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After enjoying their meal and just after Karl Rove began speaking to the Republican Party members, the women unwrapped their presents, really protest signs and a costume to be worn by one of them.
They got as far as the doors to the meeting room where Rove was speaking before the police moved in and escorted them out to the sidewalk along Hall Boulevard where the rest of the demonstrators were marching.
Cristy Murray from Oregon City, a member of The Surge Protection Brigade, said they were there to “let Karl Rove know that he is not welcome in our town.”
She said, “We had a very nice dinner and then we went over to let our feelings be known.”
One of the group while at the doorway read a list of “charges” in which they were indicting Karl Rove and held up a sign that read “Karl, you’ve got mail. Hand it over.”
However, Terri Graham from Southeast Portland said, “They wouldn’t let us far enough in where we could actually see inside.”
Murray said that after being escorted out of the hotel, “they (the police) got a little pushy with some of us. One women said that her car was parked (in the parking lot of the Embassy Suites Hotel) and they wouldn’t let her go get her car.”
Murray was dressed in a black and white stripped costume resembling a prisoner’s outfit and wearing a Karl Rove mask while demonstrating in front of the doors where the Republicans were meeting. The doors were open at the time so that the attendees could see the demonstration, but the doors were closed after they were escorted away.
The group of women began using the name The Surge Protection Brigade since the January announcement of the Pentagon’s surge deployment in Iraq, but they have been protesting the war in Iraq as “The Pissed Off Grannies” and as members of Code Pink for a number of years.
At about 7 p.m., when it also started to sprinkle rain from the dark clouds overhead, six teenage boys dressed in basketball type shorts or denim jeans and white t-shirts came up quickly from the direction of the Washington Square Mall holding up signs supporting the Bush administration and shouting in support of the troops and the war. They ended up demonstrating along the same sidewalk on Hall Boulevard as the demonstrators who were protesting the appearance of Rove.
Steve Calvert, a student from Southridge High School spoke for the group of six students, who all said they were from the same school.
The group was boisterous and when asked if they were serious about being there today they all said they were.
“We are tired of hearing everyone at our school diss Bush or diss our troops and we wanted to come out here and do something about it and show our support.”
They came out, he said, to show their support because the meeting with Rove was near where they lived and near their school, and they knew there would be demonstrations protesting the administration and war.
Calvert said that he has been talking to military recruiters. “I’ve talked to a number of recruiters at this point. Many in my family have been in the Marines and I’m joining the Marine Corps.”
After Rove left the building the demonstrations went on until well after dark, and by 9 p.m. everyone for the most part had gone home.
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Impeach the whole Administration even the subordinates and the dogs. If Bush and his muggers don't get impeached, what message is that sending to the next President??? or next wannabe dictator of America? Look at our country, look at our debt, look at our military under this Impostor called our President. We wouldnt be in this fiasco had the Republic Congress done their jobs and proveded oversight.
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Sat, Apr 14, 2007 at 04:09 PM
Kucinich says he's pursuing impeachment. Well let's help him out. Sacks and sacks of mail are about to arrive in Dennis Kucinich's office initiating impeachment via the House of Representative's own rules. This legal document is as binding as if a State or if the House itself passed the impeachment resolution (H.R. 635).
Kucinich says he is building his case for impeachment, and is working to build the support of his peers in Congress. He says he intends to impeach. He said he needs us to keep building the groundswell of support for impeachment all over the country. He asks that we send him copies of all the resolutions passed in various States, local Legislative Districts, County Districts and of any petitions with signatures, so that he can present them to the floor of the House. He said he felt that our framing the issue of impeachment in terms of the Constitution is a principled choice, and ultimately more effective than just acting on anger. Here's video of Kucinich addressing the impeachment issue:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAIJyKhJhiM
Let's answer Kucinich's call with a petition that has it's precedent in history, and it's legitimacy in the Rules of the House of Representatives.
There's a little known and rarely used clause of the "Jefferson Manual" 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 a House Resolution (635), or 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 and simultaneously help Kucinich to follow through with the process. Do-It-Yourself by downloading the memorial, filling in the relevant information (your name, state, etc.), and sending it in. We're not only having you send them to Dennis now, but also to Impeach for Peace. That way, we can collect them all in one place, and deliver them all simultaneously (with cameras rolling) in July. Be a part of history.
http://ImpeachForPeace.org/ImpeachNow.html
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Sat, Apr 14, 2007 at 04:51 PM
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Re: Karl Rove party nearly gate crashed by protestors
Well, that would be great if those who support this war and this administration join the military, and asked, no, DEMAND they be sent to Iraq. Or it might be Iran by the time they graduate and enlist. I highly support our troops, as well as our protestors. I dont support this war. I never have. Ive known since day one this supposed "war" was bull$hit and nothing more than media spin and false intelligence. How come the people who make decisions to go to war didnt stop to think,, "Hmmm, the Iraqi's didnt blow up the WTC towers, but were going to invade and occupy their nation anyways. And it might put us in debt, and it might cost us thousands of lives?" Its pretty sad to actually read about the 36% who still support this administration. These are also the same people who wanted to impeach Clinton for gettin his rocks off. Let me think. Killing thousands to take out 1 man, the man who was funded by the United States, who shook hands with our elected officials, and who sat on a motherload of untapped oil. Instead of going after the real threat to the United States. The one person who can hide in a cave, and elude our radar for 4 years.
Rove is a disease this nation has had to endure for too long. And its not just him, its his ideals, that seem to have spread to high school students, that is polluting our society. If these students really want to follow in their families footsteps, and make them proud, then join the Marines. Then, and only then, will they finally see how screwed up this administration really is. Its a sad world when you have to join the military and put your own life at risk, to finally have the wool pulled from over your eye's.
"j."
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Sat, Apr 14, 2007 at 06:53 AM