In addition, investigate the various candidates for president, find one
who wont put up with the repression being foisted on us by
Bush/Ashcroft ( I might humbly suggest Howard Dean,
<www.deanforamerica.com>) and get personally involved in throwing the
bums out of office next year.
Philip W. Scott
Leopold Group Political Chair
Iowa Sierra Club
On Thursday, April 17, 2003, at 11:04 AM, Bill Witt wrote:

>>
> Dear Joyce,
>
> Greg Brown ended his recent KUNI benefit concert in Cedar Falls with
> his
> haunting "I Want My Country Back."  When he finished, the entire
> auditorium was still--and then the audience rose in a standing ovation.
> I'm afraid silences like that--but without the ovation-- will become
> more
> and more widespread as the Bush Gang stampedes us farther and farther
> into
> hostile, uncharted territory, quelling jingoist hy-vee-style
> celebrations
> all too soon.  (Witness the violent demonstrations against us by
> Iraqi--majority--Shiites, civil disorder and incipient insurrection in
> several cities, Rumsfeld's and Bush's threats to Syria and Iran, and so
> on.)  People may even one day tire of hearing, "It's Clinton's fault."
> (No, not all people, I know...)
>
> In the meantime, how about checking out central Iowa organic and
> sustainable food producers, picking up a loaf or two of whole grain
> bread
> at Great Harvest, buying a Greg Brown CD and learning "I Want My
> Country
> Back," praying (if that's part of your spirituality), and committing
> occasional, clandestine, random acts of kindness?  If enough of us did
> that, how could Ayatollah Ashcroft's boys ever keep up with the
> investigations?
>
> Bill Witt
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Hello,    Last night I shopped at HyVee in Ankeny.  I won't do it again
>> for some time.  The whole place was into a celebratory showing of "old
>> glory"
>> or is it "old gory"?    A vegetable stocker said it was to support the
>> troops.  I wonder if the troops support vegetable stockers?  Certainly
>> not Iraqi ones.  Why did I feel the aisle's were awash in the blood of
>> the
>> thousands of residents of Iraq - the collateral damage bunch.
>> This mood of victory will probably carry the "gang of four" in
>> residence
>> at the White House back in.  I have seldom seen a more successful
>> campaign to win Americans to a vicious cause.  I am convinced my
>> country
>> has moved away and some other country has taken its place.
>> I don't know where I will shop (WalMart ack) but not at HyVee.
>> Joyce Naffier
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