Mike Farrell: Feeling the Rage
There is no bigger anti-war liberal than Mike Farrell. Remember him from the MASH TV show? Mike recently watched "Baghdad ER" - the powerful documentary on HBO where you can see what the Iraq War looks like for real. It's brutal and you'll be extremely pissed off afterwards, especially if you were against this thing from the beginning. Mike puts it rather vividly when he writes: "Watching this horrifying, endless process, the tears on my face kept drying from the heat of my anger." Then he writes: "I loathe the people who have created this monstrosity. I want the criminals who lied and cheated and pretended and twisted and perverted reality - and those who rationalized their crimes - so they could send over 2400 servicemen and woman to their death, nearly 18,000 to come home torn - some never to be whole again - thousands more to suffer mental damage, and tens of thousands of innocent Iraqi civilians to be swept into the garbage can of "collateral damage," to pay. These bastards and their apologists should be stripped naked and forced to walk the main streets of America, allowing every city and town that has lost a loved one to injury or death in this shameful catastrophe to heap on them the scorn they deserve."
Stripped naked and sent out to the crowds in the street? Anger is interesting, isn't it? It brings out the creative side of humans. There are people right now who are coming up with detailed fantasies for how the objects of their hatred should be dealt with, and it's never a simple elimination. As the thoughts have a chance to fester, they become more elaborate. The real problems for the rest of us come when people are so full of rage that they're willing to kill themselves just to hurt you. Terrorists are not born - they're not happy people who are turned into killers by a religion. Terrorists are people who have become extremely pissed off at something. It's interesting to hear the anger in Mike's remarks: Strip the leaders naked and turn them over to the madding crowd? That sounds fairly primitive, doesn't it? How enraged would Mike be if something really made him mad? I'm not talking about a TV show, either. I'm talking about the kind of brutal act that turns a peacenik into a terrorist. The so-called War on Terrorism is full of these acts, which is why there are probably 10 times as many terrorists now as when President Bush started.
posted by Bill McDonald @ 7:07 AM
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Congress is the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate, except here Congress only means the House. Forget the Senate. All of us focus on the House now. The Speaker of the House is the next President in line after Bush and Cheney. The plan is A: Choose Congress in November 2006. In January 2007 IMPEACH, and remove B. and C.
Please help choose Congress. So America gets a new President next year. Twenty-oh-eight will be too late.
Please copy this message. Pass it on. Paste it in your emails. Paste it in your blog comments. Paste it everywhere you go in this wide, wide, web world. Print ten copies at work and leave them in the printer tray, like a message in a bottle for people to find.
Official politicians oppose you doing this: Choose Congress. Career politicians make you vote for them. No choice. They got their names printed on your ballot. That makes them official, you must mark an X. They give us no choice.
Send them this message: You choose them. They will never send you this message. You can choose Congress.
Write your Congress choice on your ballot. That is called a Write-in vote. Every voting place counts Write-in votes. That's the law. Every election you can write in your vote. It counts.
The place you vote has pen and paper to write on for a Write-in. Your taxes already paid for the pen and paper. Schools teach us how to read and write. Our taxes buy that for us. Worker, boss, man, woman, rich, poor, South, East, West, North, all our tribes, all the people. You and I read and write. Use it: Choose Congress.
We have to do this ourselves.
Official politicians will not help us. Because we are going to vote away their payday. The mass media TV and newspapers will not help us. Because we are going to keep away from them. Keep away our money from them. Keep away our news from them. That news is: We choose Congress. Secret ballot.
Do not vote for the Congress names pre-printed on your ballot. Not Republicans. Not Democrats. So it's fair. Sure, everyone is a Republican or Democrat. We voters choose to not elect a Label for Congress this time, 2006. This time we elect an Action. IMPEACH. We have to do this ourselves. You and I. Make our own party. Be, have, and hold -- our own party. Our situation is desperate. Our lives are in danger, our families are in danger, our tribes are in danger. We already know this.
I hear people everywhere say there is trouble. In their life. All over the internet people write When is it going to go too far and be too bad? IMPEACH now, why is this Congress waiting? Bush's Iraq invasion is illegal. He lied. He is still lying to our troops and leaves them there, far away from defending us at home in our town. Not defending our country. Our taxes buy a Department of Defense, not offense going away to score more war on the world poor. If terror comes here we want our troops here.
Congress spends our taxes. Choose Congress, budget better, spend smart.
Seven-out-of-ten people say B. and C. lead America wrong. And they say somebody else must take over. Get us a new boss. Somebody else do it -- this person, that person, this state, that state, this party, that party, these people, those people, SOMEbody else -- Is that supposed to mean the three-out-of-ten who are not with us, who are not going to IMPEACH? -- somebody else get us a leader.
We are the deciders. We have to do this ourselves. You and I.
You decide to read this. We decide, and choose our friends and choose our news. Whoever you are reading this, wherever you are voting for Congress, only three friends are between you and I. You have a friend and I have a friend who both share one friend between them. That's called three degrees of separation. You and I. Anyone you are, anyone I am. When I send this to a friend, who sends it to a friend, who sends it to a friend, it comes to you. The news: Choose Congress.
Congress has 435 (four hundred thirty-five) Representative seats. One is for you, in your District seat you can choose. Write in that name. The name of the person who goes to Congress to IMPEACH. Someone else or some organization can not do this for us all across the country.
You do this in your District, I do this in my District. Get together with friends and choose a name. Pass it on. Friend to friend, around one District. Family and neighbors and co-workers and acquaintances we meet on any street.
Even you, yes: You, and I, can go to Congress. Think of it as jury duty. Worker, boss, man, woman, rich, poor, all our tribes, all the people can go to jury duty. Go to Congress.
Say a group of people decide to Write-in vote your name for Congress in your District. And then say you know someone's name another group decides to write in. Put the groups together. One of you pass your supporters to the other one. After all, you are talking to friends, neighbors, family, right? So talk about what name you both decide to write in.
The TV is not going to talk to you about it. Official politicians are going to be stopping your talk about Write-in names. Reading and writing gives you political power. The power of deciding what to do. Others have yours now, and you are going to take it from them November 2006. What a chaos this is going to be. But that's better than riots. We have to do this ourselves.
Already there are decent, upright, popular people in your District who WANT to be the Write-in name for Congress convening to IMPEACH. Somebody else, already willing and eager -- a volunteer makes it easier in your District, sets a center for efforts to gravitate to.
You can volunteer yourself and start the message passing among your friends, just like you do now with email and telephone. News among us folks travels so fast these days, across only three degrees of separation it gets around to everyone in a week.
Everyone will tell you no, don't do it, it can't be done, it shouldn't be done, let someone else do it, don't get involved, don't talk politics, don't try this at home. I tell us home is the only place national security matters.
Official politicians whose paycheck depends on you giving your vote to Republicans, and official politicians whose paycheck depends on you giving your vote to Democrats, and mass-media wageworkers who depend on you giving money to official politics to give to media -- which is a whole lot of people -- are all going to tell you not to Write-in vote, tell you not to choose Congress.
Yet your District is not a million persons, only about half that many; and only about half of them really vote. In our active voters, if one-third ignore all news and vote Democrat, and one-third ignore all news and vote Republican, and one-third-Plus-One follow the news and hear a decided friend who knows one name to Write-in for your District, then your Write-in wins.
And goes to Congress to IMPEACH. No primary election to withstand, no political convention to endure, no mass-media ad money to manage, no party label to brand on the pork your District gets out of our barrel.
Start passing the news with your friends and emails, and sending it on. Since personal relations and words of a friend make the things we trust, and, this time the only things, likely, for us to judge our choice by. With three of your friends be prepared to hear two of them say No, and still you win the Write-in. With ten of your friends figure seven or more agree to IMPEACH.
Republicans are not going to IMPEACH. Democrats are not going to IMPEACH. Mass media stops that news. Many official jobs are going to end. Many many new jobs begin. This is voting revolution. Social, cultural change. Young people changing the world. New growth regenerating Old Glory.
Many can not leave their cage of political habits, both Democrats and Republicans, while our world around calls for action. Write-in voting might separate old friends and join together new ones, might set child opposing parent, sister opposing sister, brother opposing brother. Or not. We have to do this ourselves.
Start a new habit; nevermind what TV says; pass news with our talking and emails. Ignore gasoline prices, ignore immigration, ignore deadly war, ignore climate catastrophe, ignore sexism, racism, hate, and religion, ignore anything that spins up, to confuse or attack. The blogs will be full of trolls, spam and distract. Trust people you trust and stand back-to-back. Reach out, hold on, get through to election and Write-in our power to raise insurrection.
Everyone's asking: What can I do? Can someone else do it, so I don't have to?
We have to do this ourselves. Help is not coming, politics is broken. Pass the word. Get it started. Get set for November. Stock up. Steady on. Stay in touch with each other. Between now and then expect a staged terror, more inhuman than anything we've ever seen -- this cast's last grand finale on the political stage.
Ignore their death-throe dramatics, take power, decide what to do, that you can do, and no one can stop you. Choose Congress. Pass this on. Over a third of us see all our lives are in danger.
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