ImpeachForPeace.org at the MN Rennaissance Fest - a fun tale w/pics! [View All]

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Flyer: http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/14117
Event summary: http://impeachforpeace.org/events/rfest.html

We spent the evening before Labor Day (September 4th, 2006) preparing a special flier (shown above), putting Renaissance costumes together, and fashioning signs. The next day we traveled to the Minnesota Renaissance Festival and arrived somewhat later than we had intended — at around noon. We were working on a minimal amount of sleep, but we were determined to remind people that impeachment remains timely and crucial to our democracy — and have some fun in the process.

We both wore signs reading "Impeach King George." One of us had a "Stop the Crusades" sign and the other had a "Restoreth Due Process" sign. We walked all over the Renfest many times, passing out our fliers and calling out for Bush's impeachment in the most Elizabethan manner we could muster. This meant speaking about the country as if it were a monarchy and a kingdom, as well as using phrases like "bloody hell" and "by jove" a lot. It also meant using accents, which (due to our somewhat dubious acting skills and general silliness) shifted between upper and lower class English accents, morphing once in a while to Scottish and Irish accents, and even changing once or twice (strangely) to Australian accents.