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Don't we need justice more than we need a comfortable, air-conditioned, sound-tracked, airbrushed, leather-upholstered SUV-driving, sweatshop-clothes buying, racial profiling, meat-eating, bourgeois, mother-fucking peace?

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Damn straight, adam. I just posted this comment at yomama:

"it's as if the "peace" in "peace movement" creates a cage in which anti-war activists have fewer tools to fight against injustice. Because any anger and outrage(however justifiable) is pounced on as being hypocritical or contradictory."

When I'm marching in protest, peace is about the last thing I'm feeling. And that's not such a bad thing.

I agree with this as well. I think there are a couple of reasons why there's such a widespread push for "Peace, Now!" and use of signs like "Peace is Patriotic."

For a great number of people, the antiwar protests have been the first time they've come out on the streets or the first time they've seen that the government is not acting in their best interests. But as this stuff drags on I think further contradictions will become apparant. Feb. 15 in New York City was a *huge* lesson for a lot of people.

People came out to rally against the war and were *shocked* to learn that the police weren't on their side as they saw them blockading streets and pushing people off sidewalks and then arresting them for illegally marching in the street. Feb. 15 opened a lot of people's eyes. And then at two other protests I saw people wearing American flags and peace symbols suddenly jump into the fray and help unarrest people that the police began targetting.

And ultimately people are going to increasingly come to realize that the vast majority in this country do not benefit from U.S. imperialism or from the war on terror. The politics of the movement can radicalize very quickly. I think we have to look back to the 1960s and the anti Vietnam War movement for lessons and inspirations.

And if that accomplishes nothing?
Would you resort to armed revolt?
By the way, civil disobedience implies living with the consequences of that disobedience. 'Unarresting' is a coward's tactic.

Also, adam, doesn't stringing that many stereotypes together in a row make you feel just a little hypocritical?

(Guys, I think Gary Gnu has a crush on me. He keeps commenting on my posts and using words like "shriek" and "shrill"

He must know how much I love a manly sexist man.)

(I say we get rid of him -- no gnus is good gnus!)

"'Unarresting' is a coward's tactic."

So is arguing that we should be at war while you sit at home, by that logic. Or rescuing POWs.