Why a Constitutional Initiative?

There is the question that should have been asked the other day. I didn't ask it and now I am. I will even take a page out of Dennis' playbook and ask and answer the question myself. I hope not just for my own edification either.
The question is: What was that Constitutional Initiative about on Sunday night? Why was that station in Manchester packed that night and what were people there to hear?
Having attended a few of these initiatives, I can tell you that the one thing that always stands out for me is how vital this document is and must be if we are to continue with a rule of law of any kind that means anything for all of us. The ability to pick and choose just what he would like to obey today and what he would like to ignore today as being legally binding is not a choice anyone sworn to uphold it can make.
Thus when we say that we want our troops out of Iraq or we want to end the Patriot Act or we want to have universal, single-payer, not-for-profit health care, we are also saying we want to see the gentlemen who are not upholding their oaths brought to the Congress for the Impeachment hearings they so justly deserve (as do we) so that they can be held accountable for their crimes.
It is my belief and not the campaign's stated policy that without impeachment none of the other things can get done. When these crimes are allowed to go unpunished we forfeit the one redress we were given in the Constitution to end an illegal government's reign. Or rather to redress the illegal actions of representatives of our government.
Thinking of that one possibility given to us, we must seize upon it. There is no time like the present to do that.
Write, call, spread the word.
I am up on my soapbox today about this. I woke up thinking about it and will be writing about it until we get some action in the Congress as we are entitled to when there is a bill sitting in the Judiciary Committee.
Make it known how you feel about this and about all elected officials who will not act on it.
Keep March 19th, the fifth anniversary of the beginning of the illegal war in Iraq, marked in your calendar. Actions will occur and you can be a part of it.
When you and I act, things happen.
When people talk about the constitution as a living document, not in the sense that originalists mean it, i.e., with an agenda to fulfill, but in the way that those who understand what its real importance is--to guide the country in its making of laws.
Let's say that the nation is waiting for this kind of change, that means a return to what matters rather than this constant listing towards disaster.