Just a thought to add to the mix here, how can we change this right now? how we start talking to each other and to the people of Iraq and saying we don't want this. we don't even want the relationship we have with the terrorists, and we are disliked many places, i have heard from travelers even. pass off as canadian. we have this reputation in the world because our government is up in every body's damn business and not in a good way, but in a working-for-the-world-bank kind of a way. i mean, i have a little extra access to this information, maybe, just on account of the company i keep and the whereabouts where the signs for the IMF/World Bank teach-ins. but y'all know this, too, right? this is it, people, we gotta start talking about making peace and taking responsibility. we gotta shut down the government and the war, if they won't do it themselves. that's all there is to it. our troops are sent for aid, nothing more, ever, at all. backing down. the most powerful world in the country saying "we want to make peace. we want to put our intelligence and creativity into solving hunger and taking care of millions of orphans and dealing with the HIV/AIDS tragedy that is immense right now in Africa."
an end to punishment. we can't keep treating everyone this way, locking people up, killing people, neglecting people. bring the wealthy barons to their knees. stop buying their stuff.
i am saying, maybe we have choices here, to take a new road. open up the communication. i emailed an old friend from college to connect with those people again, get some email round tables going. open up and talk to a cop this weekend. call an FBI agent and talk to them about how afraid people are becoming of the government. ask them to commit to stand by you and your community in the event the country should turn to tyranny. talk to your town about what people plan for a possible catastrophe in your area. talk to them about sending a message from your whole town to end the war. 10,000 or more people lost their lives to the hurricane. it looks clear that the levees were neglected, and the planning, money and troops that would have saved many lives were not here because of the war. we must respond to this tragedy, and deal with the poverty the hurricane revealed.
