[Peace-discuss] Flyer for Dec. 7 demo

[Roger Helbig]

Impeachment is for personal acts of the President including personal
direction of others to commit criminal actions - if you throw other things
in, you get away from the "personal" aspect.  Watch today's hearings and
learn more about impeachment as a process and whether it is appropriate now
and why/

On Wed, Dec 4, 2019 at 5:22 AM Mildred O'brien via Peace-discuss <
peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:

> As Yale Law Prof. Bruce Ackerman was interviewed this morning on NPR about
> the House impeachment of Trump he tried to make the point that Trump should
> be impeached for more egregious violations of the Constitution on human
> rights than what he is charged with (Ukraine-Bidens) and tried to give
> examples when he was (im)politely cut short by "thank you for your time,"
> like he gave the wrong answer.
>
> "It's not too late to give to your public news broadcast organization..."
>
> mo'b
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: C. G. Estabrook via Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net>
> To: Peace <peace at anti-war.net>
> Cc: peace-discuss <peace-discuss at anti-war.net>
> Sent: Tue, Dec 3, 2019 8:50 pm
> Subject: [Peace-discuss] Flyer for Dec. 7 demo
>
> [Flyer to be distributed at AWARE's regular monthly anti-war demonstration
> Saturday 7 December 2-4pm at the Susan B. Anthony Memorial Fountain,
> intersection of Main & Neil in Champaign]
>
> =====================================================================================================
>
> *“IMPEACH TRUMP!” is the U.S. political establishment’s way of distracting
> you from America’s war-making around the world*
> The U.S. media (owned by large corporations) continue to tell us how
> terrible President Trump is, but that is a way to avoid talking about how
> terrible U.S. government war-making is - most recently in Venezuela and
> Bolivia.
>
> And in regard to killing people around the world, the Trump
> administration’s policy seems little different from that of the Obama
> administration - for all of President Trump’s assertions that he wants to
> end the Obama-Clinton wars.
>
> President Obama inherited two shameful wars from the Bush administration
> (in Afghanistan and Iraq): he increased the number to eight (attacking
> Libya, Pakistan, the Philippines, Somalia, Syria, and Yemen as well) and
> became the first U.S. president ever to be at war throughout two terms. Not
> even presidents Roosevelt (WWII), Wilson (WWI), or Lincoln (Civil War) did
> that.
>
> As Barack Obama said in 2012, after ordering drone assassinations of
> American citizens, including minors (purposely), “Turns out I’m really good
> at killing people; didn’t know that was gonna be a strong suit of mine.”
>
> While “covering sin with smooth names,” Obama continued America’s
> longest-standing foreign policy - attempting to prevent the integration of
> Eurasia, for fear that it would interfere with the U.S. elite’s economic
> exploitation of the rest of the world - by American war provocations
> against Russia and China, from Ukraine to the South China Sea.
>
> Trump, after criticizing Obama’s war-making, has largely continued it - in
> part at least because he is under pressure from the ‘deep state’ to
> maintain the traditional US foreign policy of retarding the economic
> development of Russia and China.
>
> Since the end of WWII, the U.S. has killed more than 20 million people in
> wars (Korea, Vietnam, Latin America, Mideast, and elsewhere) designed to
> destroy challenges to the economic hegemony the U.S. obtained as the only
> major country largely undamaged by WWII. (Russia lost 27 million people in
> defeating Naziism; U.S. losses in WWII totaled about a half million people.)
>
> That is why today international polls show that the U.S. is the most
> feared government in the world - not China, Russia, Iran, or Israel. The
> rest of the world recognizes that the U.S. government remains what Martin
> Luther King called it long ago: “the greatest purveyor of violence in the
> world today.”
>
> With other peace groups around the world, we call upon our president and
> government
> (a) to close the thousand U.S. military bases on foreign soil (most
> encircling Russia and China),
> (b) to bring all U.S. troops (and weapons) home, and
> (c) to provide social supports - including free medical care, education,
> and a universal basic income - for Americans, who have been made poorer by
> generations of our government’s wars.
> ~~~
> In Illinois, send your opinion to your local representatives in Congress--
> ~ Senator Dick Durbin: <https://www.durbin.senate.gov/contact/email>
> ~ Sen. Tammy Duckworth: <
> https://www.duckworth.senate.gov/content/contact-senator>
> ~ Representative Rodney Davis: <https://rodneydavis.house.gov/contact/>
> ~~~
>
>
>
> *This flyer is produced by members & friends of the ‘Anti-War Anti-Racism
> Effort’; see <AWARE of Champaign-Urbana Illinois> on Facebook.The TV
> program ‘AWARE on the Air,’ a local discussion of war news, is on Urbana
> Public Television, Tuesdays at 10pm (& available on YouTube).*
> *###*
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