[Peace-discuss] tea parties miss the boat

[Morton K. Brussel]

Good work, Ricky.

I attended the Champaign Tea paryty with a little flyer put out by  
AfterDowning Street.org which I displayed walking around, and which  
pointed out that over 50% of the income tax dollar are military costs  
and that there is a huge bailout to the banks. People there were  
interested, surprisingly. I had many questions and positive nods   
while I walked around. One comes to the conclusion that many are just  
confused about hy they may be suffering, and are vulnerable to  
"fundamentalism" just like elsewhere in the world.

On the other hand there was a lot of ignorant and hateful speech,  
absolutely scurrilous and racist  from the podium.  "Patriotism" was  
the order of the day, flags a-flying.  Of course, this "Tea Party" has  
its origins on the far right, so what does one expect? Wayne Johnson  
was there to give a speech, but I couldn't stay to hear what he had to  
say; I hope it showed the costs of our wars.

Too bad more didn't show up to show what's behind our budget.


On Apr 15, 2009, at 3:34 PM, Ricky Baldwin wrote:

> My 2c...
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> http://theclayeater.blogspot.com/2009/04/missing-boat.html
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> Ricky
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