Operation Rescue founder Randall Terry, having already passed himself off as an expert on women’s reproductive health, is now a self-proclaimed scholar of Islam, having studied the subject at Hebrew University of Jersulem. In a February 6 article distributed by the Christian Newswire, Terry lambasts the media for not re-running the cartoons about Mohammed that “show the true nature of… return to article
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Reader Comments (6)Page 1 of 1 pagesRandall Terry is one of the major forces of American Clerico-fascism that must be opposed. The article speaks for itself!
Posted by cabdriverinchicago on Mar 8, 2006 at 2:10 AM While we were working in the last week to raise sufficient funds to place the full page newspaper ad in the San Francisco Chronicle before March 18, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors (the city council) voted by a 7-3 margin to support the impeachment of George W. Bush and Dick Cheney. The resolution calls on the Democratic delegation from the city to move for impeachment. The timing of the ad couldn’t be better. Similar resolutions are being offered in city councils around the country. The people must use all avenues to pursue this growing nationwide grassroots movement.
We need to urgently raise $15,000 to finish paying for the next full page newspaper ad. Click here to make a donation today. Each time the ad appears, the impeachment message reaches hundreds of thousands of new people. Many become active volunteers and supporters, and in turn help reach other people in their community, neighborhood and work place. Click here to help to help pay for the upcoming ad in the San Francisco Chronicle.
The impeachment campaign is in full swing
Just last week tens of thousands of people participated in the People’s Impeachment Lobby by sending letters to their Congressional Representatives.
Last Thursday, New York City’s historic Town Hall Theatre in Times Square filled up with people supporting impeachment. The event was sponsored by Harper’s magazine. Many of those in attendance took the ImpeachBush.org/VoteToImpeach.org petitions home with them promising to collect signatures in the coming weeks.
Radio personality Garrison Keillor has just released an article entitled “Impeach Bush.” and actor Richard Dreyfuss called for impeachment, while speaking before the National Press Club in Washington.
28 members of US Congress have now signed on to H Res 635, including US Rep. John Conyers (D-MI), the original co-sponsor. The current 28 total co-sponsors are Rep. Neil Abercrombie (D-HI), Rep. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), Rep. Lois Capps (D-CA), Rep. William Lacy Clay (D-MO), Rep. John Conyers (D-MI), Rep. Sam Farr (D-CA), Rep. Maurice Hinchey (D-NY), Rep. Mike Honda (D-CA), Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee (D-TX), Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA), Rep. John Lewis (D-GA), Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY), Rep. Jim McDermott (D-WA), Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D-GA), Rep. Gwen Moore (D-WI), Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Rep. James Oberstar (D-MN), Rep. John Olver (D-MA), Rep. Major Owens (D-NY), Rep. Donald Payne (D-NJ), Rep. Charles Rangel (D-NY), Rep. Martin Sabo (D-MN), Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL), Rep. Fortney Pete Stark (D-CA), Rep. John Tierney (D-MA), Rep. Nydia Velazquez (D-NY), Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA), and Rep. Lynn Woolsey (D-CA).
Everyone who has been active with ImpeachBush.org/VoteToImpeach.org as a volunteer, activist or donor should be proud. When this movement started, we were confronted by the naysayers who said it couldn’t be done. Bush was tall in the saddle back then. The people who have made this movement come alive didn’t persevere because the issue was “popular.” People have sacrificed to make this movement happen because it is critically important. There was too much at stake to remain passive.We receive letters from people all over the country and they breathe of confidence and conviction. Elderly people and those on fixed income send messages and moving stories, sometimes with a donation of a single dollar bill. A one dollar or five dollar donation from someone on a fixed income can be as great a sacrifice as a larger donation from someone who makes a decent salary or has savings. This a true people’s movement and it can only succeed by everyone showing their support. Click here to help the movement grow.
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Please see below for the SF Chronicle story on the Impeachment resolution.
Posted by brian28 on Mar 9, 2006 at 9:13 AM Published on Wednesday, March 1, 2006 by the San Francisco Chronicle
San Francisco Supervisors Ask Lawmakers to Impeach Bush
by Edward Epstein, Charlie GoodyearSan Francisco’s supervisors jumped into national politics Tuesday, passing a resolution asking the city’s Democratic congressional delegation to seek the impeachment of President Bush for failing to perform his duties by leading the country into war in Iraq, eroding civil liberties and engaging in other activities the board sees as transgressions.
The supervisors, in voting 7-3 for the resolution, made it likely that San Francisco again will become grist for radio and TV talk shows. The city has appeared in the national media spotlight recently for voters’ passage in November of a nonbinding measure banning military recruiters from public high schools and for Supervisor Gerardo Sandoval’s recent comment on a Fox News show that the United States doesn’t need a military.
Supervisor Chris Daly, one of the most progressive members of the board, sponsored the resolution, which also calls for the impeachment of Vice President Dick Cheney. Daly said the measure is justified in light of the administration’s case for and handling of the war in Iraq, the federal government’s inadequate response to Hurricane Katrina and recent revelations about a domestic wiretapping program."I think the case is clear, and I think it’s appropriate for us to weigh in,” Daly said
Posted by brian28 on Mar 9, 2006 at 9:15 AM Terry is a pathetic figure who craves the spotlight — any spotlight. Though he has been an utter failure as a father, he believes he still has the right to tell others how to raise their children and when to have them. Now he is applying the same passion, egoism and and absolute lack of understanding to a religion practiced by 1.3 billion people.
Actual Christians will wince at Terry’s comments, as they will at those of other Christianists, as there is nothing remotely Christlike in his words or actions. I still remember watching a sermon of his in which he mocked and laughed at Freddie Mercury’s AID’s death.
But that will not matter to the Christianists who base their warmongering, racism and hate on the Old Testament, not the New. And it is from that Old Testament, Mr Bleifuss, that your Leviticus quote comes from. The Torah is hardly “Christian scripture.” Next time, a little research, please.
Posted by opeluboy on Mar 9, 2006 at 8:36 PM Aggressive Christianity and aggressive Islam are equally threatening to the model of society in which government power is limited by constitutional provisions and guarantee of citizen rights. They’re as much a destructive influence against democratic ways of living as was revolutionary Lenin/Stalin/Mao-style socialism, and for similar reasons.
Yes, I’m aware that those giants of communism weren’t clones of each other, exactly. However, they all (including today’s theocratic zealots) share a willingness to use brutality, a level of zeal that blinds them to the flaws in the systems they seek to impose, and a habit of associating themselves with a transcendant power ("history" to the communists, “God” to the religious zealots). They all, in their particular times and places, made or are making the claim that their plan for social transformation is the model for maximizing human fulfillment; they share a yearning for utopia, despite the fact that when they’ve been able to achieve power, dystopia has been more the result.
As soon as someone claims to have a transcendant insight leading them to a plan for revolution, look out! They’re hearing the sound of the fantasy inside their heads more clearly than they’re perceiving the costs their revolutions inevitably lead to. They’re lost in their imaginations, and the tragedy is, their rhetorical gifts allow them to inspire, and therefore control, so many millions. Each in their own way are terribly dangerous.
Stick with checks and balances. They’re not infallible and sometimes they fuck up as governing mechanisms, but at least they have a feature for self-correction. Not so revolutionary ideologies seeking to implement the “will” of a transcendant force, whether secular or sectarian. The people who push those ideas consider themselves and/or their program infallible.
Beware of attitudes like that. Blood and suffering ad infinitum…
Posted by Kuya on Mar 10, 2006 at 1:26 AM Ya think Terry or any of his followers have asked themselves how many foetuses have been murdered by our armament in Iraq and Afghanistan? Are some foetuses more equal than others?
Kuya, I see your point about conflict between democracy and extreme religious groups. The less stressed a society is though, the more likely it is to lean toward tolerance and open-ness (sp?), and the more educated a society is, the fewer illiterate people will be taken in by extremist “religious” hucksters.
I agree that zealous ideologies that will use any excuse to justify violence are NOT going to help. People who are hard at work designing the perfect society or offering solutions for every fault they perceive in society are usually too busy to do the work that is necessary to fulfill universal human needs or to deal with existing problems in such a way that they might actually solve a problem without alternating the course of our galaxy.
Those people who think they’re going to rid the world of evil need professional help, and jobs that require very little responsibility and challenge.
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