looky what email I got this morning...(vanity)

ramsa@swva.net ^

[camle]

-----Original Message----- From: ramsa@swva.net [mailto:ramsa@swva.net] Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 2:28 AM To: info@adlibsoft.com Subject: [Fwd] Boycott Brand America

How to Boycott a Global Bully

In the face of intense opposition at home and abroad, the US government is determined to fight a war that will be felt around the world. It's a slap in the face to democracy, a cold shoulder to liberty - and it's time to make a visible statement against American power gone wrong.

Here is the one and only rule for the Brand America Boycott: this action belongs to you. You decide what brands and products stand as symbols of America's new empire-building project, and you decide how you'll make your statement. Above all else, this is a culture jam - personal, spontaneous, unpredictable.

Some people are planning a total Made-in-America boycott. Some will boycott oil for the duration of the war. Others are planning public activism against the greatest symbols of the Brand America warriors: McDonald's, Philip Morris, Exxon Mobil, Texaco, the major automakers, Tommy Hilfiger, Gap, Starbucks, Nike, Disneyland, the Hollywood cinemas. Media activists can launch TV Turnoff campaigns against Fox, CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS and MTV. The limits to your participation are the limits of imagination, and the brainstorming has already begun.

When the bombs start falling, the boycott begins. Within days, we'll launch the first days of action - targeted boycotts to make a visible statement against the symbols of American power that we live with day to day. Imagine a global action against American oil corporations, or a day when McDonald's restaurants stand empty from Tokyo to Toronto, from Berlin to Chicago. Imagine a 24-hour blackout of America's "big five" media cheerleaders.

Most importantly, keep in touch and let the world know how you're getting involved in the Brand America Boycott. We'll post regular updates and spread the word. It's a consumer strike against a corrupted American dream. One final warning: be prepared to change the world!

http://adbusters.org/campaigns/boycott_america/

-- Annie, still playing, cooks almost eventually, as the case creeps within their shopkeeper.

[camle]

Got this in my email this morning. seems like the anti-war crowd is looking for more trouble.

[grumple]

All this does is weeaken economies. It doesn't stop taxes from being collected to prosecute a war...it's time the pas Clinton administration gets outed on these tactics

[Aeronaut]

Some will boycott oil for the duration of the war.

Yeah, and Hitler's alive in Brazil.

[An.American.Expatriate]

The last line is strange (curious)

[peteram]

Some will boycott oil for the duration of the war.

Well, I don't know about where you live, but I haven't seen an increase of people walking or bicycling to work around here.

[peteram]

Probably some lefty code. Or, maybe they're just very stoned.

[YourAdHere]

Yeah, and Hitler's alive in Brazil.

Actually, he and Elvis run a Burger King in Kalamazoo, Michigan.

[Rebelbase]

"TV Turnoff campaigns against Fox, CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS and MTV"

Not a bad idea. This would guarantee an increase across the board in all areas of K-12 education.

[metesky]

It's meant to be "heavy" and enigmatic like 1965 Bob Dylan album liner notes.

Like, kewl dude!

[TADSLOS]

It's either phrase code or that's when the peaceniks LSD kicked in.

[JoeSixPack1]

This is about as lame as the one-day-fast against the war.

But to make it real easy for 'em, just shop at Wal-Mart. See, easy.
All chinese, all the time. Ah-so!

:-)

[meowmeow]

Some will boycott oil for the duration of the war.

Someone should remind them that plastic is a petroleum product. But I’m sure the never use plastic.

http://www.reachoutmichigan.org/funexperiments/quick/plastic.html

[meowmeow]

rats.

the never = they never

shouldn't post before coffee.

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

Great Wall-mart of china

[chainsaw]

Some will boycott oil for the duration of the war.

Ya sure. SUV's and Limo's don't run very well on urine.

[Rightwing Conspiratr1]

The last line is strange (curious)

It's random computer generated nonsense designed to defeat email and usenet spam protection systems.

[RWG]

-- Annie, still playing, cooks almost eventually, as the case creeps within their shopkeeper...is this a message from al qaeda? Or maybe a dope dealer? Or could this be the natural product of government schools?

[camle]

Here is the response I sent them:

"I took the liberty of posting your unsolicited email (SPAM) to the websit "FREEREPUBLIC.COM". I hope you don't mind the extra participation.

Oh! by the way, plastic is an oil product. does that mean you can't buy anymore CD's? Bicycles contain lots of plastic, and rubber tires. Guess that means you'll have to walk to work, eh? Come to think of it, roadway pavement has a lot of oil in it, maybe you should go through the woods.

And electricity is an oil product as well. that is many electrical generators run on oil, or US supplied coal. Does this mean that you are to turn off your electricity, too?

And finally, computers and email are American inventions. it would be hypocritical of you to continue to use these mediums to espouse your boycott, no?

cheers!
steve"

[Diva Betsy Ross]

I can not imagine the Mickey D's crowd cares much what the anti-americans think about anything. Vegans don't spend much money on quater pounders anyway.

[Diva Betsy Ross]

I was in Kalamazoo going to college at that time. How funny.