Posted on 10/12/2001 2:10:05 PM PDT by jonatron
Regional anti-war demonstration
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Topic / Issue: Peace
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Description :
Sunday, October 14, 3:00 pm, Copley Square
Please join us for a somber but colorful demonstration to memorialize the victims of the September 11 attacks and oppose US military retaliation and the attacks on civil liberties and on the immigrant and Arab-American communities.
[panzy alert...] **Please bring a flower--real, paper, or otherwise--to use in a participatory memorial. To create a powerful image and event, eveeryone should have a flower.**
We will begin at 3:00 sharp at Copley Square. The afternoon will feature art, speakers, and cultural performances. If all goes well with permits, we will march to a park in the South End to conclude around 6:00 pm.
For more invormation, please write to Boston_O-@yahoo.com
Someone please tell me this is a joke. These idiots can't possibly be serious.
How about an opium poppy?
Think of it! Almost three times the number of people were slain in one hundred minutes last month than were lost in total at Pearl Harbor. Yet, in that bygone period, the sneak attack instantly galvanized the entire nation behind our government with civic duty raised far above civil rights. Every vestige of divisive protest and self interest for this or that end vanished in an instant on that Sunday morning. The nation was unified and focused to win over evil at any cost...... I remember.
Yet now various organizations freely implement their right to march and protest any and all of our government’s defensive actions, all the while external evil masking as a religion has so obviously set out to destroy us. And where is common sense and common decency so soon projected before the families of these thousands of murdered American innocents? What, if anything, concerning civil duty and obligations essential to civil rights are being taught in our schools?
Since the Vietnam war, there has been an increasing emphasis on civil rights and civil liberties by many organizations. All are well financed and amply supplied with lawyers ready to feed at the trough while defeating any injustice.. real, contrived, or imagined.
The outward support of most Americans toward their government in this unfolding war is a joy to behold. Yet something seems amiss insofar as integrating, for the young in particular, an understanding of why civic obligations and duties are an essential element and precursor to lasting civil rights in our American equation.
Basking Ridge and perhaps America may never be the same.
But a Freep is a Freep. Where are we meeting?
Oh, they're serious all right. They all have some contrived method for making themselves look "spontaneously" creative and emotional and sensitive in their reactions to this "tragedy". At last weekend's Peacenik fest in Union Square, the attendees were told to wear white (for peave and purity, I guess). White robes, if possible.
How very like Jesus. < /sarcarm > < /nausea >
Go get 'em, Boston area Freepers.
"...be sure to wear a flower in your hair."
The new hippies!
"peave" = "peace"
I do understand that the Bostonians sent the likes of Gary Studds, Barney Frank, the Kennedy's, et al to Washington D.C.
Why should anyone appease them?
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