goodyD:
patriciaruth is on the right:
mtngrl:
Jim Robinson:
Sheila Robinson:
Mama_Bear and her husband:
Posted on 10/19/2001 10:10:21 PM PDT by mtngrl@vrwc
Tonight's Counter-Peacenik and Support our Troops Rally in Fresno, CA was a great success! I counted 22 counter-protesters, which is the same number as we had last Friday. However, there were only about 30 peaceniks that showed up tonight, about half of last week's total.
The press again showed no interest in tonight's FReep. We were heartened by the enthusiasm exhibited by the people driving by. At one point, the peaceniks crossed over to our side of the street and handed out fliers to the cars that would accept one. They tried to get each of us to take one too, but we refused until we decided that we would like to share the propoganda on it with you (which will follow later). The peaceniks broke up at about 6:30 and we stayed a little over an hour later before we left for home.
Among the FReepers that attended tonight's rally were
I hope that I didn't miss anybody. If I did, please yell!
goodyD:
patriciaruth is on the right:
mtngrl:
Jim Robinson:
Sheila Robinson:
Mama_Bear and her husband:
Yes, this was another invigorating rally - like you said, it's addicting. I am already looking forward to next week. :-)
It would have been a perfect evening if our Fresno State Bulldogs had won. :-(
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CG, CCC, S...ping!
LIE #1
"It's possible to win a war against terrorism."
Reality: Terrorism is a tactic, not a political or social force in and of itself. Anyone can use it, and the idea that you can wage a "war" against it is as dishonest as the idea behind the "War on Drugs."
The use of food as a political weapon, indiscriminate aerial bombardment, and the arming of gansterish groups of religious fanatics all count as "terrorism" by any reasonable definition of the word, and the United States has long employed all of them -- and more.
This war is really about sordid material interests and power, and in defense of these interests the US is prepared to shift the label "terrorist" as it sees fit, to apply to all manner of dissident political movements and not just marginal bands of fanatics like bin Laden's al-Qa'ida.
Conversely, it's willing to call its own terrorists "freedom fighters". Maybe some of them will get transformed into "terrorists" again in a few years. It's a sick game and a charade, and the government is manipulating the very real grief and anger of the people of the United States after the September 11 atrocities to get us all to fall for it again. Don't believe them for a second.
LIE #2
"America is coming together."
Reality: Tens of thousands of people have been laid off in the airline industry alone. The government quickly responded to the airline industry crisis with a multibillion dollar bailout package for the companies in order to keep afloat the profits of shareholders and the salaries of CEOs, but when it came to aiding the thousands of workers laid off, Congressman Dick Armey said that that would be contrary to "the American spirit."
Maybe it is. Maybe it's the "American spirit" to make common working people pay for a crisis and to bear the burdens of an expensive war. But it certainly doesn't have anything to do with "togetherness."
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