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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 color=black face="Comic Sans MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black;font-weight:
bold'>Ron and I just got back home a little while ago from the picket
line/protest/rally at U of H. We were protesting the presence of the Department
of Defense on the campus selling their murderous lies and shit to U of H
faculty and students. We weren’t getting any response during the picket
line portion in front of the Hilton. We did put our flyers and posters up
against the windows where the people in attendance were eating lunch. It must’ve
upset their stomachs to see our posters and flyers about the Nazification of
the American University and Stop the War Machine and Stop University Complicity
because a guy came out and asked us to stop what we were doing. He said people
had paid to eat and didn’t want to see our signs. Gee whiz. I don’t
want to have to eat every day and know that our tax dollars are going to blow
people up!! I hope every one of those sons of bitches gets a horrid case of diarrhea
and acid indigestion that lasts for days.<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 color=black face="Comic Sans MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black;font-weight:
bold'>Several of us moved to the back of the <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Center</st1:PlaceType> where the <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">U.S.</st1:place></st1:country-region> Navy had
set up tents and was passing out free pizza, Cokes and Navy tee shirts while
they reeled people in to the meat grinder! Also, some spokespeople for the <st1:City
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Houston</st1:place></st1:City> Rockets were
right next to the Navy recruiters letting people shoot hoops to try and win
tickets to the next Rockets game. Of course, the Rockets were also encouraging
people to visit the Navy booths, so it’s obvious to me the Rockets are
now pimping for the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">U.S.</st1:place></st1:country-region>
Navy recruiter whores. We passed out flyers saying Get out of <st1:country-region
w:st="on">Iraq</st1:country-region> and <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Stop</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>
Complicity! We had a group of students from San Jac Community College show up
and hold up a sign reading Stop Military Aggression or something like that.
Those kids were great! There were a couple of Army recruiters there, too, who
were laughing it up and one even went and stood in front of the sign saying Stop
Military Aggression. He was grinning like a shit eating hound and his
girlfriend or some girl took his picture. I guess he thought he was being cute.
I thought he looked like a complete idiot.<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 color=black face="Comic Sans MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black;font-weight:
bold'>We passed out a lot of flyers to kids who looked like they really didn’t
give a shit. I swear, I think the majority of students at U of H are pod people
or something. They look completely blank. A couple of students from U of H
actually helped us pass out flyers, so I was heartened by that. One female
student I handed an Out of <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Iraq</st1:place></st1:country-region>
flyer to tore it up and threw it in the trash with great fanfare. I told her to
get out of the university and go on over to <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Iraq</st1:place></st1:country-region> if she was so supportive of
the war there. She didn’t say a word. She just kept on sashaying that
ass. What a little bitch! One guy who looked like the missing link tore up one
of the signs that Don or Cheryl had made. We had put a sign under a Navy sign
that read free food and drink and our homemade sign had something about people
being exploited. This guy took great pleasure in tearing up the sign and then
running over to the Navy recruiters like a puppy that wanted its head patted. I
wanted to knock the hell out of him. From the look on his face, he appeared to
have a low I.Q.<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 color=black face="Comic Sans MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black;font-weight:
bold'>Toward the end around 1:30 p.m. or so, I should’ve gotten my butt
out of there because I had to get our truck to my daughter at school. Jamilah
was holding up her sign reading Stop the War Machine. One of the U of H
students that was helping us attempted to give a flyer to a tall brunette guy
wearing a suit. She said “Stop the War, Impeach Bush.” The guy said
“I’m not for that” or something along those lines. Jamilah
said “I’m not for the war.” He came over to her and started
debating the righteousness of the war in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Iraq</st1:place></st1:country-region> stating bullshit like we have
to be the big brother of the world. He also said we HAD to save those Iraqi
people from the horrible dictator Saddam Hussein who used chemical weapons on 2
million of his own people. I clued numb nuts in to the fact that our own
government SUPPLIED the WMD to the horrible dictator Saddam. He went on to say
that the people of <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Iraq</st1:place></st1:country-region>
are weak and we must democratize them. I clued him in again that one does not
democratize a people at the end of a gun or the point of a missile. He kept
telling me he understood all about the death and mayhem in <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Iraq</st1:place></st1:country-region>. I told
him I didn’t care whether he understood or not. I wanted to know how he
FELT about all the killing over there. I told him that at least 655,000 Iraqis
had been killed along with 3,000+ <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">U.S.</st1:place></st1:country-region> soldiers and countless
thousands horrifically wounded. I asked him how he FELT about that. This stupid
bastard actually said it was NECESSARY!!! I wanted to break his face right then
and there. I told him to pull his head out of his ass and wake up! This jerk
was an Air Force ROTC cadet. He’ll never see combat on the ground. He can
just get in his little old war plane and drop bombs on human “targets”
and never have to see the ripped and torn bodies of men, women and children.
What a stupid little fuck!! How on earth can these people get into school on a
university level!!! They seem to be completely uneducable!<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 color=black face="Comic Sans MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black;font-weight:
bold'>Anyway, Ron said we had to go, which we did because we were running late.
I got the truck to my daughter and then came home and helped Ron mow the yard.
I had to mow my mad out. It helped a little but not nearly enough.<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black;font-weight:
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 color=black face="Comic Sans MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black;font-weight:
bold'>I’m really sick of the ignorance of the American people and the
large majority of the University kids. They just don’t seem to give a
shit what’s going on in the world. They are more interested in shooting
hoops with the Rockets spokespeople, getting free pizza and Coke and a nifty
Navy tee shirt! Golly gee, Beave!!! I got me a nifty Navy tee shirt. [Insert
the Goofy the dog laugh here.] <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black;font-weight:
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 color=black face="Comic Sans MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black;font-weight:
bold'>If this is how people are going to react when we protest at the
University level then I think we are doomed as a nation. We have become a
nation of consumers. We have been dumbed down beyond all belief. Our young
people have NO CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS WHATSOEVER!!! Their thoughts must run
to when they are going to get laid, drunk, stoned etc. <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black;font-weight:
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 color=black face="Comic Sans MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black;font-weight:
bold'>I’ve had it with these nim rods. I know this is going to sound
horrible, but I really wanted to punch Mr. Air Force cadet square in the mouth.
I’m sick of dealing with morons. I’m sick of dealing with amoral
pieces of shit who think it’s a NECESSITY to waste human life in order to
BRING DEMOCRACY <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">U.S.A.</st1:place></st1:country-region>
STYLE to a suffering people. This is the absolute height of ignorance and
arrogance.<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black;font-weight:
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 color=black face="Comic Sans MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black;font-weight:
bold'>I’m fed up with all this crap! I sincerely believe we are going to
have to have a MAJOR catastrophe in this country to wake these morons up! I
hope this country gets seized by <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">China</st1:place></st1:country-region>, and we become a third world
nation. People are going to have to start hurting and I mean bad before they
wake up and realize that we are supposed to be ONE GLOBAL COMMUNITY! For now,
they seem content to eat their greasy pizza, drink their Cokes, fondle their
Navy tee shirts and listen to hip hop music. I feel I am living in a place that
must be akin to the biblical version of hell. I am living a nightmare.
Everybody seems to have eaten a big bowl of stupid for breakfast, and this is
every day! <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black;font-weight:
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 color=black face="Comic Sans MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black;font-weight:
bold'>When a person gets educated to what is really going on in the world
around her/him, then one realizes that there is NO going back. I’m stuck.
I realize I am up to my neck in stupid and shit, and it’s all I can do to
keep my nose above all the stink! I’m sick of smelling it, seeing it,
eating it and rolling around in it on a daily basis. How do you get out of the
stupid and shit?!<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black;font-weight:
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 color=black face="Comic Sans MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black;font-weight:
bold'>As an aside, I love the quote below from Arundhati Roy. She is, as per
usual, dead on with her observations. Thanks for posting it, Charlie.<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 color=black face="Comic Sans MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black;font-weight:
bold'>Kris<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>
ChasMauch@aol.com [mailto:ChasMauch@aol.com] <br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Thursday, March 29, 2007
12:55 PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> <st1:PersonName w:st="on">graham2639@mindspring.com</st1:PersonName>;
<st1:PersonName w:st="on">Discuss@paa-tx.org</st1:PersonName><br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: [PAA-Discuss] Quote
from Arundhati Roy</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Thanks for that, Kris. She is brilliant.
Here is another of her great quotes, taken from the introduction of the
book by Chalmers Johnson entitled "Nemesis - The Last Days of the <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">American</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">Republic</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>." The quote is an
excellent summary of the thesis of Johnson's book (which I highly
recommend as chilling but enlightening reading for everyone, and with
which I fully agree). Here is the quote:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>"Who is Osama bin Laden really? Let
me rephrase that. What is Osama bin Laden? He's <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">America</st1:place></st1:country-region>'s family secret. He is the
American president's dark Doppelganger. The savage twin of all that purports to
be beautiful and civilized. He has been sculpted from the spare rib of a world
laid to waste by America's foreign policy: its gunboat diplomacy, its nuclear
arsenal, its vulgarly stated policy of "full-spectrum dominance," its
chilling disregard for non-American lives, its barbarous military
interventions, its support for despotic and dictatorial regimes, its merciless
economic agenda that has munched through the economies of poor countries like a
cloud of locusts....Now that the family secret has been spilled, the twins are
blurring into one another and gradually becoming interchangeable."<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>ARUNDHATI <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">ROY</st1:place></st1:City>,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>The Guradian,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>September 27, 2001<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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