Re: UN Petition

From: N (vygotsky@charter.net)
Date: Thu Mar 06 2003 - 16:28:54 PST

Sorry I could not resist. In what ways will such a petition influence Bush.

It would assume,

1) Bush has respect for democracy (remember that massive world protest a
few weeks ago Bush called it a special interest group).

2) Bush gives a yahoo (no pun intended) about the UN.

Now if we fowarded all the petitions simutanously from multiple nodes of
  cyberspace directed at a Pentegon server during multiple times of
departure I could see the point. They will probally make a law against
that though. I know, they already have.

On the serious side, many of the more active members in the peace
movement have accepted the fact they will be doing jail time in the near
future. There are already strong attempts linking the peace movement
with terrorism.

Locally, a man was arrested at a mall for refusing to take off a
subversive shirt that stated "give peace a chance".

I feel like that Nolte movie,

This isn't my city, how the hell did I get here?

This isn't my facist country, how the ____ did I get here?

Better shut up, I hear a plane overhead!

Martin Ryder wrote:
> The Bush push for war finds daily expression through every major corprate
> media outlet. The voices against the war have employed means much less
> powerful, but they are finding the most interesting channels to express
> themselves. This petition is a good example. In less than two days after
> it was launched, over 550,000 people have signed, from over 200 countries.
> As petitions go, this is one of the fastest growing and already on of the
> largest in history.
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> http://www.moveon.org/emergency/
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> Martin Ryder
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-- 
“There is no hope of finding the sources of free action in the lofty 
realms of the mind or in the depths of the brain. The idealist approach 
of the phenomenologists is as hopeless as the positive approach of the 
naturalists. To discover the sources of free action it is necessary to 
go outside the limits of the organism, not into the intimate sphere of 
the mind, but into the objective forms of social life; it is necessary 
to seek the sources of human consciousness and freedom in the social 
history of humanity. To find the soul it is necessary to lose it".
A.R Luria

Nate
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