YES "A Coup has Occurred" & "The Answer is Blow'in in the Wind"

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YES "A Coup has Occurred" & "The Answer is Blow'in in the Wind"

By Jim Kirwan
YES "A Coup has Occurred" by Daniel Ellsberg

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18456.htm

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What is needed now are people that understand the determination necessary to exhibit the strength of character that can change the course of history. This nation has become a place of bureaucrats and opportunists that speak in riddles to confuse the actual issues. These carpetbaggers exist to frustrate actual solutions in the predetermined outcomes that created the walls of our nightmares, and so far they've remained 'in-charge.' The opportunity to shut down the war exists in congress - now. Many have written about it, and yet this seemingly simple proposal is not taken seriously--even though it is the only thing that will work right now. In yesterday's democratic debates an obscure candidate, Senator Mike Gravel, outlined this option, in the 1st video, right after Kucinich. (1)

The proposal is simple. The congress needs to resubmit their vetoed legislation on the war to the president every working day - until the country begins to understand that nothing is going to go forward until this issue is settled. The argument to-date was explained by Harry Reid not so long ago, on Democracy Now. He said: 'I have a calculator in one hand and the Constitution in the other - and 'we' simply do not have the votes to override a veto - so we are limited by the Constitution as to what we can do.' This is the problem in a nutshell, because 'leaders' know that limitations are only there to stop the weak from doing much of anything. It is the job of congress: Not to explain to the public why they cannot carry out their mandate (because of congressional rules)--but rather--to use those same rules to defeat the calculated plans of those that want to immobilize the powers of congress and continue their plundering War-on-Iraq.

This can only be stopped if the leadership knows something about actually fighting for things of real importance - beyond their own political talking points or future placements within their 'parties.' Being stubborn can be an asset and in this case it's only the beginning of obtaining the outcome that's needed. What Senator Reid cited was true in that moment - they didn't have "the votes" - but what he failed to credit is the obvious proposition that once the legislation is resubmitted, doggedly day after day, the momentum on the ground will have to change, because the longer this goes on the more clearly will the resisting members be painted with the potential outcome of their continued refusal to support a shut down of the Iraq war.

Within weeks, the country will begin to recognize the fact that while these paper-warriors bicker, at-risk men and women are dying for nothing, because all the death beyond this point - need not happen!

As time passes, more and more people will begin to understand that the holdouts 'for' all this unnecessary death are the same people that brought us the lies & deceptions that got us into the war in the first place. Why should these people still be 'in-charge' of keeping the troops there, for nothing but more of the same. This is critical when one remembers that the elections that altered the demographics last year were to have at least begun an end to this war. Instead the new congress has lengthened the war, and has added immeasurably to the waste of treasure, in both blood and money, that continues to be squandered in Cheney's private-war for ever-greater empire. The war cannot be won militarily, yet the congressional stalemate cannot continue either--because with every hour that passes people are unnecessarily dying for no other reason than the inconvenience to a few self-interested politicians and a thoroughly disgusted public that can see no end in sight to this nightmare.

From every angle the funding for this now 'Trillion-Dollar-War' must absolutely be stopped. The congress is paid by us to act on our forcefully expressed desires. In this battle we have always needed those that understand the importance of standing FOR something, and not just being against what others have proposed. Simple as they are Margret Mead's humble yet powerful words are more true today than ever before: and the time to prove the truth in this axiom is now!

"Never doubt that a few, thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world: indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." Margaret Mead

[truedelphi]

1. Although I agree with Margaret Mead that it only takes a few

thoughtful committed citizens to change the world, unfortuantely the last place you will find any of those is inside the United States Congress. (Though there are some notable exceptions.)

[Demeter]

2. True That--At Least This Year

Perhaps there will be a change in the Whether?

[Mme. Defarge]

3. Another rec.

[pretzel4gore]

4. when reagan was sneaked in...27 years ago

this may sound like overcompensating in the gotcha department, but the dishonesty critical to the present seemed to have been rolled out in its 'fixednews' form during that Carter re-election battle. And the newsmedia were endlessly inventive in the way reagan was literally foisted on an unwary populace (though how the populace could be unwary after all the crap that had gone down since JFK murder remains as unbelievable as ever) If anyone recalls, Carter was swiftboated for months over his deficit, $58 billion it was. The hostage crisis was 911-on-the-layaway plan for the busheviki, and when only 50 percent of voters bothered to vote in the 1980 election, a 37 percent counted as landslide. Reagan rarely ran a deficit less then $200 million- he doubled US national debt in 8 years. (to 2.6 trillion, from 1 trillion at end of Jimmy's admin) All this happened while pigmedia, this 6 years prior to end of fairness doctrine, cursed Carter while cheering reagan. To make matters worse, it turns out the busheviki were talking to the hostage takers/Iranians re the October surprise, and what 'they didn't know' has since hurt them alot more then anyone has ever calculated....the KAL 007 shootdown (and indeed the reagan near murder by bush family friend Junyer Hinckley in '81) all were homogenised pablum prepared for public consumption, though they weakened the anti fascist liberal left ie the Democratic party, and began the process of shifting control of public wealth to the rightwing, a process that has made the mass media out and out traitor criminals today who live knowing that truth will kill them like ted bundy killed little girls. They lie cuz they must. Things are so bad now we might as well recognise that throwing out the bums is the only solution, and going back into the (falsified) record with a criminal investigators' list of beneficiaries (from the overthrow of the system of representative gov, constitutional gov) in one hand and a noose in the other, is necessary. Neil Young was a reagan supporter, in the '80's, as were vast numbers of liberal guys who should of known better- and they have to repent, confess and soon.
we can't have our cake and eat it too. god (mother nature) abhors a vacuum