Posted on 08/12/2008 8:07:57 PM PDT by Syncro
August 12, 2008
by Marcy Winograd –
Nancy Pelosi thanked her host, American Jewish University, proclaimed her support for Israel as a Jewish state, and then talked about the importance of women owning their power – this from the woman who upon assuming her role as Speaker of the House declared impeachment off the table, thus immediately surrendering her power to hold the Bush administration accountable for war crimes.
Midway through Pelosi’s somewhat surreal Know Your Power: A Message to America’s Daughters book chat in Los Angeles, Peter Thottam — founder of the LA Impeachment Center — couldn’t take the small talk and platitudes anymore.
Jumping up, a few seats back from the stage, Thottam shouted, “Who gave you the right to destroy the Constitution and take impeachment off the table? Our First, Second, Fourth, Fifth, and Eighth Constitutional Amendments are being annihilated. 1 million Iraqis are dead. 5,000 Americans, including Cindy Sheehan’s son. We’ve spent over $1 trillion taxpayer dollars on a war that should never have been started. Our constitution is being destroyed, Nancy. Bring back our Constitution… Bring it back …”
Security moved in on Peter, took him away, arrested him and threw him in jail for the night.
Peter Thottam said later that the police officers were sympathetic and agreed about the role of big money in Congress. They agreed that Pelosi and these reps are just tools.
Seconds after Peter’s challenge, I shot up, two rows back from the stage, smack dab in the center of the audience, asking, “Nancy, were you fully briefed on torture? Were you briefed on torture?”
Then came Jodie Evans, co-founder of Code Pink, holding out a copy of the US Constitution, offering it to Pelosi, just in case she missed the repeated mentions of impeachment as a remedy for abuse of power.
Security moved in on Jodie, too, whisking her out of the auditorium at American Jewish University, high atop Sepulveda, just past the 50 protestors who came to greet Pelosi with Impeachment is on Our Table and Out of Iraq Now! and No Attack on Iran! signs and banners.
During Pelosi’s entire book talk, some of us — Sara Nichols, Jodie Evans, Linda Milazzo (shown here), Tighe Barry and I – held up our Nancy books with messages we scrawled in big black letters on the inside cover: “Protect Iran,” “Honor Your Oath,” Impeach!” Hold Bolton and Rove in Contempt,” “Nancy, Torture? Torture? Torture?,” and more about specific articles of the Constitution which called for impeachment. Security personnel whispered, watched us, seemingly unsure of how to respond to this act of subtle, yet distracting resistance.
At one point during her talk, Pelosi, visibly nervous, looked right at us, those of us sitting two rows back, front and center, and told us, almost apologetically, “I was an activist too, I am a progressive, I want the war to end, too. I want to get out of Iraq,” and then, “We need to move our troops into Afghanistan, not Iraq.”
When Pelosi finished, no questions taken, no dialogue allowed, several of us shouted at her, “Use your power, Nancy, to impeach these war criminals. Use your power! Do not be complicit!”
Meanwhile, PDLA Cochair Michael Jay reports that activists from PDLA, Code Pink, The National Impeachment Network, Neighbors for Peace and Justice, and several other groups implemented the Outside strategy, ringing Mulholland Drive and several approaches to last night’s event, beginning long before its start time.
Shadowed by an unusually large police presence and infiltrated by extremely clean-cut fellows claiming to be local “film makers,” activists persevered through the entire book signing with the goal of getting their message in front of the Speaker: The night shot here shows the huge “Impeachment is on OUR table!” banner just moments before Pelosi’s limo was obliged to exit right past it.
by Marcy Winograd
Photos by Linda Sutton, Vice-Chair of Progressive Democrats of Los Angeles
Marcy Winograd is President of Progressive Democrats of Los Angeles and an Executive Board representative to the California Democratic Party.
Peter Thottam said later that the police officers were sympathetic and agreed about the role of big money in Congress. They agreed that Pelosi and these reps are just tools.
Where arew the comments about Russia’s unilateral/illegal/unjust war of aggression? No comments abuot Putin, eh?
Didn’t think so.
That being said, the comments of the cops as well as the moonbats represent the majority of The Sheep.
During Pelosi’s entire book talk, some of us — Sara Nichols, Jodie Evans, Linda Milazzo (shown here), Tighe Barry and I – held up our Nancy books with messages we scrawled in big black letters on the inside cover: “Protect Iran,” “Honor Your Oath,” Impeach!” Hold Bolton and Rove in Contempt,” “Nancy, Torture? Torture? Torture?”
Equal opportunity liberal losers. At least they are concentrating on their own comrades here.
I think the Nancy, torture, torture, torture was a request, not sure.
Oh, I doubt they know about that. If they do, they would support Putin.
He's more aligned with their worldview than a country struggling for freedom.
no, because these people are self-centered.
Peter obviously has not learned rule #1. Don’t talk to the police.
Stupid leftists.
The looney left is attacking one of its looney leaders, and for all the wrong reasons. Loser vs. loser - hard to know who to cheer for.
LOL
Lose-lose for them, win-win for us.
Nice to see the liberal anti-Americans fighting each other.
I like the “Debate Cindy Sheehan” sign.
Kind of like watching the nazis and communists battling for Stalingrad, isn’t it? Unfortunately, one side will eventually win, but there’s a certain perverse satisfaction in cheering for the fight to be as bloody and long as possible, isn’t there?
Could you imagine Barack, Nancy and Cindy is a debate?
What a dufusfest!
Arrested for WHAT? Being a moonbat? Embarrasing an idiot? Speaking without being called on.
If true (and who knows, it's idiot moonbats reporting) I'm outraged. He has every right to heckle that idiot bitch. Hello!! First Ammendment. Assuming he did what is reported: stood up, shouted and her, and left peacefully when the police asked him to there is, IMHO, absolutely NO CAUSE to arrest or jail him.
The Dems act more and more like the Russians every day!!
Democratic socialists? Where have we seen this before?
Vote for Sheehan. Anytime you can knock a seniority red Democrat out of power, do it. I don’t care if you vote for a pig against Pelosi (oh, sorry, Murtha is in Pennsylvania).
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You must destroy the incumbents. The newcomers can’t do anything.
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The Public Record's Alan Breslauer was grabbed by Secret Service and dragged away from the table where Pelosi was signing copies of her book. The Speaker did respond to Breslauer's question, however, saying a vote on contempt charges against Rove is "up to [House Judiciary Committee Chairman John] Conyers."
My, she is slippery!
Indeed.
Jason Leopold? The same clown who wrote the Rove was convicted story?
L0L! its all the usual k00ks!
Nyuk Nyuk... Why I oughta....
The socialists and com-symps love to throw out that number like its gospel.
Its completely untrue, and the animals are killing each other more than the US is.
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