The America I Love
Something magical happened over the weekend. It was more than a change of seasons coming, more than crisp swirls of autumn in the air. The America I love — the country that disappeared several years ago — finally showed up.
You remember America — that underdog group of colonies that kicked empire’s butt when they’d had enough of the king’s taxing, spying, and attacks on due process? The America that fought against the idea of a grand empire ruling the world? The America modeled on nurturing peace, not war?
On Saturday, while George W. Bush slunk off to Camp David, an estimated 100,000 people protested the Iraq War in Washington. And this time, police didn’t confine the protestors to some free speech zone underneath a parking garage in a bad part of town.
No, this time, protestors were led by 50 veterans who served in Iraq, and they came with banners bared, marched down Pennsylvania Avenue and then camped out on the Capital lawn. The ANSWER Coalition, which organized the event, promised a full week of civil disobedience.
God Bless America, land of the free.
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September 17th, 2007 at 4:51 pm
It’s about time.
September 17th, 2007 at 7:48 pm
There is a progression in the stages of death. Various systems start shutting down first. Then the second stage more systems shut down. In the very final stage just hours or even a couple days before daeth, there is very often a “surge” of energy in the body when senses and abilities may appear almost normal and give one hope. But it is a false sense of hope. Death is inevitable.
This isolated, though hopeful event seems to me to be like that. I just don’t see enough of the systems that have failed…starting back up again and starting to work in unison.
Sorry.
September 17th, 2007 at 8:25 pm
I’m with Xman:
A day late and a dollar short.
September 17th, 2007 at 9:55 pm
I’m just really amazed at the lack of news coverage…I mean, the sight of those Iraq War Veterans being put on their stomachs and plasti-cuffed on the steps of the U.S. Capitol…that sort of got to me. Add to that the fact that the news has been slow lately, and for even the Corporate Media whores not to be replaying videos of the vets being cuffed left and right…there’s some serious media control clamp-down going on, no?
And if that’s indeed the case, then you guys may be right…every system is shutting down to send one last rush of oxygen to liberty’s brain before we completely succomb to the fascist New World Order.
September 18th, 2007 at 12:28 pm
I just heard John Dean, talking to Thom Hartmann, explain how America didn’t question the Administration until Nixon broke the spell. After that, everything was suspect , until GW Bush got his unexplainable free pass.
The good folk of America get in trouble believing too strongly in what they wish to be, rather than what is.
September 18th, 2007 at 7:45 pm
I’m almost to the end of William Gibson’s “Spook Country,” and one of the characters muses about Americans and wonders if we got mass Stockholm Syndrome after 9/11. An interesting possibility.
September 19th, 2007 at 8:51 am
100,000? The permit was for 10,000 and the AP reports thousands. How many people were really there?
September 19th, 2007 at 9:19 am
The first stories that came out sited the 100,000 figure. Then, the Main Stream Media began to say “tens of thousands,” and by Monday, most Corporate News outlets were reporting “a few thousand.”
Here’s what 107,000 people look like:
The police don’t do crowd estimates anymore, but from the pictures taken around Washington on September 15, there looks to be close to 100,000 folks there, if not more.