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democracy breaks out in C-U |
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by Ricky Baldwin
Email: baldwinricky (nospam) yahoo.com (verified)
Phone: 217-328-3037 |
12 Apr 2006
Modified: 12:47:10 PM |
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Democracy breaks out. Voters en masse approve referenda for fall ballot. Pro-war, pro-Bush folks show their true colors. DI story title misses the mark, story gets it right. I sent the DI this letter to the editor. You can write them, too. |
Here's my letter. By the way the next township meeting where voters can directly decide things is April 10, 2007. Mark your calendars. - RB
Dear Editor:
The DI misled readers Wednesday (4/12/06) with the story title, “Council approves Iraq referendums.” Nothing of the kind occurred. Voters themselves met, debated and decided to place referenda on the November ballot: one calling for withdrawal of troops from Iraq, another calling for impeachment of the President and Vice-President for lying, breaking international and domestic law, spying and torture.
The body of the story was good, however, and shows how truly pathetic and troglodytic the pro-war side is. I love Mark Thompson’s quote that democracy is “a bureaucratic situation that ties up our government […] just by being here”. Ironically it was his side that dragged the meeting in Champaign out for two hours, whereas their complete absence in Urbana allowed the meeting to end in half an hour.
Of course, our side likes debate. That’s why we want the referenda. So, thanks, Mark.
Champaign Mayor Jerry Sweighart’s quote was good, too. “Many people were killed,” he says in Vietnam when US forces left, skipping over the little detail of up to a million killed when US forces arrived. He predicts that people may get killed in Iraq if US troops pull out. Does he even read the paper? The death toll has been rising since the invasion, US troops as well as Iraqi civilians supposedly “liberated” by our bombs and bullets.
But then, facts have never been the strong point of the warmongers or their acolytes.
And now the Bush Administration wants to invade Iran, too, as evidenced by their denials. (We remember that from last time.) Somehow the madness has to stop. It’s up to us to stop it. Remember in November. |
See also:
http://www.anti-war.net
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