tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6502187932910780823.post1058515302190121345..comments2024-03-06T12:16:49.012-05:00Comments on Fire on the Mountain: Seizing Congressional Offices And What's Next For The Anti-War MovementUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6502187932910780823.post-4002930952211091952007-02-27T06:17:00.000-05:002007-02-27T06:17:00.000-05:00Thanks for the poke, Jesse. I've been tossing this...Thanks for the poke, Jesse. I've been tossing this around with folks in the anti-war movement, especially the vets/military families movement and USLAW, for a while and I guess it's time to float it out there, so watch this space!<BR/><BR/>And check out the response this piece when I crossposted it at DailyKos (linked above). Lotta interesting comments (interesting good and interesting oy, both).Jimmy Higginshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16032194600141427172noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6502187932910780823.post-87367999555681992602007-02-26T22:58:00.000-05:002007-02-26T22:58:00.000-05:00Jimmy, can you say more about what you mean by a m...Jimmy, can you say more about what you mean by a moratorium? I know you've written a little about it before, but I'd like to hear more about what that would mean concretely -- who would organize it? -- what would the goals be? -- etc.<BR/><BR/>Bear in mind that I'm a young'un, and for me the words "Vietnam Moratorium" just summon up very vague pictures of big crowds on the national mall. I don't think that's what you have in mind, but laying out a little history might help explain the moratorium idea.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6502187932910780823.post-65214626722572473202007-02-26T20:58:00.000-05:002007-02-26T20:58:00.000-05:00Shut down the country. Take over their offices. Pu...Shut down the country. Take over their offices. Put them under "citizen's arrest" for war crimes, that's my pick. Especially since many congresspeople seem to be keeping constituents from actually entering their offices these days, for fear of what they might do--what's the world coming to? I hear from folks in Austin, who weren't even planning anything but talking yet, that alleged war opponent Lloyd Doggett, who so far has not agreed to defund the war, sent staffers down to get the basket of muffins they delivered in the morning instead of allowing his constituents inside--then met with them later in a public place. Not in his office.<BR/><BR/>Impeachment takes a long time and is fuzzy and ambiguous, and it won't really end the war. He'll be out of office before it even gets rolling. End the war first, then punish the war criminals later.<BR/><BR/>But hey, there are a lot of goobers in this country who think that because the war doesn't affect them, they can go about their own business and not get involved. After all, wars come and go, right? Eventually the war will be over, but life must go on. No sense disrupting your whole life for someone else's misery. They are still stuck in the normalcy mode, still taking their cue from GB after 9-11. Ain't nothing normal going on here, certainly not in Iraq. A lot of those goobers have signed various petitions to impeach, and when they go out with their friends, or maybe during halftime, they talk about it a lot and complain about the war and GB. Hey, they've done their part. What do we do about them?<BR/><BR/>JeriAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com