Peace Rally
Baldilocks swears she overheard this at the ANSWER, etc. anti-war/anti-Bush protest Saturday in Los Angeles:
Jeff Jarvis, meanwhile, notes that all the sense and power seems to have been drained out of "We Shall Overcome" by overuse in inappropriate circumstances, such as a rally to pull American troops out of Iraq and thereby return the people of that country to hell.
Solomonia (among others) notes the way mainstream Democratic politicians avoided the scene in D.C. like it was infested. Which of course it was.
* Courtesy of the Paladin, you can steer to this delightful Democratic Underground thread. Whenever I read that site I really pay attention to the posters because they sound exactly like about half my co-workers in their most worked-up moments.
Yes, it looks like the secular left finally has discovered religion. Well, if not religion, then "evil" -- a concept that forces them into religious frames of reference.
Good lord, can you say "Left Behind"?
“I’m an atheist, but if there is God, we deserved the hurricanes.”*
Jeff Jarvis, meanwhile, notes that all the sense and power seems to have been drained out of "We Shall Overcome" by overuse in inappropriate circumstances, such as a rally to pull American troops out of Iraq and thereby return the people of that country to hell.
Solomonia (among others) notes the way mainstream Democratic politicians avoided the scene in D.C. like it was infested. Which of course it was.
"The movement" is a cesspool of hate and bizarro pathologies all the King's horses and all the King's psychologists couldn't sort out. It soils anyone uncautious enough to get near it. You want politicians to be stronger and more outspoken against the War? Articulate a message that fills your numbers with regular, respectable people and doesn't attract flies, allowing you to push aside the weirdos, not use them and imagine you can air-brush them out and hope no one will notice. The fact that this has not been done, and I believe cannot be done, is a very important indicator to those of us who believe we need to keep up the fight -- that we are right.
* Courtesy of the Paladin, you can steer to this delightful Democratic Underground thread. Whenever I read that site I really pay attention to the posters because they sound exactly like about half my co-workers in their most worked-up moments.
Yes, it looks like the secular left finally has discovered religion. Well, if not religion, then "evil" -- a concept that forces them into religious frames of reference.
41. yesterday I was pondering this question with a Unitarian minister
We were pondering the sense of evil that seems instilled in the actions to control New Orleans, and then moved to talk about the battle between good and evil that is taking place as Bushco fronts for forces that seek dominion and oppression.
I showed her information about the founding of Skull and Bones, and then we really were struck by the enormity of the struggle. She said that she was having to re-assess her beliefs on the nature of evil in human form. She hadn't believed in Satan. Now she's not sure.
All day long, I wrestled with the understanding that the forces W. fronts for are old and are powerful beyond our capacity to imagine. The minutiae we fight daily on DU are insignificant in this battle -- even the battle over the FEMA response.
THIS IS A BATTLE BETWEEN GOOD AND EVIL.
Resistance will take EVERY one of us. Resistance will require that we set aside many of our daily concerns and activities. Each of us has a use. Some must give more than others, but all must give to the effort.
This minister said that people ask what they are to do. (She's considered to be a bit of a prophet.) This is the list we devised, for what to do.
1. Name the evil. This is a struggle between good and evil.
2. Identify your particular role and task.
3. If your task is not to be a leader with the dangers of exposure, then support those who are on the front. (Provide for their children. Help them with subsistence. Be at their back.)
Good lord, can you say "Left Behind"?
