[Peace-discuss] Flyer for Dec. 7 demo

Thu Dec 5 02:22:50 UTC 2019

During the impeachment of Bill Clinton in 1999, White House Counsel Charles Ruff described a "narrow" interpretation of "high crimes and misdemeanors" as requiring "a standard that the framers intentionally set at this extraordinarily high level to ensure that only the most serious offenses and in particular those that subverted our system of government would justify overturning a popular election". Writing in 1999, Mark R. Slusar commented that the narrow interpretation seemed to be most common among legal scholars and senators. Wikipedia

> On Dec 4, 2019, at 7:38 AM, Roger Helbig via Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
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> 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/
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> 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.  
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> "It's not too late to give to your public news broadcast organization..."
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> mo'b      
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> 
> -----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]
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> “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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.”
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.)
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> 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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