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[buzzsaw_23]

those particular links weren't the best but the info is accurate. I'm pretty ambivalent about Gore and also weary of the entire militarized mentality in America. All the candidates seem to feel a need to beat the drums to prove to the voter "I'm strong". Well the world can't take any more of the patriarchal chest beating.

The children wish for the men to lay down their arms.

Peace to you and yours.

"Do not worry over the charge of treason to your masters, but be concerned about the treason that involves yourselves," he concluded. "Be true to yourself and you cannot be a traitor to any good cause on earth."

"Your honor, years ago, I recognized my kinship with all living beings, and I made up my mind that I was not one bit better than the meanest on earth. I said then, and I say now, that while there is a lower class, I am in it; while there is a criminal element, I am of it; while there is a soul in prison, I am not free."

-Eugene Debs

Conceit, arrogance and egotism are the essentials of patriotism... Patriotism assumes that our globe is divided into little spots, each one surrounded by an iron gate. Those who had the fortune of being born on some particular spot, consider themselves better, nobler, grander, more intelligent than the living beings inhabiting any other spot. It is, therefore, the duty of everyone living on that chosen spot to fight, kill, and die in the attempt to impose his superiority upon all others.

-- Emma Goldman