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By Mike Palecek (about the author)
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For one, it is no good to sit back and watch the game on TV while people are dying under bombs we have paid for with the tax document we put in the mail on our way to the movie store.
That is immoral.
At least the Weathermen cared.
But I have to say that I believe any killing is wrong. Any, anytime. I even think killing pigs and cows for food is immoral and absolutely not necessary. I think the same thing about hunting. Don't get me started about big and dumb guys in orange, padded mittens and caps pulled halfway down their big, dumb ears.
I think that right now we can fight a whole bunch with the dissemination of information. We can fight a pretty good fight by working to expose what the Bush government really knows about 911.
I don't think we really have to think about bombs and guns and packing our CDs and DVDs off to some tree house compound in the Cascades.
If we could have the Democratic Party be The Democratic Party. Or if we could have something boring-sounding like campaign finance reform, and power could not be bought and sold, that would be revolutionary.
Can you imagine going to the voting booth and being able to vote for Nader, Kucinich, Paul - and them having a chance?
Or of having them given a chance to speak to a national audience.
How about having Chomsky, Zinn as commentators on a Sunday morning "press" show?
Or some kind of investigative reporting done these days by the Washington Post regarding 911?
Those simple things would be revolutionary. And our world would be transformed in ways we cannot imagine right now.
Those who make non-violent revolution impossible make violent revolution probable.
Did Big Bird say that? Somebody did and it's probably true.
I would imagine that if we get forced into a corner tight enough, for long enough, that we might see something like the Weathermen reborn in the United States.
That is if nobody has an exercise class scheduled for that day.
Become a Fan -- Page 6 of 8 page(s)
That is immoral.
At least the Weathermen cared.
But I have to say that I believe any killing is wrong. Any, anytime. I even think killing pigs and cows for food is immoral and absolutely not necessary. I think the same thing about hunting. Don't get me started about big and dumb guys in orange, padded mittens and caps pulled halfway down their big, dumb ears.
I think that right now we can fight a whole bunch with the dissemination of information. We can fight a pretty good fight by working to expose what the Bush government really knows about 911.
I don't think we really have to think about bombs and guns and packing our CDs and DVDs off to some tree house compound in the Cascades.
If we could have the Democratic Party be The Democratic Party. Or if we could have something boring-sounding like campaign finance reform, and power could not be bought and sold, that would be revolutionary.
Can you imagine going to the voting booth and being able to vote for Nader, Kucinich, Paul - and them having a chance?
Or of having them given a chance to speak to a national audience.
How about having Chomsky, Zinn as commentators on a Sunday morning "press" show?
Or some kind of investigative reporting done these days by the Washington Post regarding 911?
Those simple things would be revolutionary. And our world would be transformed in ways we cannot imagine right now.
Those who make non-violent revolution impossible make violent revolution probable.
Did Big Bird say that? Somebody did and it's probably true.
I would imagine that if we get forced into a corner tight enough, for long enough, that we might see something like the Weathermen reborn in the United States.
That is if nobody has an exercise class scheduled for that day.
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Mark Clark and Fred Hampton murders
by WML on Monday, Jun 18, 2007 at 5:51:47 PM