Declaration of Intent from the Philadelphia Emergency Anti-War Convention
From actindependent.org
DECLARATION OF INTENT
(A Draft)
Our nation is in crisis. Our Constitution has been shredded. The peace movement has run aground, and impeachment is “off the table.†The war machine continues to trample the will of the people and crush any opposition in its murderous drive toward global domination.
The Democratic Party has betrayed its mandate to end the Iraq War and bring the troops home, exposing the two-party system for the elite corporate tool it is.
We no longer have a free press. Our major media are owned and controlled by the same few corporations that manufacture arms and feed off billion-dollar contracts handed to them by Bush appointees.
Where are the checks and balances?
Where is Government by the People?
Where is the public outrage?
It’s time to demand truth and accountability from our elected representatives. It's time to insist that they answer to the people, not corporate lobbyists or well-funded ideological fanatics.
It's time to eliminate election fraud and ensure that the sanctity of the voting process is never again compromised.
It's time to bring our troops home and stop funding pre-emptive wars of aggression.
It's time to support our soldiers' rights when they refuse to obey unlawful orders.
It's time to resist the curtailment of our civil liberties based on color-coded fear, and to reclaim the rights guaranteed by our Constitution.
It's time to impeach the President and Vice President, based on overwhelming evidence of high crimes and misdemeanors.
It's time to challenge the official account of 9/11 as scientifically and logically implausible, and to demand a new, fully independent investigation of the foundational event for the war on terror, that if exposed, would awaken Americans out of a collective trance of complacency and fear.
It's time to examine the historical, political, social, and psychological roots of September 11—and all false flag terrorism—repeatedly invoked to justify an endless war on terror and virtual dictatorship by the Executive Branch.
We call on all activists and concerned citizens across America to come to Philadelphia on July 4th and present a United Front to reclaim our Government.
We will send a message that will once again crack the Liberty Bell as it resonates across America, in the spirit of freedom, with truth, peace and justice as our honorable goals. We will launch a campaign to stop these wars at their source. And we will prevail.
This is the time for action, not apathy; for union, not division.
This is the start of the Second American Revolution—a new beginning for hope on the planet.
i would add...
that it's time to re-evaluate america's alliances, especially those that can only be sustained by the active subversion of democracy by well-funded and well-organized preesure groups who aggressively target our representatives for their narrow interests that are too often incompatible with America's own. And yes, I mean Israel and its criminal lobby.