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“The Trouble With Our State”by Daniel Berrigan
The trouble with our state
was not civil disobedience
which in any case was hesitant and rare.
Civil disobedience was rare as kidney stone
No, rarer; it was disappearing like immigrant’s disease.
You’ve heard of a war on cancer?
There is no war like the plague of media
There is no war like routine
There is no war like 3 square meals
There is no war like a prevailing wind.
It flows softly; whispers
don’t rock the boat!
The sails obey, the ship of state rolls on.
The trouble with our state
– we learned only afterward
when the dead resembled the living who resembled the dead
and civil virtue shone like paint on tin
and tin citizens and tin soldiers marched to the common whip
– our trouble
the trouble with our state
with our state of soul
our state of siege –
was
Civil
Obedience.
Is This Heaven?
by Mike Palecek
Disobey the USA.
That is what I encourage.
Sit down and consider how bad you think things are, our leaders, our lies, our FBI and CIA and CBS, and murdering troops.
And the truth is, it's probably ten times as bad as the worst thing you can imagine.
And now ...
Scooter Libby isn't going to prison.
That part's just fine.
Anybody named "Scooter" should not be put into prison.
Actually, nobody should be in prison.
Prisons and jails are immoral. They are mean and bad and nobody should go there.
You say, well, they are not supposed to be nice.
Well, they are not. And you do not know shit about the world. Go back to your church league softball game.
Okay, maybe I'm sorry I said that.
More likely I'm not.
Go to jail and then come and tell me that anyone should be there.
Or go visit someone you love who is in prison. Then come visit me. We might have more to talk about then.
We are supposed to be intelligent beings. We should be able to think of something else.
Bush said he commuted Scooter Libby's sentence because it was excessive.
Of course, he is a liar. That is a given. When he tells his children it is nice outside they put on winter coats, because "Dad is a fucking liar."
It wasn't. Excessive. Bush gave Libby something and now Libby won't snitch on Cheney and Bush and whoever else.
That's the way it's done.
Just for kicks, what about all the thousands of people in prison right now for marijuana "crimes." For possessing and using a plant that grows naturally. Is there a chance that might be "excessive?"
Anybody in Terminal Island these days for distribution of Coors Light?
Is your headache and memory loss and spousal loss this morning due to ... oh, forget it. Let's move on.
What about these headlines that we have pretty much forgotten, just like the millions of lost souls in our prisons:
• Is it possible that the anthrax attacks were launched from within our own government? A former Bush 1 advisor thinks it is.
ttp://http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/anthraxcoverup.php
• EVIDENCE MOUNTS THAT PAUL WELLSTONE WAS MURDERED!
DID DICK CHENEY GIVE THE ORDER?
Point of View By JIM FETZER
One man's opinion: Evidence indicates that Wellstone crash was no accident
