[Peace-discuss] Conyers' betrayal

[C. G. Estabrook]

"...how long do you want to keep on visiting politicians' offices and 
being blown off and arrested and expecting something different to happen 
each time? For freakin' ever, I suppose, as it's apparently time for one 
more round of beseeching the Congress and beseeching the Democrats and 
beseeching Pelosi and beseeching Conyers and basically beseeching 'til 
you're blue in the mouth and being ignored...again.

"Come on over, baby, whole lotta beseechin' goin' on."

<http://stopmebeforeivoteagain.org/>

(I think you have to be my age to get the last line.  --CGE)


Morton K. Brussel wrote:
> Conyers has impeachment protestors handcuffed and removed from his 
> office, saying impeachment is "off the table" … The following is from an 
> article by *Dave Lindorff. *The disappointment and anger at the betrayal 
> is palpable.
> 
> /…It is becoming increasingly clear that the Democratic 
> Party-Congressional Black Caucus and Progressive Caucus included–has 
> become nothing but a dried out husk, living on old glories and devoid of 
> any principle other than returning its elected officials to their 
> offices and their perks, year after year. As one angry activist in the 
> hallway remarked, “Where is today’s (Rep. Allard) Lowenstein or Father 
> Drinan. There is none!”…/
> /
> /
> For the rest, see/ http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/07/24/2720//
> 
> It may well be that Pelosi has some strange power over Conyers, or is it 
> just that Conyers is a colossal hypocrite and a dried out husk. He's 
> lost a lot with his actions in this event. The antiwar movement just has 
> to turn up the pressure that much more, come back at him and others in 
> power again and again.
> 
> --mkb