The march of the madder'n hells

[dweller]

By Mark Drolette

June 25, 2005—All right, I think the choir's been preached to long enough.
Let's get out of the pews, start spreadin' the news, and reclaim our country
already.

It's time to march on Washington. (As in the District of Columbia. If you end
up in Spokane, don't blame me.)

I've often wondered what the fascist Republican bleedership would do if, say,
about a million of us showed up on the Capitol Building and White House
doorsteps one day a tad cranky. With sore feet, no less.

But, ya know what? I'm tired of wondering. I'm also tired of a few other
things, like hearing that honesty is "over the top" or how views held by half
this nation's citizens are "out of the mainstream"; of patronizingly being
called a member of a "focus group" while trying to prevent an unprovoked
invasion and subsequent occupation that have, just as predicted, killed tens
of thousands and cost billions; of watching the American corporate media
give the backhand and the back pages (if any) to news of genuine
consequence; of how exercising one's First Amendment rights to question
an insane war is unpatriotic and "endangers our troops"; of how having a
lying, blithering idiot playing president is somehow a good thing; of how
torture is okay as long as we do it; of having fewer rights than a corporation;
of being labeled a loony for arriving at the obvious conclusion that voting was
fixed in the last (s)election (at least); of hearing Republicans call "frivolous"
voluminous documented cases of voter intimidation and vote suppression; of
the administration regularly shoving reports and information down the
memory hole; of being tagged an anti-Semite for having the temerity to
suggest U.S. coddling of Israel and support of its brutal subjugation of the
Palestinians is simply unacceptable; of how people are poor only because
they choose to be and of how the rich have no moral obligation to help them
and, by extension, improve our society; of how necessary it is to destroy our
Constitution to protect it from those who supposedly want to destroy our
Constitution . . .

http://www.onlinejournal.com/Commentary/062505Drolette/062505drolette.html

dp

[ixion]

1. nominated...

speak truth to power. :applause:

[dweller]

2. just one more nom

to keep this outa the memory hole...

:kick:
dp

[Beam Me Up]

3. If you aren't OUTRAGED, you are not paying attention!

I'm almost 60 years old. I've lived through the Sixties and the Vietnam war. Lived through the assassination of a President, his brother and a great leader of racial equality. I've lived through the Nixon presidency and resignation, the Ford presidency, Reagan presidency and Bush 1. Decade after decade I become more and more angry at the direction this country is being taken by those WHO OUGHT TO KNOW BETTER. Those who have the wealth and privilege to WORK FOR A MORE JUST, EQUITABLE AND HUMANE GLOBAL CIVILIZATION. But what I've seen is a sometimes slow and sometimes fast but always seemingly irrevocable MARCH TOWARD FASCISM.

And the WORST OF THE WORST has been the usurpation of our Federal Government and the National Security State apparatus by PNAC STRAUSIAN NEOCONSERVATIVES, Halliburton B&R, and the whole MILITARY-HYDROCARBON ENERGY AXIS OF EVIL!

:mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:

[byronius]

4. I'm in. We need it. If just for our own mental health.

[MichiganVote]

5. Need sometime when they are in session and people can get off work

What are you going to call it?

[Goldeneye]

6. Damn...school's started up again by then.

It's a tuesday too, so those of us living farther away don't really stand much of a chance of being able to get away for as long as he's talking about. I wish we could try for the earlier date.

* Why September 6? Well, that's the day Congress gets back from its five-weeks long summer break. (Nice work if you can get it, huh? If interested, apply to Diebold, Triad, or ES&S.) I just figured it'd make more sense if those to whom we present our demands are actually there when we present them. Congress is also in session from July 11 through July 29, but that may not give us enough lead time. (Then again, I don't think the Ukrainians or Bolivians needed a whole lot of advance notice.)

[dweller]

7. you'll have to pull a weekend shift then

:)

it sounds like the idea is to keep going with bodies in place until recognition is guaranteed in Congress, media, etc. And certainly others will join in as events unfold.

of course, the writer said he was open to suggestions, i've heard a date for Sept 24 floated out there, hopefully this will come together.


dp