Bush Outlaws War Protest - Citizens Face Full Asset Seizure

[DreamTime]

Are you kidding...my girls would all be there in a heart beat to visit me icon_2thumbs

[Richard]

I came across this news today and it surprised me. It will be interesting to see if the protesters get arrested under the new law. 

Massive Antiwar March on Washington Planned for September 15, 2007

(PRWEB) August 5, 2007 -- Hundreds of antiwar organizations are planning to bring people from all over the United States to Washington DC for a massive antiwar protest on Saturday, September 15, timed to coincide with the report by Gen. David Patreas about progress of the Iraq war. The September 15 demonstration was initiated by the ANSWER Coalition, which has organized most of the large-scale demonstrations in Washington DC, San Francisco, Los Angeles and other cities since 2002.

"All the recent polls indicate that the people of this country have turned decisively against the war. We are demanding an immediate withdrawal of all U.S. forces from Iraq. We are borrowing a page from the Vietnam era in building an intense nationwide grassroots campaign that will compel an end to the criminal invasion and occupation of Iraq. All over the country there are sustained antiwar activities in July and August that will culminate in the September 15 March on Washington," stated Brian Becker, National Coordinator of the ANSWER Coalition.

On July 10, Cindy Sheehan and others began the Walk for Humanity in Crawford, Texas. They will arrive in Washington DC on July 23 before proceeding to New York City. Veterans for Peace and Iraq Veterans Against the War are organizing activities throughout the country to highlight the growing involvement of Iraq war veterans and family members of soldiers and marines in a growing crescendo of antiwar protest.

The September 15 March on Washington is being organized by the ANSWER Coalition; Ramsey Clark; Muslim American Society Freedom Foundation; Mounzer Sleiman, Vice Chair, National Council of Arab Americans; Cindy Sheehan; Cynthia McKinney; Tina Richards, CEO of Grassroots America; Rev. Lenox Yearwood, CEO of Hip Hop Caucus; Father Roy Bourgeois and Eric LeCompte, School of Americas Watch; Navy Petty Officer Jonathan Hutto, co-founder Appeal for Redress; Liam Madden, Pres., Boston Chapter of Iraq Veterans Against the War and co-founder of Appeal for Redress; Malik Rahim, founder of Common Ground Collective, New Orleans; Howard Zinn, Author and Historian; Carlos & Melida Arredondo, Gold Star Families for Peace; Rev. Graylan Hagler, Ministers for Racial, Social and Economic Justice; Code Pink; Latino Movement USA; Hermandad Mexicana Nacional; Michael Berg; National Lawyers Guild; Ron Kovic, Vietnam Veteran, author, Born on the 4th of July; Frank Velgara, ProLibertad Freedom Campaign; Pam Africa, International Concerned Family and Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal; Leonard Weinglass, Cuban 5 attorney; Father Luis Barrios, Iglesia de San Romero de las Americas-UCC; and others.

ImpeachBush.org and other impeachment organizations will be joining with the antiwar movement and mobilizing thousands of people to come to Washington DC for the September 15th March on Washington.

http://www.prweb.com/releases/2007/8/prweb544609.htm

[Sily]

I hope hundreds of thousands of millions show up.  Best news I've heard all day..... nah, all week!

[Astrojewels]

Glad to see that your people are not accepting this control, when you live in a country that still offers some democracy you are able to fight for your rights without fear of being killed, rebellion is part of our human characteristics. What I have seen in the history of the USA, the mentality of your country will never surrender, so that vibration belongs to all of you.
Authority should never be accepted, it is part of life because for some stupid reason humans need to be controlled. When you accept authority, you universally surrender your spiritual freedom

[Richard]

I think the protest is good news too. Everyone has a breaking point and a lot of Americans feel the last straw has been broken. They’re ready for a civil war. It maybe the only way we can get Bush out of office. Here’s another interesting article I came across. 

The Rising Tide of Popular Discontent in America

By kpominville

I have noticed something recently, both around the "water cooler" at work and creeping into the public discourse.

I keep hearing the same sentiment expressed in conversations between ordinary Americans: "things in this country are only going to continue getting worse until we have an armed insurrection."

And it isn't just progressives and liberals. I have heard some conservatives say the same thing.
Everyone is thinking the same thing; Are we headed toward another civil war?

A woman recently asked Michael Moore about this on Hardball.

"UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Hi, Michael, my name is Becka Baker. I‘m from Tulsa, Oklahoma. My question for you is with 71 percent of the American people dissatisfied with this country today, dissatisfied with the war, health care, education, that the sky is blue, you name it, they‘re dissatisfied. Do you think America is ripe for a revolt? Will a revolution put this nation back on track?"

Also recently, Hugo Award winning Author Orson Scott Card wrote "Empire", a fiction about a near-future revolution in the United States between liberals and conservatives.

This thought is on every one's mind, because there are no practical solutions being offered. The corporate control of our government seems total and immovable without violent overthrow. The conservative world-view that government cannot do anything right and that only private, for-profit enterprises can do anything for America infects our media and therefore infects a great many Americans, to the detriment of all Americans. We are being polarized into classes again and the media is keeping everyone ignorant to that fact.

That is what John Edwards is talking about when he talks about "Two Americas". My brother delivered a truckload of relief supplies to the Gulf Coast after Katrina and afterwards he told me that "those people needed those supplied desperately... before Katrina had ever hit."

There is a new book, "Richistan", that talks about how the wealthy live in a completely isolated world of their own. They send their kids to private schools and use private hospitals. Executives have private parking spaces and private entrances in most of the largest corporations. They live in gated communities and use personal assistants to do their shopping.

The corporate media keeps telling us that the economy is doing great, but their only evidence for that is that corporate profits have been going up.
At the same time, for average workers, real wages have been falling and our benefits have been drying up right before our eyes. We are watching our neighbors and families going bankrupt and losing their homes because of medical costs, outsourcing of jobs or because they were patriotic enough to go over and serve in Iraq.

Protests have not worked.
Writing letters has not worked.
Calling our Representatives has not worked.
They just caved-in AGAIN and gave into Bush on his warrentless wiretapping.

And the rightwing is thinking about it too. They are waiting and watching for the straw that breaks the camels back.

After Supreme Court Justice Roberts collapsed this week, rightwing radio host Michael "Savage" Wiener claimed that it was because of a "conspiracy by Democrats".

This country is headed straight for another civil war.

The signs are right under all our noses.

A Democratic victory in 2008 will only prolong the inevitable unless something radical happens and a real progressive populist is not elected. That will only happen if enough concerned Americans get together and take back the Democratic party.

A Republican victory in 2008 will only guarantee that the next American civil war happens sooner rather than later. 

http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_...e_of_p.htm

[Astrojewels]

If your country did enter a civil war, it would be very different to the last, it is the people against the government, therefore it is more like a mutiny/revolution. If this was to happen, how do you think the average American would deal with it?

[Richard]

I’m not sure how things would play out if there was a revolution. I know they government has built a lot of prison camps specifically to lock up Americans who pose a problem for the government. So that means tons of people will be getting locked up. I’m not sure how well armed Americans will do against the army. I tend to think revolution might not be a good strategy but I understand how Americans feel that this maybe the only way to change things.

[Astrojewels]

Seems like it is a ‘rabbits trap’ if they are already preparing for internal war.
Protests are equally negative/positive because safety in numbers shows that the ‘average Joe’ has the guts to stand up for their rights, yet it only takes one person in the protesting crowd to become violent and the rest follow resulting in a clash that gives the law enforcers rights to arrest and control.
Many protests are ‘set up’, with undercover agents in the crowd.
As sad as it is humans require control and leadership, I think it would be better for one person to speak for the crowd, one person to sit down with as many officials as possible, present the concerns of the people. this is a long shot, but violence against violence only produces more violence.