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<blockquote type="cite"><big><b><font color="#cc0000">America</font>, <font
color="#3366ff">l</font><font color="#000099"><font color="#3366ff">ove
it</font> </font><font color="#ff0000">or</font> <font color="#3366ff">leave
it!</font></b></big></blockquote>
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What a great idea! Whodathunkit?<br>
<br>
I do indeed pay the taxes required of me at my chosen place of
residence.<br>
<br>
Although paid locally, I suppose that some distribution is made <br>
at the national (hence "federal" as you put it) level.<br>
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I am rather certain that not even one<i> fen</i> contributes to the US
wars of aggression.<br>
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Some, of my neighbors, may, indeed, be "commies". Some, are not,
"commies".<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
On 6/13/2012 6:42 AM, John W. wrote:
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cite="mid:CAPnrEOUjcVHBt5u6Y_Qdme0nvvW2J_hXG3GK7117HtAprWUgng@mail.gmail.com"
type="cite">And with all of that marvelously graphic vividness, the
vast majority of parade-goers wouldn't have the SLIGHTEST idea where
you're coming from. "But, but..." they'd sputter. "We're bringing
them FREEDOM and DEMOCRACY! You people are commies! America, love it
or leave it!"
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<div>I presume, Wayne, that you pay no federal income taxes?</div>
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<div>John Wason<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 5:24 PM, E. Wayne
Johnson <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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<div text="#000000" bgcolor="#ffffff">I suggest an extremely
graphic and provocative display of live children
with bloody bandages <br>
and horrible simulated burns and wounds. <br>
<br>
American soldiers with skull masks in desert storm camo and boots
stomping them<br>
and pointing guns with bloody bayonets.<br>
<br>
You can get intestines from the slaughterhouse in Forrest or Ivesdale
to display the eviscerations.<br>
Maybe the costume shop on first street has fake guts.<br>
<br>
Some of the children could wear masks representing death and zombied
corpses.<br>
I am sure there are some awful masks available with eyeballs hanging
out and such.<br>
<br>
A bloodied dove like the one in Scarfe's "Goodbye Blue Sky" (from "The
Wall") might fit in somewhere.<br>
<br>
At the front of the float a tall female figure <br>
a caricature of the Statue of Liberty<br>
with a lurid dayglo green mask with a big dollar sign on it <br>
and holding a bloody Scythe and a Black Book with the word "Why?" on it.<br>
<br>
A boombox playing Joy Division's "The Day of the Lords"...<br>
<i>...through childhood through youth<br>
I remember it all<br>
I've seen the nights filled with bloodsport and pain<br>
and the bodies obtained, the bodies obtained, the bodies obtained<br>
Where will it End?<br>
Where will it End?</i><br>
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href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BP-LIntM6c" target="_blank"><cite>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BP-LIntM6c</cite></a><br>
<br>
The audience should encounter the smell of war not just this cute
acting and simulation.<br>
Fifty pounds of wet soybean meal inoculated with an handful of fresh
dog poop and<br>
rotted in the back yard for a few days should<br>
sufficiently mimic the malodour of decaying bodies.<br>
<br>
A small fan to blow the stench of death toward the crowd.<br>
<br>
Overall a message of accusation that YOU out there,<br>
who support the carnage and cruelty <br>
with your taxes, <br>
and with your lack of outrage, <br>
do indeed bear Full Responsibility for what<br>
is happening to the World's Youth.<br>
<br>
on the tail of the float, a question <br>
<br>
"Where will it End?"<br>
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just my idea.... someone can surely add to it.<br>
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On 6/13/2012 4:53 AM, Elizabeth Simpson wrote:
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<div><span>hi folks-</span></div>
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<div><span>these ideas make sense to explore the impact of war on
children, but they don't seem to celebrate youth... so maybe you
actually mean a different theme? Like recognizing the impact?</span></div>
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<div><span>Celebrating youth might look like children who have
made
efforts to oppose war or do other projects that promote peace/oppose
state violence</span></div>
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Best to you, <br>
elizaBeth<br>
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<div><span style="font-style: italic;"></span>
<hr style="width: 100%; min-height: 2px;">Besides the noble art
of
getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone.
The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials.<br>
- Lin Yutang</div>
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style="font-weight: bold;">Celebrate U-C People's History Poster
Project</span><span style="font-style: italic;"><br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.ucpeopleshistory.org"
target="_blank">www.ucpeopleshistory.org</a><br>
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<hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b>
Karen Medina <a moz-do-not-send="true"
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<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Monday, June
11,
2012 10:20 PM<br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [SDaS]
4th of
July / AWARE's twist on the theme is "Celebrating the World's Youth" /
help on the idea, please<br>
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Hello All Friends of AWARE,<br>
<br>
The them of the 4th of July parade in Champaign-Urbana is "Celebrating<br>
our Youth"<br>
<br>
AWARE's twist on the theme is "Celebrating the World's Youth".<br>
<br>
One brainstorm idea that came up: How about a stretcher with a child<br>
victim of war on it? A victim in war zone / an orphan of war / and a<br>
child with an absent soldier parent. Three stretchers?<br>
<br>
Doesn't have to be a child on the stretcher, but something that<br>
represents a child, like toys, or a doll, or something.<br>
<br>
Basically, we need your ideas and help!!!!<br>
<br>
-- karen medina<br>
"The really great make you feel that you, too, can become great." -
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