I hope the following will quicken not dampen resolve, but i wanted to give
a run-down on how truth and protest is being suppressed by coercion in the US:
nbc's arnette fired for telling the truth:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57979-2003Mar31.html
And at this poll 29 percent of responders say he should be tried in a
military court:
http://www.startribune.com/fungames/ipoll/tabulate.php?questionID=552&template=default
And just yesterday on "KDKA-TV" a poll was askign whether "peace rallies
should be allowed to continue" now that the US is at war.
And here's an article that hints that a Columbia professor should be gunned
down for making what are considered anti-american comments at a peace
rally: http://www.nypost.com/postopinion/editorial/72152.htm
And here a Louisiana dj asks his listeners to shout profanity at protesters
and says they should be shot in the head -- some signs eve declar that
protesters should be shot in the head:
"Along with plenty of American flags, several of the signs they carried
demeaned the marchers: "Protesting this war while our troops are being
killed is equal to treason," read one. "You should all be shot."" //
"Richard Condon, a morning show host for rock station KOOJ, said he wanted
the hecklers to "put these goofballs in their place."
"This has been going on since World War I, and it's the reason they have
the right to feel the way they do," Condon said, pointing at the peace
protesters marching down Stanford toward LSU.
Despite that right, he concluded, "I think these son-of-a-buggers deserve a
bullet in the head."
This followed his proclamation to the crowd at the beach about American
military aims that ended with: "And it's about time we nuked Canada's ass!"
http://theadvocate.com/stories/033003/ira_protest001.shtml
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"To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things
they misname empire; and where they make
a wilderness, they call it peace." -- Tacitus
Gabriel Gudding
Department of English
Illinois State University
Normal, IL 61790
office 309.438.5284
http://www.pitt.edu/~press/2002/gudding.html
http://gabrielgudding.blogspot.com/
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"To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things
they misname empire; and where they make
a wilderness, they call it peace." -- Tacitus
Gabriel Gudding
Department of English
Illinois State University
Normal, IL 61790
office 309.438.5284
http://www.pitt.edu/~press/2002/gudding.html
http://gabrielgudding.blogspot.com/
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