Follow the Leader - Johhny Peace Seed

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Thursday September 08, 2005 · 12:02 PM PDT

2005/09/08 · 12:02

September 8, 2005 News
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Follow the Leader

Take a step back with me. Into the past of the human species. Keep going. Further into the past. Keep going until you can see the entirety of human history laid out before you. Now let go your biases. Let go your beliefs. Let go your religion, your politics, your color, your nationality and every other orientation you may have.

Quick, what is the first thing you notice? What do you see? Do you see a glorious panoply of advancement and growing enlightenment? A steady progression from the primitive hunter gatherer society to modern day attempts to live in harmony on this earth? Or do you see a history dominated by war, pestilence, aggression, fear. Filled with Attilas and Hitlers and torturers and genocide? Read More

Just think about U.S. Military power

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Saturday June 18, 2005 · 6:10 PM PDT

2005/06/18 · 18:10

What do you think a country like China with its booming economy and ballooning military and population thinks about American military might? The "shock and awe" tactics did little to win a war. With the anti-occupation forces stirring emotion and interest in American homes, we lose this war as each minute passes.

Just take a moment and think from the perspective of the Chinese or the Russians. They see George W. Bush overreaching and floundering. They see the empirical grip slipping in the third world. How close could we be to isolation? When these powers decide to protect themselves, whether it be might or economics, America will feel the pressure in disastrous ways.

However the people of this country are opening their eyes to the corruption that runs this system. Bigger than any President, they see the web of corporate control and greed. Read More

Send this to your state reps!

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Sunday April 17, 2005 · 10:27 PM PDT

2005/04/17 · 22:27

The highest duty of an elected official

In the State of Washington, as in other states, elected state officials from the Governor on down swear to an oath of office. The oath for elected officials in Washington State starts "I do solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States..." Next, the elected official swears to support "the Constitution and laws of the State of Washington, and that they will faithfully discharge the duties of their office to the best of their abilities." If an elected official is aware that there is a violation of the Constitution or its amendments, it is the primary duty of said elected official to act to on behalf of the people to defend the Constitution by any legal means necessary as stated in the oath they take. Unambiguous. Read More

I need your help!

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Thursday February 10, 2005 · 12:30 PM PST

2005/02/10 · 12:30

The articles and books that flow from every great mind of our time make virtually no impact on society as a whole. Each story enrages us but we never ad it all up. It is slow going, to accept of the truth about our tyranny. To get over the feelings of righteousness we have as a people. What excuse did the Germans that lived in Nazi Germany have? Watching the horrors and choosing to ignore them and go on with life. Don't be a bystander. I can write from my heart about injustice. I can yell to crowds about stolen elections and corporatocracy. But no one commits to change, at least not on a large scale. Read More

Small group of insurgents

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Friday February 04, 2005 · 9:21 AM PST

2005/02/04 · 09:21

Bush spoke of a small group of insurgents in his speech this week. He is correct in a way. We have placed about 135,000 insurgants on the ground, in the air and in their seas.

A people that don't know the language, the culture or the reality of the politics in the region. A people that shoot first and destroy whatever they think they have to. A group of insurgants with a financial backing second to none and a thirst for political power and oil that dwarfs Sadams loftiest goals.

I know I am preaching to the choir but we have to be on the same page, the "right" does.

Wal Mart in MEDFORD OREGON!!

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Thursday February 03, 2005 · 7:23 PM PST

2005/02/03 · 19:23

Does anyone live in Medford Oregon and want to help protest this new Super Wal Mart store?
I want to get something together and rally. We need to get the newspapers talking about the job loss in this part of town that is sure to follow. I am sure Bimart and Fred Meyer will be in trouble. Email me if you want to get something rolling.

The World Bank Memo

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Friday January 28, 2005 · 10:49 AM PST

2005/01/28 · 10:49

The Memo
DATE: December 12, 1991
TO: Distribution
FR: Lawrence H. Summers
Subject: GEP

'Dirty' Industries: Just between you and me, shouldn't the World Bank be encouraging MORE migration of the dirty industries to the LDCs [Less Developed Countries]? I can think of three reasons:

1) The measurements of the costs of health impairing pollution depends on the foregone earnings from increased morbidity and mortality. From this point of view a given amount of health impairing pollution should be done in the country with the lowest cost, which will be the country with the lowest wages. I think the economic logic behind dumping a load of toxic waste in the lowest wage country is impeccable and we should face up to that. Read More

rEvolution today

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Tuesday January 25, 2005 · 8:49 AM PST

2005/01/25 · 08:49

Revolution is at hand
With a mighty stick I stand
Prepared to give all I possess
Love flows and I progress

Revolution starts in you
Showing you heart, being true
To stand alone on your two feet
Walking lonely paths in the streets

Revolution starts right now
Feel yourself crawling out
To the light of peace and dignity
Ideas born today will set you free

Standing together against war

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Monday January 24, 2005 · 1:16 PM PST

2005/01/24 · 13:16

I had a wonderful time last week protesting the inauguration here in Portland. About 5000 people came out into the streets. It really gives you hope when you see others willing to stand up and shout.

I ran accross a few Bush supporters who were actually against the war @#$%$#? But it got me thinking. What I can say to them to keep the conversation going? To keep building on the common ground we have. I am going to start reaching out to the Republicans who are anti war.

I believe now more than ever the elite have stepped too far over the line for even their own base. I am going to reach out and calm myself enough to get the truth about Bush in front of them. The sheep are opening their eyes!

Fighting the right enemy

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Wednesday January 19, 2005 · 3:06 PM PST

2005/01/19 · 15:06

I wanted to start with a quick poem
With peace so close everyday
We choose to run the other way
When fear takes control
And weapons take hold
Peace seems so far away

Power and greed are far too strong
Laughing and singing we follow along
Though we cry about lives
We take and deprive
And lead by the an example all wrong

The rich mans not looking
The poor mans just working
The middle is losing its grip
Hold tight you might not slip
Falling once seemed so unlikely

With the war hawks in control
My memory takes hold
History finds its way
Doomed to repeat the day
When war is paid in full
With the lives of our young and old Read More

Soldiers Coming home

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Friday January 07, 2005 · 3:47 PM PST

2005/01/07 · 15:47

I have a buddy who just got back from Iraq. He was in special forces and did some horrible shit. Now he is going back to work as a Police officer. He has turned into a raging alcholic and he can't sleep at night until he passes out. I love the thought of someone carrying a gun in my community with a licence to us it, while he is flipped out and scared to even be at a store full of people. He can hardly drive because his fear that a car bomb will go off. George Bush is a fucking asshole!!!!

Crying out for my child and yours!

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Thursday January 06, 2005 · 1:14 PM PST

2005/01/06 · 13:14

What do you think about when you say "This is not the America I grew up in"? I think it just means that you have personally opend your eyes up to some truths you don't agree with. Conservatives think that gay sex in the bedroom is intruding on there lives. Liberals say that the governement has attained too much power. News flash, ALL OF THIS HAS ALWAYS HAPPENED. America has never been okay for most people here and or abroad. Do protesters from the 60's think that what is going on is anything new? Does the religious right think that homosexuality is just now poping up? No, our perspectives change and we get angry. I would only hope that the America I grew up in does change, a whole lot and soon. Read More

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