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--That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. —Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain [George III] is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

The Plan for Victory strategy is simple and direct. Below is a step-by-step description of how it will work, followed by a copy of a Pledge in Support of Impeachment.

Step 1. PUBLIC RALLIES - Hold "Plan for Victory" impeachment rallies for mobilizing the movement to impeach the President and his co-conspirators. At the rallies, describe the plan in detail, take questions, and collect pledges in support of a bill to impeach the President. Direct attendees to spread the word to any friends, relatives, and co-workers in support of impeachment, and bring them to the next rally to sign their own pledge in support of the bill.

Note: See text of pledges below.

I want you to think of the best time you have ever had in your life........Got it?

Now, multiply that experience, that feeling, times ten. Multiply it times a hundred, or a thousand. Or ten thousand. Or even more.

March 09, 2006 - Last month, two California anesthesiologists stumbled upon an astonishing discovery at San Quentin prison: Condemned killer Michael Morales is actually a living, breathing human being. Confronted with this fact, the two physicians--summoned to provide humanitarian cover for the profoundly cruel and unusual practice of strapping a man to a table, shoving a hypodermic needle in his arm and injecting a lethal chemical cocktail into his bloodstream--declined to participate in what has become our culture’s most macabre ritual.

Their refusal brought to a halt a rapid string of successive executions some critics are calling the Texafication of California, a tip of the 10-gallon hat to our president’s home state, where state-sanctioned extermination occurs with the regularity of the lunar cycle. Rest assured; the stay will be only temporary. Physicians take an oath to first do no harm to their fellow humans, but society at large adheres to no such principle. Rather, it’s the opposite. Forty years ago, where matters of crime and punishment were concerned, the operative word was rehabilitation. Today, it is revenge.

"For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act?"

– Dante Alighieri (1265-1320) Italian poet

The core group of colonials who birthed this nation gave us a constitutional republic, not a democracy. Whose government is this anyway? It is ours. A government of the people, by the people, for the people. Unfortunately, over the decades career politicians backed by the two major party machines have taken over this republic. It is no longer a government of, by and for the people – it has become a tyrannical government.

The 145 lines of excerpts after this lead-in are included as a summary for those who might actually read that much, but not the complete 614 lines of this final segment.

The concept of property--i.e. ownership--appears to be a fundamental issue in all of this. Webster's first and partial second definition of "property" (reference is http://smac.ucsd.edu/cgi-bin/http_webster?property) is,

1a: a quality or trait belonging and esp. peculiar to an individual or thing . . . 2a: something owned or possessed; specif: a piece of real estate 3: The exclusive right of possessing, enjoying, and disposing of a thing: ownership

"peculiar to an individual" is a rather telling indicator: as mentioned previously, there appears to be a much less developed sense-of-self evident when one reads about people in "primitive" or non-industrialized/civilized human societies. So much of the me-first basis of our society seems founded upon the [exclusive] "right" of possession. Is such a "clinging" approach to existence -- inwardly (holding onto "the past," memory of joy, fear, dread, excitement, sadness, despair, etc.) as well as outwardly -- preventing a more direct, dynamic and creative relationship to and relatedness with life from manifesting here? Isn't creativity needed now more than ever before? A culture based on concepts like property and ownership apparently can become trapped in an ever-widening spiral of self-interest manifesting as ambition, comparison, competitiveness, winners-AND-losers, achievement, greed, fear, jealousy, envy, ruthlessness, success. . . . It would appear such a violent "way of life" paradigm eventually "erases" understanding of the fact of oneness with all of creation and the sacred trust and fact of being the current "caretakers" of a place like Mother Earth.

The following 126 lines of excerpts are included as a summary for those who might actually read that much, but not the 362 lines comprising this second segment.

Whether we realize it or not, the struggle of peoples like the Hau de no sau nee, is really the struggle of all humans to end the mechanical patterns of behavior and conditioning implicit in a system of culture founded on the concept of separation between oneself and the universe in which one lives one's corporeal existence. The concept being alluded to here is that of "the me", which some call the ego, or the self; the "me" which, by its very definition, divides "everything else" into the "not me". It is critical to the continuance of all life on Mother Earth, for humans see the fact of this process of the "me" -- and thus everything else as that which is "not me" being "other" -- and how this divisiveness is the source of fragmentation, and thus conflict, rampant throughout the world. The source of this divisiveness is the way thought works in us, the way we think; thought here is defined in as "the response of memory."

"The World Bank and the IMF make decisions every day that affect the lives of hundreds of thousands of tribal peoples. The tribes are hardly, if ever, consulted. In the last 50 years the World Bank has approved projects that have had catastrophic results for indigenous people worldwide. According to the Bank's own figures, by 1996 it will have evicted 4 million people, many of them tribal"

Oren Lyons is the Faithkeeper of the Turtle Clan, Onondaga Council of Chiefs of the Hau de no sau nee (ho dee noe sho nee), of the Onondaga Nation of the Hau de no sau nee (meaning People Building a Long House). Born in 1930, he was raised in the traditional life ways of the Hau de no sau nee on the Seneca and Onondaga reservations. In 1982 he helped establish the United Nations Working Group on Indigenous Populations where he has participated in the Indigenous Peoples Conference in Geneva, an international forum supported by the United Nations' Human Rights Commission. He is a principal figure in the Traditional Circle of Indian Elders, a council of traditional grassroots leadership of North American Indian nations.

The following comprises a very powerful message given by the Hau de no sau nee (or traditional Six nations council at Onondaga) also called the Iroquois Confederacy "to the Non-governmental Organizations (NGOs) of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland in September, 1977. The Non-governmental Organizations had called for papers which describe the conditions of oppression suffered by Native people under three subject headings, with supportive oral statements to be given to the commissions. The Hau de no sau nee, the traditional Six nations council at Onondaga, sent forth three papers which constitute an abbreviated analysis of Western history, and which call for a consciousness of the Sacred Web of Life in the Universe."

International Consciousness Research Laboratories (ICRL) was established in 1990 as an informal consortium of accomplished scholars, representing three countries and five academic fields, who shared a commitment to collaborative exploration of the role of consciousness in physical reality. Conceived and implemented by the founders of the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research (PEAR) laboratory at Princeton University, ICRL was a natural extension of PEAR's own multidisciplinary approach to the study of anomalous mind/matter interactions.

Thirty-four publications are available for electronic download at this time, along with the "Preamble" to Margins of Reality.
"Consciousness contemplates no more profound or perplexing question than this: what
is its role in the establishment of reality? In one extreme view, endorsed by much of traditional
Western science and philosophy and exemplified by modern pragmatic materialism,
the mind of man is relegated to a passive processor of experience imposed by a totally deterministic
external world—a mere visitor meandering through the grand museum of life. In the
opposite extreme, espoused by numerous and enduring mystical traditions of many cultures
and eras, all experience is presumed to be created by consciousness, so that any tangible
reality ultimately traces to illusion. Between these divergent perspectives there is room for a
full variety of hybrid personal positions, to be formed by some constellation of cultural and
religious heritage, empirical experience, logical reasoning, intuition, and inspiration, wherein
consciousness is allowed some mixture of these passive and active roles—wherein, as Niels
Bohr concluded from the enigmas of modern physics, “we are both onlookers and actors in the great drama of existence.”1"

Requested reprints and technical reports can also be sent to a postal address for a nominal cost to help defray reproduction, printing, and mailing expenses.

Perhaps it is not out of place here to note an important
recent development in scientific thought. Scientists are
discovering a truth Indians have known all along, that
the world is entire and whole, indivisible, inseparable
from us. Note statements such as this: "We have to cross
out that old word `observer' and replace it with the new
word `participator.' In some strange sense the quantum
principle tells us that we are dealing with a participatory
universe. The quantum principle joins participator with
systems in a "wholeness" (Niels Bohr). The universe is
not `out there,' but inseparable from ourselves. A cosmic
community is reinstated. And a sense of cosmic unity runs
throughout the teachings of Indian medicine-men such as
Lame Deer who said "the spirit is everywhere." "Power,"
he says, "is a two-way thing."

-J.A. Wheeler, 1977

The people of the Six Nations, also known by the French term, Iroquois [1] Confederacy, call themselves the Hau de no sau nee (ho dee noe sho nee) meaning People Building a Long House. Located in the northeastern region of North America, originally the Six Nations was five and included the Mohawks, Oneidas, Onondagas, Cayugas, and Senecas. The sixth nation, the Tuscaroras, migrated into Iroquois country in the early eighteenth century. Together these peoples comprise the oldest living participatory democracy on earth. Their story, and governance truly based on the consent of the governed, contains a great deal of life-promoting intelligence for those of us not familiar with this area of American history. The original United States representative democracy, fashioned by such central authors as Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson, drew much inspiration from this confederacy of nations. In our present day, we can benefit immensely, in our quest to establish anew a government truly dedicated to all life's liberty and happiness much as has been practiced by the Six Nations for over 800 hundred years. [2]