Hi Gabe,
Disturbing, and true, the animosity and the hostility in the streets and in some talk venues. I remember in the sixties in Laramie Wyoming, cowboys who were conservative and pro-Vietnam would lasso hippies and cut off their hair with sheep shears, often taking large patches of scalp with it. (Which is really the context for the Matthew Shepherd killing, basically the crucifixion of a gay man, in Laramie, in recent years). But it seems to me that the animosity and hostility is more lethal than it was then, a mental attitude both expressed and cultivated in "nuking" whatever one doesn't like, as well as the American fondness for the possession and use of the gun. At first, I took my son who's 9 to a demonstration. I would not now, as it is a commonplace for those who drive by to cock their hands and aim as if their hands were pistols pointing at the anti-war demonstrator's head. Though, yes, I agree, this should not dampen resolve but rather the opposite, or to quote John Berryman "We must travel in the direction of our fear."
Best,
Rebecca
Rebecca Seiferle
www.thedrunkenboat.com
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Subject: DO NOT STOP PROTESTING
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> 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:
<a target=_blank
href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57979-2003Mar31.html">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57979-2003Mar31.html</a>
And at this poll 29 percent of responders say he should be tried in a
military court:
<a target=_blank
href="http://www.startribune.com/fungames/ipoll/tabulate.php?questionID=552&template=default">http://www.startribune.com/fungames/ipoll/tabulate.php?questionID=552&template=default</a>
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: <a target=_blank
href="http://www.nypost.com/postopinion/editorial/72152.htm">http://www.nypost.com/postopinion/editorial/72152.htm</a>
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!"
<a target=_blank
href="http://theadvocate.com/stories/033003/ira_protest001.shtml">http://theadvocate.com/stories/033003/ira_protest001.shtml</a>
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