Wexler's petition signing is slowing down!!!!

[bonito]

ANYBODY HEARD OF CRAIGSLIST?
You can make a difference!!! POST THIS http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/12/15/183511/90 and to anybody you can think of!
I DID!

[LakeSamish706]

1. Look, the bottom line is this IMO... Lets stop messing around with Impeachment....

and get the hell out on the streets.... This Congress is not going to Impeach anyone or for that matter bring anyone up on charges of anything... The only way that this Country is going to survive is if the people get off of there asses and hit the streets. I don't know if that will even work, but it's a whole lot better than words... IMO

[bonito]

2. Let's start with a sore throat first n/t

[LakeSamish706]

3. Sorry, but it's just not happening... I'm going to be honest.. I really, really like...

Wexler, and always have, but I am not buying that Impeachment is going to come about..... Certainly wish I were wrong, but not betting the farm on it...

[bonito]

4. Would you at least make an attempt

With my suggestion, and do me a favor? Peace bro.

[Hekate]

5. I've been in the streets.I've been to DC three times, each time with about a million protesters.Nada

Nada, nada, nada.

My own townspeople marched and protested and yelled and held town hall meetings and teach-ins before the invasion of Iraq. The mayor herself marched with us. The City Council passed a resolution -- two or three resolutions, one of them just this past week. Suffice it to say, the people in my area are against the war in Iraq, and so is our Congresswoman.

Washington DC did not hear us.

What do you want? Harry Belafonte said several years ago that the only thing that will work is for enough people to throw themselves into the cogs of the machinery and make it stop. I think he's right. But you know, that means bloodshed and it means protesters will die. Do you understand that part?

What will it take for a sufficient number of people to be willing to throw themselves into the cogs of the machinery and possibly die?

A universal military draft.

And who will hit the streets first? Probably the students, same as last time. Why the students? Because non-students are working full time and have no flexibility in their schedules.

Are you ready for a universal military draft? Because after all this time I think it's the only thing that will get people riled enough to personally risk arrest, ruin, and death.

And you know what? I think the Bushites know that too. So I'm not holding my breath that we will have one any time soon.

Hekate

[ben_meyers]

7. And that's the dirty little secret about the 60's

so called anti-war movement. It was an anti-draft movement. Most of my contemporaries didn't give a crap about the war, or the Vietnamese or really any of it. Most of them just didn't want their little lives interrupted by the prospect of military service. Up until then being drafted was about as likely as enlisting for most guys. If you went to school or got married or had certain civilian jobs you didn't have to go. The people that did go pretty much choose to. It wasn't until draftees started getting killed in Nam that things heated up at home. To be sure there were some real and dedicated peace activists, but on the whole, not so much.

[balantz]

9. Good point.

With our taxes paying good wages for mercenaries we don't have a draft yet. I assume the administration knows that a draft would send people into an uproar. I would hate to see it come to a draft (one reason being I am a parent), but it is one ting that would wake Americans up.

[Hekate]

10. A bunch of them had "their lives interrupted" by Death. Or maiming, or PTSD.

I don't think that's a dirty little secret. They were right to object to that. The Vietnam War was a meatgrinder that ate our young men.

I was glad when the peacetime draft was abolished. We couldn't anticipate the uses to which the all-volunteer army would be put by Don Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney.

Hekate

[caligirl]

8. sentiments my husband has been saying for over a year. so true.

but as long as the people are comfy enough or frightened of loosing anything else how do you get them up and out with pitchforks in hand?

[Rageneau]

6. If we want the attention of the MSM, we've gotta march naked!

I'm not joking.

Wish I was.

[balantz]

11. Next major protest in Washington should have a bonfire where

stacks of various items are burned together: Bibles, Korans, Torahs, American flags...what am I missing here?