:Can't decide whether it makes more sense to send large numbers of the same :design or many different designs. I mean it's probably all falling on deaf :ears but somehow I hope there is something productive in this activity.
It encourages people to commit their own senseless acts of defiance, thus helping to build a movement. : :BTW - It would be nice to hear from fluxlisters elsewhere in the world as to :what the mood is there with regard to war. What's the media barrage in your :neighbourhood? Here in the San Francisco Bay Area the mood is weird. A lot people are just going nuts over their sense that we have no control over our government. When we didn't elect Bush Jr. he still ended up in the whitehouse. I watch CNN ... no, I /monitor/ CNN ... and even the war hounds were so anxious for a ring side seat to evening edition of BOMBS OVER BAGHDAD, ie, Judy Woodruff and Wolf Blitzer, are starting to realize the extent of their complicity in fueling support for a war that started with a lie. A lie that they willingly fed to America. I think many Americans wanted to believe that there was some justice or righteousness to this unprecedented pre-emptive strike. Now that Rumsfeld is telling us that the war has just begun and America can see that there has been no evidence of weapons of mass destruction, and the families back home realize that their sons and daughters weren't going on a quick and dirty operation to overthrow Saddam Hussein (because we were told he was a threat, i.e. WMD's), the sense of optimism and popular support is waning and I wouldn't be surprised if the troops themselves realize they are being sacrificed, a literal blood sacrifice, for lucrative defense contracts for Bush Jr's friends and for no sense of honor or heroism. Of course, this is exactly what progressives and anti-war commentators have been saying all along. So there you have it. This dirty, stinking, never-ending war being brought to you by those murderous, thieving, lying thugs George Bush Jr and Tony Blair. I am working on an essay right now that 1) vents my frustration - to put it mildly but is also evolving into a manifesto for long term strategies for social change and the eventual deposition of the Bush Regime and all its supporters in ever corner of society. If you don't get the root, the weed will just grow back. Sincerely, And extremely angry, Thom Fowler
