Thomas Paine Cronin speaking at a July 4th demonstration near Independence Hall in Philadelphia;
It’s time we stopped allowing ourselves to be intimidated by the Ashcrofts and the Rush Limbaughs out there. It’s time we blew the dust off the Constitution.
It’s going to take millions of marching feet — marching in the street and, next year, to the polls — to put Mr. Bush and his dog-eat-dog vision of America where they belong. In the dog house.
Mark Morford writing for the SF Gate;
And the lies, the flagrant GOP bitch slappings of the American public, the maniacal jabs straight in eye of truth with the icepick of utter BS, have just reached some sort of critical mass, some sort of saturation point of absurdity and pain and ridiculousness and you just have to stand up and applaud.
Really. It’s almost as if you should cheer the invidiousness, it is so spectacular, unprecedented, the tower of lies reaching the point where you, Jaded and Benumbed American Citizen, are forced to either recoil and ignore and deny, succumb and scream and laugh, or, like Bush himself, just sort of stand there, wide eyed, dumfounded, blinking hard, looking more blank and confused than ever, as the unified BushCo front begins to gloriously unravel.
I marched on Washington in January to protest the pre-emptive strike on Iraq and I’m ready to march again.
Our elected officials need to be shown how important it is they follow through on any and all demands for full and immediate accountability.
The world could use a reminder not all Americans are passive dolts.
Or are we? Will we sit back and allow the media to recycle and rebury all of these facts, just as they did when they first surfaced?
Isn’t it time?