This is Our Table and Sami al-Haj is Dying on It

[EFerrari]

Nancy, this is our table and Sami al-Haj is dying on it.

We’ve tried to talk to you in every possible way we know how. You aren’t listening. In July, you asked us to wait until September for the Petraeus report. (“I’ll see you in September . . .”)

You asked us to wait for a serial liar, a Prufrock for the Bush cabal and you did it with a straight face and via surrogates. I can’t tell you how disappointed we all were. More than disappointed. What do you call it when you know people are dying every day because your government isn’t paying attention to their public duty but only to their political agenda?

I could have written that report in July if a report is what you needed. Any ghost writer worth their salt could have written that report simply by listening to the daily memes on Fox “News” -- and any actor could have lied to Congress as the good General just did.

(Did you notice, Nancy, that the General said he was not arming tribals when it has been widely reported that he is? This man is enabling a bloodbath. Is this the authority you want to to rely on? I don’t know if that is more disgusting or more frightening.}

Meanwhile, prisoners in Guantanamo are dying. They have given up on justice, helped to that conclusion as their US government torturers systematically induce them to distrust their attorneys. “Did you know your attorney is a Jew, a homosexual, a spy?”

Sami al-Haj is dying. His crime was being a journalist in a war zone who was picked up by this homicidal regime. He finally just stopped trying to live. They force fed him, and brutally -- at times shoving tubes right into his lungs. As I type this, Sami may be dead already.

We’ve had enough. We’re not waiting for March for the next Petraeus report that will have to equal or to exceed this last one in mendacity. On Saturday here in your district, a few thousand of us are going to spell it out again for you. We’ll be at Crissy Field at 1 p.m.. to spell out “IMPEACH” in the very biggest letters we can form. So will ABC, Reuters and the Chronicle be there. Maybe you’ll listen to them.

You need to know this: we will not be complicit with this criminal regime. And this district will not tolerate collaborators. For Sami, for the million slaughtered Iraqis, for the millions of displaced Iraqis, for our dead and walking dead, for the wounded dumped by the VA, for the homeless residents of the Ninth Ward and the forgotten victims on the Gulf Coast, for the families of 9/11 who have had to find their loved ones remains in trash heaps, we demand justice. Impeach them, Nancy.

This is our table. We are setting it. Enough. Impeach.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. Indeed. IMPEACH the MFA!

Beautiful and moving...and maddening and saddening...

K&R

:patriot:

[EFerrari]

2. I can't let myself cry, dear Peggy.

:hug:

[mmonk]

3. Nobody in our government cares.

[EFerrari]

5. No. They don't. But fuck me if I don't do my best

to find a way to make them care.

[mmonk]

11. Me too. I'm a member of Amnesty International.

I sign the cards to send to people to give them hope and try to keep them alive.

[EFerrari]

13. I do that, too.

:hug:

For some reason, tonight I just couldn't take it, that Sami will die if he's not already gone and for what.

For what.

[mmonk]

15. I know what you mean.

I suspect that what is politics. My blood isn't cold enough to be in elected office in today's America I guess.:hug:

[mmonk]

22. And thanks for all you're doing. You walk the walk.

[EFerrari]

35. The other choices are not good.

We'll be okay.

You take care.

[merh]

4. As long as GWB keeps troops in Iraq

as long as he keeps the war going

Congress will not impeach him, that is his shield, he is hiding behind the troops.

Imagine the screams from the right if Congress tried to impeach a sitting president during times of war.

Bush is hiding behind our troops, using them as his shield.

They are dying so that he doesn't have to answer for his crimes. :cry:

[mmonk]

7. They could correct this without impeachment.

Not enough in our government give a crap. Just a couple of "liberals" and Dodd.

[EFerrari]

8. Time of war, my granny.

Time of sacking Iraq and the US treasury. Every day is a holiday for these criminals.

[merh]

19. My gosh, look how scared they are to cut the funding.

Just imagine the wild screams of politics over the troops if they were to impeach the clown in chief.

I don't say it is right, I think it is criminal, but it is what it is.

He is hiding behind the troops to continue to commit his crimes.

[EFerrari]

21. They are committing the perfect crime.

It really is what it is.

:hug:

[Tom Joad]

6. Let's take Nancy off the table.

Our table includes justice for the people of the Middle East.
and that has long been off Nancy's table.

[EFerrari]

9. . . .

:hug:

:cry:

[mmonk]

12. And her advisor Rahm.

[Tom Joad]

17. You mean the dude that recruited the pro-war Dems? that rahm?

gee, why would you say that?

[Richard Steele]

27. The dude that replaced a Dem who had a guaranteed win with a REPUBLICAN. That Rahm.

[Tom Joad]

10. hell, let's overturn the damn tables. Let's drive the warmongers out of congress and make DC a place

that works for peace, for justice.
a place for people.

[EFerrari]

14. Guantanamo detainee near death

A Sudanese journalist sent to the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in 2002 reportedly is close to death as his hunger strike surpasses 250 days.

A medical report by U.S. and British psychiatrists said there is strong evidence that Sami al-Haj has given up his fight for life, a condition doctors call "passive suicide," the British newspaper The Independent said Thursday.

The al-Jazeera journalist, captured in Afghanistan six years ago, began the hunger strike to protest his detention without or trial.

Dr. Dan Creson, a psychiatrist who has worked with the United Nations in Darfur, said the detainee's condition was similar to that of Darfuri women in Sudan whose mind suddenly experiences an irreversible decline after enduring months of starvation and abuse.

http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/107290.html

[Tom Joad]

16. I was in DC last week, and i made a special effort to just visit the Lincoln Memorial

I was there a few years ago. Still, somehow, i think it is sacred ground so i had to go again, not because of Abe, but because of Martin... and not just Martin (i think sometimes people might think he was there alone) but because a 100,000 people marched there from all over the country... and they did this work. They made a movement. What happened was not just because of what Martin did, or the law Johnson signed, but because of that movement that was created by those everyday people that sat next to the reflecting pool and worked to make Martin's word's a reality.

We need a people's movement, because Congress appears to be constipated with inaction and just plain full of it.

Politicians are hereby warned that they need to cooperate or just get out of the way.

[EFerrari]

18. My mom pointed out to me that those marchers

during the immigration marches, or at least some of them didn't eat during the march because they didn't work that day.

"What are you willing to do?"

[mmonk]

20. America, where are you now?

Don't you care about your sons and daughters?
Don't you know we need you now
We can't fight alone against the monster

[ClayZ]

23. Impeach Now! K and R

I am so fucking tired of being angry and ashamed!

SHAME ON YOU NANCY PELOSI... DO YOUR JOB

[EFerrari]

25. They're killing this man that did nothing but be a journalist.

That's all he did.

[ClayZ]

29. It is horrible.

:cry:

It is all horrible!

[EFerrari]

30. As hard as it seems, imho, all we have to fight these bastards

with is our awareness.

Thanks for that, ClayZ.

[ClayZ]

33. This was a bad week ... They used Petraeos as a HopScotch

Marker and he sat on 2 and lied like a dog!

It is time to have some NATIONAL SANITY!

Maybe the military will end it like they did in VietNam.

We will be 50 years cleaning up the mess.

I hope hundreds of thousands are in DC tomorrow.

I hope the whole world is watching.

If wishes were fishes I would be there.

Seattle will have to do!

Hope your IMPEACH in SF goes BIGTIME!

[EFerrari]

34. Here in the district, we HAVE to act up.

Cross something for us, my friend.

[EFerrari]

24. kick

[Richard Steele]

26. K&R

[EFerrari]

28. Sent to Nancy. Thanks guys.

I have to believe we can do better than this.

Last kick before falling over.

:kick:

[Senator]

31. K&R&I(Impeach)

[EFerrari]

32. This is Sami al Haj. No - - this WAS Sami al Haj

[Swamp Rat]

36. k&r

[MsLeopard]

37. Spell it out for her

Oh how I wish I could be there to help spell it out for Nancy to (hopefully) see. Thank you for all you do, for your powerful words. K&R

[cali]

38. I take it this is the Prufrock reference:

No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be;
Am an attendant lord, one that will do
To swell a progress, start a scene or two,
Advise the prince; no doubt, an easy tool,
Deferential, glad to be of use, 115
Politic, cautious, and meticulous;
Full of high sentence, but a bit obtuse;
At times, indeed, almost ridiculous—
Almost, at times, the Fool.

(From the Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, by T.S. Eliot.

Good luck today.

[warren pease]

42. Or maybe this..

There will be time, there will be time
To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet;
There will be time to murder and create,
And time for all the works and days of hands
That lift and drop a question on your plate;
Time for you and time for me,
And time yet for a hundred indecisions,
And for a hundred visions and revisions,
Before the taking of a toast and tea.


As Eliot also wrote, this time in "The Wasteland,"

'My nerves are bad to-night. Yes, bad. Stay with me.
'Speak to me. Why do you never speak? Speak.
'What are you thinking of? What thinking? What?
'I never know what you are thinking. Think.'

I think we are in rats' alley
Where the dead men lost their bones.


Sound like a familiar place?

wp

[EFerrari]

44. Maybe we should call him General Prufrock or maybe,

General Polonius -- the latter being the character in Shakespeare most often quoted by Republicans.

[warren pease]

45. Or maybe "Felonious," which covers a lot of ground... n/t

[leftchick]

39. the crimes of the century are on nancy's hands as well

as the rest of the do nothing to stop the bush regime congress. thank you!


.... and God forgive us all....

[pursley]

40. Sign Petition to Free Sami

The American Committee to Free Sami Al-Haj has just launched an online petiton to the U.S. Congress demanding his release and an investigation into the Bush Administration's campaign against Al Jazeera.

http://www.petitiononline.com/freesami/petition.html

[EFerrari]

43. Well done! Thank you.

And welcome to DU.

[EFerrari]

41. Up at OpEd News:

http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_elizabet_070915_this_is_our_table_an.htm

[EFerrari]

46. Last kick before heading out.

Have fun today, people. Enjoyment is a powerful tool for dissent.

:kick:

[Usrename]

47. Nancy, do you hear this? Do you have a soul, a heart, a brain?

ITMFA!

[EFerrari]

48. Link to Hissyspit's pic thread of this action:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x1816844

[WillyT]

49. K & R !!!

:kick: