<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><B>Agenda</B></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span"><B>1.</B> feb 14 events- delivery of demand for impeachment to politicians- drew and merriam</SPAN></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span"><B>2.</B> planning for peter phillips talk feb 16</SPAN></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span"><B>3. </B>whether to join larger impeachment group - merriam</SPAN></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span"><B>4.</B> next event</SPAN></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span"><B>5..</B> the vigil - now to be "Outreach"</SPAN></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV>Hi everyone:<BR><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>I don't want to take up a lot of time given that there is already a lot to discuss, but I'd like to introduce some ideas and suggestions, pass then around for quick comment, and maybe take them up next meeting.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><B>1. Articles of impeachment:</B></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span"><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>If impeachment happens, the House Judiciary Committee will draft articles of impeachment. So why are we having this debate about putting together our own articles of impeachment? Well, it helps concentrate the mind; it provides a focus for our campaign; it provides <I>the message</I> for us to be <I>on</I> so that we can speak coherently and more or less in concert with each other. This is so strategically useful that a set of <I>model</I> articles, remember, the real thing will be the purview of the House Judiciary Committee, that a set of well drafted articles is a very good idea.</SPAN></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span"><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>When it comes to articles of impeachment, there is really only one game in town. These are the articles drafted by the Center for Constitutional Rights: www.ccr-ny.org/v2/home.asp. I have the book and will bring it in. One look at the book and you can see it immediately: CCR are the grown ups. The rest of us are kids. When they speak we need to keep quiet and listen up. <I>Then</I> disagree if you must, but listen first.</SPAN></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>There are only four articles, the biggies, no Katrina, no global warming, no failure to prevent 9/11. Not that these aren't bad things, even crimes, but strategically, CCR understands that you go for the low hanging fruit. Go for the articles on which you can win most easily: 1. Illegal spying; 2. Lying us into war; 3. Illegal detention, torture, expansion of executive authority over both the other branches of government. 4. Repudiation of constitutional constraints on executive authority as specifically laid out in signing statements which declare his right to continue illegal spying and illegal detentions and torture.</DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>I'll bring in copies for distribution and suggest that we discuss this further next meeting.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><B>2. How to get impeachment on the table:</B></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN> Nancy Pelosi says that impeachment is off the table. Cynthia McKinney put it back on the table before she left but it didn't stay there. We can summarize our task as the Pelosi Problem: how do we get her to put it on the table?</DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>Vigils aren't going to do it, not by themselves. Vigils take place on the corner of Castro and El Camino. That's a long way from Washington. It's not even that close to her California office. And even if we were to occupy her office indefinitely, it wouldn't do much to pressure or persuade her.</DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span"><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>We solve the Pelosi Problem by lateral thinking. We solve it by going elsewhere. We go to the state legislature and demand that it submit articles of impeachment directly to the House as it is entitled to do so under the Jefferson rules. New Mexico is showing the way. There has been a lot of excited comment about this. We should be trying to do the same thing in California. In the end, it's the <I>only</I> realistic way to solve the Pelosi Problem: go round her. It will take only one of the 50 states to do it and impeachment is under way! We should see getting California to be that state as the vineyard in which we labor.</SPAN></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>As a means to that end, we should be trying to persuade Mountain View and other municipalities to request of the Califonia legislature that it draft and submit article of impeachment - here the model articles from CCR might well have further use. There will be resistance with claims that it's not within a city council's proper sphere to be engaged in such activities; all these arguments can be rebutted.</DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>And why start locally? As Tip O'Neill famously said: "All politics is local". The smaller the scale of Govt., the more responsive to the people. We go to the council because they are here and can't escape us. The campaign will attract attention, and publicity, and generate debate. Win or lose, we win on those grounds at least. So let's start thinking globally and acting locally. It will work!</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>- John Anderson.</DIV></BODY></HTML>