[Sosfbay-discuss] GP-US Release: Greens at 'Impeach Bush & Cheney' events on April 28

Thu Apr 26 14:36:21 PDT 2007

GREEN PARTY OF THE UNITED STATES
http://www.gp.org

For Immediate Release:
Thursday, April 26, 2007

Contacts:
Scott McLarty, Media Coordinator, 202-518-5624,
mclarty at greens.org
Starlene Rankin, Media Coordinator, 916-995-3805,
starlene at gp.org

Green Party leaders join and lead events on April
28 calling for impeachment of President Bush and
Vice President Cheney

WASHINGTON, DC -- Green Party leaders called Rep.
Dennis Kucinich's (D-Ohio) filing of articles of
impeachment against Vice President Dick Cheney an
important first step towards holding the Bush
Administration accountable for numerous
impeachable high crimes and misdemeanors.

"The Green Party endorsed a resolution in 2003
calling for impeachment of President Bush, and
Green leaders have expanded the call to include
Mr. Cheney, who is clearly the brains behind many
of the White House's worst and most illegal
actions," said Carl Romanelli, Pennsylvania Green
candidate for the US Senate in 2006.  "The chief
obstacle to impeachment has been the Democratic
Party leadership, which has indulged and enabled
the Bush Administration's abuses of power every
step of the way."

Greens across the US plan to participate in
various events in Washington, DC, and across the
US calling for impeachment of President Bush and
Vice President Cheney this coming weekend
<http://www.a28.org>.

In Utah, the Desert Greens Green Party of Utah
<http://www.desertgreens.org> and People for
Peace and Justice of Utah have organized an
'Impeach' rally at noon on April 28 at the
Federal Building in Salt Lake City, 100 South
State Street.

The Green Parties of Santa Clara and San Mateo
(California) will participate in a Beach Impeach
action, and will gather to create the 'I' in
'IMPEACH' on the beach
<http://beachimpeach.com/sfa28.html>.

The Green Party of the United States passed a
resolution in July, 2003, urging impeachment of
President Bush
<http://www.gp.org/position/st_2003_07_impeach.shtml>.

The Green Party's impeachment page can be visited
at <http://www.gp.org/impeachbush>.  A Green
petition for impeachment is at
<http://www.gp.org/action/index.shtml>. 

After the initial illegal invasion of Iraq, said
Green Party leaders, the crimes of the Bush
Administration began to mount precipitously:

• manipulation of intelligence to deceive the
public into supporting the war (fraudulent claims
about Iraqi WMDs, collusion between Saddam
Hussein and al-Qaeda, attempts by Saddam to
obtain nuclear weapons materials)
• cover-ups of the administration's knowledge of
information about the impending 9/11 attacks
• encouragement of torture and 'extraordinary
rendition' of prisoners to exact information
• denial of habeas corpus and due process
• warrantless surveillance of US citizens
• hundreds of 'signing statements' purportedly
exempting the Bush Administration from over 1,000
federal laws
• censoring and tampering with scientific
research to conceal the seriousness of global
warming
• threats to attack Iran despite Iran's lack of
any real threat to the US."

The effects of these crimes and abuses of power
include:

•  the deaths of more than 3,300 US service
members and 650,000 Iraqi citizens, as well as
countless more injured because of the US invasion
• anger and hostility towards the US and US
citizens throughout the world, especially in
Muslim nations
• broken treaties and alienation of US allies
• damage to US democracy and entrenchment of the
administrations' theory of 'unitary executive
power'
• danger to captured US service personnel and
citizens in retaliation for torture committed at
Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo Bay, and other sites
•  a possible regional or global conflict if the
US attacks Iran
• the US treasury plundered for the benefit of
arms makers, oil companies, and other corporate
profiteers like Halliburton and Blackwater
• severe damage to public health and the
environment in coming decades because of the
White House's failure to address climate change

Greens also noted that some of the Bush
Administration's crimes were carried out with the
cooperation of Democrats and Republicans in
Congress.

"Let's not forget that a bipartisan congressional
vote in October, 2002, transferred war power from
Congress to the White House, violating the checks
and balances enshrined in the Constitution," said
Rebecca Rotzler, co-chair of the Green Party of
the United States and Deputy Mayor of New Paltz,
New York, where Greens are planning to assemble a
'human pyramid' for impeachment on Saturday. 
"After public deception and manipulation of
intelligence were revealed, Democratic Party
leaders supported continuing the war on Iraq, and
recently voted for war funding and a delayed
'timetable' for withdrawal of US troops.  And
even now, Democratic presidential hopefuls like
Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and John Edwards
-- apparently reading from the same memo -- are
saying that an attack on Iran isn't 'off the
table.'"

The Green Party has called for immediate
withdrawal of all US troops and military
contractors from Iraq, condemned threats of an
assault on Iran, and urged dramatic steps,
including a major conservation effort, to curb
global warming.

Greens supported a bill introduced by Rep.
Cynthia McKinney in December, 2006, in which she
filed articles of impeachment against Mr. Bush,
Mr. Cheney, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice,
and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld
<http://www.gp.org/press/pr_2006_12_11.shtml>.

MORE INFORMATION

Green Party of the United States
http://www.gp.org
1700 Connecticut Avenue NW, Suite 404
Washington, DC 20009.
202-319-7191, 866-41GREEN
Fax 202-319-7193
Green Party News Center
http://www.gp.org/newscenter.shtml

"Kucinich: Impeachment is the Right Response"
By John Nichols, The Nation, April 25, 2007
http://news.yahoo.com/s/thenation/20070425/cm_thenation/15189758

"George W. Bush's Proxy War Crimes in Iraq:
Violations of the Nuremberg and U.N. Charters and
the U.S. Constitution"
By Chuck Tripp (who will speak at the rally in
Salt Lake City)
http://www.gput.org/proxywarcrimes.shtml

"Ten Reasons to Impeach Cheney and Bush Now"
By Allen L Roland, OpEdNews.com, April 21, 2007
http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_allen_l__070421_ten_reasons_to_impea.htm

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