tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10853024.post1624894811405257821..comments2024-03-12T20:20:35.830-05:00Comments on Organizing Notes: I AM APPALLEDBruce K. Gagnonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10845856861232395427noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10853024.post-72422975371397680592011-08-11T04:23:58.651-05:002011-08-11T04:23:58.651-05:00True, we're often told that our sign-holding s...True, we're often told that our sign-holding sessions outside the Offense Department corporate welfare recipients won't change anything. Told that we are "whiners" and offer naught but complaints.<br /><br />However, keeping silent has a much more spectacular history of failure than even the most trivial of Dissent.<br /><br />One of the most visible mass movements in history was started by an unemployed homeless carpenter in the Middle East who got killed in Occupied Palestine.<br /><br />Keep working for the goal. <br />I wish I could recall who said this first, but if they kill us outright they can only do it once (apiece) but if we surrender they kill each of us every day for the rest of our lives.Brother Jonahhttp://notmytribe.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10853024.post-66196084246995093792011-08-10T08:00:27.027-05:002011-08-10T08:00:27.027-05:00Frankly, I don't give a damn who Barney Frank ...Frankly, I don't give a damn who Barney Frank supports. He can support Rick Perry or even Ronald Reagan, either of whom has about as much chance of winning the presidency in 2012, for all I care. But if he is willing to speak out forcefully and publicly on a popular medium like the Rachel Maddow Show to bring the Iraq and Afghanistan wars to an end and redirect those funds to domestic spending, he has my support.Dannoreply@blogger.com