August 27, 2007 (LPAC)--Forty supporters of the LaRouche Political Action Committee attended a rally of about 2,000 in Newark New Jersey last Saturday, Aug. 25, sponsored by the People's March for Peace, Equality and Justice. The LPAC contingent led the spirited crowd - and the speakers - to focus on the urgency of the impeachment of Dick Cheney. Rep. John Conyers (D-Mi), chairman of the Judiciary Committee, which is responsible for initiating impeachment proceedings, was the keynote speaker, primarily addressing his bill for universal health care coverage, HR 676. The LPAC supporters had a banner reading "For a Healthy America, Impeach Cheney," while the rally was full of other signs calling for impeachment and the end of the Iraq war.

When Rep. Conyers spoke, he asked the crowd: "What should I do?", and was greeted with a chant launched by LPAC of "Impeach Cheney." He said he would meet with supporters later on that question, and gave his presentation on health care, but came back later to the question, "What should I do?", with the same enthusiastic response of "Impeach Cheney!".

After his speech, Rep. Conyers spoke with LPAC's Lynne Speed for about ten minutes, with a crowd of rally participants gathered around. He said that there was not enough support yet in the Congress for impeachment, but Speed insisted that he had the overwhelming support of the population, and that, like Martin Luther King, if he took the lead, he will get the needed support.

Speed suggested that an impeachment drive in the House would force Republicans to demand Cheney's resignation, as happened with Nixon (where Conyers also played a part). Ironically, Rep. Conyers answered that "These guys won't resign - we can't even get rid of Gonzales!" (Gonzales resigned this morning.)

Rep. Conyers warned that there could be terrible consequences if an impeachment proceeding were unsuccessful. When Speed asked: "What will they do? Start a war? Destroy the economy?", there were smiles all around.

Rep. Conyers said he wished he was as confident that the support will be there. Speed suggested that he adopt the optimism of Amelia Boynton Robinson, the civil rights heroine of Selma who now speaks for LaRouche's Schiller Institute around the world. Rep. Conyers knows Amelia well, as he stayed at her house in Selma before the second march from Selma to Birmingham.

The LPAC organizers sensed that the rally crowd was not the normal demoralized old boomer leftists found at most anti-war rallies, but was inspired by the LaRouche movement's leadership in tying the political and strategic crisis to the economic disaster, and the FDR-solutions proposed by LaRouche to solve the entire problem. Over 500 pieces of LPAC literature were distributed to participants.