Minnesotans for Peace to Throw Shoes at the State of the Union
Of course we'll also be busy with more conventional meetings with our elected congresspersons and Minnesota Senators Amy Klobuchar and Al Franken, pleading with them to take more active roles. (It does not appear that Congress has even declared war, as the Constitution requires.) We'll each be carrying tombstones with the names of Minnesotans killed in Iraq and Afghanistan. We've dripped red paint to look like blood and hand-stenciled our group t-shirts. We also sent the following letter to President Obama last week asking for a meeting with him as there is only so much one can say on a shoe and under international law, it's incumbent on all citizens to do what they can to stop torture and other war crimes. We ask that you or your designate contact us to arrange this meeting. As citizens, we have the right to speak to our elected officials, including those making these decisions at the highest level.
Your request to spend a record $708 billion for Defense Department funds next year, as well as another $33 billion for the Iraq and Afghanistan wars http:www.casquedrdrefr.com - casque beats pas cher , is unconscionable and unacceptable. forces and bases from these countries. -Peace and security in the region will not be gained through a military solution http://www.sonicmia2013.com - clairsonic . soldier in Afghanistan for a year) would fund the opening of 20 to 30 schools providing education for thousands of Afghani students.
Please meet with us while we are in Washington in order to explain your exit strategy, which must include a plan to provide aid and reconstruction of these countries. Your request to spend nearly $1 trillion on war, death, and destruction is not going to bring peace and prosperity to anyone - in the United States or abroad.
We are suffering through the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, and spending those funds on war will further damage our economy. It's outrageous to waste so much of our national wealth on war when so many other needs are pressing http:www.2013casquedrdre.com - casque dr dre .
Thank you for your prompt response. You may contact our delegation through: Marie John Braun (address and contact info) Minneapolis http:www.vanessabrunopascher5.com - vanessa bruno , MN 55412.
We've witnessed how easy it was to start the wars and how very difficult it is to end them. Heaven only knows how many meetings with elected leaders, these last eight years, how many millions of letters, postcards and e-mails have been sent! We've worn out our shoes marching for peace http:www.vanessabrunopascher5.com - sac vanessa bruno ! We've stood in summer and winter with banners and signs over highways and on bridges http://www.ergocarrieronline.com - ergobaby . We've even snowblogged for peace. We supported political campaigns promising hope and change and we even voted thinking it might help. There's probably a creative limit to what one can do with old shoes and snow, and we, the people, are not so foolish as to believe that we can compete with the big money of the profit-driven military industrial complex or other special interests for war but we remember these words of (former Minnesota cub reporter) Molly Ivins and we must try.
"We are the people who run this country. We are the deciders. And every single day, every single one of us needs to step outside and take some action to help stop this war. Raise hell. Think of something to make the ridiculous look ridiculous. We need people in the streets, banging pots and pans and demanding, "Stop it now!"
Why aren't those shoes going in the direction of Michelle Bachmann and your other Representatives as well as the two Democratic Senators? She is giving what she calls a "counter speech" to the President's State of the Union Address Wednesday night and will have lots of media coverage http://www.ergocarrierusa2013.com - ergobaby carrier . The fact that you want to get as close to the President as possible when he gives his speech, sounds like your your protest will get lots of media attention and make it on certain cable channels to be interpreted as a "massive protest" against the President's State of the Union Speech. The Iraq conflict was unjust because we sent our troops there under false pretenses and American soldiers are paying with their lives. It was never a war. It was an invasion. That is the truth, and I would like to see that go on the shoes and be given to your Representatives, your Senators, and the President. We do't make textiles, clothes http://www.tresorparis2013.com - tresor paris jewellery , shoes,etc., etc. Osama bin Laden claims that terrorism aimed at the US will continue until the Palestine problem is corrected?? I don't want to be facetious, but terrorism has increased greatly in the Middle East and they keep moving from one place to another while we expend more lives and money we don't have chasing them. I at one time supported a move to pull the troops from the phony "war" in Iraq and the bungled one in Afghanistan but the threats keep coming, now, from Yemen and Dubai, bombings continue and suicide bombers, both men and women trained to give up their lives for Jihad. The tragedy in Haiti and world wide effort to deal with it, health care and the chaos in the economy may put this endless struggle in the Middle East on the back burner until such time that the federal government declares bankruptcy http://www.tresorparisbracelets2013.com.
Yes, I certainly realize that terrrorist incidents and the threat is increased. I'm actually one who warned that launching war on Iraq would have this effect. The neocons who thought this was a good idea and blithely promised a "cakewalk" have no military experience! They destabilized the Middle East and have allowed terrorist groups the high ground. The hundreds of thousands of civilians killed in Iraq and now in Afghanistan and Pakistan just allow the terrorist groups to recruit more to their side. Read Newsweek's lengthy article "Return of the Neo-Cons". They've been proven wrong over and over and yet, for some reason, we continue to trust them?! One of Obama's advisors who pushed for escalating troops in Afghanistan is Frederick Kagan who is the same guy behind the Iraq "surge" http://www.tomshoesusa2013.com - tom tom shoes .
And yes you're right that the military-industrial complex is a huge force as we are now on a "war economy" http://www.lvoutletjp2013.com - ヴィトン バッグ . But do we let that continue to get worse? Are you that fatalistic that you take no responsibility for change yourself?
We are in a terrible situation thanks to these neocons who refuse to admit mistakes. But what's the answer? Continue to follow them? The first lesson when you're in a hole is to stop digging.
Coleen, if you can get Amy Klobuchar to become the woman she was before she became a senator, you will be well on your way. I remember when she was testing the senatorial waters up at Breezy Point at a District gathering. I had a Rwandan genocide survivor with me and she made all kind of promises and we believed her about "change" I think politicians, and this includes Obama, are basically narcissists who have an uncanny ability to read what the electorate wants and craves, and then promise the same with no intention of delivering. Well http://www.tresorparisearrings.com - tresor paris online , if anyone can make an impression, you sure can.
Noble gestures, good timing, and all the rest http://www.lvbagsjp2013.com. is now a war economy http://www.tomsshoesusa2013.com - toms shoes . That is the nature of the beast. It hasn't got much else except finance and retailing. All the rest has been shipped overseas. The system has morphed into something that might not be so easy to untangle even with a willing participant like Obama. The problem is not Obama and the solution is not shoes. But http://www.tresorparisearrings.com - tresor paris belly bar , I agree that it is a spending problem. Spending in the wrong areas. I guess to kill the beast you have to starve it do death. And, I think you might have to starve some of the complicit politicians as well.
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