[statecom-discuss] Fwd: Conyers Betrays Impeachment

Sat Nov 11 23:04:46 EST 2006

Wow - that's amazing - thanks, Owen!   Love, G
In a message dated 11/11/06 9:50:34 PM, owen.broadhurst at gmail.com writes:

> On 11/11/06, Gracegrnrnbw at aol.com <Gracegrnrnbw at aol.com> wrote:
> >
> > this is depressing....   Love, Grace
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > statecom-discuss mailing list
> 
> 
> 
> My friend, Kalmran , sent me the following:
> 
> 
> 
> *R*eply
> [image: Reply to all] Reply to all[image: Forward] Forward Print Add Kalmran
> to Contacts list Delete this message Report phishing Show original Message
> text garbled?
> from Kalmran Alavi <calm_ron at yahoo.com>
> hide details 1:15 pm (8 hours ago)
> reply-to Green-Minorities at yahoogroups.com
> to
> cal-forum at cagreens.org,
> centralgreens at lists.riseup.net
> date
> Nov 11, 2006 1:15 PM
> subject
> [Green-Minorities] A Letter to John Conyers
> 
> 
> yahoogroups.com
> 
> 
> returns.groups.yahoo.com
> 
> 
> *Hello all,*
> *Carol Wolman is a psychiatrist. She is also a bible stufdying christian. I
> don't  have religious affinity but share her views that social political
> activism is essential to freedom from war and lasting peace. Just see how
> the forty winks beteen 68 and 72 brought us to brink of fasism.*
> *Kamran*
> *======*
> **
> *Dear Mr. Conyers,*
> **
> *Congratulations on your re-election to Congress.  This makes your 21st
> term.  I believe you are now the senior Democrat in the House of
> Representatives.*
> **
> *You have long been a hero of mine, because you've been willing to take
> brave stands in difficult times.  I've especially appreciated your
> investigation of the fraudulent Ohio vote in the '04 presidential election.
> *
> **
> *What stands out for me is your effort to get an impeachment movement going
> in the spring of '05. That's when the Downing Street memos came out,
> revealing that intelligence had been deliberately twisted to justify an
> illegal invasion of Iraq, a sovereign nation that was not threatening the US
> in any way.  Lying us into war is an impeachable offense.  *
> **
> *As the ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee, you wrote a
> treatise, you held hearings, you got over 30 cosponsors for HR 635, which
> would mandate an investigation into impeachable offenses by Bush and Cheney,
> you tried to get a people's movement going. *
> **
> *You were our shining star in Congress, the one we counted on.  Now you will
> become Chair of the House Judiciary Committee, and have the power to begin
> impeachment hearings.  You have experience, since you participated in the
> Nixon hearings way back in '74, when you were already a member of that
> Committee.  You have wisdom, courage, position.*
> **
> *Yet, according to an article in your local paper, **
> http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2006611100333*<
> http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2006611100333>
> *, you have decided to say, with Nancy Pelosi, "impeachment is not on the
> table".   With everything at your disposal now, you could hold swift and
> certain impeachment hearings, and boot the criminals right out of office.
> What's stopping you?*
> **
> *Bush is more dangerous than ever.  He holds absolute power over all of us,
> as you well know.  John Conyers, you were there in Congress last month when
> the shameful law was passed that allows him to declare any one of us an
> "illegal enemy combatant" and put us away in Halliburton's "detention
> centers" with no legal recourse, not even habeas corpus.  You were there
> when the other law was passed that voids posse comitatus and puts the
> National Guard under Bush's direct command, bypassing the governers, so that
> they can be used to control the people.*
> **
> *The people want Bush out.  That's why we voted so overwhelmingly for the
> Democrats.  The only way we knew to express our desire to get rid of Bush
> and Cheney was to vote for the Democrats.  Over half the people in this
> country want impeachment.  They are hoping that a Democratic Congress will
> carry out the popular will.*
> **
> *There is a huge groundswell of support for impeachment, which is quickly
> getting defused by the disgusting Bush-Pelosi love fest now taking place.  *
> **
> *The public is being told "We don't have time for impeachment, there's more
> important business to be done."  What could be more important than getting
> rid of this would-be dictator who has already done our country so much
> harm?  *
> **
> *The public is being told, "We don't want to divide the country".  The
> people would quickly unite behind an impeachment movement once Bush and
> Cheney's crimes were brought to light by the House Judiciary Committee.  *
> **
> *You know all this, John Conyers.  I've been hoping you would accept a draft
> to become Speaker of the House, challenging Pelosi's determination to play
> ball with Bush.  Now I hear that you stand with Pelosi: **"impeachment is
> not on the table".*
> **
> *John Conyers, I feel betrayed.  I understand that your good friend, Martin
> Luther King, Jr. was assassinated and that you have to be careful.  I
> understand that you have be a politician.  But you could have said- "we'll
> see how things develop"- anything to let us know that you are still with us,
> and are willing to conduct impeachment hearings when the time is right.  But
> no, you say with Pelosi "impeachment is not on the table."*
> **
> *How did they get you, John Conyers?  Did they threaten you?  or your
> grandchildren?  I can't believe you would accept a bribe after all these
> years.  What happened to you?*
> **
> *My heart is broken, John Conyers.  I trusted you.  I thought you abided by
> the same Christian principles that Dr. King stood for- justice, truth,
> service to the people.  But no, you're going along with the rest of them.  *
> **
> *Luke 16: 13No servant can serve two masters.
> He will either hate one and love the other,
> or be devoted to one and despise the other.
> You cannot serve God and mammon."
> http://www.usccb.org/nab/111106.shtml*
> **
> *Come back to us, John Conyers.  Help us get rid of the criminals who have
> hijacked our government.  Impeachment is legal, peaceful, and expressive of
> the will of "we the people".  You have the power to make it happen.*
> **
> *Help us take our country back.*
> **
> *Carol Wolman, MD*
> *Cochair: Impeach Bush-Cheney*
> *Member: The Longhouse Coalition*
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> --
> Owen R. Broadhurst
> Candidate for City Council of Agawam
> http://www.owenbroadhurst.org
> _______________________________________________
> statecom-discuss mailing list
> statecom-discuss at green-rainbow.org
> http://www.green-rainbow.org/mailman/listinfo/statecom-discuss
> 
> 