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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'>What I’m saying, Lee, is that those things we have been doing for
YEARS now are not having the desired effect of getting ALL U.S. soldiers and
ALL private mercenaries out of Iraq and Afghanistan. Our efforts have not
gotten <st1:country-region w:st="on">Israel</st1:country-region> to adhere to
the UN resolution dictating <st1:country-region w:st="on">Israel</st1:country-region>’s
borders and have not gotten <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Israel</st1:place></st1:country-region>
to stop the genocide of the Palestinian people. Our phone calls, e-mails,
letters, protests etc. have NOT gotten universal single payer healthcare in <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">America</st1:place></st1:country-region>. They
have not gotten the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">U.S.</st1:country-region></st1:place>
government to forcefully address the very real danger of global climate change
and take the necessary steps to reduce emissions, raise CAFE standards, retro-fit
old coal burning power plants and reward industry that uses clean energy
sources. Our efforts have not gotten veterans the care they need and deserve.
Our efforts have not gotten our public school system and our teachers the money
and resources they need to be effective. Our efforts have not gotten good
paying jobs for <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">U.S.</st1:place></st1:country-region>
workers and have not gotten a living wage for our working citizens.<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'>All of our phone calls, letters, e-mails and protests make us feel good
because we feel we are doing something more than just sitting on the sofa
watching the boob tube, and that’s all well and good, but while we’re
doing those “feel good” things, real people are being maimed and
killed in Palestine, Iraq, Afghanistan and many other places all over this
world and real people are suffering and dying here at home. I’m
advocating doing things or NOT doing certain things and supporting systems that
actually cause systemic change to come about. Voting for Democrats or
Republicans is not going to get us the change we seek, Lee. The current system
is broken, and the two political parties in power are really ONE political
party and that party does not represent the average person.<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'>Yes, Houstonians have been supportive of our bridge blogging efforts and
our protests, and it seems some of them are coming around to our way of
thinking. However, I’m not seeing them participate in our bridge blogging
efforts or protests to any degree, and I’m not seeing them in the streets
with us demanding systemic change. They are happy to honk their horns, give the
thumbs up sign and peace signs, but they are not getting out of their cars and
onto bridges and into parks with us to participate in blogging and protests.<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'>Remember what Ronald Reagan’s Secretary of State, Alexander Haig
said, Lee, “Let them protest all they want so long as they continue to
pay their taxes”. OUR money is driving this war machine, Lee. It doesn’t
matter who you vote for in November. The war machine will continue to grind our
young people up and spit them into early graves as long as our tax dollars
continue to fund it. As long as our tax dollars continue to fund <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Israel</st1:place></st1:country-region>, you
will continue to see indigenous Palestinians murdered, subjugated, starved and
humiliated from now until forever. As long as our tax dollars go into weaponry
and war, you will see American citizens without healthcare, good public
schools, good paying jobs and a decent way of life and you will see our
infrastructure continue to crumble, our public schools continue to fail, our
citizens drop dead from preventable disease and illness, our citizens without
jobs and without homes and without a decent life. None of us wants that, so
STOP allowing the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">U.S.</st1:place></st1:country-region>
government to use your money for weaponry and war.<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'>I’m supportive of all the efforts everyone makes every day to try
and change things for the better in this country, however, those efforts are not
enough, Lee. We must do more, and I’ve outlined what I think needs to be
done in other e-mails. Whether or not anyone chooses to do those things is up
to them, but we will not see the kind of systemic change we want to see until
we quit supporting this broken and corrupt system and take a new direction.<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'>While we are all congratulating ourselves about how much we stand up and
shout for change and how great it is that we can have conventions and votes and
all that fun stuff, people who are hurting and dying and oppressed in other
countries are wondering when we’re going to actually DO something substantial
to help them.<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'>It’s way past time for us to shit or get off the pot.<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:
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'> Lee Loe
[mailto:leeloe@igc.org] <br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Monday, March 31, 2008 6:30
PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> graham2639@mindspring.com;
'PAA discussion'<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: [PAA-Discuss] Walls,
Tunnels and Daily Humiliations</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>Well, Kris, I guess I'd vote for you if
you are running, but you are not. I will vote for someone who has a chance of
becoming president and who listens to people, who has had a life that gives him
some idea that other cultures and countries have commendable attributes, who
grew up in a multiracial familly and society and whom I believe will listen to
the grassroots. And you are wrong about all our work and contacting elected
officials hasn't worked. For starters, 77% of the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">US</st1:place></st1:country-region> pop are against this war. They
waited until 50000 US soldiers died in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Viet Nam</st1:place></st1:country-region> to be against that war.
Also, congress people have changed their minds, hill and obama have changed
their positions, folks on the internet have learned of peace and justice
candidates running for the Cong and supported them with small contributions tha
t have made a difference. We can now hold up an Impeach sign and gete honks and
drive an impeach car in the art parade and get peace signs, claps, thumbs up,
ets. I believe that Obama can be enlightened so he changes his stance on <st1:City
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Palestine</st1:place></st1:City>. If you want
McCain, then don't vote Democrat. I wish you wouldn't insenuate that we who
don't plan to vote as you would have us do are asleep at the wheel. We are
sisters and brothers trying to stop all of the holocausts going on in the world
with global warming getting hotter every moment. Let's hang together, cry
together, laugh together in common cause. Lee Loe</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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