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ubertuber:
i am not sure if you read the post i put up in this thread carefully or not, but the argument in it was that this "call to action" is worthless not because the idea is something that i would rule out, but because the political work simply has not been done.
further, i think that any such attempt would be a debacle, not just in itself, but also in that it would provide a pretext for responses that would make the present situation seem like some vacation idyll.
i posted the article because it gives an outline of bush admin paranoia and programs geared toward suppressing domestic dissent (the ole 5th column)...
such an action would require extensive organization and mobilization of many many people. a successful mobilization could mitigate the state's monopoly on firepower--but it would have to be very large and highly organized for that to happen. the conditions simply do not exist at this point.
so i would oppose the action.
but i am not sure that this is a serious call to a serious action: i find it interesting that, in this phase of almost total absence of public protest against the bush people, you have this call surfacing as if it was serious coupled with the lovely exchange in congress with gonzalez concerning proposals to suppress domestic dissent.
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