She peeks from behind every leaf and brick

[holzman_tweed]

It is said that everything in the world has a purpose and a lesson, and thus value. While meditating tonight, I realized something:

George W. Bush and his war have awakened in my a will to political action that I had in college, but which became dormant afterwards because other things in life took more priority. While the changes I've made in my life over the last five years have cleared many of the obstacles to marching-in-the-streets activism, it took a threat of this magnitude to bring to my attention that I need to be in the streets.

Thus, I owe our "President" a vote of thanks, and laughing props to Athena for giving some meaning to that man's life in spite of himself.

Comments

[mikelopolis.livejournal.com]

It is encouraging to see so many people around the world taking to streets to speak out against the evil machinations of the powers that be/are,it is almost more painful to watch how these efforts are ignored by theses same powers. The leader of the opposition party here in Canada stated that he "didn't care about public opinion, we're here to do what's right"(and by this I assume he meant ideoligaclly, as in not-left.) It seems that public opinion was set against this from the beginning, but this did nothing to deride the powers from their plans. Maybe with prisoners, casualties etc. in the certain future will ignite reaction to the point where it can no longer be ignored. I doubt it though.

[mikelopolis.livejournal.com]

But definitely keep protesting.

[holzman.livejournal.com]

Bush cannot change his mind on this -- he has staked his entire political career on this, and the careers of everyone in his administration to boot. I suspect Blair's in the same boat.

The war going poorly may sway voters, but I'm pretty sure that the only solution to our current problems will be the ironic one: regime change.

[mikelopolis.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure that Tony Blair has no political future. They do say regime change begins at home