Getting Mike Gravel's Irish Up

[babylonsister]

Taking It To The Streets and Getting Mike Gravel's Irish Up

As a veteran of justice and peace marches, my estimate is that 3,000 concerned justice and peace patriotic Americans and 50 counter demonstrators took it to the streets of Orlando on a humid overcast Saturday. A comrade from the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation and a member of the Steering Committee of United for Peace and Justice, Omar Masri, American Lebanese, kicked off the happening and roused the crowd, "I f-----g believe in peace! 70% of Americans say NO more occupation of Iraq, bring back the troops! Power to the people and we will not be silent! End the occupation now!"

Mike Gravel, Alaskan Senator from 1969-1980, who successfully filibustered against the draft and played a key role in the release of the Pentagon Papers was also the very first candidate to announce his running for the next President of the U.S.A. This reporter met Gravel for the first time in D.C. last November at the first conference of progressive Christians speaking out on the Crossleft web site http://www.instituteforprogressivechristianity.org we got along just fine then; but I got his Irish up just before the March actually began.

While on stage, Gravel admitted, "You bet I am angry! If you have a heart you would be angry too!...It boggles the mind how one human being can kill and dismember another's body and Congress sits in their air conditioned office and says it's just Foreign Policy {when} its murder!

"Our education system is in the toilet, our tax system is corrupt and our infrastructure is tumbling and we consume more energy than anybody else! The U.S.A., the great free country has imprisoned six times per capita more than Hitler had in prison in 1938!

"I don't have any power now; I don't know if there was a conspiracy in 9/11, but if I am elected president I will use subpoena powers and have a Commission {to investigate} and will put their butts in jail for perjury! Bush, Cheney and all down the line- we should be impeaching them right now! We made a mistake when I was young by not putting Nixon in jail!

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[Annces]

1. He is 100% correct

I like righteous anger when it is on another's behalf.

[Basileus Basileon]

2. Crazy, but entertaining.

"…Corporate censorship; NBC; war profiteers are trying to silence my voice…GE is the largest member of the Industrial Military Complex and they picked on the wrong guy! I will not be silenced!"

Then, the blogger/reporter, not wanting to be out-crazied, says:

I will not be silenced either...Why don't you talk about how forty years ago the USS LIBERTY was targeted and our sailors were cold bloodily murdered by Israel and the survivors were told to shut up by our government, threatened with court-martial and worse?

Yep. Rational discussion all about.

[iamthebandfanman]

4. crazy like a fox. n/t

[Peregrine Took]

7. Only the finest among us are called "crazy" by their opponents. Its a

cheap trick we've heard before. Yawn....move along...

[Basileus Basileon]

8. They called Einstein crazy.

They also called the homeless guy yelling at cars crazy.

There are a lot more homeless guys yelling at cars than there are Einsteins.

[sicksicksick_N_tired]

3. I can't help it. I like him a lot. I have since he threw himself into the arena.

I even have the post-it still on my monitor: "GRAVEL POSSIBLE PRES"

[izquierdista]

5. Irish?

How does a French Canadian get his Irish up?

[babylonsister]

6. It's an expression. nt

[scarletwoman]

9. I love the man without apology. And I want what he has to say to be heard!

Thank you for posting this!

sw

[RB TexLa]

10. getting his Irish up? I guess if he had been dancing to some R&B he would have said he was getting

his <insert stereotype here> up?

[babylonsister]

11. Oh, please. Try really hard, and I just know you can find something

more important to be offended by. I have Irish blood in my veins (old blood at that), but that thought never entered my mind.