IMPEACH! More Photos from Berkeley

Berkeley, California
October 7, 2007

Somewhat more remote than earlier locations-- the morning began at the Beach Impeach #4 site with a sparse arrival of attendees. Bart does not run directly between San Francisco and Berkeley on Sundays, and bus service does not serve the park adequately. Thousands were elsewhere attending the popular Columbus Day parade in San Francisco's North Beach district-- and countless others were doubtless participating in the popular San Francisco Fleet Week activities (with its requisite "patriotic" fly-over by the U.S. Navy's Blue Angel team). As early as yesterday Brad Newsham worried that not enough people were signing up to participate.

Just the same-- hundreds of people still managed to arrive-- people who have thought seriously about what patriotism means at a time when their government leaders have put their families and friends in the service of illegal wars, torture, and multiple breaches against the U.S. Constitution.

There were enough people (probably the anticipated 1,000 or more) to write IMPEACH! with their prone bodies such that their feelings could be communicated to photographers who flew in by plane and helicopter.

And to make this impeach action especially exciting and memorable-- special guests participated: notably CINDY SHEEHAN (who is running for Congress against Nancy Pelosi, the San Francisco representative and House Speaker who has refused to honor the U.S. Constitution by impeaching the most criminal George W. Bush and Richard B. Cheney)...

...and CYNTHIA MCKINNEY who, with much prodding from devoted fans, is expressing an interest to run for President of the United States as a Green Party candidate. Cynthia is best known for her consistent courage in confronting the most corrupt faces of power in Washington.

At the close of her congressional term in 2006, she was first to introduce articles of impeachment against Bush.

Following are some of the first snapshots I took of today's Beach Impeach action. (More will follow.)

These photos are contributed for the sake of the people who participated-- and also for the many millions of other people who might have wished that they could have participated.

Make no mistake:

MILLIONS of PATRIOTIC Americans today, irrespective of what Representative Nancy Pelosi has said, want to see Impeachment "put on the table".

They want Bush and Cheney, and all those who recklessly helped them TO ANSWER FOR THEIR ACTIONS:

ACTIONS THAT HAVE RESULTED IN MILLIONS OF HORRIBLE AND NEEDLESS DEATHS FOR MEN, WOMEN, AND CHILDREN AT HOME AND AROUND THE WORLD; ACTIONS THAT HAVE BLED THE U.S. TREASURY DIVERTING HUMANITARIAN TAX-PAID MONIES TO THE MOST GREEDY AND UNCONSCIONABLE CORPORATE ENTITIES AND INDIVIDUALS; ACTIONS THAT HAVE DESECRATED THE U.S. REPUBLIC THROUGH A WILLFUL AND CALLOUS DISREGARD FOR THE U.S. CONSTITUTION ITSELF BY USURPERS OF POWER WHO FALSELY SWORE TO UPHOLD IT.