It's been a tough week. Screwed by the dems on the Iraq funding, Cindy Quits, our most productive editor quits, the head of a local voting integrity org-- another inspiring bundle of energy and inspiration quits-- This sucks.
When legislators let you down, there is blowback. I don't fault any of the hard working, dedicated activists who have announced they're quitting. Hearts can only run on empty for so long. These people all have hearts that are so big... it's tough when the return is so rancid, as in the case of the Iraq funding vote.
I expect more disgusted, discouraged people will also quit. The Dems, even without the votes to pass legislation in the senate, could have blocked funding in the house. But they were afraid of being labeled, that a principled stand against the war would be spun by right wingers as betraying the troops-- spun by the people who actually ARE betraying the troops.
The dems in the senate and the house who voted for the funding were cowards. Add the F word if you like, to more accurately understand my feelings on this.
But just because these spineless losers sold out their constituents doesn't mean we have to give up. It must galvanize us to work harder to make the changes that we need, because it's not just us. The world, the USA need us to save the future.
It's not going to go smoothly. Some will fall along the way. Some will fall and rest, then get up and get back in the fight.
A normal part of the hero's journey is to get beaten so bad you are close to death. Then, you take some time to reciver, to re-assess your resources and allies, to rebuild your strength. You search within yourself to find further integration of your masculine and feminine energies and you access your higher self. (read about the hero's journey in Joseph Campbell's Hero with a thousand faces) and then you get back on the path.
So... don't give up, get even. Keep going There are more dragons to slay. We will prevail, but the price will be high.
Rob Kall is executive editor and publisher of OpEdNews.com, President of Futurehealth, Inc, inventor . He is a frequent Speaker on Politics, Impeachment, The art, science and power of story, heroes and the hero's journey, Positive Psychology, Stress, Biofeedback and a wide range of subjects. He is a campaign consultant specializing in tapping the power of stories for issue positioning, stump speeches and debates. He recently retired as organizer of several conferences, including StoryCon, the Summit Meeting on the Art, Science and Application of Story and The Winter Brain Meeting on neurofeedback, biofeedback, Optimal Functioning and Positive Psychology. See more of his articles here and, older ones, here.
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Don't want to sound like a broken record on this but anyone looking to get behind a plan to end the war can contact their member of Congress and ask them to support the Gravel United States Armed Forces Withdrawal from Iraq Act.
Democratic Presidential candidate Mike Gravel has a plan that will end the war in Iraq in three months with all US troops home in six.This plan recognizes that under the United States Constitution the power of the Congress is superior to the power of the Presidency.
Mike’s plan is to pass a law in the Congress making the war in Iraq illegal.Failure to comply with the law would be punishable by five years in jail without possibility of parole.The President of the United States is required to follow the law like any other American citizen.
Of course, once the law is passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate, it is likely that President Bush will veto it. Mike Gravel’s plan would call for the Senate and House Democratic leadership, Leader Harry Reid and Speaker Nancy Pelosi, to bring the bill to a vote day after day, 7 days a week, 30 minutes per day, forcing the media spotlight to shine on those Senators and Congressman who are prolonging the war until pressure from their constituents produces a two-thirds majority sufficient to override the Presidential veto.(If the law is filibustered in the Senate initially, the same procedure would apply.)
Mike Gravel is a legislative strategist who served two terms in the US Senate fighting for "unpopular" causes and winning against the odds.He released the Pentagon Papers and successfully ended the US military draft by conducting a five month filibuster in the US Senate.Most other options for ending the war fall into the "do the right thing" category or involve timelines that extend far off into the future.Rather than wait, let’s force our elected representatives to listen to the will of the American people by introducing Mike Gravel’s draft legislation, the United States Armed Forces Withdrawal from Iraq Act, and end this destructive and unnecessary war now.
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SMcNeil (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 8 comments)
on Wednesday, May 30, 2007 at 10:40:18 AM
We as American citizens can come up with all kinds of ideas and plans to help stop the war in Iraq to bring our men and women home. All these ideas and plans can be sent and given to the congress and to the senate and even to the President, But it's not going to matter anymore! Why do you ask? It is plan and simple as this... To all of the Congress...WE elected all of you into Congress believeing you would change this war In Iraq and bring our men and women home. You have failed the American people ,This Country and the offices you took,Our Soldiers and Yourselfs. I beieved in you that you would do the right thing the only thing for our soldiers&American people,You!! All of you in Congress have tucked your little tails like little SCARED puppies and bowed down and gave in to The President and his selfish,heartless ,uncareing needs and wants for this war and even other issues!!! I was proud of the fact that the Democrats got elected into Congress and the Senate but now iam ashamed to know that i wasted my time and my vote on this party. You all of you who are in the Congress and Senate are COWARDS!!!!!!! God Have Mercy On All Of You!!!!!
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Mom47 (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 3 comments)
on Thursday, May 31, 2007 at 6:59:56 AM
What's so is that those who hold the reins of power are just like us... practical and lacking vision. We will only work for and vote for people who we believe are electable, and so the people who might really institute change are not promoted nor electable. Rather than do what really needs to be done, we appease ourselves with making gestures instead... which is to say... proliferating verbiage without an intention to actually do what is needed and would work.
Dear Rob Kall You are right. We should not lose the hope. The time is not far away when there will be peace and happiness in the world. We should keep our hopes high. If the sincere people give up then what will be the future. The voice of brave mother, who has been raising the voice for minimising the suffering of other mothers of world should not die down. There may be some difficulties at the moment, but the victory will be of peace loving peace. Restoration of peace will be a defeat for terrorism. Why we are fighting? I think those who have been putting the lives of people and their own lives for just gaining control of the world are wrong. This is impossible for a man to control the whole world. You are right. Thank you very much for your guidance.
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Muhammad Khurshid (283 articles, 29 quicklinks, 168 diaries, 132 comments)
on Wednesday, May 30, 2007 at 12:36:33 PM
The title of mine is a spin on Hillary's "It's the economy, Stupid" sign that she put up during a Bill Clinton speech. I don't think it's just the war that is the problem. The problem is we haven't done enough to move forward on alternative energy solutions while the war has been fought.
Rather than fight a second war over whether the first war should be stopped, how about demanding a dollar per dollar quip pro quo? For every dollar that is spent on the war in Iraq, a second dollar MUST be spent on alternative energy research and development.
Then when our troops are sent back home, they should be offered first dibbs at some of the jobs that would be created by a huge investment in alternative energy research.
Imagine if we had been able to do the proper R & D over the past four years while we have been fighting in Iraq, we would already be getting the benefit of our own research, instead we have two political sides fighting over when they should stop warring.
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Alessandro Machi (13 articles, 0 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 174 comments)
on Wednesday, May 30, 2007 at 1:33:40 PM
This is maybe for the first time the population of this country realizes that it can ALL be screwed. Before it was always someone else: black people, women, young people, always poor people, foreign people, etc. Now we ALL are screwed. That is certainly a new feeling for an average NRA- member American who thinks that there is a brotherhood of something ( say, beer) and that he will not ever be screwed by the same whities as he is. Less and less can he excuse the situation and blame Jews, Blacks, slackers, etc. Nothing is left but blaming oneself, you know. It sucks, right?
Hey, ask for the promised $5000 per person as one of the Sinclair Lewis's characters yelled at their President- Dictator when he unleashed a war with Mexico.
Folks, we have to acknowledge the truth- this current govt and Congress cannot be asked or demanded anything. They do not serve us. They serve their puppetmasters on 98% and 2%- themselves. They are the most screwy bastards the good US soil ever produced.
But it is a good thing to know that. Wittdraw ALL support of anyone of them, Obama or not. If the voting system still exists- vote for Gravel. Announce the People's Front and work for the Emergency Convention. Approach the Businessmen for Common Sense and ask for one (!) big Newspaper to be fully bought and become a voice of hope. If only one big newspaper starts its mornings with ' Bush the Idiot', it will be such a major thing that we will stop the War ( kidding). And do not ask for anything from those vampires in Washington. They live in la-la-land. In fact, the lines to those idiots should be dead silent. They have no constituents. The country and them are not the same. Spit on them . They do not deserve anything else.
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Mark Sashine (44 articles, 19 quicklinks, 228 diaries, 3254 comments)
on Wednesday, May 30, 2007 at 2:40:57 PM
I quit last month. I'm not famous, I'm just someone who used to care too much. Stalin once said something like "one death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic". For me, a million deaths is a million tragedies. I have been active and protesting since 1969, and I'm just plain weary from wasting my time, energy and emotion. I have no children, so why should I care if we destroy the earth. The parents of the children who will inherit this cess-heap don't seem to care. I have no children to send to war. So why should I keep fighting to stop yet one more war? I know the answers, but I just don't have the strength to fight any more.
I can't watch any real news any more. I can't read about any more pain and suffering. I have tried so very hard to get others to give a damn and it seems I have mostly failed.
For the sake of my own mental health, I give up. I wish the rest of you the best of luck and hope you have success where I have failed.
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SweetE (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 9 comments)
on Wednesday, May 30, 2007 at 2:58:49 PM
Would love to, but in a non-violent way. But the other side is violent. they've built a new Berlin Wall around Heiligendamm and it is there that they will come to a common agreement on Iran and how to extend and expand the terrorism they are responsible for. How do we get even without getting our heads bashed in, Rob ? How do we make rid of e-Voting, Rob ? How do we change the election process so that "USA's laws are changed so third parties are treated equally, and instant run-off voting, or something like it is universally instituted, so people can vote for the party and candidate they want, without their vote being lost", Rob ? How do we get a 3rd and a 4th and a 5th train on those tracks, Rob ?
Wait a sec, wait a sec, I already know the answer ;
"write or call your Congressman"
( neutral noun in nature / includes females ).
TILT ! Game over !
xCuse ME for rocking the boat. I only tried to stand up (many may say).
It really has been a rough week and I hope we've all learned our lessons from it and I for one refuse to label those who choose to shift gears as "Cowards" because THAT is way too far below the royal belt, Rob. The brave and the helpless (reminds me of the Neil Young song, hotdamn, my next Diary entry is come!) reside under one roof.
After all.
Yip.
Remember the Louis Armstrong song "a hole in the bucket" ? Well, imho, that song precisley describes our current situation.
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Tony Forest (4 articles, 10 quicklinks, 117 diaries, 1052 comments)
on Wednesday, May 30, 2007 at 3:17:03 PM
I read the article twice so that's not the issue. Looking at it once again, there's only 3 inches or so between the word "Coward" and Cindy's name so that may have set me off. Sorry, Rob, sorry about that. I had been reading some of the Cindy bashings o'er at dKos prior to this and some of it ticked me off while some of the articles are spot on and objective.
The reminder of my queries still stand. I believe we need to discuss our ways and means of "getting even". If 3rd Ps don't stand a chance of delivering a rememdy, what does ? You'll have to bear with me on this, as a fighter, I need something to focus on and that has been : plugging for 3rd Ps....up to now. The empire will certainly self destruct in the end but a huge portion of impatience has me wringing for a quicker turn around.
As far as my vote goes, I've only once cast wasted a vote on a DemocRat and that was John Kerry. I don't see that as a mistake....we tried. HCPBs appear to be the key to an improved elections system yet, this seems to be as far from possible as anything else we've been fighting for. Absentee ballots remain a very dark area : none of us can ever be certain our ballot is actually opened and counted. This has to change as well.
Interlude : Kate Bush & Peter Gabriel : "Don't Give Up!"
(use dogpile.com to search for the audio file, mp3s are best)
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Tony Forest (4 articles, 10 quicklinks, 117 diaries, 1052 comments)
on Thursday, May 31, 2007 at 2:14:10 AM
The Democrats voted to fund the war -- and that woke a lot of people up as to the true nature of this government and the empire. And it's really waking people that will eventually make a difference. We see many people who have quit the Democratic party, and that's a good thing. If everyone gave up on looking to the duopoly and fearless leaders for solutions then just maybe they would organize themselves sufficiently to creat real solutions. When a huge pimple finally busts open it's messy, but it's a needed stage in healing.
People get tired and quit -- but that's not always bad because after recharging some they often find a new -- a better - direction to work on, and become even more effective. "Failure" can be very productive, if we learn from it. Failure is a necessary part of the process of succeeding.
I forget his name, but there was broadway producer who produced many great hits (he was called 'the father of broadway' -- one of several I think). He said he had a huge number failures (and mostly people did not remember those), and he could not have produced the hits without also having produced the failures.
There were times when I was painting when I couldn't get anywhere -- nothing worked. So I would set out to produce bad paintings and drawings -- things I planned to toss in the trash. Sometimes it got hard to do -- little bits of 'good stuff' would find it's way into the work, but I tossed it anyway: after all, at least I could succeed in making a failed painting. But after a while it got harder and harder, and as I no longer worried about making bad paintings I also stopped worrying about making good paintings, and I found I could make those too. That turns out to be a critical comppnent of art -- you make a large number of things and throw most of out -- but what's left isn't half bad, and the proportion of those grows.
You gotta just keep going.
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Blue Pilgrim (0 articles, 3 quicklinks, 2 diaries, 998 comments)
on Wednesday, May 30, 2007 at 4:12:50 PM
Cindy quits, but all of us (murkan, or no) must keep going
I mean no harm to Cindy Sheehan. Let's face it: We all have our limits. That's WHY we come to earth in human form -- to find out exactly what they are.
Now here's the BUT ... When things were low in Crawford, many native peoples went to Crawford to support her at Thanksgiving. I myself wrote in her defense when her popularity and leadership were in question here in OpEd News. I was gratified a WOMAN had responded to her heart, not her "politics".
This latest shows me how far from that original premise Cindy slid. This is NOT about dem v. Rep; or how silly and regressive the Democratic party really is. They ALL love setting up a hero or heroine to knock them down if it gets in the way of them taking their campaign funds off military contracters and Big Pharma, et al.
Leonard Peltier was NEVER a hero to the dems. Wellstone took up the cause and dumped it just as fast as he could. No pardon was ever given Leonard, and it looks like Mumia is going the same way. These men do not get time off nor do those who toil away at getting these issues re-COGNITION.
Well, we never quit and go home and play "mommy". We cannot dissociate ourselves from real pain, suffering and injustice .. citing how hard done by we are. Personally I have fought "the War on Drugs" and it's various sicknesses since 1991!! I NEVER ever give up. I "fought" the War in Vietnam and choke every time someone says we made no difference. WE MADE A DIFFERENCE.
I hope Cindy puts her armor back on. I hope she quits making silly alliances with those who "use" her and sticks to following her guts and finally real-izes that grassroots efforts are built one stone at a time,nto one "leader" at a time. You cannot undo a REAL grassroots movement.
I hope she recovers her sense of humor, which was always fine, even in the MOST grief stricken moments.
We are fighting EMPIRE. Maybe we will not conquer it, maybe it will fall of its own weight. Maybe it will take more decades, maybe it will take more successive generations to accomplish. But WWII was not the end of a very sick, dysfunctional idea and we've had lots to do to expose it.
My son was in Iraq. He has PTSD. He's been on mainstream TV talking personallly about his addiction and his PTSD attacks. I am proud of him, but I lost alot of him in the past few years, and I have shed many, MANY, MANY tears about it. Yet, I see him now on tape and shed tears of JOY; he's become a REAL warrior.
I have shed tears for the Iraqi, the Palestinian, the Lebanese, those in Dafur women. I blog away nearly each and every day with my truth, what I see and what I hope is seen as KINDNESS. Yet I am seen as The Enemy as I shed light on the denial of the global reality. I am often plagarized or denied credit for what I do. So what..? The work goes ON.
American democracy was founded on the principles of the Iroquois Confederacy, which you would know if you've done your history homework. It WORKED. It can work again. Democracy depends on all of us, but the way to start is to be grateful to our forebears who fought for it .. not those who wanted it to get the cashcows themselves, just swarming the natives to take away the profits from the "Brits". There's just no time to sit around; the planet is asking ALL OF US for help.
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ladybroadoak (37 articles, 20 quicklinks, 12 diaries, 390 comments)
on Wednesday, May 30, 2007 at 4:27:27 PM
I don't know what else to do. I've been fighting the dark-side so long now that it's just force of habit. I have no family, so it just seems natural that I become an old fart bitching at all the wrongs in the world even if it is a fruitless endeavor. Maybe it will look good on my Karma Report Card.
I'm trying to remember the last time there seemed to be a ray of hope. It's been a long time. I think it was when Kennedy was president. John and Bobby's murder snuffed-out a big light. I think we've been fighting an up-hill battle since. And I really don't have much hope for the future but I'll have little to do with that. I certainly feel for those that will have to deal with what's about to happen to our beat-up old planet and the people on it. Even with our best efforts I don't see us being able to overcome the stupidity.
What a shame. It was such a beautiful planet. It will always remain a mystery to me why mankind treated it so badly.
Whatever, I'll still get up tomorrow and grab my rusty old sword and go fight some windmills.
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Mr M (4 articles, 0 quicklinks, 5 diaries, 1056 comments)
on Wednesday, May 30, 2007 at 4:55:37 PM
I think we need to read and understand what is happening. It is not the idea we are quitting, it is the idea we are joining a new plan. We have discovered that the Dems are in disguise Republicans. We have discovered that no matter what we do on the fringes to get the support we need is fruitless with people who we can't count on. What good is it for Cindy to continue her work, when her leadership let her down? Nancy and Harry opted to get a minimum wage increase as a concession to the Iraq War spending bill. I know I would do things different, such as not giving them a bill would accomplish the same goal, but they apparantly don't think like I do.
So we have learned that the party system is not true democracy but a hijacked one. This is all good news for Mike Gravel's cause and I think it makes him a brighter choice for the people when election times rolls around again.
All I can say folks is if we get another stolen election, and for some some god forbidden result we get another Republican to carry on the Iraq Occupation, we are in for some major fighting in Domestic USA.
If we can't choose leaders to end occupation in S. Korea and Japan after all these years, I think holding our breath as if quitting is never going to work. All I know is we are not quitting, but are moving on to better plans that will change this bad situation in our country. Rob you didn't lose an editor. You gained an opportunity. We didn't lose Cindy. We gained a new direction. We didn't lose the Iraq debate, we gained an opportunity to oust Pelosi, and Reid for people who stick to their promises.
We are bright people...we know what's going on.
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Dom Jermano (20 articles, 0 quicklinks, 40 diaries, 934 comments)
on Wednesday, May 30, 2007 at 6:15:16 PM
When Clinton-Gore won a lot of us who fought Reagan-Bush went home and focused on career and families. That's what I did. The Dems won Congress in 2006 and there was bound to be people who let up to rest. That's OK. Only this time, I'm not going home. I'm here to continue to fight, as one put it aptly, the empire.
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Jackson Thoreau (25 articles, 0 quicklinks, 12 diaries, 20 comments)
on Wednesday, May 30, 2007 at 6:33:35 PM
Castro was thinking the same thing I think. The right wingers are wearing us down but we have a worthwhile message. The world can be made better! Bush is wrong, ideas can not be killed.
IDEAS CAN NOT BE KILLED
I am not the first person whose death George Bush has anticipated, nor will I be the last.
By Fidel Castro
0530/07 “The Guardian”—-- A few days ago, while analysing the expenses involved in the construction of three submarines of the Astute series, I said that with this money “75,000 doctors could be trained to look after 150 million people, assuming that the cost of training a doctor would be one-third of what it costs in the United States.” Now, along the lines of the same calculations, I wonder: how many doctors could be graduated with the one hundred billion dollars that Bush gets his hands on in just one year to keep on sowing grief in Iraqi and American homes. Answer: 999,990 doctors who could look after 2 billion people who today do not receive any medical care. More than 600,000 people have lost their lives in Iraq and more than 2 million have been forced to emigrate since the American invasion began. In the United States, around 50 million people do not have medical insurance. The blind market laws govern how this vital service is provided, and prices make it inaccessible for many, even in the developed countries. Medical services feed into the gross domestic product of the United States, but they do not generate conscience for those providing them nor peace of mind for those who receive them.
The countries with less development and more diseases have the least number of medical doctors: one for every 5,000, 10,000, 15,000, 20,000 or more people. When new sexually transmitted diseases appear such as Aids, which in merely 20 years has killed millions of persons - while tens of millions are afflicted, among them many mothers and children, although palliative measures now exist - the price of medications per patient could add up to 5,000, 10,000 or up to 15,000 dollars each year. These are fantasy figures for the great majority of Third World countries where the few public hospitals are overflowing with the ill who die piled up like animals under the scourge of a sudden epidemic.
To reflect on these realities could help us to better understand the tragedy. It is not a matter of commercial advertising that costs so much money and technology. Add up the starvation afflicting hundreds of millions of human beings; add to that the idea of transforming food into fuels; look for a symbol and the answer will be George Bush.
When he was recently asked by an important personality about his Cuba policy, his answer was this: “I am a hard-line president and I am just waiting for Castro’s demise.” The wishes of such a powerful gentleman are no privilege. I am not the first nor will I be the last that Bush has ordered to be killed; nor one of those people who he intends to go on killing individually or en masse.
“Ideas cannot be killed,” Sarría emphatically said. Sarría was the black lieutenant, a patrol leader in Batista’s army who arrested us, after the attempt to seize the Moncada Garrison, while three of us slept in a small mountain hut, exhausted by the effort of breaking through the siege. The soldiers, fuelled by hatred and adrenalin, were aiming their weapons at me even before they had identified who I was. “Ideas cannot be killed,” the black lieutenant kept on repeating, practically automatically and in a hushed voice.
After the Dems caved to George Dubya on Iraq I, myself, felt defeated. After reading several comments to your article here I realize that I do have the strength to keep fighting.
I don't blame anyone for wanting to try to resume a 'normal' life at this point. It's been a long hard fight.
Will we persevere? I do hope so.
Troubled Texan
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TroubledTexan (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 89 comments)
on Wednesday, May 30, 2007 at 9:30:42 PM
This New 9/11 Information Might Help America and the World
If people would distribute this new paper (still under construction) by Dr Judy Wood, former Professor of Mechanical Engineering, it might assist in taking back our country.
Her new paper is very revealing as to what really happened at the WTC on 9/11:
...about this pathetic episode in American history is how completely stupid the Democrats are!
I expect more disgusted, discouraged people will also quit. The Dems, even without the votes to pass legislation in the senate, could have blocked funding in the house. But they were afraid of being labeled, that a principled stand against the war would be spun by right wingers as betraying the troops-- spun by the people who actually ARE betraying the troops.
This is the point I don't get. The Democrats are supposedly lovers of the public opinion poll. They had to have known that America WAS behind them in this fight. With the DUBYA regime coming apart at the seams, with the public tide obviously against the war, and the fact that DUBYA's support is below thirty percent, it was a safe bet for the Democrats to continue to make their point. When you add the fact that the money wouldn't have become a real problem until midsummer, congress had everything to gain and nothing to lose by standing their ground.
They are cowards! Not only are they cowards, their relatively short time in DC has indoctrinated them with the same social ills that afflict their republican brethren: hypocrisy, arrogance, and self-absorbed stupidity.
I don't blame Cindy for getting out of the game. I don't blame anyone who gets out of the way of the juggernaut that is politics. It's a dirty game, and some people are ruthlessly efficient at it.
I do, however, blame the Demo-cowards in congress. You had better take in a good view of your office. You won't be seeing it when the next congressional elections come around!
Blessed be! Pappy
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Pappy (61 articles, 0 quicklinks, 11 diaries, 863 comments)
on Thursday, May 31, 2007 at 1:55:09 AM
emgscot51 spoke for me. When I discovered that the Democrats are on the Repub side and betrayed us all, I too dropped out (pretty much). I have been gung ho during the whole bush time frame. It hurts bad to read what the bush administration has done and is doing. Future looks bad. Like Leonard Cohen's "Future". I've seen the future and it is murder. He also wrote a good election song "Everybody Knows".
Carry on,
Aimee
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Aimee (0 articles, 2 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 113 comments)
on Thursday, May 31, 2007 at 10:23:52 AM
I was on Cindy Sheehan's mailing list and below is the response I sent her just weeks before she announced she quit. Now I have no delusions that I convinced her to quit, but I still find it interesting that she did only shortly after my message to her. BTW, I still stand by my message. Unless we can somehow organize and get regular access to the mainstream media - then we are done. nothing short of illegal and violent activity is going to break the hold that the Republicrats have on our country. And I'm not calling for that; I'm just stating my opinion. (p.s. emgscot51, ditto what you said for me too.)
While I admire and respect you - I don't want to hear anymore about the evil that our gov't does and the evil that these men and these corporations do - because this has become largely a waste of time - it's a waste of my time - and it's mostly a waste of your time. I don't need to know what else this bastards are up to because I'm already convinced that they deserve the death penalty for their crimes or at the very least several hundred lifetimes in prison - and I've already done all that I can do and I'm still doing all that I can. I've produced websites, and videos (to spread information), I've signed dozens of petitions, I've sent letters to congressman, I've written letters to the editor, I've protested - you name it, if it's legal, I've done it - and all of this effort is now virtually stagnant and it amounts to a hill of beans if it doesn't reach the general public. The general public: That's what you need to be concentrating on. And that's what I would be concentrating on if I had any damn money to do so. Anyhow, I wish you the best of luck. I will send you a donation when I can, and in the meantime, please take me off of your mailing list. I don't want or need to hear any more.
(The following was not in my letter to Cindy, but I would like to add this: Can you folks imagine the uproar and the publicity that would ensue if my videos were being advertised in the mainstream media? If you have seen my videos then you know that it would become so huge that even the forces controlling and manipulating the MSM couldn't stop it. And I am by no means the only producer with videos like this - so why in F'ing hell hasn't some philanthropist or some group stepped up and advertised something like this in the mainstream media? This really irks me and I just don't get it.)
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RCG (3 articles, 0 quicklinks, 3 diaries, 352 comments)
on Thursday, May 31, 2007 at 11:42:35 AM
