We all know what kind of world we want! What kind of community do you want to live in? Who will say they want to live in the American Empire? Obviously we are living in an illusion created by the corporately controlled media. The right appeals to our blood lust and lust for power and the left appeals to our sense of outrage and no one is appealing to our capacity to love our neighbors as ourselves. What kind of community do you want to live in? Let us ask it genuinely and clearly and we the people will create a new paradigm based on knowing the end never justifies the means, only the means assures the end. Do the Good!

The current justification for the war on terrorism was the terrorist attacts of 9/11. Who were the terrorists? The accused hijackers were not on the planes, 7 of them are still alive in the Middle East, the WTC buildings collapsed at the rate of free fall meaning they were controlled demolitions (no reasonable explanation for how Building 7 came down has even been offered), no plane struck the Pentagon, as Rumsfeld said "the missile that damaged this building", the plane in Pennsylvania was shot down, the rubble was strewn over eight miles, etc. Who were the terrorists? Only when we expose the truth of the power of the CIA Wall Street Big Oil Military Industrial complex and the corporate controlled media will we begin to have the conversations the we need to set the world on a course to justice and peace.

Winning is "A Goal", if one makes the way of peace a goal to win, rather than the truth of he'r being, it will be mass suicide, which is what many are now planning for under the fear they choose to live within. Stopping the lemmings who choose to rush to the sea and refuse to accept the truth of that choice is a goal which nature will not support. One may choose to see, accept and thus change the present truth, others may not, liberty and justice for all who choose to live such a life, is an attainable goal which nurture and nature will support.

What you say is totally consistent with the attitude of reconciliation promoted by the DoP legislation. Thank you for sharing yet another example of "jumping up and down." My current frustration is particularly fueled by the fundraising efforts of PAC for the impeachment campaign. It strikes me as corrupt that we have to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to get an employee who already collects a salary to do the job we hired him to do. We seek a new paradigm. The old paradigm is to throw money at a problem and hope it will go away.

"Blue in a Red State"

Winning most certainly IS the goal. Denial of that simple goal is tantamount to mass suicide. Is that what you mean by "many will leave?" "Past ways" and "what is to come" have nothing to say about the present truth that we are in a world of S*&T unless military spending is curtailed so that we can address the true global crises that face us as a species: environmental restoration, freedom from oppression and physical deprivation, and "liberty and justice for all."

"Blue in a Red State"

Winning is not the goal, victory will not bring to ones eyes what is to be. Those who follow and celebrate the path of past ways will not see what is to come. Many will leave as few will understand or accept the truth put forth for all the world to see.

http://global-luvolution.blogspot.com

Thank you for the vote of confidence. My letter was basically a response to an article written by William Rivers Pitt on truthout.org. An excerpt was sent out on the Progressive Democrats mailing list, to which I subscribe. I responded on the Massachusetts PDA mailing list that I was saddened by the celebratory and derisive tone. It prompted a few dozen responses from other PDA members and from Willaim Rivers Pitt, too.

Most of the responses misconstrued what I said as condoning, apologizing, going soft on, sympathizing with the criminals currently in power. Obviously this is not even close to accurate. However, I was blocked from responding on the list. So I wrote this open letter instead.

There were a handful of responses that supported my view. Even though we are in the minority, we must speak up when we notice other "progressives" engaging in politics as usual. We will get through to some of them, and they will join us in their PJs.

The wounds are universally felt. The deep yearning for healing is widespread. The needs are universal. But don't kid yourself into thinking that the established order can somehow be salvaged. These are multipartisan issues - not nonpartisan, since everyone is partisan about something. The solutions will not come from either of the existing parties (witness the demise of habeus corput penned by SC Senator Graham and passed with a bipartisan vote), so don't waste your breath on the PDA. The Republican mainstream fosters a culture of fear and hatred; the Democratic mainstream fosters a culture of revenge and outrage. Solutions will come from the actions of individuals who will find solidarity in the Department of Peace Campaign through the efforts of the PAJAMA Party.

"Blue in a Red State"