time travel back to 2001-2002 - Where has our movement gone?

[ChairmanAgnostic]

We suffer from a collective memory loss, and we are worse off because of it. How did it happen? Is there something in the water?

In the run up to the IraqNam quagmire, people were angry, they were committed and they marched. Here in Chicago, tens of thousands marched, polite, committed, and upset that we were about to invade Iraq. The response? many thousands of police, in black, armored robo-cop gear, all of them heavily armed, with a stack of plastic cuffs at the ready, masked, gloved and threatening. To say that they were intimidating is a huge understatement.

What happened? Where has our movement gone? I recall it clearly, despite the lack of media coerage. People were herded like sheep. People with cameras were attacked and their film, memory chips and even cameras confiscated or destroyed. If you tried to get out of the march, you were arrested. Several hundred people were arrested, some beaten up and EVERY SINGLE ONE WAS RELEASED WITHOUT BEING CHARGED. And I was there.

Again I ask, What happened? WHERE HAS OUR MOVEMENT GONE? We lost. No more marches. No more public displays. No more peace movement. The thugs in uniform won. Bush won. America lost.

Why has there been so much silence on the peace issue, the marches, the government's response and and the petering out of our movement? Why do we not again rise and stop this latest outrage? Iran will be our next battlefield, our next loss, our next mistake. We need to stand up again in the face of uniformed thugs and GOP fascists and proclaim what is right and what is wrong. Our Iraq policy was wrong, and has led to the deaths of many thousands. Iran will be worse.

Could someone please tell me, Where has our movement gone?