Court Of Impeachment And War Crimes: June 2007

Saturday, June 30, 2007

Impeach Bush and Cheney, Michael Moore...Scores Big Against The System...Again!

MICHAEL MOORE SCORES AGAIN AGAINST THE SYSTEM…IT CAN BE DONE!

From: "maillist@michaelmoore.com" <maillist@michaelmoore.com>To: dickaued@yahoo.comSubject: An Awesome First Night for "Sicko"Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2007 20:07:37 -0400

An Awesome First Night for "Sicko"
Saturday, June 30th, 2007

Friends,

Thank you so much to the hundreds of thousands of you who went to see my movie last night and this afternoon.

The studio tells me that we are on track to have the second largest opening weekend for a documentary in the history of the movies! ("Fahrenheit 9/11" was first.) Many theaters have been selling out. The Bush administration's investigation of this movie is certainly not keeping people away. Thanks for all the pictures you sent me of people packing in to see "Sicko!"

The movie is making impact big and small. I thought you would enjoy this story about a family that Aetna was forcing to pay a $65,000 hospital bill that the insurance company was supposed to cover! Check it out.

The critics, too, have been more than kind. Can I show you what a few of them said?

"It's as uplifting and heart-rending a thing as you will see at the movies all year. And it speaks of Moore's enduring faith -- his angry, nettled, exasperated belief that 'despite all our differences, we sink or swim together.' " -- Amy Biancolli, Houston Chronicle

"The weight of evidence Moore marshals for taking the profit motive out of medicine is overwhelming. In a summer of dumb, shameless drivel, Moore delivers a movie of robust mind and heart. You'll laugh till it hurts." -- Peter Travers, Rolling Stone

"'Sicko' is a beyond brilliant, nonpartisan expose' on American politics that should be mandatory for every student in America. Some rich person -- like maybe Angelina Jolie -- should sponsor a program where DVDs are sent to families or free screenings are held at local churches." -- Caroline Kepnes, E!

For more of this, click here.

There's a moment in "Sicko" when the former British MP, Tony Benn, says, "If we have the money to kill people (with war), we've got the money to help people." That line always gets the loudest applause in the theater.

It is estimated that, before Bush's War is over, we will have spent two trillion dollars on it.

Let me say this: I NEVER want to hear again from ANY politician that we "don't have the money" to fix our schools, to take care of the poor, to provide health care for every American.

Clearly, the money IS there when we want to illegally invade another country and then prolong a disastrous occupation.

From now on, we have to demand that our tax dollars be there for the things we need, not the things that make us one of the most detested countries on earth.

If you haven't seen "Sicko," go see it tonight. I want this film to have as much impact as it can. How well it does in terms of attendance this first weekend will determine how many other towns get to see it.

It's all about the "first weekend box office" with the studios these days. If it does well in the 400 theaters it's in, they will put it in more theaters next weekend.

And trust me, the White House and their friends in the pharmaceutical and health insurance industries know this, too. It's no surprise to me that an original master of "Sicko" was stolen and widely distributed on the internet before the film's release.

I'm one of the few people in the movie business who doesn't believe in prosecuting teenagers who want to share music or films (although I make my movies to be seen on a big screen and that's how I hope people see them!).

I called up Mr. Bush's FBI last week. I wanted to know if they had asked themselves the first question any cop would ask about this particularly unique theft:

"Who has a vested interest in destroying the first weekend of Michael Moore's new film by stealing his movie's master copy and placing it on the internet?"

Needless to say, they showed little interest in investigating who's behind this.

That's ok. I realize what's at stake for them and I accept that this is a battle with serious consequences.

The drug and insurance companies have dumped over a half billion dollars in the pockets of Congress and the White House in the last 10 years. This movie may end up being their worst nightmare.

But here's the good news: There's more of us than there are of them.

So, it's up to the rest of you to help me help this movie have a great opening weekend.

If over a half million people come out to see it by tomorrow night, the studio will take that to mean it should be in more cities and more theaters.

Let's make that happen. And I promise you, if you go, you'll see a movie unlike any other you've seen this year.

Last night, the industry polled the people coming out of "Sicko." 93% said they would "strongly recommend 'Sicko'" to their friends and family. The pollster said he'd never seen a number that high (the norm for most movies is about 45%). It was a heartening piece of news.

Thanks again and see ya tonight at the movies!

Yours, Michael Mooremmflint@aol.com

Sunday Morning Delivery

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Impeach Bush and Cheney; High Noon In DC, Matters May Be Settled In The Streets Soon!

High Noon In Washington DC…Constitutional Confrontation May Be Settled In The Streets…

Production Costs Run High In Iraq…

Producers Refuse To Reveal Documents…Refuse To Talk…And When They Do;

They Lie And More Americans And Children Die…

BUSH ASSERTS EXECUTIVE PRIVILEGE OVER SUBPOENAED DOCUMENTS STANDOFF
6/29/2007 12:26:59 AM US

President George Bush on Thursday asserted executive privilege and rejected lawmakers' demands for White House documents and testimony that could shed light on the firings of US attorneys, moving closer toward a constitutional showdown with the Congress.

With Thursday's deadline for surrendering the documents, Bush's attorney told Congress the White House would not hand over subpoenaed documents from former presidential counsel Harriet Miers and former political director Sara Taylor. The White House also made clear neither one would not testify next month, as directed by the June 13 subpoenas.

Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee denounced the decision by Bush as "Nixonian stonewalling," a stalemate that could end up with House and Senate contempt citations and a federal-court battle over separation of powers.

Presidential counsel Fred Fielding said Bush accused the Congress of forcing the confrontation by issuing subpoenas despite him making a reasonable attempt at compromise. "With respect, it is with much regret that we are forced down this unfortunate path which we sought to avoid by finding grounds for mutual accommodation."

Alexandria Argument: Appropriate Alliterative Art And Analogy

It's the iconic American Western of one man taking a stand for justice and the rule of law. It's his wedding day to a beautiful, pacifist younger bride (Grace Kelley) -- and his last day as marshal in a frontier town. Gary Cooper (the laconic, lanky marshal) could leave right then to start a family, and set up a new comfortable life as a store owner.

Some interpret "High Noon" (nominated for seven Academy Awards) as a 1952 allegory of principled defiance against the era of McCarthyism, which foreshadowed the courage of Edward R. Murrow in being a lone man with the bravery to challenge and bring down the thuggish, immoral senator from Wisconsin.

"High Noon" -- SOMETIMES YOU CAN'T RUN AWAY FROM UPHOLDING JUSTICE!

Murrow, in his historical March 9, 1954, broadcast that began the unraveling of the reign of uncorroborated witch-hunting anti-Communist fear (and a watershed moment for broadcast journalism in America) said: "Our working thesis tonight is this question: If this fight against Communism is made a fight against America’s two great political parties, the American people know that one of those parties will be destroyed and the Republic cannot endure very long as a one party system. We applaud that statement and we think Senator McCarthy ought to. He said it, seventeen months ago in Milwaukee."

It was a brilliant maneuver to hoist the drunken master of intimidation by his own petard. Murrow, like Marshal Will Kane (Cooper) in "High Noon," was taking on someone who had subdued a nation (as the Miller gang did in "High Noon's" Hadleyville) with the assertion of raw power not subject to the restraint of truth, due process, justice or the law.

Murrow closed his opening salvo against McCarthy with this statement: "The actions of the junior Senator from Wisconsin have caused alarm and dismay amongst our allies abroad, and given considerable comfort to our enemies. And whose fault is that? Not really his. He didn't create this situation of fear; he merely exploited it -- and rather successfully. Cassius was right. 'The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.'"

In that sense, Murrow was also speaking of the residents of the frontier town of Hadleyville in "High Noon." Because on the day of Marshal Kane's (Cooper's) wedding and retirement, four killers were returning to avenge the conviction and imprisonment of their leader, just released, who had terrorized the town some years earlier until Kane had arrested and convicted the gang's leader for murder.

Kane wasn't looking for trouble, but when Hadleyville was again faced with the violation of the rule of law, Kane couldn't flee, despite his young bride's desire to avoid a confrontation.

There are some situations, Kane reasoned, when lawlessness shoves itself in your face -- and you have to confront it head on, not run away cowering.

The people of Hadleyville, for one reason or another relating to cowardice and profiteering from the past crime sprees of the outlaws, refuse to assist Kane in battling the criminals, as their leader rides into town on the late morning train.

Kane is left to himself to confront them -- and with the unexpected assistance of his young Quaker wife, survives the "High Noon" shootout.

THE RULE OF LAW PREVAILS.

Such is, if we stretch this analogy, the situation in Washington.

There is no need anymore to investigate the Bush Administration. Their chronic defiance of the rule of law -- even the legal requirements that they themselves have set up -- their defiance of the Constitution, their failure to implement laws passed by Congress, their perjury, their contempt for justice, their effort to subvert the voting system in the United States, their prosecution of a war based on lies ... these and so many more reasons compel the impeachment of Dick Cheney, George W. Bush and Alberto Gonzales.

The Democrats in Congress may not have the votes to prevail. (The Republicans will have to decide whether they stand up for America or stand with a cabal of crooks.) But, in their lack of effective action, the Democrats are condoning the violation of our nation's most basic governmental glue: the Constitution and the rule of law.

Gary Cooper (Marshal Kane) wasn't looking for a confrontation on the day of his marriage and retirement; it came to him -- and he knew what he had to do.

What sort of standard are we setting for any American if we allow this administration to continue to so brazenly defy laws and offer us nonsense as an excuse for their illegal behavior? What do we tell defendants? What do we tell our children? That’s ridiculous and absurd excuses for criminal behavior will be acceptable, and will allow the perpetrators to go free? No member of Congress who does not stand up now and scream for Impeachment, should ever be reelected.

They should be relegated to the historical garbage pit of traitors, cowards and fools. They don’t act and body bags keep coming back.

Because that is what Congress is permitting the Bush Administration to get away with. The final descent into some sort of absurdist pit of law-breaking and bold defiance of the Constitution -- not to mention the threat to our national security -- is Dick Cheney's claim that he does not have to abide by national security guidelines for handling confidential documents because he is not a member of the Executive Branch.

When you have attained this level of unaccountable tragic farce, the American system of reasoned government has already become unhinged.

Like the residents of Hadleyville, Congress can continue to retreat in endless babble from confronting the lawlessness that has landed on their and our doorsteps. But they do so at grave risk to the foundations of our democracy.

Simply put, unless we have a Marshal Kane to come to our rescue, or unless the Democratic leaders of Congress realize that although they didn't ask for criminal behavior in the Executive Branch to fall down upon them like a thunderstorm, it has -- and they have no choice but to face up to their Constitutional obligations to pursue the removal from office of those who continue to openly, defiantly and mockingly break the law. Unless such leadership emerges, the fabric of our democracy will unravel.

To avoid such a stand is to cede our country to those individuals who make a mockery of its legal system and Constitutional foundation.

It is to tell present and future generations that the rule of law can be defied with impunity.

This is not a question of Capitol Hill vote counting; it is a question of whether we are going to continue to collectively accept that our legal system holds people accountable for their behavior.

If not, let's stop pretending that we are a nation of laws, based on the precepts of a Constitution.

The Democrats are not responsible for the actions of this rogue, criminal executive branch; but they are responsible for meeting it head on at "High Noon."

And When You Get a Response Like This; You Know That The Nation Is In Peril And that we need to take a good hard look at ourselves, or we’ll come to truly understand the message of: “It Can’t Happen Here.” , Sinclair Lewis.

Ed., stop beating a dead horse. The Congress of the United States supported by the majority of the American people will never and I mean never try to impeach this administration or in anyway attempt in a serious manner to restrict the illegal unconstitutional behavior of these criminals. The majority is willfully ignorant, and has no interest in becoming informed. Iraq and the deaths mean less than nothing. America deserves exactly what will happen to their cherished (but non-existent) rule of law and government by the people. So grow up and accept the fact that the party is over, we lost.

-The Horses Ass- (Saddled Up and ready to right out of this country)

Response: Good Night and Good Luck …I know you’d rather switch than fight; cowards always do, but if these bastards have their way there is no where on this planet that you or anyone else will be safe…fear that H.A….

He’s a Horse’s Ass (optimistically: a minority) ; that’s for damn sure! Ed.

Unfortunately, and as a matter of inevitablity; History teaches that such issues are settled in the streen governments, impotent, incompetent, fearful or corrupted no longer act upon what is right or wrong, lose their moral compass and cannot or will heed the words of the people and their thirsting cries demanding Justice!

Friday, June 29, 2007

IMPEACHMENT: Index For The Graphic Case for Indictment, Impeachment and Imprisonment of The Bush Administration

The Index To The Graphic Case For The Indictment, Impeachment and Imprisonment Of Bush and Cheney (Plus) [To Be Updated As Pages Are Added]

The Court Of Impeachment And War Crimes (Home Page: Index Located Here Also)

The Photoshop Theme Header Graphic Graffiti Panels are generally (never smaller) 11 (x) 11” 72 Dpi. You will find some pages with odd size graphics and some with vastly larger graphics panel. Each page contains 13 Graphics and usually a small header. The press of time and the need to move these materials out to an external drive from time to time does not always make for the best groupings and some pages are rather eclectic. I apologize for this, but there’s much to done; much we all need to do. Enjoy them; use them modify them as you see fit and useful. Ed.

Page 0 Introduction and Sam Adams Dedication

Page 1 Military Action, Consequences and “Awards”

Page 2 Administration Players, Positions and Problems

Page 3 Emphasis on War Crimes, Plus the Lieberman Problem

Page 4 Primarily Metallic Peace and War Display Work

Page 5 The Fascist Designs (Plus)

Page 6 Homeland Insecurity Plus Nasty Ann Coulter Panels

Page 7 Criminality, Oil, Corruption, Manipulation and Retribution

Page 8 Impeachment Panels

Page 9 Corruption, BuShit and Impeachment

Page 10 Eclectic Impeachment Collection

Page 11 Eclectic Impeachment Collection

Page 12 Gonzales, Justice and the Voice of the Militant Rise

Page 13 Fruit Cakes and Spin

Page 14 Watchful and Virginia’s 2nd Amendment Democrats

Page 15 Emphasis Rove and Jail

Page 16 Scary as Halloween Irritating as a Broken Record

Page 17 Running out of Time, an Angry Page

Page 18 Bad News, What Bush Wants, and What We Want

Page 19 The Bush Agenda, Screw ups and Let’s March

Page 20 The Beginning, The Problems, Let’s March

Page 21 The Bush Stamp Collection

Page 22 Stamp Collection Continued

Page 23 Peace, Bigger Stamps and The Gas Price Hits

Page 24 Eclectic Mix

Page 25 A Cheney Page

Page 26 Not Nice To Condi Rice

Page 27 Coulter, Blackwater, Dictatorship Decrees

Page 28 The Pump Page, Some Over Laps

Page 29 Emphasis Justice, Virginia

Page 30 A Darkness Upon Our Land and Political Failure