There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part; you can't even passively take part, and you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop. And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from working
at all! -- Mario Savio 1964
"The Last Flower" -- James Thurber
Blessed are the Peacemakers
Our position is that whoever the candidates are, and whatever the platforms, that we must stay in the streets and stay in active resistance or else there will be no peace.
-- Dave Dellinger, in the 1960's
"What we need is a mass movement of people like you. Get mad, yes -- there's plenty to be mad about.
Then get organized and get busy. This is the fight of our lives." --
Bill Moyers 2004
Comments by Garrison Keillor on the Detainee Act
9/11: Why They Attacked Us -- Bin Laden: In His Own Words.
"Radical measures are called for. The time for talk is over: you can't reason with these people, and I've
given up trying. The time for action is now. Not inchoate rage, or violence, but focused anger, aimed
with laser-like intensity at the root and source of all our problems – the seat of the Empire." --
Justin Raimondo
"We have had repressive governments before, but none has legislated the end of habeas corpus, nor
openly supported torture, nor declared the possibility of war without end. No government has so
casually ignored the will of the people, affirmed the right of the President to ignore the Constitution,
even to set aside laws passed by Congress." -- Feature article:
Impeachment by the People |