Opposing war

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Americans Protesting on March 21.The cops flanking in single file is a new twist.

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Don't Go There Mr. President!
By Tom Hayden, March 27, 2009

17,000 or 21,000 more US troops will not protect Americans against Al Qaeda attacks.
"The Obama plan instead will accelerate any plans Al Qaeda commanders have for attacking targets in the United States or Europe. The alternative for Al Qaeda is to risk complete destruction, an American objective that has not been achieved for eight years. A terrorist attack need not be planned or set in motion from a cave in Waziristan. The cadre could already be underground in Washington or London. The real alternative for President Obama should be to maintain a deterrent posture while immediately accelerating diplomacy to meet legitimate Muslim goals, from a Palestinian state to genuine progress on Kashmir.

President Obama is right, at least politically, to take very seriously the threat of another 9/11 from any source. Besides the suffering inflicted, it would derail his agenda and perhaps his presidency. This is all the more reason he must understand that by repeatedly threatening to "kill Al Qaeda" he is provoking a hornets' nest without protection against a devastating sting.

The hard choices are laid out very clearly in writings by the CIA's former point man on Osama bin Ladin, Michael Scheuer, who also ran the agency's rendition program and still supports it. Scheuer is a tough guy, in other words, who says the options are either to kill all the jihadists, make it quick and withdraw (not a real option), or begin pursuing an agenda that addresses what he calls Muslim issues: the American military and civilian presence in the Arab Peninsula, the unqualified US support for Israel, US support for states that oppress Muslims (China, India, Russia), US exploitation of Muslim oil and suppression of its price, US military presence in the Islamic world, and US support and protection of Arab police states.

Such an approach would create an option to violence for many millions of jihadi sympathizers and potential recruits. It would create an incentive not to inflict terrorism, blow up airplanes and hotels, or deploy a nuclear bomb in a suitcase. It would disturb the multinational oil companies and the Israel lobby but open a better path to stability than wars against the Muslim world. " (first half)

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090413/hayden?rel=hp_picks

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Julia Ward Howe: The Woman Behind Mother’s Day. Mothers Day Herstory

Julia Ward Howe began advocating for a Mother’s Day for peace in 1870‏

Mothers' Day Proclamation: Julia Ward Howe, Boston, 1870

Mother's Day was originally started after the Civil War, as a protest to the carnage of that war, by women who had lost their sons. Here is the original Mother's Day Proclamation from 1870, followed by a bit of history (or should I say "herstory"):

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Arise, then, women of this day! Arise all women who have hearts, whether our baptism be that of water or of fears!

Say firmly: "We will not have great questions decided by irrelevant agencies. Our husbands shall not come to us, reeking
with carnage, for caresses and applause. Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn all that we have been able to teach them of charity, mercy and patience.

We women of one country will be too tender of those of another
country to allow our sons to be trained to injure theirs. From the bosom of the devastated earth a voice goes up with our own. It says "Disarm, Disarm! The sword of murder is not the balance of justice."

Blood does not wipe our dishonor nor violence indicate possession. As men have often forsaken the plow and the anvil at the summons of war, let women now leave all that may be left of home for a great and earnest day of counsel. Let them meet first, as women, to bewail and commemorate the dead.

Let them then solemnly take counsel with each other as to the means whereby the great human family can live in peace, each bearing after their own time the sacred impress, not of Caesar, but of God.

In the name of womanhood and of humanity, I earnestly ask that a general congress of women without limit of nationality may be appointed and held at some place deemed most convenient and at the earliest period consistent with its objects, to promote the alliance of the different nationalities, the amicable settlement of international questions, the great and general interests of peace.

Julia Ward Howe
Boston
1870

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The only thing left to win is to get away with it.

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I just add to this like the blogs. This 'system' is weird but I just post to the first comment box and it always ends up at the bottom where I want it. Anyeay...

This just came . It should be a fun one one to follow... Protest in the forest. ...

"and we'll have a circus in the forest and wait for random people to stumble upon us" - (juvy court writing assignment)

To the pattern in our children "Why don't you wear a watch" "I am Bohemian from California" - (me.)

Check this out!

"PROTEST AT BOHEMIAN GROVE 2009

JULY 11-12, 10:00am to 5:00pm

Bohemian Ave & Railroad Ave, Monte Rio, CA 95462

Bring signs, bullhorns, banners, whatever.

There's plenty of parking all along the road leading up the the entrance to the compound. "
Weenie roast.

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To follow the owl I am gonna reply to it and keep it together.

America

Prince sings a lot says, "funeral pyre"