Enough is enough. I'm a new diarist on this site and my ability to post up works of art like OPOL, among others, produce here, is not up to snuff.
But I believe it is time to produce our own surge. It is time to Shut the M_________r down. Again.
I hope we have reached a tipping point. I hope that people with more free time, and organization talent than I, will step up and dust of the Mobilization against the War. We are burrowed into the system now. We are running the banks, the schools, we are the infrastructure now. The machine will not work if we put the brakes on.
Ladies and Gentlemen, I believe it is time to go into the streets. Non-violent, non-cooperation. Lets us pick a day, a time, and some cities around the country and let us rally and let the world know that this war needs to end, and it needs to end now.
Let's go. If not us, who? If not now, when?
Ethics and Morality now require us to act, and act in unison.
My parents generation fought a war, my generation stopped one. It's time to stop another one, and we know how to do it. We have a chance to save our country and the world from another stupid horror and it is a chance to show new generations how foolish an undertaking is war. And don't get me wrong, if someone 22 years old can organize this, I'll gladly fall in step behind them.
We did it 40 years ago, and even then there were gray hairs holding signs from the resistance to WW1. There are plenty of us boomers to kick this thing off. Tell me when and where and I will bring my friends. Sacramento, San Francisco, Chicago, D.C.
Mario Savio, rise up and lead us again:
"There's a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part, you can't even passively take part, and you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop! "
Albert Camus, the Rebel:
What is a rebel? A man who says no, but whose refusal does not imply
renunciation. He is also a man who says yes, from the moment he makes his
first gesture of rebellion. A slave who has taken orders all his life
suddenly decides that he cannot obey some new command. What does he mean by saying "no"?
He means, for example, that "this has been going on too long." "You are
going too far." or, again, "there is a limit beyond which you shall not go."
In other words his "no" confirms the existence of a borderline.
I have been watching how the blogosphere is driving the agenda, the MSM, this site in particular is becoming feared now.
What if all the leftist blogs worked together on one day of national non violent protest?
I was on the UCLA campus and was part of what happened there the days after Kent State. I went to UCSB and studied with the students that Reagan's national guard beat up. Kevin Moran was shot dead. The peace protesters I knew then were not afraid of sacrifice in a cause, it just had to be the right cause. With Bush's latest call for a surge, I have come to believe that stopping this horror is now a moral imperative.
A few pictures of the sort of action I believe we need to create, one more time.
http://www.rocklandaction.org/...
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/...
http://www.humanities.mcmaster.ca/...
Once more into the breech.....