Politics | September 23, 2008 | 34 comments

Protesters unfurl 'Arrest Bush & Cheney' banner at Nat'l Archives

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Anti-war protesters hung a banner today at the National Archives calling for the arrest of President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney.

The 22-foot-long banner in red, white and black reads, "Defend Our Constitution - Arrest Bush / Cheney! - War Criminals!"

The protesters, perched on a ledge at the historic building in Washington, D.C., additionally claim to be on a hunger strike.

According to a press release, the five are military combat veterans from the anti-war group Veterans For Peace who intend to stay on the ledge and fast for a full day "in remembrance of those who have perished and those still suffering from the crimes of the Bush administration."
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  • ACrisisinAmerica
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      ACrisisinAmerica  
    • NATIONAL STRIKE DAY PROPOSED!

      Dear Americans,

      I would like to propose a "NATIONAL STRIKE DAY" for every American that is able. I have heard France has been doing this with great success. Please let us get everyone engaged here and anywhere we can post this message or one of your own.

      The Questions I would ask here are as follows: What day should it be and when and how often? Once a month to start or? I believe this would really give the people back their power in this country. It is time to take action! If we do not take some action now as our Declaration of Independence says we have the right and obligation to, it looks like our country will fall.

      People are losing their homes by the millions, and jobs of course with it, and our government with the media's help are trying to hide it from us. They are going to let us just fall, we have to save ourselves, to many good people's lives are being ruined.

      This is the responsibility of a free people. Be sure the world bankers have a diabolical plan for us and unless we truly want to be slaves, we have to do something. I am open to other ideas, or maybe someone is already doing this (I heard something). I plead with each American here on Twitter to get involved and support this idea, and everywhere else we can get this message out.

      This will be a peaceful way to get our government's attention, while we take back our country. Trust me if George Washington and the many honorable men and women who fought our war of Independence were here today, they would have already taken action years ago, many years ago, and I doubt it would be very peaceful.

      Thus, no one works until our demands are met. Start with say five or ten demands. So my idea, proposal is that Americans just go to the street, your city hall, or what is ever appropriate in your state. No one works until our demands are met. But absolutely No violence, no vandalism, no matter what please. That will destroy our honest political cause afforded us by our constitution. In fact, we should make, in my opinion that it is a very somber and quite sit in, almost complete silence until our demands are met, so they cannot try and intimidate people or arrest them unlawfully as they have been doing. I believe this is very important point, no conflict what so ever, just freeze everything. We are all allowed to stay home from work. We need to get employers involved obviously.

      My list of demands start as follows:

      1.) No more bail outs, but instead money is to be given directly to the American people.
      I heard some experts are saying that this is the only real cure, some 450,000.00 to each American is the answer to our financial crisis. http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?=26321

      2.) Abolish the IRS, period!

      3.) Reinstate our fourth Amendment rights.

      4.)

      5.)

      I hope others will give their suggestions. I would recommend we elect a board and thus work to organize our first AMERICAN NATIONAL STRIKE DAY, or if someone has already started this, please if anyone is aware of this let me know.

      Sincere hope for our beloved nation,
      Stephen Paine

    • 3 years ago
  • charleskaj
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      charleskaj  
    • most of the politicans should, but mr bush and mr cheney have worked the law too give them advantage to lie ,cheat, and steal and come out with an american flag draped around them and folks cheering them on.Americans are a sucker for pusedo patriatsimim(spelling}

    • 3 years ago
  • PressCore
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      PressCore  
    • Hang them high enough for the World to believe
      that there are still enough people with moxy who'll uphold the Law and make the USA once again a place worth believing in!!! Bush & Cheney are War Criminals and Public Enemies who presume the Law is written on their toilet paper. That's a direct slap in the face to anyone who calls themselves American. Their evil is insufferable.Their mendacity is abominable. Their contempt for the Constitution we fought World Wars to preserve is so collossal that their living & breathing is such an extreme provocation that it will even tempt peaceloving people to advocate extreme measures to do whatever it takes to eliminate their Tyrany. I say we
      all sign H.R.Rep.Cucinich's & H.R. Rep McDermott's
      Impeachment petition so that on Nov.5th WE THE
      PEOPLE can bring Bush & Cheny to Justice in the
      U.S.Criminal Court for Treason against United States.
      We should demand an honest investigation into the
      9/11 holocost that Bush/ FBI/CIA permitted so that
      Bush can be extradited to New York to stand trial for
      Mass Murder 1. YOU WON'T BE HAVING ANY PHOTOS TAKEN OF YOUR FOOT ON OUR NECK AS BAGGED PREY,HITLER BUSH.VERSTEHEN SIE SCHWEINEHUND?

    • 3 years ago
  • TouchArt
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      TouchArt  
    • “When I despair, I always remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall, always.” –Ghandi

    • 3 years ago
  • WorldPeaceTV
  • sushikillakid
  • TouchArt
  • tokomoe
  • JaetheFirst
  • WhiteNoise
  • malathion
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      malathion  
    • if only hanging B'n C would make the cause of their ascendancy go away . go ahead and hang every single church going "upright" citizen of this country and you'll still have extremists waiting to pounce . hippies generally don't make good leaders when maniacs are armed to the teeth waiting to die spectacularly .

    • 3 years ago
  • darkhorsejim
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      darkhorsejim  
    • Congratulations-you got their attention! If this is the only way to get our leader's attention, then we're definitely being ignored. Since letter writing & petition signing can be so tedious & time consuming, it just buys the gov't more time to ignore us most of the time. However, we’ve reached a new age of absolute power ruling us absolutely. The next president has to realize people are demanding positive, life enriching changes instead of wars & financial fuck ups that are dividing the haves & the have nots even further apart. How have so many things gone so wrong in less than 8 years for this once great country?

    • 3 years ago
  • Elligirl
  • mjsmith11
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      mjsmith11  
    • There are effective groups that organize movements that bring about positive change. They bring their agenda and there group to Washington DC and eventually have their movement successfully adopted into laws and recognized Nationally. On the opposite end of the spectrum you have people like this, who come to Washington DC to seek negative and momentary attention. They really make their cause look pathetic.

    • 3 years ago
  • colmor
  • uroborus8
  • dissimulator
  • slicedbread
  • ihateyou
  • eboknee
  • CEE_PDX
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      CEE_PDX  
    • This is great. Maybe we Americans are finally shaking off our blinders. I've been wondering why there have been so little protests the last eight years....

    • 3 years ago
  • intelligenceisacurse
  • gotcha44
  • mjsmith11
  • Dmitri_Molotov
  • dissimulator
  • mjsmith11
  • mjsmith11
  • dissimulator
  • Dmitri_Molotov
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      Dmitri_Molotov  
    • Hang them for wartime treason more like, just like Saddam. It's a bit humane (snaps the neck instantly) but it will get the job done. It worked on one dictator already this decade...

    • 3 years ago
  • futuregen
  • ihateyou
  • jahbini
  • WhiteNoise
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