Comments on: Arrests for War Resistance Increase Again

By: Aaron Aarons

Aaron Aarons — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 11:05:34 +0000

While the number of arrests is an indicator of the level of resistance to the war, arrests themselves are not a good thing. I’d much rather be reading about, e.g., successful physical attacks against the military-industrial complex. especially with the perpetrators getting away, than about people getting arrested in symbolic actions.

P.S. Sorry, Rich Paul, but there’s already far too much concern in out society for the lives and well being of the rich, who are the beneficiaries of the existing system of Capitalism, Poverty and Death.

By: Leigh

Leigh — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 23:28:24 +0000

“Rich” Paul — Jesus was pretty interested in the poor, too. Did that make him a socialist? And how, exactly, exactly, exactly, is socialism as an ideology any worse for the common man than Reaganism-Bushism? (Also if you knew how to read a poem, you’d know that the word “indeed” moves the poem onward to include all people.)

Stop being snarky and try to understand the gist of the article — that some people, even in these cynical times, are willing to give up their own liberty to win “liberty and justice for all.” What is nobler than that?

Oh, yeah — and blessed are the peacemakers.

By: MFG

MFG — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 05:34:34 +0000

Land of the free. Freedom of speech. USA is the greatest country on earth, blessed by the Man himself. These are all things that the rest of the world hears from the corporate media (and R-wingers) in the States.

There are numerous instances, in both corporate and indymedia, that excoriates the imprisonment of those in non-democratic countries for demonstrating against their government’s policies.

Oddly enough, the finger never points at those same elements in play in the USA. Never in my political awareness (since Vietnam) have I seen such overt political imprisonment for those who stand up for their and their fellow countrypersons’ rights as in the last seven years.

Free America’s political prisoners now! And they are just that. When will Americans fight for the right that they have so long proclaimed is their birthright? Don’t make us outside the USA fight for your rights. We will if we have to in order to protect our own, but shouldn’t you be doing for yourselves?

By: Brian Koontz

Brian Koontz — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 00:05:27 +0000

The wealthy are positioned well within the dominative hierarchy and thus it’s pointless to be concerned with them. There’s nothing wrong with being concerned with their welfare – AFTER those who are suffering under oppression and terror are taken care of – oppression and terror that the wealthy themselves are either actively or tacitly supporting and benefiting from.

Sources of power don’t need help – they need destruction.

By: John Bo

John Bo — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 16:30:28 +0000

You obviously can’t judge when a human being ceases to matter by the level of their income, but $50,000 is usually a good starting point at when they quit showing human qualities, and therefore in my book – cease to matter.

By: ron

ron — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 01:49:37 +0000

Antiwar activism against the war should increase no matter whether McCain or Obama are elected if neither one stops the war!

By: Rich Paul

Rich Paul — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 00:48:16 +0000

It’s interesting that the poet above is interested exclusively in the deaths of “the poor”.

I’m curious — at what annual level of income does a human being cease to matter? $1,000,000? $100,000? $50,000?

I guess we also know what will happen if we work only for the human rights of some citizens — Socialism, Poverty, and Death.