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03-22-08 OEN-$3-Billion A Week, That's All We Ask by Eric Ma
03-22-08 OEN-$3-Billion A Week, That's All We Ask by Eric Ma
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also my 20th Wedding Anniversary; my wife Janet and I have been demonstrating on
our anniversary since 2003; this is how we celebrate until the war ends.)
A group on the East Coast has asked people in every time zone to stop for 3 minutes
at 6:00 pm Pacific Time (9:00 pm Eastern) to pray, meditate, and to send positive
thoughts for peace, every day starting today until the war ends. I'm doing that too.
But honestly, I think the best thing we can all do is to vote with our pocketbooks and
our ballots to get a True Majority in the House and Senate who will bring the troops
home, along with a President committed to ending this war and not starting another
new one in Iran, as the current bloodthirsty horde seems bent upon doing. The
problem we have right now is, if we cut off funding for the war, The Oligarchy
Corporation currently in charge of our Armed Forces would just leave the troops
there, stranded without food, clothing, weapons, or transportation, and then use the
media that they own and control to blame this shameful debacle on the Democrats.
You know they would.
So what we have to do (besides demonstrate, pray, and meditate) is to vote in large
enough numbers that they cannot discount the people's will with voter fraud, as they
have done lo these past 7 years.
I hear you arguing, "Well, we voted the Democrats back into power in 2006 and they
haven't done diddly. They haven't stopped the war, and they haven't impeached the
war criminals."
True enough. But we don't have those 60 votes in the Senate, nor do we have a 2/3
majority in the House. And with a Justice Department run by the GOP, we can't even
prosecute these bastards, nor can we even serve a simple subpoena without
contempt. (See Harriet Miers and Josh Bolten.)
We need to take this country back, and the only way to do it right now is by
overwhelming force at the ballot box. In numbers big enough that any Diebold ballot
theft would be obvious.
And at the shopping mall. Although they are not quite up and running yet, a web site
called http://www.buyblue.org/ is gathering information to help us vote with our
money by buying good products from companies who do not endorse the war, nor
policies that are bad for the environment. They also tell you which companies to
boycott, those whose policies are not in our best interest. (You decide what those
are--if the company has ties with contractors with business in Iraq, or if they are
polluting the earth, the web site spells it out for you.)
So to sum up:
1. War is going great, surge is working like a charm.
2. You can fool all of the people some of the time, but it helps to own the TV
networks.
3. $3-BILLION A WEEK
4. Missing fingers, toes, penises, brains.
5. Demonstrate. It may not change the course, but people will see that not everyone
has bought into the bullshit.
5. Pray, meditate, think thoughts of peace at 6:00 pm PST (9:00 pm EST).
6. Vote for peace candidates who will stop the war and the hemorrhage of blood and
money.
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7. Buy from companies who support peace, don't buy from those associated with war
profiteers.
Edwin "Stop the war. Now." Starr