CALL TO ACTION
Starting at noon on September 1 2006, participating websites and blogs will replace their front pages with the single word “Impeach” in simple white text on a black background. (See this page for an example.) For 24 hours, web surfers and blog readers will see that word first when they visit their favorite sites. In this way, we hope to get the public talking about the one tool guaranteed by the Founders to restore our Constitutional Democracy.
About
What can I do? If you run a website or blog, then on September 1 2006, replace your home page with the single word “Impeach” in bold Times New Roman white text on a black background. Feel free to help yourself to the code here (getting a single word to display in the center of a page in all browsers is a little trickier than you might think). Back up your existing home page first (often index.html) and display this new one for 24 hours, from noon September 1 to noon September 2. If you use the provided code, we have made the “period” a link which you can customize to allow visitors to enter the rest of your web page.
If you don’t have your own webpage or blog but still think that this is a good idea, then please send this information to your favorite sites and convince them to participate (click here for a sample message). Additionally, please feel free to leave a comment here or on the blog. Just as important as replacing your home page for one day is letting your website visitors know why, so please publicize this both beforehand and afterward. Also, let us know that you plan to participate and we will include a link to your site in our blogroll.
For additional impeachment resources, visit AfterDowningStreet.org.
Frequently Unasked Questions
Why just the one word? It is the word. Everyone who sees it will know exactly who and what we are talking about. And it is the one word that most of our elected leaders are afraid to utter.
Doesn’t talk of impeachment just play into the Republican Party’s hands? That’s what they want us to think. Nancy Pelosi, for one, seems to have bought that argument. We don’t. We think that many thoughtful Republicans are looking at the abridgements of Constitutional Democracy perpetrated by this administration against the citizens and the Congress of the United States and understand that impeachment is a very real solution, and they are scared.
Could Bush really be impeached? Yes, and we have a moral obligation to carry this through. It is not necessary for us to list here all of the High Crimes and Misdemeanors committed by this White House. You know them all. The most critical point is this: as bad as this administration is, if we don’t stop them now, then the bar will be set even lower for the next group of criminals that takes over the White House. This is not a partisan issue. This is a citizen’s issue.
But do we really want a President Cheney? Well, no, he’s next. But we would rather have a Cheney who is afraid of us than the other way around.
Why September 1? It’s good timing. It gives us enough weeks to get this proposal off the ground and to reach out to webmasters and bloggers across the globe. September 1 is an easy date to remember. It is also a Friday, a good day to plan a large event in time for the weekend news cycle. We need the press and the public to be talking about this for at least a week before the White House takes over the airwaves with their fifth anniversary 9/11 celebrations commemorations.
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This project was inspired by The Freeway Blogger, the great outlaw artist who has posted over 2500 freeway signs protesting the war and inspired a legion of followers, and The Center for Constitutional Rights. Both entities have worked tirelessly to bring the word “impeach” back into the public lexicon.
4 Responses to “About”
CausalCrunch Says:
August 4th, 2006 at 9:36 am
Impeach Bush yourself! No Joke. This is much more than just a petition.
There’s a little known and rarely used clause of the in the rules for the House of Representatives which sets forth the various ways in which a president can be impeached. Only the House Judiciary Committee puts together the Articles of Impeachment, but before that happens, someone has to initiate the process.
That’s where we come in. In addition to the State-by-State method, one of the ways to get impeachment going is for individual citizens like you and me to submit a memorial. ImpeachforPeace.org has created a new memorial based on one which was successful in impeaching a federal official in the past. You can find it on their website as a PDF.
You can initiate the impeachment process yourself by downloading the memorial, filling in the relevant information in the blanks (your name, state, etc.), and sending it in.
http://ImpeachForPeace.org/ImpeachNow.html More information on the precedent for submitting an impeachment
memorial, and the House Rules on this procedure, can also be found at
the above address.
If you have any doubts that Bush has committed crimes warranting
impeachment, read this page:
http://ImpeachForPeace.org/evidence/If you’re concerned that impeachment might not be the best strategy
at this point, read the bottom of this page:
http://ImpeachForPeace.org“I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we’re really talking about peace.”
Bush, June 18, 2002
“War is Peace.”
Big Brother in George Orwell’s 1984
robalb Says:
August 11th, 2006 at 2:33 pm
Count me in! I’ve already prepared my replacement home page. On September 1, I’ll replace my home.html frame with the impeach.html frame. I don’t have all the great links that CasualCrunch offered, and I’m grateful to him/her for them.
PeacechickMary Says:
August 22nd, 2006 at 9:08 pm
Looking for creative ideas. We can get the black Impeach page ok in Blogger, however when enter site is clicked, it creates a loop and returns to the black impeach page. Just the way it is with Blogger. So, we are tryng to come up with an alternative link to point our readers to just for that one day. Anyone have any good ideas?
Admin Says:
August 23rd, 2006 at 11:20 am
PeacechickMary: Welcome to the website and for your support! Regarding your question: the \”Enter This Site\” link is designed to be customizable. Participating websites still wanted a way for visitors to enter their regular site after viewing the \”Impeach\” banner. If you can edit the HTML code, you can edit that link to point to another page on your site. I am not familiar enough with blogger to know what index files it uses, but if you want to send me a link off-line, I can take a look at your site.
http://www.impeachnet.net/blog/about/
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