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Feb. 20th, 2003 09:46 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
oakenguyThis is from a Mass. Green Party mailing:
"Also, more people are stepping forward to throw sand in the gears of the
Bush administration's war machine. Former MGP co-chair Jonathan Leavitt
and longtime Green activist Sean Donahue started a seven-day fast today
in Lawrence to protest the failure of Congressman Marty Meehan to oppose
the war. "
Throwing sand in the gears of the war machine.
Uh.
Huh.
Let's just review these facts: it's not a hunger strike like Gandhi's or the Northern Ireland ones, where lives were in danger. It's seven days. Seven days in which they'll be lying in comfy beds with ginger ale and a Playstation. (Okay, no, I'm being uncharitable. I'm sure they'll be writing urgent letters and re-reading Martin Luther King's "Letter from a Selma Bedroom during my Slightly Uncomfortable Three-Day Fast". Oh, wait, it's "Letter from a Selma JAIL"?!? Because he actually took action and got ARRESTED? Think of that! Oh there I go, being uncharitable again.)
"Also, more people are stepping forward to throw sand in the gears of the
Bush administration's war machine. Former MGP co-chair Jonathan Leavitt
and longtime Green activist Sean Donahue started a seven-day fast today
in Lawrence to protest the failure of Congressman Marty Meehan to oppose
the war. "
Throwing sand in the gears of the war machine.
Uh.
Huh.
Let's just review these facts: it's not a hunger strike like Gandhi's or the Northern Ireland ones, where lives were in danger. It's seven days. Seven days in which they'll be lying in comfy beds with ginger ale and a Playstation. (Okay, no, I'm being uncharitable. I'm sure they'll be writing urgent letters and re-reading Martin Luther King's "Letter from a Selma Bedroom during my Slightly Uncomfortable Three-Day Fast". Oh, wait, it's "Letter from a Selma JAIL"?!? Because he actually took action and got ARRESTED? Think of that! Oh there I go, being uncharitable again.)
