mistaken he ran a health and fitness club before becoming mayor.
Vaj wrote:
>[Note: A Mormon Utah mayor gave this speech. He's hugely popular
>there, by the way. Can you imagine even *one* lone congressional
>Democrat
>giving this speech? Conyers? Doubtful. Obama? Hell, Obama supports
>most of what Anderson is criticizing here. This is a program for taking
>back the country, if the Dems wanted to use it. But they'd rather side
>with Bush. Against the rest of us. And I suspect Rocky Anderson will
>not be invited to speak at the Democratic Convention in 2008.]
>
>http://www.slcgov.com/mayor/speeches/2006%20speeches/
>SPiraqrally42906.pdf
>
>Rally at City & County Building
>Remarks of Mayor Ross C. Rocky Anderson
>April 29, 2006
>
>We are gathered here today to say, No more!
>
>No more killing.
>
>No more expenditures of almost $6 billion per month on this tragic
>war.
>
>No more denial of health care coverage for over 42 million
>Americans, when we are paying more for this outrageous war than what it
>would cost for universal health care throughout the US.
>
>No more dependence on foreign oil, while we could become
>independent if we focused resources wasted in the Iraq war on clean,
>renewable sources of energy.
>
>No more attacks on immigrants who work so hard to build better
>lives.
>
>No more inaction by Congress on fixing our hypocritical and
>inconsistent immigration laws and policies.
>
>No more complacency by our news media, much of which has served
>as little more than a bulletin board for false government propaganda.
>
>No more raping and pillaging of our people by the outrageous
>profiteers in
>the oil industry, by the health care insurance industry, and by the
>billionaire buddies of Bush and Cheney like the crooks at Enron and
>Halliburton.
>
>No more war in Iraq.
>
>No more reliance on fiction rather than the science of global warming.
>
>No more historic deficits forever demonstrating that our President
>and our
>Congress are total hypocrites and liars when they call themselves fiscal
>conservatives.
>
>No more torture of human beings.
>
>No more holding people in detention camps without charges without
>lawyers without any semblance of due process.
>
>No more sending people off to be held and interrogated in countries
>where torture and brutality is expected to occur.
>
>No more arrogant, blundering, incompetent leadership of our military.
>Which means no more Donald Rumsfeld.
>
>No more manipulation of our media.
>
>No more arrogance and incompetence posing as leadership in the
>White House.
>
>Which means no more Bush and Cheney!
>
>And no more arrogance, incompetence, and timidity posing as
>leadership in the United States Congress.
>
>No more illegal wiretapping without warrants.
>
>No more complacency by the American people.
>
>No more members of Congress who voted to turn into felons 12
>million people our nation has encouraged to come here to work.
>
>No more disastrous cuts in funding for those most in need in our
>cities.
>
>No more destruction of American Indian urban health care centers.
>
>No more cuts in Community Development Block Grant funding.
>
>No more cuts in Community Oriented Policing federal funding for our
>cities.
>
>No more lies about a tie between Iraq and 9-11.
>
>Which means no more Dick Cheney.
>
>No more butchering of the English language.
>
>Which means, of course, no more George Bush.
>
>No more killing thousands of innocent people.
>
>Which means no more of the Bush Administration.
>
>And no more of those in Congress who have sat passively by while
>the slaughter continues.
>
>No more killing.
>
>No more maiming of men, women, and children, Iraqi and American.
>No more apathy by the American people.
>
>And no more refraining from saying No more!
>
>We are gathered here today because we care deeply. We are gathered today
>because we cant and wont remain silent in the face of tragic dishonesty,
>tragic violations of international law and human rights, outrageous war
>mongering, and continually shifting excuses for beginning the war a war
>that has resulted in the unnecessary deaths of probably more than
>100,000
>Iraqis and almost 2400 American members of the United States armed
>forces.
>Add to that tragedy the terrible injuries sustained by tens of thousands
>of people, and our nations conscience will forever be shocked and
>burdened.
>
>We are not gathered because we are Democrats or Republicans or
>Greens or Independents or members of any other party.
>
>We are not even because we are disgusted with the complacency,
>impotence, and timidity of so many so-called leaders in both of the
>major
>parties.
>
>We are not gathered here because we seek to divide this nation. In
>fact, we seek to unify this great country behind principles of justice,
>compassion and an end to an outrageous, unnecessary war.
>
>And we are not here because we are nut cakes.
>
>There are those who have said, Stand behind our President, right or
>wrong. They say, We are duty-bound to follow and support them.
>
>We are gathered here today to insist there are much higher authorities
>than George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, and Donald Rumsfeld to whom we must
>listen for moral guidance.
>
>Those who say we should blindly follow our governmental leaders are
>calling for no less than shameful individual moral abdication.
>Never has so much evil been perpetuated than from following that
>call. A culture of blind obedience is a culture of immorality.
>Nazi Germany was a society comprised of millions of people who did
>not question and who did not object. They followed. They followed
>blindly. They left it for their leaders to make the decisions even the
>decisions as to what each individual would do, including the most
>inhumane
>treatment toward other people.
>
>That culture of blind obedience was not one where most people asked
>themselves, What should I do?. The answers were already furnished by
>leaders bent on world domination leaders who thought nothing of
>torturing, killing, and maiming millions of innocent men, women, and
>children.
>
>People were not gathering together to say No more. Rather, they
>were calling out Heil Hitler, abdicating to political leaders the moral
>choices they each could have and should have made as individuals. In
>short, they forfeited the most important part of what makes each of us
>human.
>
>We are gathered here to assert our moral autonomy our moral power-
>our moral insistence that we will not be a part of the dishonesty, the
>brutality, and the hypocrisy behind the current war of aggression.
>And we
>will call out together for an end to the insanity an end to the
>obscenity
>known as the Iraq war.
>
>At times like this, silence is complicity. Silence is an affirmation of
>the status quo. We will only see change when the people assert their own
>moral authority and no longer leave it to the self-serving, shiftless,
>sycophantic servants of the corporate rapists and pillagers of our
>people,
>like Dick Cheneys buddies at the sole-source-contracts-in-Iraq-profiteer
>Halliburton; like Exxon, the plunderer of almost every person in our
>nation; and like the pharmaceutical companies and insurance companies
>that
>have made certain the American people do not have affordable, universal
>health care coverage.
>
>Rwanda was a culture of blind obedience. Tens of thousands of people
>heeded the call to slaughter their Tutsi and moderate Hutu neighbors,
>most
>of whom used machetes to hack men, women, and children to death. These
>were not people who asserted their personal moral authority.
>
>Instead, they betrayed their role as moral actors as what most
>fundamentally makes a person a human being, by blindly following
>those who
>said, Go kill the cockroach Tutsis. As a result, 800,000 people were
>slaughtered, while our nation, while the United Nations, while the
>international community, which had been so hypocritically smug in
>insisting Never again since the Holocaust, turned a blind eye to the
>Rwandan genocide.
>
>We are gathered here today to say no more will we stand by.
>
>No more can any person asserting free agency stand by in good
>conscience.
>
>No more will we abandon moral decision-making to so-called
>political authorities.
>
>Let us each embrace our moral authority, let us each embrace our
>humanity, let us each embrace our responsibility and insist in every
>way
>within our means: No more human and civil rights violations; no more
>hatred and inhumane treatment toward hard-working immigrants and their
>families; no more killing and maiming. No more Iraq war.
>
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