This is a rush job so that folks can view and comment on the video from the Impeachment Teach-in that was held at the Forum Theater in Binghamton on Saturday October 13. If you wish to leave a comment, click on the comments link below the post.
A fully edited and produced video, with improved video and audio, will be available from True Color Video on DVD presently.
This video is over 2-1/2 hours duration, but it is truly streaming video, meaning that you can jump to any part from the pull down chapter menu on the bottom right of the player without downloading to disk. Apple’s Quicktime 7 is required. Data rate is about 300 kbps, so this should stream on most broadband connection.
A poll on the issue of the censure resolution vs. impeachment will be put on-line soon. Please do leave your comments here.
3 responses so far ↓
1 Wilton Vought // Oct 15, 2007 at 5:56 pm
I was the videographer on this project. I will soon have a page on my website whereby you can order the DVD. The website is http://www.me2utube.com.
2 Cris // Oct 16, 2007 at 3:38 pm
“III. For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.”
It’s a good thing that Dan Lamb dropped the term “equal” when applying Newton’s third law of motion to the political circumstance of bringing an impeachment motion forward. Else, all politics would come to a standstill by the logic of his metaphor! Regardless, I don’t think the metaphor is at all apt, though I do appreciate Dan Lamb’s effort to get us to consider the political implications of getting what we ask for. But having said that, I still can’t resist playing with the metaphor.
From Newton’s third law, the law of conservation of momentum is derived. This means that if we hurl our light weight missiles at the massive ship of state, they will rebound back at us while changing the direction of the ship imperceptibly. So, why bother?
The reason the metaphor of physics is not apt is that it disallows any transformative process. This is what many of Maurice Hinchey’s constituents, who have been counted as his strongest supporters, are looking for. No one believes it to be without peril, but the failure to at least call for an investigation into the possible impeachment of the president and vice-president –the consequences of inaction– brings with it certain peril for our Constitution, our rights and separation of powers.
Dan Lamb turns that argument on its head, raising the specter of an ‘impeachment dividend’ that would give the Bush administration totally unrestrained power were an impeachment resolution brought forward for a vote and rejected by a large margin. How worse can it get? Well, what is the sense of any of this discussion if the Democrats are going to capitulate *before* the elections, for the terms for the next four years are being set now mostly by the Democratic party.
I appreciated John Nichol’s time table for looking at the situation in Iraq: One innocent Iraqi dies every ten minutes, one US soldier dies every ten hours and $2 billion of our national treasury is squandered every ten days.
If Dan Lamb is right, perhaps our only recourse is a coup by young military officers to remove the tyrant and restore democratic rule. I don’t have much faith in that scenario. It may seem absurd, but so is the supposition that only by appeasing the administration can Congress check its powers.
Despite their egos. politicians have been known to change their minds upon finally seeing the writing on the wall.
Dan Lamb, representing Maurice Hinchey’s take on this matter, hopes that through a censure resolution, more in Congress will get on board. Many of us are not convinced. An impeachment preocess –however far along it gets– is, as John Nichols sconcludes, the best way to ensure that there will be a meaningful investigation of the administration’s high crimes, misdemeanors, and other illegal and despicable acts.
3 John // Oct 17, 2007 at 12:30 am
Here the video clip of Elizabeth de la Vega on the Colbert Report:
http://www.ifilm.com/video/2804018/show/17677
Leave a Comment