[PAA-Discuss] NO MORE SILENT VIGILS

[robert]

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For Further Information: John Murphy (610) 384-4460

 

NO MORE SILENT VIGILS

 

 

Chester County -- PA   John Murphy, the 2006 independent candidate for House
of Representatives in the 16th Congressional District stood outside the
Chester County Courthouse on the evening of January 1st with other concerned
citizens to mourn the passing of the 3,000th G.I. to die in Iraq.  According
to Mr. Murphy "everyone in this country now realizes that the Democrats and
Republicans lied to us about the reasons for invading Iraq.  Both the
Democrats and the Republicans wanted this invasion because both old parties
are driven by the same neoliberal economic model which of necessity dictates
an imperialist foreign policy.

 

"While any 12-year-old with a modem could've told you that all the weapons
of mass destruction, provided to Iraq courtesy of the Reagan administration,
were gone or accounted for by 1998; both old parties supported yet another
invasion of a sovereign nation in order to control it politically,
militarily and economically.

 

"It is time for the antiwar movement to end the practice of 'silent vigils'.
The last thing the antiwar movement needs is silence.  The antiwar movement
is already self-destructing by identifying itself with Democrats who plan to
continue funding the war for another two years despite the will of the
American people".

 

According to Murphy, members of the local antiwar movement are actually
going to Washington with Joe Sestak who is on record as promising to
continue to fund the war for another two years, increasing the bombing of
Iraq and "redeploying" our troops throughout the region instead of bringing
them home.  Automobiles with bumper stickers saying "Chester County Peace
Movement" also bear bumper stickers saying "Obama for President".  Obama has
been calling for surgical missile strikes on Iran for two years.

 

"Both Obama and Sestak", added John Murphy, "refused to participate in
Project Vote Smart's 'National Voter Awareness Test' which informs the
American public of the precise position of each candidate on the issues.
Despite requests from Republican Senator John McCain, former Democratic
congresswoman Geraldine Ferraro, former Democratic governor Michael Dukakis,
Project Vote Smart President Richard Kimball and all of the newspapers in
their respective Senatorial and congressional districts, Obama and Sestak
refused to make their positions on the issues known to the public.  Instead
they relied on secrecy and public relations firms to make them 'likable'.
This is what has happened to the America of Washington and Jefferson.

 

"I urge every Pennsylvanian who considers himself or herself opposed to war
and the destruction of our civil liberties through the USA Patriot Act and
the Military Commissions Act, supported by both corporate owned parties, to
change their voter registration to 'not affiliated'(NA).  Thanks to the
Democrats and Republicans and their ballot access laws, as of 2006 all of
the other parties -- the Constitutional, the Green and Libertarian Parties
have all been outlawed.  It is time for Americans to reclaim their democracy
and their nation as the people have done in one South American country after
another.  The time for silence is over; it is now time for action.

 

"The mainstream media", continued John Murphy, "helped the ruling elite turn
the death and burial of Gerald Ford who ordered the slaughter of 200,000
innocent men, women and children in East Timor in 1975 into a royal
spectacle.  The rest of the world saw this event for what it really was; a
carnival.  While this mass murderer who deprived our nation of the justice
it needed after Watergate is laid to rest in regal splendor, the body of the
3,000th G.I. will be shipped home in the cargo hold of an Air Force
transport and unloaded at Dover Air Force Base hidden from the eyes of the
public; receiving no honor, no parades, no common decency.

 

"Let us begin by protesting further outrages to our sensibilities; by
protesting the deification of mass murderers like Gerald Ford and Ronald
Reagan and let us begin by protesting the Democratic Congress which now
promises to urinate on the hopes and desires of the people who elected them.

 

 

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