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http://www.paow.org/paow_info_.htm
We think that given the fact that the government has freely chosen to be at the mercy of corporations, and therefore it cannot act in the public interest because of its purposeful conflict, policy decisions that we have to live or die by should be made by us. In these days of naked, un-bridled capitalist imperatives that governments try to ram down our throats, it can't be any clearer that people are suffering, some choking on this sham of a democracy.
In our name, the Bush government justifies the invasion and occupation of Iraq on false pretenses, raining down destruction, horror, and misery, bringing death to more than 100,000 Iraqis. It sends our youth to destroy entire cities for the sake of so-called democratic elections, while intimidating and disenfranchising thousands of African American and other voters at home.
In our name, the Bush government holds in contempt international law and world opinion. It carries out torture and detentions without trial around the world and proposes new assaults on our rights of privacy, speech and assembly at home. It strips the rights of Arabs, Muslims and South Asians in the U.S., denies them legal counsel, stigmatizes and holds them without cause. Thousands have been deported.
Could we have imagined a few years ago that core principles such as the separation of church and state, due process, presumption of innocence, freedom of speech, and habeas corpus would be discarded so easily? Now, anyone can be declared an "enemy combatant" without meaningful redress or independent review by a President who is concentrating power in the executive branch. His choice for Attorney General is the legal architect of the torture that has been carried out in Guantánamo, Afghanistan, and Abu Ghraib.
We are human beings, not economic units.
Advocate for public power, not corporate control.
The Bush government seeks to impose a narrow, intolerant, and political form of Christian fundamentalism as government policy. No longer on the margins of power, this extremist movement aims to strip women of their reproductive rights, to stoke hatred of gays and lesbians, and to drive a wedge between spiritual experience and scientific truth. We will not surrender to extremists our right to think. AIDS is not a punishment from God. Global warming is a real danger. Evolution happened. All people must be free to find meaning and sustenance in whatever form of religious or spiritual belief they choose. But religion can never be compulsory. These extremists may claim to make their own reality, but we will not allow them to make ours.
http://www.paow.org/paow_info_.htm
(This was posted by and this note added by Caroline Emma Beverage)
I liked what was written at this site so much that I had to copy a few excerpts from it to share with my readers. If it appeals to you go visit this site for more no punches pulled reading.
I have to add here that the trucking industry is one area where our government is allowing rampant oppression to exist. I say that because I worked in the trucking industry for 35 years and was blackballed out of the industry because I insisted on stopping and taking a shower every day. Insisting on a shower every day is a very RADICAL act that the majority of drivers do not have the courage to do. That is because they are afraid that they will lose their careers. A very real fear based on what the trucking industry actually does.)
People Against Oppression and War
http://www.paow.org/paow_info_.htm
We think that given the fact that the government has freely chosen to be at the mercy of corporations, and therefore it cannot act in the public interest because of its purposeful conflict, policy decisions that we have to live or die by should be made by us. In these days of naked, un-bridled capitalist imperatives that governments try to ram down our throats, it can't be any clearer that people are suffering, some choking on this sham of a democracy.
In our name, the Bush government justifies the invasion and occupation of Iraq on false pretenses, raining down destruction, horror, and misery, bringing death to more than 100,000 Iraqis. It sends our youth to destroy entire cities for the sake of so-called democratic elections, while intimidating and disenfranchising thousands of African American and other voters at home.
In our name, the Bush government holds in contempt international law and world opinion. It carries out torture and detentions without trial around the world and proposes new assaults on our rights of privacy, speech and assembly at home. It strips the rights of Arabs, Muslims and South Asians in the U.S., denies them legal counsel, stigmatizes and holds them without cause. Thousands have been deported.
Could we have imagined a few years ago that core principles such as the separation of church and state, due process, presumption of innocence, freedom of speech, and habeas corpus would be discarded so easily? Now, anyone can be declared an "enemy combatant" without meaningful redress or independent review by a President who is concentrating power in the executive branch. His choice for Attorney General is the legal architect of the torture that has been carried out in Guantánamo, Afghanistan, and Abu Ghraib.
We are human beings, not economic units.
Advocate for public power, not corporate control.
The Bush government seeks to impose a narrow, intolerant, and political form of Christian fundamentalism as government policy. No longer on the margins of power, this extremist movement aims to strip women of their reproductive rights, to stoke hatred of gays and lesbians, and to drive a wedge between spiritual experience and scientific truth. We will not surrender to extremists our right to think. AIDS is not a punishment from God. Global warming is a real danger. Evolution happened. All people must be free to find meaning and sustenance in whatever form of religious or spiritual belief they choose. But religion can never be compulsory. These extremists may claim to make their own reality, but we will not allow them to make ours.
http://www.paow.org/paow_info_.htm
(This was posted by and this note added by Caroline Emma Beverage)
I liked what was written at this site so much that I had to copy a few excerpts from it to share with my readers. If it appeals to you go visit this site for more no punches pulled reading.
I have to add here that the trucking industry is one area where our government is allowing rampant oppression to exist. I say that because I worked in the trucking industry for 35 years and was blackballed out of the industry because I insisted on stopping and taking a shower every day. Insisting on a shower every day is a very RADICAL act that the majority of drivers do not have the courage to do. That is because they are afraid that they will lose their careers. A very real fear based on what the trucking industry actually does.)
posted by Emma Beverage @ 1:33 PM
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