[Peace-discuss] Will this Bush lie fly?

[E. Wayne Johnson]

education not just vacuous repetition of slogans
- chanting "end the fed, end the fed, end the fed" is cool & probably 
makes ya feel good but not too many "get it".

continued expression
- even after they seem to have "won"...
- This $700 billion is a REPEATED amount
- after all, The Worst is Yet to come.

solidarity
- The bailout is a bipartisan effort "both /Stupid/ and /Evil/"
- if we are allowed to be divided by R vs D, They who wish to make 
merchandise of us will win.

demonstrations
non-violent resistance
non-violent civil disobedience



John W. wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 3:03 PM, E. Wayne Johnson <ewj at pigs.ag 
> <mailto:ewj at pigs.ag>> wrote:
>
>     when those who can see what is going on are unwilling to do what
>     is right and necessary then there is little hope.
>
>     Hope is that those who can see the truth continue to speak up in
>     effective ways, no matter what.
>
>
> OK, so all these American citizens have spoken out.  They're contacted 
> their Congresspersons to express their opposition to the bailout.  Yet 
> it appears that the bailout will be enacted soon, if it hasn't been 
> already.  What's next?  What kind of speaking up would be "effective"?
>
>
>  
>
>     John W. wrote:
>>
>>     On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 12:26 AM, C. G. Estabrook
>>     <galliher at uiuc.edu <mailto:galliher at uiuc.edu>> wrote:
>>
>>         "The rescue effort we're negotiating is not aimed at Wall
>>         Street -- it is aimed at your street." --Pres. G. W. Bush, 27
>>         September 2008.
>>
>>         Probably. --CGE
>>
>>
>>     And why do you suppose it will fly, Carl?   You've quoted
>>     statistics about how many ordinary Americans are writing their
>>     Congresspersons to express their displeasure with the proposed
>>     bailout (10 to 1 against, 99 to 1 against, etc.)  If the
>>     Americans on Main Street are not unintelligent or uninformed, why
>>     do so many of the transparently mendacious Bush lies fly? 
>>     Learned helplessness on the part of the American people?
>
>
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