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Re: Not in my name!
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Fri, 28 Feb 2003 19:05:27 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Simon Bennett writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> > Note that the LP has evinced some support for the antiwar movement,
> > including some activists marching in some of the same demonstrations that
> > this writer has profiled.
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> > (see also: http://www.lp.org/press/archive.php?function=view&record=630)
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> > Not sure I agree with the LP stance here. While I oppose the coming war(1)
> > I'm not sure I want to associate with just anyone random that also does, for
> > whatever reason.
> > ++Lar
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> I hear you on this one. I would have marched in London if I hadn't been put
> off by the fact that a lot of the posters and stickers (indiscriminately
> illegally stuck onto adverts along escalators on the Underground) often said
> 'Don't Attack Iraq' and underneath 'Freedom for Palestine' as if the two
> things were directly related. Not the sort of people I want to be seen to
> be aligned with thank you very much. I wonder how many others were
> similarly discouraged and if the march organisers realise, understand or care?
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> Psi
I wondered about that as well--whom do you "throw your hat in the ring with"
when it comes to these amss protestors?
When I was hanging out with my 100,000+ friends in Toronto a few weeks back,
doing the march for anti-war, I looked around and saw many divergent
stances. Sure the majority were anti-Bush/Blair and 'War for Oil', but
there were other signs as well, talking about Palestine/Israel and so many
other things...
Even the speakers were divergent as to why have the peace march--No war in
Iraq--give inspectors a chance, or no war in Iraq--the homeless here come
first, et cetera. There didn't seem to be an 'overarching umbrella' of
reasoning to the different stances.
But that's just what I noticed. It didn't stop me from being counted as one
of the 100,000+. You believe what you believe, and you should stand up
sometime and be counted for it. I believe that peace should have a
chance--it may be a longer process, but, in my final analysis, has a better
chance of saving lives. If peace cannot work, at all, then, and only then,
as determened by all parties, war would be an option--some call it 'Just
War'--I'm not so "peacenik" to know that, in some situations as a last
resort, that force must be used--I just don't think that the pin has to be
pulled out of the grenade as quickly as others.
Dave K
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| (...) I hear you on this one. I would have marched in London if I hadn't been put off by the fact that a lot of the posters and stickers (indiscriminately illegally stuck onto adverts along escalators on the Underground) often said 'Don't Attack (...) (24 years ago, 28-Feb-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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