Then I said, "fuck it. We're the majority, we're the ones in the right.

[kpete]

Tens of thousands march against Iraq war

Celebrities, a half-dozen lawmakers and protesters from distant states rallied in the capital under a sunny sky, seizing an opportunity to press their cause with a Congress restive on the war and a country that has turned against the conflict.

Marching with them was Jane Fonda, in what she said was her first anti-war demonstration in 34 years.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070127/ap_on_re_us/iraq_protest;_ylt=AoTisgiys2yI0pZMUMYkTNes0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA3OTB1amhuBHNlYwNtdHM-


As I was watching this, unimpressed with the t-shirts and silly slogans which seem par for the course, when I saw Jane Fonda, I shook my head. I thought "is this a person you really want to make a point with?"

Then I said, "fuck it. We're the majority, we're the ones in the right. Let them bring Jane Fonda on, because she's with 70 percent of the American people and only the freaks support Bush and his warmongering"

We need to act like Bush is the one outside the mainstream, supporting this insane war of his. Sean Penn, Jane Fonda and Susan Sarandon are standing with the American people

http://www.thenewsblog.net/2007/01/we-are-majority.html

[Buzz Clik]

1. Gotta love the passion. Great post.

[SunDrop23]

2. Right on!

Love your passion!

[InternalDialogue]

3. Part of acting with intent becomes simpler with that realization.

We've been conditioned by the media to see ourselves as the minority, and our words and actions too often come from that place. Seeing oneself in the majority suddenly puts a real tool in one's hand, where before one imagined just a hope.

[Peace Patriot]

4. Damn straight! Thank you, kpete!

How about WE start getting the backs of the courageous people who risk their reputations to speak for us and to oppose unnecessary, unjust, illegal, genocidal war!

(Re: Jane Fonda. Know why she went to Hanoi--as a 20-something year old, who had just jettisoned her "Barbarella" career? Cuz the fuckers were bombing civilian targets in North Vietnam and LYING about it. She went there to document it. She went ALONE. The bravest damned starlet who ever walked this earth. And she's taken nothing but shit for it ever since--from war profiteers and warmongers!)

[Peace Patriot]

5. Just want to re-emphasize InternalDialogue's point that we are the majority

and have been SINCE BEFORE THE WAR, when FIFTY-SIX PERCENT of the American people opposed the invasion, despite 24/7 relentless war propaganda.

We have been the majority ALL ALONG.

[williesgirl]

6. Funny, I winced when I heard Fonda was there. Then I thought about it and figured

more power to her - she's right just like the rest of us are! recommended

[stillcool]

7. this part is great!!

At the rally, 12-year-old Moriah Arnold stood on her toes to reach the microphone and tell the crowd: "Now we know our leaders either lied to us or hid the truth. Because of our actions, the rest of the world sees us as a bully and a liar."

The sixth-grader from Harvard, Mass., organized a petition drive at her school against the war that has killed more than 3,000 U.S. service-members, including seven whose deaths were reported Saturday.

[StrictlyRockers]

8. K&R number 5 Great post!

[struggle4progress]

9. You Gotta Love Her (Hayden / The Nation 2004)

... The case of Jane Fonda reveals the double standards and hypocrisies afflicting our memories. In Tour of Duty, the Kerry historian Douglas Brinkley describes the 1971 winter soldier investigation, which Fonda supported and Kerry attended, where Vietnam veterans spilled their guts about "killing gooks for sport, sadistically torturing captured VC by cutting off ears and heads, raping women and burning villages." Brinkley then recounts how Kerry later told Meet the Press that "I committed the same kinds of atrocities as thousands of others," specifically taking responsibility for shooting in free-fire zones, search-and-destroy missions, and burning villages. Brinkley describes these testimonies in tepid and judicious terms, calling them "quite unsettling." By contrast, Brinkley condemns Fonda's 1972 visit to Hanoi as "unconscionable," without feeling any need for further explanation.

Why should American atrocities be merely unsettling, but a trip to Hanoi unconscionable? ...

Erased from public memory is the fact that Fonda's purpose was to use her celebrity to put a spotlight on the possible bombing of Vietnam's system of dikes. Her charges were dismissed at the time by George H.W. Bush, then America's ambassador to the United Nations, who complained of a "carefully planned campaign by the North Vietnamese and their supporters to give worldwide circulation to this falsehood." But Fonda was right and Bush was lying, as revealed by the April-May 1972 White House transcripts of Richard Nixon talking to Henry Kissinger about "this shit-ass little country" ...

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20040322/hayden

[BeFree]

10. Yes

Thank you, Jane Fonda.

[Zhade]

11. And we've been right all along, rightwingers' and DLCers' denials notwithstanding.

NT!

[blogslut]

12. Steve Gilliard rules

Fuck it. He's right. Jane's right. The protestors are right. We're right. We are the majority and we rule.