results if you cross post this to the California forum. Good Luck.
:yourock:

[Moochy]

21. Yeah maybe Craigslist would be good too!

:kick:

[omega minimo]

24. Thanks yellowdogmi... good idea...

[Senator]

19. kicked and rec'd ... (respectfully of course)

[omega minimo]

23. LOL

Good morning, Senator, thanks for the chuckle.

Heard the author of "The Genius of Impeachment" on the Rachel Maddow Show on 12-28. Brilliant. Saying all the right things, the right way that could/should reach people for a better understanding of the process. Link in post #4 to another interview.


:thumbsup:

[porphyrian]

22. Sweet. - n/t

[porphyrian]

27. This needs a kick. - n/t

[Stevendsmith]

26. 1,200 people plus helicopter!

That made me laugh (with awe and respect)and brightened my day.

Thanks!

[omega minimo]

30. Sand, Surf and Civics-- Great way to ring in the New Year and the New Congress!

:toast: :pals:


San Francisco, also home of Jello Biafra, who coined the term "Become The Media" and has provided Alternative Tentacles to the MegaLoCorp Media for 25 years.
:yourock:

http://www.alternativetentacles.com

[EFerrari]

50. Everybody come on out to Ocean Beach! That's my back yard!

:toast:

[porphyrian]

77. Lucky. Happy New Year's!

;)

[porphyrian]

73. Jello Biafra's a good man. He's been calling bullshit on these guys for decades. - n/t

[NoSheep]

33. Good luck to you all and have a great time "spreading the word"!!!

Shouldn't there be a forum for naysayers? And shouldn't there be a way to keep them there? Gawd, I get so sick of it.

[mod mom]

46. forwarded to friends in SF. Wish I could be there!

[kittykitty]

51. But the MSM will never show it! They never have given more than fleeting coverage,

if that to any protests! Look at the millions and millions participating in world wide marches all over the planet just prior to the war. So many impressive protests and marches in the last three years, and the MSM has ignored them, or given just a few seconds of coverage. I don't know why this will be any different.

Nice visual idea, though.

[omega minimo]

54. Oh it will be broadcast, for sure. Who knows how far it can go?

:thumbsup:

(not saying M$M will pick it up, not saying they won't........)

[LeftCoast]

55. Hmm...8 days to go and less than 1/4 of the people needed have signed up

Will be interesting to see if they can get enough people...

[omega minimo]

56. Please proceed to the Naysayers Forum

[LeftCoast]

76. Six days now...only 843 more people needed

:hi:

[omega minimo]

78. Thanks for the update and the kick

Never succumb to despair, LeftCoast. Happy New Year! :toast:

[StrictlyRockers]

57. One more because I just signed up. :P

Take that Mr. Negative man. :P

jk

:D

;)

[Imagevision]

58. Count me in, (formerly from twin peaks) go S.F go baby!!!

[Vidar]

59. I hope they follow it up by recalling Ms. Pelosi if she doesn't

change her toon.

[beam me up scottie]

61. It's too late to K&R, O.

But this sure deserved it.

We need to clone you. :)

[WillyT]

62. OK... So I'll Just Kick It Then !!!

:kick:

:hi:

[beam me up scottie]

63. Hi, WillyT!

I'm in the mood for kickin' today! :kick:

[WillyT]

64. Hey Beam !!!

Have a happy and safe New Year !!!

:bounce::hi::bounce:

[beam me up scottie]

69. Back atcha!

We'll get 'em next year.

Can you say "subpoena power"?

I knew you could. :D

[porphyrian]

65. Good luck next weekend, by the way. - n/t

[omega minimo]

71. Yeah, esp. cuz no one's payin' attention....

:spray:


Hey there, porphyrian. There's a link up top to interview with author of "The Genius of Impeachment." Have you heard him speak? Great presentation. Also heard about Elizabeth Holztman's (recent) comments on Gerald Ford but haven't been able to find it....


Happy New Year. You are on the right side of history. :hi:

[porphyrian]

72. You mean John Nichols? No, I haven't yet.

And you don't mean this, do you...?:

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/092706J.shtml


Happy New Year to you, too. We're all on the right (left?) side. ;)

[GreenTea]

67. Let's hope it doesn't rain.

I'll be there rain or shine.

[Moochy]

70. Looks like it should be clear,

But "Clear" can still mean foggy as hell at Ocean Beach though. http://wwwa.accuweather.com/forecast2.asp?partner=forecastfox&traveler=0&zipChg=1&zipcode=94101&metric=0

:scared: <-- ocean beach freezing protest smiley

Friday Night, Jan 5
Low: 44 °F
Clear

Saturday, Jan 6
High: 55 °F
Sunny

[Pastiche423]

79. How far from the Cliff House

is the location?