StoptheWar / NoFastTrack Protesters Greet Bush in Sacramento (4 photos)

A woman was kicked in the stomach or chest area by a cop on a horse - apparently for having the audacity to ask why others where allowed to pass while those with protest signs were not.

>Those dressed in business attire or carrying American >flags were allowed past police lines

Some folks like to wear brightly-colored costumes...

...and some wear black masks...

...but if you want to avoid getting held up by long lines (of police), you might consider wandering down to your local thriftstore and picking up a nifty "cloak of invisibility." [Common term: Suit & Tie]

For both Added Effect and Portability, consider adding a good-sized briefcase into the mix. [Maybe just large enough to fit a small, rolled-up banner and a quick change of clothes?]

You'll be amazed with what you can get away with...

Police lines?
Of course you can walk right past the police lines!
Who do you think they're there to protect?

Corporate Office Building?
Of course you can take the elevator to the eighteenth floor! You're probably that "new hire" with an MBA from Stanford, or maybe you're the "Time Management" consultant who'll be analyzing the office staff and recommending who to fire!

If you are Careful, Creative and Confident, odds are good that nobody will "see" you.

peace,
norm


"There are causes worth dying for, but none worth killing for." -- Albert Camus


"He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder." -- Albert Einstein

Nice quote from Einstein. He made it when he was in his "absolute pacifist" mode around 1929. He completely turned around in 1933 as a result of Hitler's ascent to power.

Let's examine Hitler's letter to F.D.Roosevelt on August 2, 1939. Here's a link:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/truman/psources/ps_einstein.html

In it, you'll find that he's saying "You're taking too long to create the atomic bomb - work faster."

You're right - Einstein was at one time a pacifist. But he realized eventually that we don't live in Fantasy Land. Maybe some day you'll realize the same thing.

Einstein's role in the development and use of nuclear weapons has attained mythic proportions. As Einstein stated after World War II, "My participation in the production of the atomic bomb consisted of one single act: I signed a letter to President Roosevelt . . . in which I emphasized the necessity of conducting large-scale experimentation with regard to the feasibility of producing an atom bomb. . . I saw no alternative but to act as I did, although I have always been a convinced pacifist."

Einstein opposed the use of the atomic bomb; he urged the United States to demonstrate the weapon to foreign governments rather than use it on an actual target. He was at the forefront of the campaign waged by atomic scientists beginning in the mid-1940s to educate the public and the leaders of the world about the implications of nuclear energy and the absolute necessity of not developing nuclear weapons.

One week before his death Einstein signed his last letter. It was a letter to Bertrand Russell in which he agreed that his name should go on a manifesto urging all nations to give up nuclear weapons. It is fitting that one of his last acts was to argue, as he had done all his life, for international peace.

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"A human being is a part of a whole, called by us _universe_, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."