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Mystic Power admin THC-Ministry YahooGroup


Joined: 23 Aug 2004 Posts: 3605 Location: Key West
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Posted: Thu Aug 31, 2006 4:06 pm Post subject: THE WORLD CAN'T WAIT! DRIVE OUT THE BUSH REGIME! |
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(U.S) October 5th DAY OF MASS RESISTANCE.
September 7th organization meetings in your area!
From http://www.worldcantwait.org/
The world can't wait! Drive out the Bush Regime:
YOUR GOVERNMENT, on the basis of outrageous lies, is waging a murderous and utterly illegitimate war in Iraq, with other countries in their sights.
YOUR GOVERNMENT is openly torturing people, and justifying it.
YOUR GOVERNMENT puts people in jail on the merest suspicion, refusing them lawyers, and either holding them indefinitely or deporting them in the dead of night.
YOUR GOVERNMENT is moving each day closer to a theocracy, where a narrow and hateful brand of Christian fundamentalism will rule.
YOUR GOVERNMENT suppresses the science that doesn't fit its religious, political and economic agenda, forcing present and future generations to pay a terrible price.
YOUR GOVERNMENT is moving to deny women here, and all over the world, the right to birth control and abortion.
YOUR GOVERNMENT enforces a culture of greed, bigotry, intolerance and ignorance.
People look at all this and think of Hitler - and they are right to do so. The Bush regime is setting out to radically remake society very quickly, in a fascist way, and for generations to come.
We must act now; the future is in the balance.
Millions and millions are deeply disturbed and outraged by this. They recognize the need for a vehicle to express this outrage, yet they cannot find it; politics as usual cannot meet the enormity of the challenge, and people sense this. There is not going to be some magical "pendulum swing." People who steal elections and believe they're on a "mission from God" will not go without a fight. There is not going to be some savior from the Democratic Party. This whole idea of putting our hopes and energies into "leaders" who tell us to seek common ground with fascists and religious fanatics is proving every day to be a disaster, and actually serves to demobilize people.
But silence and paralysis are NOT acceptable. That which you will not resist and mobilize to stop, you will learn - or be forced - to accept. There is no escaping it: the whole disastrous course of this Bush regime must be STOPPED. And we must take the responsibility to do it. And there is a way. We are talking about something on a scale that can really make a huge change in this country and in the world. We need more than fighting Bush's outrages one at a time, constantly losing ground to the whole onslaught. We must, and can, aim to create a political situation where the Bush regime's program is repudiated, where Bush himself is driven from office, and where the whole direction he has been taking society is reversed. We, in our millions, must and can take responsibility to change the course of history. Acting in this way, we join with and give support and heart to people all over the globe who so urgently need and want this regime to be stopped.
This will not be easy. If we speak the truth, they will try to silence us. If we act, they will try to stop us. But we speak for the majority, here and around the world, and as we get this going we are going to reach out to the people who have been so badly fooled by Bush and we are NOT going to stop. The point is this: history is full of examples where people who had right on their side fought against tremendous odds and were victorious. And it is also full of examples of people passively hoping to wait it out, only to get swallowed up by a horror beyond what they ever imagined.
The future is unwritten. WHICH ONE WE GET IS UP TO US.
http://www.worldcantwait.org/
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Endorsers of this call include:
James Abourezk, Aris Anagnos, Anti-Flag, Edward Asner, Russell Banks, Ed Begley Jr., Harry Belafonte, St. Clair Bourne, Gabriel Byrne, Margaret Cho, Ward Churchill, Kate Clinton, US Rep. John Conyers Jr., John Densmore, Jesse Diaz Jr., Ariel Dorfman, Tom Duane, Michael Eric Dyson, Steve Earle, Niles Eldredge, Daniel Ellsberg, Eve Ensler, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Jane Fonda, Michael Franti, reg e. gaines, Martin Garbus, Wavy Gravy, André Gregory, Paul Haggis, Sam Hamill, Suheir Hammad, Kathleen Hanna, Stephen Hays, Merle Hoffman, Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, Mumia Abu-Jamal, Bill T. Jones, Rickie Lee Jones, Sarah Jones, Brig. Gen. (ret) Janis Karpinski, Casey Kasem, Ron Kovic, Jonathan Kozol, Jessica Lange, Lewis Lapham, Mark Leno, Rabbi Michael Lerner, George Lois, US Rep. Cynthia McKinney, Mark Crispin Miller, Tom Morello, Viggo Mortensen, US Rep. Major Owens, Ozomatli, Grace Paley, Harvey Pekar, Sean Penn, Jeremy Pikser, Harold Pinter, Frances Fox Piven, Sister Helen Prejean, Michael Ratner, Boots Riley, Mark Ruffalo, US Rep. Bobby Rush, Susan Sarandon, James Schamus, Richard Serra, Rev. Al Sharpton, Cindy Sheehan, Martin Sheen, Gary Soto, Nancy Spero, Gloria Steinem, Lynne Stewart, Serj Tankian, Jonathan Tasini, Sunsara Taylor, Studs Terkel, Gore Vidal, Kurt Vonnegut, Alice Walker, Naomi Wallace, Lt. Ehren Watada, US Rep. Maxine Waters, Cornel West, Saul Williams, Krzysztof Wodiczko, Ann Wright, Howard Zinn, and thousands more. _________________ "We are the Ones we have been waiting for."
~Hopi Elder ~
"In Lak'ech"
~ Ancient Mayan: "I am another YOU." ~ |
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Brother Adam Cannabis Sacrament Minister


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Posted: Thu Aug 31, 2006 6:33 pm Post subject: |
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Signed that one too! This website is great, and I hope everyone is planning on being involved on October 5th. _________________ -Brother Adam (we are all one family)
“Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.”
-James Madison
Police officers acquitted for beating a 64 yr old man recently in New Orleans. In the words of their defense attorney "all he had to do was comply"....and they wouldn't have fractured his face. |
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Don Quixote Cannabis Sacrament Minister


Joined: 11 May 2005 Posts: 547 Location: london
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Posted: Sun Sep 17, 2006 11:35 am Post subject: |
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Nice one brother Mystic.
a worthy cause indeed.wish we had something like this in England.
THE WORLD CAN'T WAIT! DRIVE OUT THE TONY B.LIAR REGIME!
yeah - right out to the desert.And don't forget to take a shovel.
PEACE
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Mystic Power admin THC-Ministry YahooGroup


Joined: 23 Aug 2004 Posts: 3605 Location: Key West
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Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2006 7:16 am Post subject: |
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The Arrogant, the Misguided, and the Cowards
By Sean Penn
Wednesday 04 October 2006
The following is a statement by actor Sean Penn given on October 2, 2006, at the Great Hall of Cooper Union, New York City. It was read by Mark Ruffalo (Penn's co-star in "All the King's Men") at an emergency meeting of "World Can't Wait - Drive Out the Bush Regime" held in response to passage of the Torture Bill and in preparation for protests happening on Thursday, October 5, in over 190 cities nationwide.
The arrogant, the misguided, the cowards would argue that an immediate pull-out of our troops from Iraq would inspire lack of confidence and the lost credibility of the United States. President Bush and his functionaries indeed have caused an enormous loss of credibility in the perception of our country internationally. Perhaps more damaging than that, they have created the greatest cultural, religious, and political divide domestically since our own Civil War.
We the people of the United States have a unique opportunity. We can show each other and the world that what the Bush administration claims is their mission is not ours. And, by leading our country as a citizenry and demanding of our government an immediate end to our own military and profit investments in Iraq, display for the entire world that democracy is a government of the people. What more powerful message to send the world than that we ourselves can choose - in policy, in peace, and in humanitarian support.
In fascism, one serves the State. Let's show the world that with democracy, we can make the State do our bidding, and that such bids would not be the blind ones, given exclusively to the friends of power. But rather, the domain of the people of freedom everywhere. This is an administration that advocates torture, deceives the public, spends billions of dollars on a failed war. This is an administration where in the year of Katrina, Exxon Mobil claimed the highest profit margin in the history of world business. It is an administration that belittles, demeans, deceives, and indeed kills our brothers, our sisters, our sons, and our daughters.
At the US/Mexico border, we panic at the notion of illegal entry, without blinking an eye as our elderly line up every Saturday morning with wheelchairs, walkers, canes and joint pain, queued up in the desert heat to enter Mexico where they can purchase affordable medication. In the human family, this president is indeed pushing his wheelchair-bound grandmother down the stairs with a smile on his face. Everyone knows that these are true statements. Everyone. Some are ashamed of where they've put their support in the past, their passivity in the present, with the courage of their minds and hearts at bay. What an exciting thing to reverse this as one America and show the world who wears the pants in this house.
Stand up as an American and join World Can't Wait and those demonstrating this Thursday, October 5th.
Out of Iraq. And out with Bush.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/100406A.shtml
__._,_.___ _________________ "We are the Ones we have been waiting for."
~Hopi Elder ~
"In Lak'ech"
~ Ancient Mayan: "I am another YOU." ~ |
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Rev. Steven Wilson Shaman


Joined: 26 Aug 2006 Posts: 296 Location: Columbia Basin, Pacific NW, USA
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Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2006 10:49 am Post subject: |
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I was wondering what we do with the creeps that are left after Bush is gone. Like all the rest of the poloticias on all parties. The people need to take back the goverment.  _________________ Once a man sees his immortality, there is no turning back. He is on the Quest of Knowledge whether he knows it or wants it. He can fight against it and live a turbulent life. Or follow it and find inner peace.
Peace and flowers
Rev. Steven Wilson
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IntrepidEZJ Cannabis Sacrament Minister

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Posted: Fri Oct 06, 2006 6:15 am Post subject: |
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So what happened?
It is now October 6th?
Is Bush still in power?  |
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aeroplane Cannabis Sacrament Minister


Joined: 10 Nov 2004 Posts: 1472 Location: Valhalla
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Posted: Fri Oct 06, 2006 1:34 pm Post subject: |
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When I first read that, I looked at the avatar of a cool looking, hippy guy with pot leaves all over him and I asked, "Why would a cool looking, hippy guy with pot leaves all over him tell everyone to trust the gov?"
Seemed like a contridiction to me.
Then I thought, "Hmmm, maybe the avatar is of someone else and this is actually a G-man who has cleverly infiltrated our little group looking for terrorists."
After the shock wore off I thought, "Could brother QJ be on to something? Consensus reality is generally accepted as anything that can be mutually experienced by one or more of the five senses. Reality is nothing more that binary electrical impulses transmitted across the synapses of the brain. Because it occurs inside the brain, reality is however we agree to preceive it. If brother QJ says there is an alternative to this reality where the majority of all governments on the planet are corrupt and untrustworthy, then I'll give his reality a try."
And it worked! For about 5 seconds I was in Q's world. Colors became brighter. Sounds were crisper. There was sunshine, and butterflies, and happy puppy dogs, and laughing children, and...
Then, that reality faded, and I ended back here in the world of untrustworthy governments.
 _________________ "Penalties against the possession of a drug
should not be more damaging to the individual
than the drug itself."
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IntrepidEZJ Cannabis Sacrament Minister

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Posted: Fri Oct 06, 2006 5:26 pm Post subject: |
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Great post.
I'm not giving up, but this is where I have been brought to as of late.
I am not a fan of the system, or the way things are.
Being American, as tough as life is right now, it is certainly tougher in other parts of the world.
Without a shadow of a doubt.
But, I keep going back to a problem many of us progressive-liberal minded thinkers seem to have.
IF Bush was removed, if all his cronies were removed, do you really think things are going to change?
New Republicans will step up, and the vacuum will not be filled by independents, it will be filled by Democrats, followed, by Republicans.
Most likely.
So what?
We have the same thing.
And the big question, that I MUST have answered, is this.
If the government was to be overthrown, and it was done by the people, what type of government would be set up?
If it is a democracy, it is certain, to turn into a dictatorship.
No matter how good the idea, no matter how practical, you will never, never, find 100 percent consensus, ON ANYTHING, among large groups of people!
This is why companies are set up in a pyramid. Same as governments.
When everyone is "equal", NOTHING ever moves forward because all the time is spent ARGUING over the best direction to go.
This is why leaders have importance.
So, in a true democracy, which we do not have, we have a republic, the MAJORITY rules.
The majority in this country, ARE VERY DUMB. I hate to say it, but it is the truth.
Do you really want them running things?
We are sure to slip into anarchy, and another country would move to take us over in a whipstitch with the vacuum being created.
We must have order. Laws create fear among people so they do not hurt and take advantage of one another.
I will admit, without a doubt, that the government has went to far on some things.
But the way people hope to overthrow this establishment is incredibly, incredibly disorganized.
Please think about this once more.
A democracy WILL float into a dictatorship.
I hope people take this information and think deeply about it.
What type of government are you aiming for? |
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