It's time to look to the leaders of previous anti-war movements for inspiration.

[StrictlyRockers]

I get inspiration from people like:

HOWARD ZINN:

"We grow up in a controlled society. And so we thought, if one person kills another person, that is murder. But if the government kills 100,000 persons, that is patriotism. And they’ll say we’re disturbing the peace, but there is no peace. What really bothers them is that we’re disturbing the war."


YEAH MAN! Speak it, my brother!

I think it might become time soon to start disturbing the peace again. Or maybe we can get them to listen to us this time before we have to take it to the streets. Are we gonna have to take it to the streets and march? Are we gonna have to dodge stormtroopers and shut down the Financial District for a few days...again?

They call it disturbing the peace. I'm with Dr. Zinn, what really bothers them is that we're disturbing the war.

:headbang:



SR

[ClintonTyree]

1. It's a little tough for some of us to do that now.....

our walkers, electric wheelchairs and oxygen tanks make our mobility a problem. ;) Maybe we can start a Monty Pythonesque "walker brigade" to march (or shuffle) on the White House. That'll show 'em!
Ah, but the mind is still there. The body fails but the mind is still nearly as sharp as ever. More so in some ways. What the hell, I'm up for it. Power to the people! :applause:

[Selatius]

2. And people like Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

This business of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation's homes with orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous drugs of hate into veins of peoples normally humane, of sending men home from dark and bloody battlefields physically handicapped and psychologically deranged, cannot be reconciled with wisdom, justice and love.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Speech at Riverside Church in New York City (4 April 1967)

[EST]

3. Amen.

Two things that seem to be missing and seldom or never heard are:

"Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it," and "Democracy, imposed from without, is the severest form of tyranny."

The second one, heard in many forms in my formative years, has never occured to those in this misbegotten administration and they've never said anything like that in public.

[StrictlyRockers]

4. Hey, those are great! Oh my goddess, I love 'em. More, more!

Ernest Hemmingway:

"They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason."

[lligrd]

5. Where Are The New Leaders??

I have been waiting years for them to emerge. Surely, we haven't used up our supply already!

[EST]

6. You are sitting on one of those new leaders' asses, right now.

When do we start seeing you on TV?

[StrictlyRockers]

7. When can I vote for you?

I'll be your campaign manager.

:)

SR

[lligrd]

8. Hey, I've Been Out There

Unfortunately, when I look back there are no followers. Hey, I am a realist and know enough to know that I am not a leader. (In fact I always encourage people to think for themselves, what kind of leader does that?) Now what about you?