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We believe in truth, justice and doing what is right for all of mankind and not just the wealthy. We believe in taking on those who would mislead us, sing silly songs about bombing other nations, or simply continue the status quo as if war was the normal state of our existence. We believe in the moral judgment of the people and not the profiteering judgment of corporations and lobbyists. We believe in a leader who will fight the special interest groups that focus on more war, more fear mongering and more profits for the wealthy 1% at the expense of the rest of us. We believe in the CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES and holding those accountable for their war atrocities. We believe in voting for the best person for the job, not because of his/her sex, color or religion, but because they have the skills to fight the good fight AND WIN. We believe in actions that speak louder than words and will continue to support OUR candidate throughout his campaign.
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"Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope... a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.
Robert F. Kennedy
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"And ye shall KNOW THE TRUTH and THE TRUTH WILL MAKE YOU FREE."
John VIII-XXXII
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"The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river."
"Torture is just as wrong as murder is and condoning it for ANY reason is unjustifiable.
Allowing torture invites others to do the same to our men and woman, many of whom
are just boys and girls trying to serve their country, not the wealthy war profiteers!"
To feed men and not to love them is to treat them as if they were barnyard cattle. To love them and not respect them is to treat them as if they were household pets."
“Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes … known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few.… No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare."
"There is no civil right, not even the precious right of citizenship,
that this administration will not abuse to secure
ever greater control over American life."
Professor Jack Balkin
Knight Professor of Constitutional Law at Yale University
“The power of the executive to cast a man into prison
without formulating any charge known to the law
and to deny him the judgment of his peers
is to the highest degree odious and the
foundation of all totalitarian government,
whether Nazi or Communist."
Winston Churchill (1943)
While in the midst of fighting for England’s very survival.
(Thanks to our current policies we can now add Capitalist to that list.)
“To follow one’s government “blindly” is to lower yourself to the level of a household pet. Blind patriotism is the equivalent of a dog following his master’s commands without question because that’s where his next meal is coming from.”
"The banks were not innocent or deceived parties in these transactions: they were active participants in the fraud. While there have been no charges that any of the entities set up by the banks were illegal, the banks were aware that Enron was using the prepays to defraud investors."
Senate subcommitte investigating the banks - January 2003
"If all Americans want is security, they can go to prison. They'll have enough to eat, a bed and a roof over their heads. But if an American wants to preserve his dignity and his equality as a human being, he must not bow his neck to any dictatorial government."
"When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other in order that the people may require a leader."
"The most effective way to restrict democracy
is to transfer decision-making from the
public arena to unaccountable institutions:
kings and princes, priestly castes, military juntas,
party dictatorships, or modern corporations."
“Unscrupulous politicians and lobbyists are like seafaring rats . . . no matter how dirty their business or how foul their character . . .
there’s always another anchor line and ship waiting for them."
Patrick Alaggio
(My sincere apologies to the rat for this analogy.)
"He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression: for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach unto himself."
"The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment."
Tobacco companies have exported their death
to more than 100 MILLION men, women and children!
When are we going to say, “STOP THE MURDER!”
to this modern day holocaust we’re allowing?
"We need to engage in whatever non-violent actions appeal to us.
There is no act too small, no act too bold. The history of social change
is the history of millions of actions, small and large, coming together at
critical points to create a power that governments cannot suppress.
We find ourselves today at one of those critical points."
"Another world is not only possible, she's on her way.
Maybe many of us won't be here to greet her,
but on a quiet day, if I listen carefully,
I can hear her breathing."
"Protecting the wolves is synonymous to protecting our environment and the well-being of our natural habitats. To disregard this responsibility is to rape the earth and spew in the face of creation."
"The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use - of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public."
"Every species factors into the balance of life and every affront
mankind makes upon that infinite wisdom is an assault upon every
other creature... including us. Only in our most feebleminded imaginings do we grant ourselves the right to play God."
We pray that peoples of all faiths, all races, all nations, may have their great human needs satisfied; that those now denied opportunity shall come to enjoy it to the full; that all who yearn for freedom may experience its spiritual blessings; that those who have freedom will understand, also, its heavy responsibilities; that all who are insensitive to the needs of others will learn charity; that the scourges of poverty, disease and ignorance will be made to disappear from the earth, and that, in the goodness of time, all peoples will come to live together in a peace guaranteed by the binding force of mutual respect and love.
"Such as it is, the press has become the greatest power within the Western World, more powerful than the legislature, the executive and the judiciary. One would like to ask; by whom has it been elected and to whom is it responsible?"
"The era of procrastination, of half-measures of soothing
and baffling expedients of delays is coming to a close.
In it’s place we are entering a period of consequences."
Sir Winston Churchill on November 12th, 1936
(Discussing Hitler and the Nazi threat. Or, equally important today in
discussing Global Warming and the liars who tell us it isn’t happening!)
"To see the earth as it truly is, small and blue in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see riders on the earth together, brothers on that bright loveliness in the eternal cold, brothers who know they are truly brothers."
Tests prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that there are now TWO threads of human life that are currently defined as “homo sapiens”. Those who understand that we are all the same and find racism,
in all of its’ forms, to be vile and reprehensible… and those who STILL BELIEVE they are better than the rest of us when in fact they are much more closely related to the chimpanzee!
"We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason if we remember that we are not descended from fearful men, not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate and to defend causes which were, for the moment, unpopular."
“… we have been compelled to create a permanent armaments industry of vast proportions. Added to this, three and a half million men and women are directly engaged in the defense establishment. We annually spend on military security more than the net income of all United States corporations.
This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. The total influence – economic, political, even spiritual – is felt in every city, every Statehouse, every office of the Federal government. We recognize the imperative need for this development. Yet we must not fail to comprehend its grave implications. Our toil, resources and livelihood are all involved; so is the very structure of our society.
In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.”
President Dwight David Eisenhower
(from his Farewell Address of January 16th, 1961)
“A pivotal period of U.S. involvement in Vietnam, punctuated by three important events: the overthrow and assassination of South Vietnam’s president Ngo Dinh Diem; President Kennedy’s decision on October 2(1963) to begin the withdrawal of U.S. forces; and his assassination fifty days later.”
From ex-Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara’s 1995 memoir “In Retrospect”
"As sad as the loss of John F. Kennedy was, the loss of over 58,000 Americans that resulted from the reversal of his Vietnam withdrawal plans is far sadder. We don't need to wait until the year 2029 to understand that."
“I don’t think that unless a greater effort is made by the government to win popular support that the war can be won out there. In the final analysis, it is their war. They are the ones who have to win or lose it. We can help them, we can give them equipment, we can send our men out there as advisers, but they have to win it.”
From JFK's interview with Walter Cronkite on September 2, 1963
Kennedy met with Robert McNamara and General Maxwell Taylor on 2nd October, 1963. Kennedy told McNamara to announce to the press the immediate withdrawal of one thousand soldiers from Vietnam. Kennedy added that he would “probably withdraw all American forces from Vietnam by the end of 1965”. When McNamara was leaving the meeting to talk to the white house reporters, Kennedy called to him: “And tell them that means all of the helicopter pilots too.” In his statement to the press McNamara softened the President’s views by stating that in his judgment “the major part of the U.S. military task” in Vietnam could be “completed by the end of 1965.”
“Our economic analysis has disclosed the fact that it is only the interests of competing cliques of business men – investors, contractors, export manufacturers, and certain professional classes – that are antagonistic; that these cliques, usurping the authority and voice of the people, use the public resources to push their private interests, and spend the blood and money of the people in this vast and disastrous military game, feigning national antagonism which have no basis in reality."
from J.A. Hobson's "Imperialism: A Study" published in 1902
(A strong opponent of British imperialist adventures.)
"I am of course confident that I will fulfill my tasks as a writer in all circumstances — from my grave even more successfully and more irrefutably than in my lifetime. No one can bar the road to truth, and to advance its cause I am prepared to accept even death. But may it be that repeated lessons will finally teach us not to stop the writer’s pen during his lifetime? At no time has this ennobled our history."
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Too bad most of our journalists are concerned primarily with their wallets
rather than their integrity, their courage, their craft or their legacy.
I choose for mankind one Solzhenitsyn over ten-thousand Murdochs.
"The right of voting for representatives is the primary right by which all other rights are protected. To take away this right is to reduce a man to slavery."
"The voice of protest, of warning, of appeal is never more needed than when the clamor of fife and drum, echoed by the press and too often by the pulpit, is bidding all men fall in and keep step and obey in silence the tyrannous word of command. Then, more than ever, it is the DUTY of the good citizen NOT to be silent."
NEO-CON Republicans, Fascists or __________? (Am I the only one seeing RED?)
"We're going to keep building the party until we're hunting democrats with dogs."
Senator Phil Gramm (R-Texas), Mother Jones 08/95
(Mrs. Phil Gramm sat on Enron's Board of Directors!)
"Environmentalists are a socialist group of individuals that are the tool of the Democrat Party. I'm proud to say that they are my enemy. They are not Americans, never have been Americans, never will be Americans."
Rep. Don Young (R-Alaska), Alaska Public Radio, 08-19-96
"Get rid of the guy. Impeach him, censure him, assassinate him." Rep. James Hansen (R-Utah) Talking about President Clinton, as reported by journalist Steve Miner of KSUB radio who overheard his conversation, 11-01-98
"My only regret with Timothy McVeigh is he did not go to The New York Times building."
Ann Coulter, The New York Observer, 08-26-02
"And there is, I am certain, among the Iraqi people a respect for the care and the precision that went into the bombing campaign." Donald Rumsfeld, defenselink.mil, 04-09-03
"Emotional appeals about working families trying to get by on $4.25 an hour are hard to resist. Fortunately, such families do not exist." Rep. Tom DeLay (R-Texas), House Majority Whip, during a debate on increasing the minimum wage, Congressional Record, H3706, 04-23-96
"I don't understand how poor people think."
George W. Bush, confiding in the Rev. Jim Wallis The New York Times, 08-26-03
"There are some who feel that, you know, the conditions are such that they can attack us there. My answer is, bring 'em on. We have the force necessary to deal with the situation." - George W. Bush The Chicago Tribune, 07-03-03
"Two things made this country great: White men & Christianity. The degree these two have diminished is in direct proportion to the corruption and fall of the nation. Every problem that has arisen (sic) can be directly traced back to our departure from God's Law and the disenfranchisement of White men."
State Rep. Don Davis (R-NC) E-mailed to every member of the North Carolina House and Senate, reported by The Fayetteville Observer, 08-22-01
"Why should we hear about body bags and deaths and how many, what day it's gonna happen? It's not relevant. So why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that?" said Barbara Bush, on 'Good Morning America' the day before the Iraq war started, The New York Times, 01-13-03
"I'm the commander—see, I don't need to explain I don't need to explain why I say things. That's the interesting thing about being the President. Maybe somebody needs to explain to me why they say something, but I don't feel like I owe anybody an explanation." George W. Bush Washington Post, 11-19-02
These quotes, and many others that are just as ridiculous, can be found in a book by Bruce Miller and Diana Maio titled "Take Them At Their Words."
"If we're not smart enough to totally ban nuclear weapons then Homo sapiens don't deserve to inhabit this planet. Disarm or LET 'EM FLY... so the Earth can begin to heal from our gross stupidity."
We are all but snowflakes floating for a brief time through gentle winds, sometimes not... but all together in our separateness... we are unique, yet so alike that from a distance we are the same... until we reach the ground and look up at all our brothers and sisters gently joining us... surrounding us with their caresses and their lives... pressing us together into one beautiful landscape... one entity... and we are no longer alone. For it is not in our aloneness that we are great and wonderful… but in our togetherness.
“Ten years from now 77 million baby boomers are retiring. All of those liabilities are not funded, the “Trust Fund” is one of the ultimate oxymoron’s of our times. There’s nothing in it, it’s not funded and you shouldn’t trust it!"
Peter Peterson – Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of NY
“Better to die a free man in prison
than to live shackled by cowardice.”
Patrick Michael Alaggio
. . .
The Prison Industry: Capitalist Punishment . . .
Up for sale: prisons and prisoners . . .
'Prison Poems' by Bobby Sands . . .
The Cure? MAKE THEM FIX IT OR BANKRUPT THEM!
. . . DNA WORKS BOTH WAYS!
. . . Imprison those who cover up the truth!
. . . Compensate the wrongly convicted and their families!
. . . (How much? TREBLE the averaged salaries of those who . . . convicted them multiplied by the years that were served!)
Let not the nations be judged
by the greatest within them
but by the least within them
then will the justice of that nation be known
Then, let not the world be judged
by the greatest among us
but by the least among us
only then will the nature of our humanity be known
Tobacco products have no safe level of consumption, and are the only legal consumer products that kill when used exactly as the manufacturer intends. Researchers have rated nicotine as even more addictive than heroin, cocaine, marijuana or alcohol.
"What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?."
"Repay no one evil for evil, but take thought for what is noble in the sight of all. If possible, so far as it depends on you, live peaceably with all. Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave it to the wrath of God; for it is written, 'Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord.' No, if your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him drink....' Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good."
“The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which
it must turn over to the next generation increased, and not impaired in value.”
Theodore Roosevelt
“Perhaps when we stop playing God and exterminating HIS creations will we find ourselves worthy of our own survival.”
Patrick Alaggio
* World Economy (Annually) = ~ $26,000,000,000,000 ($26 Trillion)
* World Hunger/Cost to End = ~ . . . . $40,000,000,000
($40 Billion)
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--> Are we too greedy to help? ~ $25,960,000,000,000
How many people have to starve before humans evolve?
What do we become when we allow these people to die?
If not our responsibility. . . then who shall we offer it to?
Dare we judge others when we fail to see our own reflection?
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