I Announce My Candidacy Against Nancy Pelosi in California's 8th.
I Announce My Candidacy
Against Nancy Pelosi in California's 8th.
Journey for Humanity and
Accountability, Day 14
By Cindy Sheehan
07/24/07 "Information
Clearing House"
I am lying in my hotel bed at
the end of a very busy, productive, yet sad day.
About 300 people gathered today and marched the 3½ miles from
the entrance of Arlington Cemetery to Congressman John Conyers' office
to demand impeachment and accountability from one of the leading
figures in American politics for the last four decades.
We were so thrilled with the turnout and the energy of the group. There
was great media coverage and about one dozen freepers on the opposite
corner with signs such as: "Traitors go to Hell" and "Cindy Sheehan go
to Hell." Nice. I have learned that hell can be on earth and if there
is anything worse than burying a child, I don't want to know about it.
At the end of the march, Reverend Lennox Yearwood, President of the Hip
Hop Caucus, Ray McGovern (retired CIA analyst), and I met with
Congressman John Conyers to implore him to institute impeachment
proceedings against the pretenders to the White House who are
destroying our democracy, making a mockery out of our rule of law and
who are responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of innocent
people.
This was my third meeting with Congressman Conyers about impeachment. I
hold a special place in my heart for him and I revere him for his
decades-long service to this nation. But for the life of me, I cannot
understand why he will not go forward with impeachment now.
A year ago, he introduced HR635 to impeach George Bush while he was
Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee and not even chairman.
He wrote the book on impeachment called: The Constitution in Crisis and
he readily admits that BushCo have committed impeachable offenses.
It's about partisan politics, pure and simple. The Congressman claims
there is absolutely no way that impeachment can go forward and, when I
was nearing the end of my hope, I cried out: "So, if the people's house
won't help us then we the people have no recourse against the executive
branch." To which he replied: "Yes you do, vote the enablers out in
'08." Firstly, Congressman Conyers told us to put Democrats back in
Congress to end the war and impeach BushCo. We did that and instead of
ending the war, they gave George Bush more money to wage it and to
conduct his deadly and tragic surge. Secondly, '08 will be too late to
hold George and Dick accountable. Thirdly, thousands of more people
will die in these last months of the worst Presidency in American
history. Lastly, after Dick proclaimed that he was not part of the
executive branch and that his office does not have to comply with
requests to turn over documents to the National Archives: 435 Congress
Reps should have signed onto H Res 333 to impeach Cheney. Only 14 have
co-signed Congressman Kucinich's bill, so that makes 421 elected
Congressional officials enablers of the crimes of the Bush Regime.
At the end of this day, Speaker Pelosi has not supported impeachment
and has not upheld her oath of office to "protect and defend" the
Constitution. Like Congressman Conyers said almost a year ago, our
Constitution is in crisis and we can't wait for more meetings and more
stalling from Reps who think the problem will go away in '08. The
Middle East is rapidly falling apart under this regime and our country
is sliding rapidly into a state of one-branch tyranny while our
"heroes," the Democrats, fiddle.
It was with very heavy hearts that Rev. Yearwood, Ray, and I reported
back to the media that the Congressman had said that with over 1
million signatures on petitions, one phone call coming into his office
every 30 seconds supporting impeachment, and with 300 activists in the
hall to support him, he was still not going to move forward with the
most urgent duty of his career. The Rev and I were particularly
disheartened and broken because we do love the Congressman so much, but
we love our country and the people of Iraq and the Middle East more.
The Rev and Ray spent many years serving their country in the military
and the CIA and I had a son who gave his life to do what the Congress
is supposed to do: protect our freedoms, not hand them over to the mob
that runs our country.
It is also with a heavy heart that I announce my candidacy against
Nancy Pelosi in California's 8th. If anybody would dare think I am not
serious, I would hope they would look back at the last 3 years of my
life and everything I have sacrificed to restore our nation to one that
obeys the rule of law and can be looked up to with respect once again
in the international community and not as the hated laughingstock on
the block.
I am committed to challenging a two-party system that has kept us in a
state of constant warfare for the last 60 years and has become more and
more beholden to special interests and has forgotten the faces of the
people whom it represents.
I am committed to using our strength as a country to wage peace and to
elevate the status of every citizen in our country by converting the
enduring war economy to a prosperous one with lasting peace.
Someone needs to step up to the plate to do this and I challenge other
Americans to do the same. Challenge the status quo, because the status
quo is no good. We need to become plugged into our government once
again as active participants not just passive voters.
It is up to us.
Cindy Sheehan is the mother of Spc. Casey Sheehan who was killed in Bush's war of terror on 04/04/04. She is the co-founder and president of Gold Star Families for Peace and The Camp Casey Peace Institute.
we must take back our country and declare the sale of our nation is null and void. YOU GO CINDY! I AM WITH YOU!
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