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pecunium"Don't mourn, organise."
My new motto.
I don't have my notes here, but I refuse to just lie down and take it, in fact we have been too polite by half, for the past 12 years. Basta.
For those who are on the other side of the aisle, (and I know there are a few here... the more the merrier, because singing to the choir has it's perks, but it is useless, a clanging cymbal, rather than a tolling bell), this is gonna be a rough ride. I am going to be more political, I am going to be more critical, because I'm sorry but you made a mistake; elected the wrong man.
I don't care what you think of Kerry, the neo-con movement is a threat to America, and by extension, given our might, the world.
So, back to business.
The Neo-cons hate us. No ifs, ands or buts. They hate us. My recent complaints about the way they use the word liberal, well it's a symptom. We are going to be made the scapegoats, and be villified and targetted for hate crimes. The best defense is a good offense, and that is what we need.
The first thing to look at is how they won. By any rational measure of what we need in an executive, this one failed. So that, as I said, isn't how they won. They won by getting the specious issues of values and moral equivalence into the equation. He ran against abortion, even though abortions increased on his watch. They ran on terror, even though their actions have made more terrorists, and poisoned people who were on our side, so that they are now against us. They has wounded the economy, and seems to be on track to make an oligarchy of the rich, and decreasing the chance of the poor to rise out of their poverty.
And the Neo-Cons are doing all this by preaching a perverted form of Christian ideology. He has convinced the heartland to vote against interest (see Tom Dispatch... "What's the Matter with Kansas and persuaded others to vote against the principles of their religion, by touting that religion Slacktivist... What's the matter with Alabama
So we need to do the same. We need to get moral, and be vocal. Forget plans, and policies... preach right and wrong. Is it right to allow eqaulity and freedom to be squashed? No. Get them to admit this, then ask how they can justify allowing hate crimes to be committed, without punishment, when we add to the sentence for robbery, if a gun is used, make murder more heinous when it was intended... this is an intent issue. If all men are created equal, and endowed with unalienable rights... liberty, pursuit of happiness, how can we justify using religion to deny some of our fellows these rights?
Preach a strict interpretation of the 9th amendment... The Bill of Rights is not prescriptive, it doesn't limit the People's rights, but rather the Gov't's privilege.
Be active, be vocal. Call your reps, esp. if they are Republicans. Don't let the agenda go unchallenged (and it's going to be hard enough with the majorities in place, but if they don't hear from you, they will ignore you. They are philosophically inclined to do so anyway. If you doubt that, remember that leading spokesmen of the movement have advocated killing liberals, for being liberals, and Bush, et al. have not repudiated them (if you doubt this, recall that Ann Coulter, has said women really oughtent vote, and liberals need to be killed so they will know they can die... as well as opining that Tim McVeigh ought to have hit the NY Times. She is still making millions peddling hate).
The subtext is worse. LGF, and Adam Yoshida, and the Fr**pers have all said that if Kerry won he needed to be killed, and not let take office. This is a violation of 18 USC (just like the recent flap about the LJer who was visited by the Secret Service for praying Bush would be taken by God... that wasn't a credible threat, but she was quizzed, in the wee hours of the morning. There's a word for that, Establishment Terrorism), none of them have been visited, in the wee hours, or the bright light of day.
The Neo-Cons are in favor of that sort of suppressive thuggery. Some of it is more overt. There have been incidents of overt intimidation of liberals, and the refusal of the Bush Campaign to allow anyone who didn't express open agreement with the President (and first asking for signatures, and later the recitation of a pledge, of support for Bush) is troublesome.
Learn the techniques of Samizdat. Spend the money to make some flyers, be quiet, and reasoned, and leave off the hyperbole. Then take a ream and put them on windows of cars, hang them on doors, mail them to the local republicans (the voter rolls are a public document).
Be loud. Be seen.
Right now, for the first time in my life I truly understand how Lee felt, pacing the floor in Arlington... I'll not pace, merely pray that pass does not come. If it does (and in the dark moments of the night, lieing awake with my fears... I fear it will) I know which side of the fight I'm on, and how far I'm willing to go to prevent the absolute failure of this Great Experiment... but I know if it comes to that pass, it won't ever truly recover.
My new motto.
I don't have my notes here, but I refuse to just lie down and take it, in fact we have been too polite by half, for the past 12 years. Basta.
For those who are on the other side of the aisle, (and I know there are a few here... the more the merrier, because singing to the choir has it's perks, but it is useless, a clanging cymbal, rather than a tolling bell), this is gonna be a rough ride. I am going to be more political, I am going to be more critical, because I'm sorry but you made a mistake; elected the wrong man.
I don't care what you think of Kerry, the neo-con movement is a threat to America, and by extension, given our might, the world.
So, back to business.
The Neo-cons hate us. No ifs, ands or buts. They hate us. My recent complaints about the way they use the word liberal, well it's a symptom. We are going to be made the scapegoats, and be villified and targetted for hate crimes. The best defense is a good offense, and that is what we need.
The first thing to look at is how they won. By any rational measure of what we need in an executive, this one failed. So that, as I said, isn't how they won. They won by getting the specious issues of values and moral equivalence into the equation. He ran against abortion, even though abortions increased on his watch. They ran on terror, even though their actions have made more terrorists, and poisoned people who were on our side, so that they are now against us. They has wounded the economy, and seems to be on track to make an oligarchy of the rich, and decreasing the chance of the poor to rise out of their poverty.
And the Neo-Cons are doing all this by preaching a perverted form of Christian ideology. He has convinced the heartland to vote against interest (see Tom Dispatch... "What's the Matter with Kansas and persuaded others to vote against the principles of their religion, by touting that religion Slacktivist... What's the matter with Alabama
So we need to do the same. We need to get moral, and be vocal. Forget plans, and policies... preach right and wrong. Is it right to allow eqaulity and freedom to be squashed? No. Get them to admit this, then ask how they can justify allowing hate crimes to be committed, without punishment, when we add to the sentence for robbery, if a gun is used, make murder more heinous when it was intended... this is an intent issue. If all men are created equal, and endowed with unalienable rights... liberty, pursuit of happiness, how can we justify using religion to deny some of our fellows these rights?
Preach a strict interpretation of the 9th amendment... The Bill of Rights is not prescriptive, it doesn't limit the People's rights, but rather the Gov't's privilege.
Be active, be vocal. Call your reps, esp. if they are Republicans. Don't let the agenda go unchallenged (and it's going to be hard enough with the majorities in place, but if they don't hear from you, they will ignore you. They are philosophically inclined to do so anyway. If you doubt that, remember that leading spokesmen of the movement have advocated killing liberals, for being liberals, and Bush, et al. have not repudiated them (if you doubt this, recall that Ann Coulter, has said women really oughtent vote, and liberals need to be killed so they will know they can die... as well as opining that Tim McVeigh ought to have hit the NY Times. She is still making millions peddling hate).
The subtext is worse. LGF, and Adam Yoshida, and the Fr**pers have all said that if Kerry won he needed to be killed, and not let take office. This is a violation of 18 USC (just like the recent flap about the LJer who was visited by the Secret Service for praying Bush would be taken by God... that wasn't a credible threat, but she was quizzed, in the wee hours of the morning. There's a word for that, Establishment Terrorism), none of them have been visited, in the wee hours, or the bright light of day.
The Neo-Cons are in favor of that sort of suppressive thuggery. Some of it is more overt. There have been incidents of overt intimidation of liberals, and the refusal of the Bush Campaign to allow anyone who didn't express open agreement with the President (and first asking for signatures, and later the recitation of a pledge, of support for Bush) is troublesome.
Learn the techniques of Samizdat. Spend the money to make some flyers, be quiet, and reasoned, and leave off the hyperbole. Then take a ream and put them on windows of cars, hang them on doors, mail them to the local republicans (the voter rolls are a public document).
Be loud. Be seen.
Right now, for the first time in my life I truly understand how Lee felt, pacing the floor in Arlington... I'll not pace, merely pray that pass does not come. If it does (and in the dark moments of the night, lieing awake with my fears... I fear it will) I know which side of the fight I'm on, and how far I'm willing to go to prevent the absolute failure of this Great Experiment... but I know if it comes to that pass, it won't ever truly recover.
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Date: 2004-11-06 07:16 am (UTC)We're here! We're liberal! Get used to it!