Looking into the future the Pelican feeding its young from a self-induced wound in its own
breast (as depicted, mysteriously, on the state flag of Louisiana) is accepted as an
appropriate symbol of both self-sacrifice and rebirth. Through his selfless efforts, man is
raised from the slavery of ignorance to the condition of freedom conferred by wisdom.
Given the current state of affairs in Louisiana, one hopes that the understanding of the Pelican
as a symbol shall point the way towards a new consciousness of ourselves as a whole, and lead us
to face our futures with strength, grace, wisdom and faith, to learn from our mistakes and carry
our successes and zest for living to future generations.
The World Can't Wait - Drive Out The Bush Regime!
YOUR GOVERNMENT, on the basis of outrageous lies, is waging a murderous and utterly illegitimate war
in Iraq, with other countries in their sights.
YOUR GOVERNMENT is openly torturing people, and justifying it.
YOUR GOVERNMENT puts people in jail on the merest suspicion, refusing them lawyers, and either
holding them indefinitely or deporting them in the dead of night.
YOUR GOVERNMENT is moving each day closer to a theocracy, where a narrow and hateful brand of
Christian fundamentalism will rule.
YOUR GOVERNMENT suppresses the science that doesn't fit its religious, political and economic agenda,
forcing present and future generations to pay a terrible price.
YOUR GOVERNMENT is moving to deny women here, and all over the world, the right to birth control
and abortion.
YOUR GOVERNMENT enforces a culture of greed, bigotry, intolerance and ignorance.
People look at all this and think of Hitler—and they are right to do so. The Bush regime is setting out
to radically remake society very quickly, in a fascist way, and for generations to come. We must act now;
the future is in the balance.
Millions and millions are deeply disturbed and outraged by this. They recognize the need for a vehicle to
express this outrage, yet they cannot find it; politics as usual cannot meet the enormity of the challenge,
and people sense this.
There is not going to be some magical "pendulum swing." People who steal elections and believe
they're on a "mission from God" will not go without a fight. There is not going to be some savior from
the Democratic Party. This whole idea of putting our hopes and energies into "leaders" who tell us to
seek common ground with fascists and religious fanatics is proving every day to be a disaster, and
actually serves to demobilize people.
But silence and paralysis are NOT acceptable. That which you will not resist and mobilize to stop, you will
learn—or be forced—to accept. There is no escaping it: the whole disastrous course of this Bush regime
must be STOPPED. And we must take the responsibility to do it.
And there is a way. We are talking about something on a scale that can really make a huge change in
this country and in the world. We need more than fighting Bush's outrages one at a time, constantly
losing ground to the whole onslaught. We must, and can, aim to create a political situation where the
Bush regime's program is repudiated, where Bush himself is driven from office, and where the whole
direction he has been taking society is reversed. We, in our millions, must and can take responsibility
to change the course of history.
Acting in this way, we join with and give support and heart to people all over the globe who so
urgently need and want this regime to be stopped.
This will not be easy. If we speak the truth, they will try to silence us. If we act, they will try to stop us.
But we speak for the majority, here and around the world, and as we get this going we are going to
reach out to the people who have been so badly fooled by Bush and we are NOT going to stop.
The point is this: history is full of examples where people who had right on their side fought against
tremendous odds and were victorious. And it is also full of examples of people passively hoping to wait it out,
only to get swallowed up by a horror beyond what they ever imagined.
THE FUTURE IS UNWRITTEN. WHICH ONE WE GET IS UP TO US.
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