HELP!!!
A madman has ruined our country and helped set the world on fire!!!
He has committed War Crimes, domestic crimes, and crimes against humanity. And now he is about to retire to his ranch and drink himself to death. With no meaningful consequence and setting a precedent for Presidential Criminality that cannot be allowed to stand.
HELP!!!
The Netroots helped elect Obama and give Democrats a near Supermajority (pending the outcome of the Georgia and Minnesota pennant Senate races) and now is floundering about looking for something to coordinate on to flex it’s now even stronger muscles!!!
HELP!!! I am going through a personal transition (nearly over) and my brain is not fully functional yet, but there is IMPORTANT WORK TO BE DONE!!!
What I am going to describe below is a model of a whole hog effort. An all out push using all of our skillz and energy and creativity. We will scale back if needed, we will expand if possible!
And this is just my preliminary thoughts, I am sure to miss somethong , so please chime in. I do not want this to be my project, or even just a Docudharma project, though I certainly think we have the skillz and smarts here to do it. What I am going to roughly outline below is basically an ad campaign.
Much as with the Maddow Movement, which helped influence the network suits to give Rachel Maddow her own show, a netwide petition on What To Do With Bushco posted throughout the blogosphere and at Change.gov, as well as being sent to prominent and influential decision makers, WILL influence how the new Attorney General and the Obama Administration deals with the criminals and conspirators that have occupied the White House for the past eight years.
Whatever your personal opinion on how to approach this unique and ugly problem is, I think we can all agree that SOMETHING has to be done before we can truly move forward as a nation. To that end, let us start to discuss and prepare a draft for submission.
This is an ambitious project, if done correctly. As I say above, I am not yet fully recovered from my latest transition and in any case could not do this alone anyway. I need …………….wait for it………..HELP!!! I can tell you from my experience on the Maddow Movement that just posting at the relatively few blogs that I targeted there was a ton of work and took big chunks of time. And we need this effort to be even bigger. Many hands make light work, and there is a lot of work to be done, from assembling a succinct case against King George to coming up with a good draft to posting it far and wide. So let’s start the preliminaries now. We want this to succeed and so it must be as polished and professional as possible.
Here is what we need:
A name for the project. Not just as catchy advertising, bit also a name under which to post at the various venues we wish to reach. Buhdydhama may still have some cachet and influence at Dkos, but not elsewhere in the blogosphere. This needs to be bigger than me and very well done.
A three paragraph (approx) list of the most heinous and prosecutable crimes of George Bush and his horrible henchbeasts with links to further in depth info. Short and sweet but with plenty o punch!
A heartfelt poignant plea/argument for action. Again short and pithy.
Graphics! Headers, logos, illustrations, graphs etc.
Assembly and presentation into an easily “transportable” document that can work on every web platform and application.
Coordination and outreach. We will want at a minimum for other blogs to post a logo or graphic directing folks to the petition on a relatively long term basis. That means contacting and coordinating with them. Especially if you know other blog owners who would be willing to at least give us space, please speak up! Should we also think about coordinating with folks like After Downing St. and [Ralph Lopez? https://www.docudharma.com/show…
A list of such blogs and venues, and volunteers to post and monitor at those blogs. A list of influential people and how to reach them.
And finally…if we really want to do this right….money for advertising the petition.
Ok, so I woke up and started writing about this…even as I have written, lol, it has gone through changes. It is time to publish and see what you guys think. The first hurdle of course, is what to ask for A Truth Commission? Impeachment? The Hague? We need phrasing that covers all possibilities….imo, we are basically asking for justice, not a specific outcome. But as always it is up to US. Ain’t nobody else gonna do it!
Pardon the scattered nature of this piece pleeeeze! My mind is aswirl with the infinite possibiltities and happentracks and such now that it has been invaded by the idea, iow…..HELP!!!
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If we build it, will they come?
Can we arrest bush and cheney now?
I’d kind of like to see a SWAT team of Iraq vets storm the white house and drag them out in chains. By their ankles. Down the stairs. With their heads going thump, thump, thump all the way. And then drag them up the road to the Capital, thump, thump, thump up the stairs, then down into the basement. Read them their Miranda rights. The ones they didn’t think were good enough for anyone else.
Give them a habeas hearing.
Then shackle them to the wall. Close the door. Throw the key away.
And maybe pump the air out?
Hunh? What?!?!?!?
Oh. Sorry. I must of dozed off. What a cool dream I had…
It’s too late for impeachment; and impeachment, hurried and successful, would only remove the offensive little fuck a few weeks sooner than is already inevitable. It provides no criminal justice.
Hmmm.
The Hague sounds wonderful, but there’s no way the next administration is going to allow a former president be extradited to a foreign country for criminal proceedings. Won’t happen without an internal war or a high profile champion for the cause.
An angry mob in Crawford, a citizens arrest, a video taped confession, and a cell in Leavenworth shared with a very endowed and very horny cellmate.
Now that’s Justice, American style.
My first thought is that the movement should be focused on your initial question, “What to do with Bushco?” If we try to settle on a specific action, I think we’ll wind up arguing about which one is best and loosing folks in the long run. If we want this BIG – I’d like to see us engage everyone and start a rumble.
I guess what I’m seeing is something like your question, the list of crimes, and then ask another question, like “Are we going to let him get away with it?” (not the right one yet, but I’m just trying to get the feel)
And maybe a petition is the way to go. But how about just asking folks to go to change.gov and write something there demanding the accountability message of their choice. Could we flood the site with activity on this?
Just my initial thoughts. I’ll be anxious to hear what others think.
… about this before.
Here is something we might be able to get behind:
Just as an example, here’s a list of the groups who sponsored the FOIA paper:
Maybe by supporting some of these groups we can help our own cause.
Restoring Our Constitutional Democracy In America (ROCDIA).
…to my latest request to hold the Bush Administration accountable for their crimes, either through impeachment or through legislation to prevent blanket pardons. I was originally going to include only snips, but decided to include even more of it because it is throughly despicable
and clearly demonstrates the rigid, do-nothing mind set of these Congress-critters. We have our work cut out for us. We may have to take to the streets and risk lasers, tazers, phasers, and muerters!
Makes me feel really sick!
I have some ideas percolating as I type.
If you would like me to help coordinate some things around the net and discuss some ideas regarding content, let me know. You have my e-mail addy here. This could be good, if done on a large scale.
Good thinkin’ as usual, boss.
… I’ll bring it up again.
Draft a non-binding ordinance of some sort with the proper local, state, federal officials names in them, tell them your town approves the prosecution of George W. Bush for murder, and get it on your local ballot for the next election. The more towns that do this and pass them, the bigger story it will be. Look at Vermont when 34 towns passed impeachment resolutions. No, it didn’t start impeachment proceedings. But it did make a big splash in the media.
Other suggestions:
Call your local radio show, write letters to the editor, suggest that book I keep touting by Vincent Bugliosi, form a town-to-town campaign getting local selectboards to pass them, etc. I think After Downing Street.com has a resource center for this.
Give it a shot. It may not see the light of day in the end but I will say that it feels good to think you have momentum on your side. Vermonters definitely felt that after Town Meeting Day 2007 and when the Vermont Senate passed the impeachment resolution, 16-7.
What ever movement gets started up, it has to be across all demographic lines. Even the good ole’ pukes are bummed at the economic situation and are holding the cheney/bush gang responsible.
Start with getting the FOIA restored, as Npk suggested, and get the evidence of the financial high jinks, going back to the cheney energy commission, which have taken money out of the pockets of all us, the right included. Get them mad at the theft of their money and they will start getting mad about the other stuff which will be revealed by the economic investigations.
Hey, nascar is suffering because of the economics of the neocons, get them to understand that and the rest will start cascading.
Show them to be the crooks that they are well enough, and the legal crimes, and nuances will be exposed from a direction that would be much harder to be put off as partisan politics.
From wapo.
I guess Laura has had second thoughts.