Paramount Theatre
We Need a Nonviolent Revolution Now
RECEIVED Wed., April 29, 2009
Dear Editor,
Was the 2008 election result a change from open fascism merely to place an African-American man in the presidency? And will the change we can believe in be simply an executive branch not actively involved in corruption, torture, illegally wiretapping the citizenry, and throwing out habeas corpus? Will the change we need rival a Franklin Delano Roosevelt presidency? Or will the massive pull of the corporate status quo produce a presidency that extends two illegal and immoral wars and continues legitimizing the theft of the public treasury by rewarding Wall Street's avarice by and for the wealthy at the cost of achieving universal single-payer health care, for example?
We need a nonviolent revolution now – a social revolution taking the issues to our representatives and holding them accountable. Let the Cheney-Bush residency clear their records in a U.S. court of law, and convict those found guilty! We must demand the standard that no public office is above the Constitution – the fascists won't hold themselves accountable for their crimes. www.prosecutionofbush.com.
Does the massive military budget serve Americans, our environment, and moral direction? Or is using 50% of the total U.S. budget on outdated weapons systems, worldwide military bases occupying foreign lands, and terrorizing their inhabitants for the purpose of controlling their oil reserves the best we can do for peace and prosperity or a method to prop up a bankrupt financial system for the ultrawealthy?
Read “A Unified Security Budget for the United States, FY 2009,” www.ips-dc.org/reports/#676.
The planet is heating up, cities are left in ruins after natural disasters, and pollution spills on the land, in our rivers and oceans, and chokes the air we breath as corporations are allowed to self-regulate (like Wall Street) and we Race for the Cure? I say fight against the cause! Public policy for a homegrown stimulated economy: American ingenuity in a sovereign, not a corporate, nation.
For additional people- and planet-oriented policy alternatives, take a look at www.traviscountygreens.org.
The Legislature is still in session! Use your voice – the climate is changing.
Was the 2008 election result a change from open fascism merely to place an African-American man in the presidency? And will the change we can believe in be simply an executive branch not actively involved in corruption, torture, illegally wiretapping the citizenry, and throwing out habeas corpus? Will the change we need rival a Franklin Delano Roosevelt presidency? Or will the massive pull of the corporate status quo produce a presidency that extends two illegal and immoral wars and continues legitimizing the theft of the public treasury by rewarding Wall Street's avarice by and for the wealthy at the cost of achieving universal single-payer health care, for example?
We need a nonviolent revolution now – a social revolution taking the issues to our representatives and holding them accountable. Let the Cheney-Bush residency clear their records in a U.S. court of law, and convict those found guilty! We must demand the standard that no public office is above the Constitution – the fascists won't hold themselves accountable for their crimes. www.prosecutionofbush.com.
Does the massive military budget serve Americans, our environment, and moral direction? Or is using 50% of the total U.S. budget on outdated weapons systems, worldwide military bases occupying foreign lands, and terrorizing their inhabitants for the purpose of controlling their oil reserves the best we can do for peace and prosperity or a method to prop up a bankrupt financial system for the ultrawealthy?
Read “A Unified Security Budget for the United States, FY 2009,” www.ips-dc.org/reports/#676.
The planet is heating up, cities are left in ruins after natural disasters, and pollution spills on the land, in our rivers and oceans, and chokes the air we breath as corporations are allowed to self-regulate (like Wall Street) and we Race for the Cure? I say fight against the cause! Public policy for a homegrown stimulated economy: American ingenuity in a sovereign, not a corporate, nation.
For additional people- and planet-oriented policy alternatives, take a look at www.traviscountygreens.org.
The Legislature is still in session! Use your voice – the climate is changing.
Bill Stout
Green Party of Texas
Legislative liaison
Green Party of Texas
Legislative liaison
