[Peace-discuss] Conyers' betrayal

[n.dahlheim at mchsi.com]

May I remind people once again of John Conyers' abomidable behavior (along with that of Chuck Schumer) 
at the Waco Investigation Hearings in 1995.  While the country was distracted with the OJ melodrama, real 
government abuses of power against defenseless citizens were being uncovered.  People like Conyers 
demagoged and impuned the Branch Davidians, allowing the perpetrators in the FBI, Justice Dept, and ATF 
to get away with slaughtering the people at Waco.   So, Conyers' disregard for impeachment supporters 
should not surprise anyone.

Watch the award-winning BBC documentary "Rules of Engagement" and see how terribly Conyers behaved 
during the Waco hearings.  I don't know how anyone can believe that gives a care about impeaching Bush 
after seeing this...  "Rules of Engagement" is located on Google Video....


----------------------  Original Message:  ---------------------
From:    "C. G. Estabrook" <galliher at uiuc.edu>
To:      peace-discuss at anti-war.net
Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] Conyers' betrayal
Date:    Thu, 26 Jul 2007 02:58:13 +0000

> "...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
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