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AP Story - Activists planning mass civil disobedience if U.S. attacks Iraq
normally I wouldn't repost something like this, but it talks about stuff I hadn't heard about and thought people should be aware of
Activists planning mass civil disobedience if U.S. attacks Iraq
MARTHA MENDOZA, AP National Writer
(12-23) 09:38 PST SANTA CRUZ, Calif. (AP) --
If a major war breaks out in Iraq, the first thing Rev. Stuart Fitch plans to do is pray, sending love to everyone from Saddam Hussein to President Bush. Then he'll call his congregation to church for a service.
And then, perhaps, the 78-year-old Episcopalian clergyman will get himself arrested.
"There will be plenty of people going to jail that day," said Fitch, who wears his stiff pastoral collar beneath a powder-blue shirt. "I'm thinking about joining them."
While the Pentagon has spent the past year training troops, building facilities and stockpiling weapons to launch a war against Iraq, the peace movement has been using the buildup time to coordinate "emergency response plans" to disrupt domestic military activity, tie up commerce and get out their anti-war message.
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2002/12/23/state1238EST0037.DTL
http://mgpnofate.org/
MARTHA MENDOZA, AP National Writer
(12-23) 09:38 PST SANTA CRUZ, Calif. (AP) --
If a major war breaks out in Iraq, the first thing Rev. Stuart Fitch plans to do is pray, sending love to everyone from Saddam Hussein to President Bush. Then he'll call his congregation to church for a service.
And then, perhaps, the 78-year-old Episcopalian clergyman will get himself arrested.
"There will be plenty of people going to jail that day," said Fitch, who wears his stiff pastoral collar beneath a powder-blue shirt. "I'm thinking about joining them."
While the Pentagon has spent the past year training troops, building facilities and stockpiling weapons to launch a war against Iraq, the peace movement has been using the buildup time to coordinate "emergency response plans" to disrupt domestic military activity, tie up commerce and get out their anti-war message.
(more)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2002/12/23/state1238EST0037.DTL
http://mgpnofate.org/
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by ashamed of my passport • Tuesday December 24, 2002 at 02:03 PM
> If America attacks Iraq, it will not be defending itself. It will be aggressing upon a state which has not harmed....
Many remember when Americans and Europeans said the same about the Nazi Germany.
Curious how history has a tendency to repeat itself.
Why make it more complicated?
My point was that the euros never learn, they just turned a blind eye and waited for war to spill into europe. Maybe dead albanians aren't worth the trouble to them..