Hey Y'all,

[I appologize for the multiple tribe posting of this but This is urgent.]

Bush has sent Millitary ships, carriers, and planes to Iran. They are
going to war with a country that will spark the end of ANY stability in
the region and can ignite a world nuclear war.
please read www.commondreams.org/views06/1009-20.htm

This is one of those times that try our souls, when our smaller issues
need to take 2nd priority to the priority of dealling with this potential
end of everything.

Please forward this and seriously think about what YOU can do to try to
bring your centered attention back to reigning in the federal governement.

The American Revoltution happened for many reasons but much of it had to
do with the destruction of local economies and the use of the millitary to
maintain the East India Companies corporate monopoly on goods.

We have gone so far beyond that now. The declaration of independence tells
us WHEN it is required of us to have a revolution:

It says: we have unablienable rights. Governements exist to secure those
rights "deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed...
whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these Ends, it is
the Right of the People to alter or abolish it, and to institute new
Government, laying its Foundation on such Principles, and organizing its
Powers in such Form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their
Safety and Happiness."

Bush is threatening our very lives and the lives of future generations.
Jefferson reminds us that governements should not be brought down for
"light and transient Causes; and accordingly all Experience hath shewn,
that Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while Evils are sufferable, than
to right themselves by abolishing the Forms to which they are accustomed.
But when a long Train of Abuses and Usurpations, pursuing invariably the
same Object, evinces a Design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it
is their Right, it is their Duty, to throw off such Government, and to
provide new Guards for their future Security."

This last line is important for it tells us that when power is repeatedly
abused by someone with no right to use it. When it becomes evident that
there is a pattern to those abuses: that there is a "design to reduce them
under absolute despotism" we must stop this governemnt for it is no longer
the legitamate government of the poeople.

I don't know what we can do. It is so hard just to keep the bills paid,
and protests that just march down the streets of already liberal cities
obviously is not the answer. But there are people who are accountable who
must face the consequences of their actions and their complicency. And
there are many many many people who agree that this MUST END. We need to
put our efforts into building up resistance to this.

There is another reason for public resistance. It is essential that people
who might decide to target the united states understand that we are
opposed to the government's actions. Many people around the world think
that we want this to happen. They don't understand the powerlessness of
being in this country. There must but global recognition that the US
citizenry does not support their dictator. If the world understands that
we oppose this, then maybe they won't nuke us. Maybe they will offer
support or asylum or whatever.

Power is all about inequality. It builds up even though it is not
supported. The vast majority do not want to be ruled, they want their
lives to work out to be simple and full of friends they want to not worry.

Currently their are calls for seccession in Vermont and many in Vermont
are calling for the Pentagon to stage a millitary coup in the event of an
attack on Iran. We may find we have strange allies in this time.

This is what we must do:
-get our checkbooks, bodies, rooms, homes, and gardens in order.
-Get out of the house and spend time with friends as much as possible,
-If you are under 35, get your conscientious objector status together (ask
me how)
-Visit your congressmen and senators' offices in person to tell them what
you think.
-Be prepared to get back into protest mode and decide on a few triggers
that will get you on the streets:
-Will you go if bush removes due process rights (already has happened)
-Will you stand if bush announces he will atack iran?
-Will you take over buildings if he does atack iran?
-Will you march on Washington D.C. if he drops a nuclear bomb?
WHAT ARE YOUR TIPPING POINTS? once you decide what you are committed to
responing to, hold yourself to it.

good luck