Should Monticello Let Bush Speak on July 4?

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This came in my morning email and David Swanson posted it in GD, but I thought I'd cross post it here:


Should a war criminal be permitted to speak on the Fourth of July at Thomas
Jefferson's home, Monticello?

The Thomas Jefferson Foundation, a private nonprofit, owns and operates Monticello with a
professed mission of preservation and education.

Call Monticello right now and ask them to uninvite Bush:

[phone].

Then let the Daily Progress newspaper in Charlottesville know that you've done that:

[e-mail]

In Charlottesville on July 4th: Join us for a colorful nonviolent exercise of our First
Amendment rights at 8:30 a.m. at the first parking lot on the right on Rt. 53 just east
of Rt. 20. Or attend the event at Monticello, open to the public.

PRINT FLYER:
http://afterdowningstreet.org/sites/afterdowningstreet.org/files/bushflyerjuly4.pdf

The Unitary Executive is scheduled to disgrace the grounds of Thomas Jefferson's house,
Monticello, in Charlottesville, Va. During a July 4 naturalization ceremony, immigrants
will swear to "support and defend the Constitution and laws of the United States of
America against all enemies, foreign and domestic" at an event besmirched by the
presence of the Constitution's leading domestic enemy. Jefferson's Declaration of
Independence from King George faulted him for harassment by his troops, elevating the
military above civilian power, denying people a fair trial by jury by transporting them
overseas to be tried on false accusations, and other abuses that have been matched by our
current King George. He has claimed the power to ignore laws, to rewrite laws, to adhere
to secret laws, to discard habeas corpus, to spy without warrant, to detain without
charge, to torture, to murder, and to lie the nation into wars of conquest. All
citizens, old and new, have a duty to support and defend the Constitution, a document that requires the impeachment of a president as criminal and abusive as the current one.

Learn more about impeaching Bush:
http://afterdowningstreet.org/bush

For information on the protest, including housing if coming from out of town, call
434-961-6278.

Please bring posters, signs, costumes, banners, props.


I called and left a message protesting. Mr. Jefferson would be turning over in his grave. Bush's mere presence would disgrace the grounds of Monticello. I should have asked if they had gone insane!