John Ashcroft received a warm welcome to Boulder.

From Thinkprogress.com:

Last night, former Attorney General John Ashcroft delivered an address on national security at the University of Colorado. The event was marked by heated protests. About 20 student protesters wearing “shirts with ’shame’ written on the backs and wearing American flags over their faces, welcomed Ashcroft to the stage by standing up and turning their backs to him.”

From the DenverPost.com:

Ashcroft remained calm while the crowd booed him loudly several times during his speech, including when he said Guantanamo Bay was a "good place" for detainees and that he was proud of the United States government and its self-policing of Abu Ghraib, but he lost his composure when a man in the audience called him a liar.

From the Rockymountainnews.com:

Ashcroft also defended the incarceration of enemy combatants at Guantanamo Bay. "Yes, it's a good place for them," he said. "You detain people you don't want to enter the stream of battle. It's a new kind of battle: They don't wear uniforms; they attack civilians."

If anybody who attended the Ashcroft event who could add their own thoughts in the comments section would be appreciated.

The media is not the "fourth estate" in any sense of the meaning that the founding fathers had.  As the corporate media has become the "bread and circuses" for the people of this land which serves the corporate interests, including unbridled plundering of the national treasury, that actively harms this nation.

How can this be more stark then this unquestioned stenography by Washington Post reporters Peter Baker and Ann Scott Tyson:

Bush has made it his goal to turn over to his successor in January 2009 an Iraq stable enough that even a Democratic president would not feel politically compelled to pull out rapidly.

As CBS reporter, in Iraq, Peter Gow writes:

...proposals are to offer the U.S. a continued military presence in Iraq, as well as favorable business interests (such as investment opportunities for American companies), in return for guarantees to Iraq's future security.

It's all about power, money, and not having to "fact check" what was the goals and what are the goals now to be paid for by the blood of Iraqis and Americans. 

Bush is not a man because he will always take the easy way out with the complicity of the corporate media to keep the wool over the eyes of Americans.

Impeachment for Bush and revoking the legal status of "corporate personhood" for corporations that puts those artificial entities on the same legal level as human beings. 

The soul of this nation will be removed. 

It is unacceptable to what is happening to New Orleans.

For this crime against the soul of America should Bush face the kind of justice he has implemented for the world, but as Americans he will face the justice that we hold to "innocent until proven guilty".

It is against America that Bush and his minions are in the process of destroying a great American city.

For what reason?

Power?  Money?  Partisan politics?

We cannot allow this to go on.

It is time to restore New Orleans not rennovate it into a soulless city.

ATLANTA, GEORGIA - November 21 - More than 40 human rights organizations today decried the scheduled demolition of 3,000 public housing units in New Orleans. The groups have issued a letter to U.S. Representative Maxine Waters, urging her continued leadership on behalf of public housing residents by finalizing dates for nationwide congressional hearings. The letter, part of a national campaign for passage of the Gulf Coast Housing Recovery Act, was also sent to Louisiana Senator David Vitter and U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Secretary Alphonso Jackson.

"To demolish affordable housing without sufficient remaining low-income housing stock is not only irresponsible, but a violation of international human rights standards," said Jared Feuer, southern regional director of Amnesty International USA.

In their letter, the organizations note the bleak situation facing public housing across the nation, most prominently represented by the imminent demolition of 3,000 public housing units in New Orleans despite conflicting expert findings that the units are sound.

In preparation for demolition, contractors have begun emptying apartments and discarding the personal property of residents without their knowledge or consent, including photographs, letters and social security cards.

"Every moment we fail to act is another unit demolished, another grandmother evicted, or another child who finds him or herself doing homework in a shelter.

Our nation and human rights principles have long recognized the right to housing, and we call on our public leaders to take on this potent issue," said Catherine Albisa, executive director of the National Economic & Social Rights Initiative (NESRI).

According to international human rights standards, governments must provide specific safeguards with respect to housing for those who have been internally displaced by disasters such as Hurricane Katrina. The United Nations Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement mandate that host governments facilitate the voluntary return of the displaced to their homes or places of habitual residence in safety and with dignity.

The letter to Representative Waters is here.

I was recently at the Progressive Leaders training in Colorado Springs in which one of the sessions was on thinking about alternative methods to get liberal/progressive issues into the public arena. This couple used a major event- "Black Friday"- to bring attention to both "Impeachment" and "Out of Iraq".

Check it out here.

Will YOU be one of the 10,000? 

This must be done before Thanksgiving.

You should use EXPRESS Mail. The letter must be courteous and HANDWRITTEN.

IMPEACHMENT!

It's on OUR table; let's put it back on Speaker Pelosi's!

Nancy Pelosi has promised Cindy Sheehan that she will permit hearings >to impeach Dick Cheney If she receives 10,000 hand written letters requesting it.

Cindy Sheehan urges us to write the letters but send them to her campaign office so she can count them before delivery Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi.

SEND TO:

c/o Cindy for Congress >Re: Impeach Dick Chaney

1260 Mission Blvd.

San Francisco CA 94103

SECTION 1. The U.S. Constitution protects only the rights of living human beings.

SECTION 2. Corporations and other institutions granted the privilege to exist shall be subordinate to any and all laws enacted by citizens and their elected governments.

SECTION 3. Corporations and other for-profit institutions are prohibited from attempting to influence the outcome of elections, legislation or government policy through the use of aggregate resources or by rewarding or repaying employees or directors to exert such influence.

SECTION 4. Congress shall have power to implement this article by appropriate legislation.

Isn't it time for people to be in charge?

Take the "corporate personhood" out of our lives.

Should we let corporations distort and destroy democracy, the environment, and how we should live?

Corporations should have no political rights. 

What is more important? The party or the Constitution. 

We know that the Republican party places the Constitution after their politics.  Because Karl Rove in conjunction with Dick Cheney views that government should be an appendage to party.  

Is this why the grand poohbahs within the Democratic party are so afraid of what the registered Democratic party members are doing?  The consultants within the party view that the Constitution should be behind party in importance.  There is no other way to see it as commonly held belief by those who are paid by our money to advise Democratic elected officials like Senator Diane Feinstein.  

Max Follmer, HuffingtonPost.com, writes:

"It is going to be thrown out and rejected," said Bob Mulholland, a veteran party strategist in Sacramento. "Sometimes people can't anticipate or can't understand the big picture."

This is the kind of thinking which has led Senator Feinstein to vote for Judge Mukasey and "controversial appeals court judge Leslie Southwick".

What does taking an oath to "defend and protect" the Constitution mean when confirming people who will place the rule of one man above all else?  The actions by Mr. Bush in placing himself above the rule of law and then have people confirmed to utilize their positions to affirm such ideology by the opposition party shows that it is time, as Thom Hartmann points out, that we people who believe in the principals in the Constitution have a duty to take over the Democratic party.

People powered politics.  Time to remove corporate power from the business of government.  Life over death.  Freedom from economic slavery.