[Peace-discuss] Representative Karen Yarbrough has cancelled her visit

[Karen Medina]

Peace List,

Rep. Karen Yarbrough has cancelled her visit to Urbana and the University of Illinois for October 17 and 18, 2006. 

Karen Yarbrough called to say that she has had something serious of a personal nature come up that requires her to cancel her visit here.  She said that she will call us back next week after Wed to be more clear about what's going on and to discuss the possibility of future plans. She 
requested that we pray for her. 

She sounded sincerely sorry and acknowledged multiple times how much effort we have put into planning this event.  Says confirmed that she will introduce the resolution. 

-karen medina 

Why Karen Yarbrough?
In April of this year, State Representative Karen Yarbrough introduced a resolution to submit charges to the U. S. House of Representatives to initiate impeachment proceedings against George W. Bush for willfully violating his Oath of Office to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. If George W. Bush is found guilty, the resolution urges his removal from office and disqualification to hold any other office in the United States.

Details:
HJR0125 PRESIDENT BUSH-IMPEACHMENT (Joint Resolution)
Filed 4/20/2006 
Current status: Referred to the Rules Committee (4/25/2006) 

Full Text of HJR0125: 

HJ0125LRB094 20306 RLC 58347 r
HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION

WHEREAS, Section 603 of Jefferson's Manual of the Rules of the United States House of Representatives allows federal impeachment proceedings to be initiated by joint resolution of a state legislature; and 

WHEREAS, President Bush has publicly admitted to ordering the National Security Agency to violate provisions of the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, a felony, specifically authorizing the Agency to spy on American citizens without warrant; and
 
WHEREAS, Evidence suggests that President Bush authorized   violation of the Torture Convention of the Geneva Conventions, a treaty regarded a supreme law by the United States Constitution; and
 
WHEREAS, The Bush Administration has held American citizens and citizens of other nations as prisoners of war without charge or trial; and

WHEREAS, Evidence suggests that the Bush Administration has manipulated intelligence for the purpose of initiating a war against the sovereign nation of Iraq, resulting in the deaths of large numbers of Iraqi civilians and causing the   United States to incur loss of life, diminished security and billions of dollars in unnecessary expenses; and

WHEREAS, The Bush Administration leaked classified national secrets to further a political agenda, exposing an unknown number of covert U. S. intelligence agents to potential    harm and retribution while simultaneously refusing to investigate the matter; and

WHEREAS, The Republican-controlled Congress has declined to fully investigate these charges to date; therefore, be it    RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE NINETY-FOURTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, THE SENATE CONCURRING HEREIN, that the General Assembly of the State of Illinois has good cause to submit charges to the U. S. House of Representatives under Section 603 that the President of the United States has willfully violated his Oath of Office  to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States; and be it further
 
RESOLVED, That George W. Bush, if found guilty of the charges contained herein, should be removed from office and disqualified to hold any other office in the United States.

[This was copied from Illinios General Assembly webpage about the bill. -kem]

List of House Sponsors:
Rep. Karen A. Yarbrough, Sara Feigenholtz, Eddie Washington, Cynthia Soto, William Delgado, William Davis, Kenneth Dunkin, Wyvetter H. Younge, Arthur L. Turner, Esther Golar, Constance A. Howard, David E. Miller, Annazette Collins, Calvin L. Giles, Deborah L. Graham, Robin Kelly, Edward J. Acevedo, Michelle Chavez, Robert Rita and Lou Lang