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WHITE ROSE COALITION ACTION
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Cindy Sheehan Joins Activists Planning Impeachment/Pro-Peace Protest at New Year's Rose Parade

Los Angeles - California (December 18, 2007) Local and national pro-Impeachment and pro-Peace American citizens will stage non-violent protests and demonstrations throughout the Rose Parade in Pasadena, California, on Tuesday, January 1, 2008 beginning at 7:30 a.m. with support from Cindy Sheehan and the Camp Casey Peace Institute. The convergence of activists is called the White Rose Coalition, in honor of the resistance movement in Munich in 1942. The White Rose Coalition includes members of the Los Angeles National Impeachment Center (LANIC), CODEPINK, Troops Out Now Coalition, World Can't Wait, ANSWER, Progressive Democrats of America, the Green Party, Veterans for Peace, United for Peace and Justice, and others.

The groups are calling for impeaching George W. Bush and Dick Cheney for high crimes and misdemeanors, and to end U.S. occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan . Rep. Dennis Kucinich [OH] has sponsored two resolutions in Congress to impeach Vice President Dick Cheney: H. Res. 333 and H. Res. 799. He is drafting an extended version relating to President Bush. The patriots gathered on January 1, 2008 will be sending a strong pro-Impeachment and pro-Peace message to this Administration in opposition to the continuing occupations of Iraq, Afghanistan and the growing pressure by Cheney and others to bomb Iran.

"This administration has shredded Constitutional protections and is now apparently planning another illegal military strike, this time to bomb Iran," says Cynthia Mather , a spokesperson for LANIC. "The consequences of such an assault on global well-being and security would be catastrophic," she said. "Congress is obligated to act before it is too late. But the Democrats are not making any move to stop it, so impeachment is our only recourse."

"Numbers of protestors and demonstrators from the various groups could be in the hundreds or in the thousands", said Peter Thottam, Executive Director of LANIC . "We expect this to be a national day of impeachment visibility, with folks joining from all parts of the country. It is hard to gauge how many will show up, but according to the latest MSNBC poll, of 584,000 people asked if they thought Bush had committed impeachable offenses, 89 per cent said yes! There is a tremendous level of anger and frustration out there. I doubt if our politicians in Washington D.C. have any idea just how much."

For more information about the Pasadena Rose Parade action, the Los Angeles National Impeachment Center or for an interview, please contact Peter Thottam at 310-497-7255 or e-mail him at thottam@bcimpeach.com.

PASADENA - Demonstrators protesting China's Olympic float or the Iraq war will not be allowed to disrupt this year's Rose Parade, city police and fire officials said Friday as they unveiled safety strategies for Jan. 1.

"We're all ready, along with our other partners" including the FBI, Pasadena police Cmdr. Paul Gales said outside the Rose Bowl. "Our responsibility is to make sure guests and residents can sit back and enjoy a wonderful celebration of the New Year."

Access to several areas along the parade route will be restricted, Gales said, including the "media corner" where the parade wheels right from Orange Grove Boulevard to Colorado Boulevard. Anyone who plans to play to the bank of television cameras there should "give up" the idea, he said.

Gales said no special measures are contemplated after a shooting in Old Pasadena on Wednesday night that left one man injured in what police said was a drug deal gone sour.

"We feel very comfortable with the things we have in place," Gales said.

Fire Chief Dennis Downs laid out the safety rules for overnight campers on Colorado Boulevard, and said they will be strictly enforced by firefighters and police patrolling the area.

No tortillas, Silly String or marshmallow missiles will be tolerated; no alcohol, beach umbrellas, sofas, tents, shaving cream, fireworks or "obnoxious (plastic) horns that can blast someone's eardrums," Downs said.

Anyone caught violating the rules
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along the parade route will be arrested, he said.

Fire is a constant concern, Downs said, and although "warming fires" are fine for overnight campers along the route to ward off hypothermia, they must conform to strict guidelines. "Or all of a sudden it's not a warming fire - it's a bonfire," he said.

Fires must be in approved safe and stable containers, should be about 12 inches off the ground on a stand such as concrete blocks, and may not be lit within 25 feet of a building, Downs said.

Small space or propane heaters are allowed, Downs said, but he advised anyone planning on bringing any sort of heat to bring a fire extinguisher too. Sleeping bags are particularly likely to burn or melt fast if they catch fire, Downs said.

Gales said the Pasadena police presence will be beefed up by officers from Sierra Madre, San Marino and Irvine.

Parade-goers should trust that police and fire department have planned for any "worst case scenario" over the years, Gales said, advising everyone to "relax" and enjoy the day.

http://www.pasadenastarnews.com/ci_7831024?source=rss_viewed

you can watch the parade online at
http://ktla.trb.com/extras/ktla/roseparade2008/video-live.html

The China float had an escort of men in black .... looked like Blackwater.

Ron Paul sign at Rose Parade seen by a billion people (why didn't the WRC do similar with a sign calling for impeachment of Bush/Cheney?)

http://youtube.com/watch?v=SkB-xBju9sw

http://youtube.com/watch?v=SkB-xBju9sw

http://youtube.com/watch?v=L32vZUsxshE

Ron Paul March:

http://www.warwithoutend.co.uk/zone0/viewtopic.php?t=83073

THE CLOCK IS TICKING ON AMERICA'S LAST YEAR OF FREEDOM


By Greg Evensen
December 30, 2007
NewsWithViews.com

There is not a single person left above ground in America that has not yet had their obituary published, that can admit to feeling positive about the coming months before our next general elections. Out of 280 million American citizens and 20 million illegals occupying space within our borders, we have 20 auditioning professional liars and pretenders willing to say anything to live in the White House. Only one in my view, Ron Paul, holds the minimum requirements to legitimately seek and honestly campaign for the office. He isn’t my guy 100%, but I can live with most of his platform and his character.

Without running through the abysmal list of candidates from all parties again, I will just say that I am embarrassed to think that this list of loud-mouthed, know nothing about anything group of charlatans, believes that they represent me or my fellow disillusioned citizens concerning the sorry state of our nation. Yet, the all-powerful national elites that ultimately control our destinies, believes that you believe these sorry examples of potential “presidential” choices do, in fact, model your desires for national leadership in 2008. That is why Ron Paul is the ONLY choice that has merit worthy of our support.

If Ron is to win, then he must have the support and active participation of every last one of us who holds out the last shred of hope for the future of a free and prosperous America. If Ron loses, it will be because those same Americans who paid lip service to him and even gave money for his campaign, failed to follow through when it came to the vote. It will be for lack of motivation to insist that Dr. Paul be allowed the chance to participate FULLY in the election process that ultimately defeats him. In so doing, the power brokers, the party hacks, the media pundits, and the national managers of America’s future, will be able to lay the Ron Paul failure at the feet of the very people who brought him to the brink of success and then walked away. If, or I should say, when that happens, the ruling class will have called it exactly right. We in the Constitutionalist movement have earned the title “empty rhetoric” whiners for quite some time. There is no reason to believe, and certainly no evidence what-so-ever to assume, we won’t carry on in that same “grand” tradition. Complain, blow and go, promise to do something and then just quit. Because of that performance, we are far worse in our failure to America than are the turncoats who have actually done what they said they would do right from the start. We promised to work to bring America back from the brink and when we had her five feet from rescue upon the shore, we let her drown in a foot of water.

That is what we will do with Ron Paul as well. We will worry about our Republican Party membership card. We will feel jilted when we don’t receive a call from state headquarters asking for a donation for candidates who aren’t worth the powder to blow them to hell. We will try to come up with reasons that seem plausible concerning our vote for such a wasted cause in Dr. Paul. However, we won’t hesitate in rah-rahing for the only hope America has at this point in our history and then voting for Rudy, or John or Hillary………..because WE wanted to feel a part of the big picture.

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That is why the Federal Reserve still issues a debt riddled currency worth nothing. That is why we begin a war every few years, waste our military into the next spending cycle of arms build-ups, and butcher a generation of young men and women for the sake of a few more Memorial Day speeches. That is why our all-powerful America can stand helpless on our borders as we are invaded by a dirt poor army of Mexican and other worldly renegades. That is why we are giving up every last one of our freedoms in exchange for GPS chips in everything we own, machine gun toting SWAT officers and TASER happy assaulting sheriff’s deputies in every community.

We want to be part of the big picture of what America has become rather than a part of what America could still be. You see, it is easier to talk big picture and pose for something far less. We simply are not willing to put in the effort necessary to create a work of art. As a result we are now part of a grand illusion, nothing more. We are to blame. We are the ones who allowed the Patriot Act and Homeland Security to waltz us in to the North American Union without so much as a question asked about WHY we needed this. By what Constitutional authority did our communistic moron leadership in Washington use to justify this “Union?” We can’t even be trusted on our own street corners. Security cameras must hover over every move we make. And stupid, fearful, gullible, “accept the lies for your own good Americans,” think that this Orwellian security is as good as it gets in this life—until you’re the one doing the funky chicken with two electrical probes stuck in your ass.

That is why Ron Paul will lose. That is why Ron Paul won’t even get to the main event. That is why IF, by some remote chance, Dr. Paul does make it through Iowa, New Hampshire and the upcoming marathon primaries, he runs the risk of assassination by the same world class murders that eliminated JFK, Congressman Larry McDonald and others who saw the international conspiracy face to face, tried to change it, and paid the ultimate price for it.

Who will be to blame? You, and me, that is who. As the clock clicks down the moments until our last major stage show for the 2008 elections, remember this. America’s last days of freedom are upon us. Your only chance to make a final, compelling, resounding and history changing difference, is standing in front of you. Walk past the jokers on the candidate’s stage, put down your long white cane, open your eyes and get to work.
We wish you a peaceful, restful and fulfilling new year.
Greg and Liz Evensen

If so, where was she?

The biggest mistake Cindy made was when she back-pedaled on her true statements about her son dying for a war for Israel. She came out with this statement, and then denied it. She had the back-up of Ray McGovern who confirmed this war for Israel under oath. This was her big mistake. She had the media following her everywhere at that time and it would have been a perfect time to educate...

It scares me to see someone like Peter Thottam being praised in an article like this.

I was recently came across a website that encouraged people to donate to his campaign and, true to form, I did some digging and found a LOT of dirt.

For one thing the guy is a convicted criminal, been suspended by the California State Bar, has been fired from numerous jobs [i do not even know if he has even held a stable job based on his resume] and has been jailed numerous times.

I find it strange that people do not conduct basic research on people before the place them on a pedestal.

Most postings I have seen label Mr. Thottam as a "nut" or "anti-semitic". I view him as a travesty to the American political system.

He is running for office in my neighborhood and I encourage everyone to conduct background checks on this candidate before supporting someone as dangerous as him.

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