[editor's note, by Kevin Gallagher]better link to photos
http://albums.photo.epson.com/j/AlbumIndex?u=4174492&a=31907883&f=
A Call for Impeachment
Anti- War rallies have become almost a ho-hum affair these days, a meeting place for like minds to gather in the hopes that someone will notice, that it will make a difference, that maybe a few unlike mind Politicians will wonder if they are making the right moves to get re-elected. Instead no one seems to notice; the various news Medias could care less and dont report it or worse yet barely report it and vastly under play the numbers in attendance.This weeks rally in Washington D.C. was definitely plugged in. The mood had changed.
There was fierceness to the crowd that I have not seen since the pre-war rallies that I attended in NYC. Yea the media played the same game, tried to make it invisible, under counted the numbers, but it didnt matter. Impeachment was in the air. This was the first time I saw cries from the podium through a microphone calling for Impeachment of the President. Sure Ramsey Clark and http://impeachbush.org/ have been calling for this since the war started but Saturday in Washington this was the rallying cry of the demonstration. Others in the crowd took it further than the speakers with many signs calling for trials for Treason. The pot is starting to boil now. Why impeach Bush when you will be left with Cheney? Hell yes try them all for Treason.
Notable was the increase in older senior citizens and teenagers amongst us just as vocaljust as indignant. Bush being out of town was understood to be because we drove him out of town for the day. An announcement that train loads of protesters from NYC were stuck at Penn Station in New York because of an electrical Power problem was met with righteous indignation, surely Bloomberg shenanigans. The March started impulsively long before the speakers were done. People just moved onto the streets and started to walk toward the White House. I started at the beginning, when I reached the end people were still forming to start the march. Go figure how many people that was jammed into wide Washington streets for 3 miles.
For my images of the Rally go to :
<http://albums.photo.epson.com/j/AlbumIndex?u=4174492&a=31907883&f>