Times don't get more serious than this; it is time for the most serious of measures.

Write a real letter to both of your U.S. Senators, and to the U.S. House Member representing your district.

Yes, actually obtain paper, envelope, stamps and a pen and do it, even if you have never done it before. You don't have to make a midnight ride across Massachusetts on a horse; you don't have to take a position behind a split-rail fence with your old musket; you don't have to stand on a scaffold and be brave for your country. But you do have to take action, and this is no time for the e-mail soldier or the mass-mail patriot. A handwritten or printed letter with your signature on it, taking its place on a pile of similar real letters from voters back home, is the one thing you must do if you really care. Then, you must make a phone call to that office to reinforce your impact.

Use your Zip Code to find the local addresses and phone numbers of your Members of Congress at the following link. Don't use the site to send your message, however, as your personally-mailed letter is worth hundreds of such automatically-processed letters because it indicates the intensity of your feelings. Just copy down the local address and phone number for each of your Members of Congress (click on their pictures for that info):

Find your Members of Congress addresses here

What to say in your letter? You don't need to be told what to say. It's already in your heart and mind, so just say it, and clearly demand impeachment.

The U.S. House begins the process through hearings and the adoption of a bill of impeachment. The Senate hears the case. But both Senate and House members need to hear from us now. They need to know that we have no further use for them if they will not stand up for the rule of law and the Constitution they swore to uphold.

Isn't it odd that a fellow can provide such poor administrative leadership that we lose part of New York and a big part of New Orleans, he can get away with leading a nation to war on falsified evidence resulting in the death of thousands of our young soldiers and tens of thousands of people abroad, he can get away with rigging elections and he can get away with destroying the environmental protections for our air and water and wild places, and he can get away with putting people in jail indefinitely without recourse to lawyers or fair judges, and he can get away with reneging on the Geneva Convention and actually torturing people in secret prisons--all of that--and still survive politically, but he can't get away with admitting to a little old felony back home. It will be like sending Capone up for tax evasion, but if that'll work, let's do it. We owe this to ourselves, our children, and the people of the world. Oh, that the Germans in the 1930s were as resolute in standing up for their higher values as we must do now!

Pass this along to your fellow Americans and friends.

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Biography of Doris Granny D Haddock

Born January 24, 1910 in Laconia, New Hampshire, Doris Granny D Haddock attended Emerson College for 3 years before marrying James Haddock. She was awarded an honorary degree from the college in 2000. Haddock worked and raised her family during the Great Depression, and later worked in a shoe factory in Manchester for twenty years.

With her husband, Jim, she helped stop the planned use of hydrogen bombs in Alaska in 1960, saving an Inuit fishing village at Point Hope. The couple retired to Dublin, NH in 1972, where Doris served on the Planning Board and was active in community affairs. She nursed Jim through 10 years of Alzheimer’s disease.

After the defeat of Senator McCain and Senator Feingold's first attempt to remove unregulated "soft" money from campaigns in 1995, Haddock became interested in campaign reform and led a petition movement. On January 1, 1999, at the age of 89, she began a walk across the country to demonstrate her concern for the issue, walking ten miles each day for fourteen months and making speeches along the way. When she arrived in Washington, D.C., Granny D was met by 2,200 people, representing a wide variety of reform groups. Several dozen Members of Congress walked the final miles with her.

When the presumed Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate dropped out of the race days before the filing deadline in June of this year, Granny D – having just completed a more than 22,000 mile voter registration effort directed at working women – surprised everyone by deciding to challenge the incumbent.

She is running on the same message she has walked long for: our nation’s leaders have been corrupted by special interests dollars and no longer represent the interests of their constituents. Her candidacy will prove that ordinary people can run for office and win with the support of small donations from individuals.