It's Sunday morning and the Rev. Yearwood is preaching.
Moses grew up in the power center of his day. He was white and he had entitlements. Moses got it, like we get it. Oppression is wrong. He says to himself, I am no longer a part of this crew.
He has a choice; he can continue his lattes and his privilege. He can ignore the poor. But he can see what is happening.
One day, he kills a man who is oppressing another. The next day he sees two of the oppressed fighting with each other. He tries to stop them. They point out that he had done the same thing the day before; worse.
It's not OK. The oppressor will act like the oppresser and the oppressed will act like the oppressed. Moses flees.
But God speaks to him and he comes back to say what we need to say "LET MY PEOPLE GO." It is TIME to become HUMAN again. What we need is a HUMAN Congress; not political parties.
It is time for us to take back our country. THIS is what America looks like:
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David Swanson is now discussing IMPEACHMENT. 1/3 of the country support impeachment. SInce John Conyers published his report found that "there is substantial evidence that...Bush...manipulated information, countenanced torture, etc. etc. "
While these charges clearly cry out for hearings on articles of impeachment and are clearly impeachable offenses, Conyers points out that the leadership in Congress will not permit such an investigation. More legal authority is needed.
Meanwhile Bush is daring Congress to impeach him; Republicans are not showing up for appearances with him.
David points out that Congrssional staffers and Members are not trained to think in terms of offense, but defense. Only 37 members support the investigation Conyers called for.
Democrats are campaigning for reelection as non-Republicans. Even John Conyers in a Washington Post op-ed last Thursday did not encourage anyone to join him in in investigation. There is a lot of spin from the Republicans claiming that impeachment is good for Republicans but bad for Democrats.
Citizens must not walk the defensive line. If we back off from demanding impeachment and self-censor until after the election, the Members will back off too. We need to keep pushing and demonstrating that HR 635 is viable.
Members have taken an oath to uphold the Constitution. They need to know that we expect them to stop offending us. We should not worry about defending THEM.
We needs to use both carrots AND sticks. AfterDowning Street is buiding a group of online activists. http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/...
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/... to get speakers for your events. They also track appearances of Bush, Cheney et al, because they should never NOT face our opposition.