FINAL QUOTES ON PEACE AND PROTEST

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In her autobiography, Portrait of Myself, Margaret Bourke-White, writes of her final conversation with Gandhi mere hours before his murder.

"As we sat there in the thin winter sunlight, he spinning and I jotting down his words, neither of us could know that this was to be perhaps his very last message to the world . . . Gandhi began to probe at the dreadful problem which has overwhelmed us all. I asked Gandhi how he would meet the atom bomb. Would he meet it with nonviolence? 'Ah' he said. 'How should I answer that? I would meet it by prayerful action.' I asked what form that action would take. 'I will not go underground. I will not go into shelters. I will go out and face the pilot so he will see I have not the face of evil against him.' He turned back to his spinning . . . I rose to leave, and folded my hands together in the gesture of farewell which Hindus use. But Gandhiji held out his hand to me and shook hands cordially in Western fashion."



http://www.codepink4peace.org/



Words of The Drum Major Instinct sermon by Dr. King in February of 1968 suggests that those who march in Washington D.C. in a few days, will not be walking alone. Then, on March 31, 1968, five days before his murder, Martin Luther King gave his speech Remaining Awake Through a Great Revolution, which urges us not to sleepwalk through great changes sweeping the world. Finally, only one day before his death, the great peace-maker and humanitarian offers us a view from the Mountaintop. Excerpts from all three speeches provide each of us a friendly guide on our "left" and "right."









Maintaining spiritual undertones,
while preventing this post from
becoming extremely long,
this last quote offers
only two words on war:

"Jesus wept."

kick

To the ladies of the letter H. :toast:

On Friday 29 September 2006, this all took place:

The bill would allow easier monitoring of e-mails and phone records of US citizens during terror probes.

Washington - The House voted late Thursday to rewrite the nation's domestic wiretap laws, giving President Bush new power to monitor the e-mail and phone records of US citizens during terrorism investigations without having to obtain court approval.

"They would allow more warrantless surveillance of Americans than has ever before been approved by statute in US history," said Lisa Graves, a legislative counsel with the American Civil Liberties Union.

The revisions would alter the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA, which created a secret court to handle Justice Department requests for electronic surveillance in terrorism and espionage cases. Bush acknowledged that he had bypassed the court when he ordered the NSA program, saying he had the power under the Constitution to ignore the intelligence statute.

Republicans said Thursday that the act needed updating to reflect new technologies used by terrorists. They portrayed critics as putting the country at risk by refusing to give the administration adequate tools to fight the war on terrorism.

"This bill is reasonable," said Rep. Heather A. Wilson (R-N.M.), its sponsor. "We are trying to modernize the electronic surveillance act of this country, so we are allowing our intelligence agencies to collect the intelligence to keep us safe while also putting in place rules of the road to protect civil liberties."

The measure was approved, 232 to 191, with 18 Democrats supporting it. Thirteen Republicans opposed the bill.

Democrats said the legislation abridged civil liberties and invaded the privacy rights of ordinary citizens to be free of unreasonable searches without a court order.

"The president wants to go on a fishing expedition," said Rep. Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), "but he doesn't want to get a fishing license."



and now this is happening today, according to kpete:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x1719


vote it up will you?

Let me know if you're going. We could meet up. I'll be there for the whole weekend.

Solidarity