Hmmmmmmmmmmmm.............................
I'm not from Madison, but instead from Charlottesville, VA and was web-surfing here on a Saturday afternoon and stopped on the 'Local Access Station'. You know the type. They're supposed to run programming produced 'for and by' the local populace.
For the last hour I've been watching FSTV (Free Speech TV?) out of Madison, WI which is running a program called DEMOCRACY NOW! hosted by AMY GOODMAN.
All I've heard from her and her guests so far is an unrelenting barrage of criticism and analysis of how Fascists like Bush, Cheney, FOX News etc., etc., etc. have taken over the country and are plotting to turn this place, with the help of the "Conservative Media Complex" into a large concentration camp. Furthermore, I've learned that the Right-Wing (Dennis Hastert, Tucker Carlson, Newt Gingrich et al.) will stop at nothing to propagandize the American people.
All THIS with little breaks in between the interviews for pictures of The People marching arm-in-arm in the streets with Peace Signs, lighting and contemplating lit candles, and generally showing their Solidarity against this 'out-of-control War-machine Juggernaut'.
What a freakin' load of unadulterated CRAP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
They are contemplating the lit candles because of all the really kewl colors they see in there, all expanding and contracting, some pinwheeling, wow, man, wow...
And that's Madison, WI. Problem is, a large percentage of the people you saw on TV work for the State Government. The good news: they stare at their candles all day long in the office, thus doing nothing.
The bad news, of course, is that we PAY them for that.