MissionNOTAccomplished, The Day AFTER May 2 2005

[understandinglife]

MNA Day 1 is May 2 2005

We have urged everyone to stop and remember and reflect.

We have indicated that May 2 2005 is The Day ‘We The People’ BEGIN......

It is the day we begin to determine all the ways that each of us will stop the atrocities, the lies, the attack on our Constitution being led by Bu$h and managed by his Fristian neoconster buddies.

We have encouraged each person to think and to be creative in how they approach the task of stopping the atrocities, saving our Constitution, healing our relationships within our own society, caring for all our dear and brave soldiers and citizens who served as well as they possibly could in the face of a false and failed commander-in-chief, and doing all we can to ensure that America will never forget.

By saying ‘Day 1,’ it is obvious that we are embarking on our own mission – a process, not merely an event.

We have indicated that it is ‘We The People’ who must act, persistently.

So, what is next?

It’s actually quite simple.

Beginning at midnight May 2 2005 we begin counting. When 22 additional Americans are reported killed in Iraq a message will spread throughout the internet and via other media containing a message that need be nothing more than the MNA icon:



When you see that icon appear, during the subsequent 24 hours you have only two things to do:

1. You do none of the things you ordinarily do;

2. You forward the icon (and an explanation if needed) to at least 10 people.

If you live elsewhere than in America we request you either support the effort by doing as requested above, or, you can set a different metric such as, for every 22 reported Iraqi deaths, you launch the same type of action – stop your normal activities for 24 h and notify at least 10 people to do the same.

We will repeat this cycle until the following happens:

The President of the United States of America sends a request and statement of commitment to the United Nations:

1. asking that the UN (perhaps with support from NATO) to organize and deploy a multi-national, primarily Muslim and Kurdish peace keeping and reconstruction contingent of ~ 750,000 to 1 million individuals to persist in Iraq until stable legal, political, military, social and economic infrastructures are re-built;

2. committing to an orderly removal of ALL AMERICAN combat and mercenary forces from Iraq within 3 months of the arrival of the UN reconstruction contingent;

3. committing to fund the reconstruction contingent for a minimum of five years and a minimum of $ 80 billion dollars per year.

A bunch of other details regarding remedy to our illegal and inhuman activities in Iraq are readily obvious, but for now the need is to demonstrate to humanity that We The People of the United States of America have called a halt to the atrocities, have made a commitment to exit Iraq, and have made a commitment to fund reconstruction of a society that OUR government plundered.

We will have no ‘moral authority,’ no credibility as a democracy, no pretense to being a civilization until We The People stop the atrocities and rectify the misery and destruction perpetrated on the citizens of Iraq by a pack of liars who just happen to be members of the Executive and Legislative branches of OUR Federal Government.

Peace and Thank you for your brave commitment to saving America.

[EFerrari]

1. Not in my name. Not ever again. I will not be complicit

www.missionnotaccomplished.us

[lala_rawraw]

2. kick with my best cha-cha boots

[fooj]

3. Truth. Justice. Peace.

Nominated!

:patriot:

[brettdale]

4. Kick

Kick

[dzika]

5. Great idea!

Thanks!

[radfringe]

6. but errrr ummm

we're...umm...errr...making progress...ummm...errrr

[understandinglife]

7. The 'origin of 22'! The metric we have chosen is derived from March 19....

....March, the 3rd day of the month + 19 days = 22.

March 19 2003 -- the day the atrocities began.

We will honor each additional 22 American fatalities with an ever more coherent, ever more intense, ever more massive PEACEFUL 24 hours of not doing what we ordinarily do, and spending those 24 hours explaining to at least 10 others why they must not do the things they ordinarily do, as to demonstrate extraordinary attention to the loss of our dear, dedicated, though horribly misled, fellow citizens.

Peace.

www.missionnotaccomplished.us (May 2 2005 The.Day.WE.THE.PEOPLE.BEGIN.....)

[troubleinwinter]

8. Kick... nominated

[EFerrari]

9. Kick!

[Nothing Without Hope]

10. YES! Recommended - and I hope to see it on the DU home page.

Thank you, UL and the other people behind this effort!

And how about some T shirts with the knotted string and Kokopelli? Then people can answer the questions that they would generate. And they're beautiful, too.

[understandinglife]

15. Let us hope that DU, cafepress, PDAmerica and others will start...

....selling those T - shirts, and mugs, and bumper stickers, and......

What everyone needs to realize is that we have no intention of creating a 'missionnotaccomplished.org' or anything like that.

MNA is an expanding network of individuals, each being encouraged to continue the expansion of the network.

So, anyone who wants to print some T-shirts or posters or whatever, need ask no one's permission -- JUST DO IT.

EVERYONE NEEDS TO "OWN" missionnotaccomplished.us -- EVERYONE.

Peace.

[puebloknot]

21. T-Shirts

I think this is a great idea. A wonderful way to start a conversation.

I'm about to use what may not be the best analogy, but all these multi-level marketing companies have buttons and t-shirts which have a catch phrase to entice people into a conversation:

Herbalife's "Lose Weight Now; Ask Me How" button, for example. (Good product, BTW, but no, I'm not selling it. A friend is with that company.)

("Lose George Now; Ask Me How!" comes to mind. I don't know *how*, but the *now* part is appealing.)

[EFerrari]

46. Imo, the icon and

"MNA" spelled out above" and "In Memoriam, May 2, 2003-2005" below would be very powerful.

It's easy to make t-shirts. They sell transfer paper you can put into your color printer.

Hmm. I may try it if I get a minute -- I've some t-paper here. If I do, I'll take a pic and post it.

I LOVE the icon. It's full of music and laughter and mischief!

:hi:

[understandinglife]

62. Please do post a picture of the T-shirt when you have time to make it.

I like the simplicity of what you suggested.

Peace.

www.missionnotaccomplished.us - May 2 2005 is just THE BEGINNING OF MNA

[puebloknot]

83. Doing T-Shirts

I just noticed this post. What a great idea to be able to just do our own t-shirts right at home, so there's no need for anyone to do a project.

I like your idea.

[EFerrari]

11. I have been pretty caught up in the Andy's gang thread and think

that is what happens to people. They're so busy with personal struggles in some way generated or at least, exacerbated by this criminal government, that doing something about the government itself never makes it to the top of the "to do" list.

Pretty neat trick, distraction.

Two things I'd like to do on May 2: Write LTTE. We saw this morning the power of the media watching C-SPAN air the segment on "The New Pearl Harbor". Who didn't breath a deep sigh of relief, listening to truth? We may or may not agree with every one of Griffin's points, but what a relief for someone to ask those questions on national television!

The other thing I'd like to do is mail the icon to my representatives wit the mission statement. Just a friendly reminder that they are under our oversight.

[EFerrari]

12. kick for sanity!

:kick:

[SpiralHawk]

13. What in blue blazes is Kokopelli doing on that icon÷

Mision Not Accomplished doesn't have anything to do with sex or fertility, does it? Hope you offered some corn meal or tobacco before appropriating his image -- he can be a stinker when feeling used or slighted. So the old timers say.

[understandinglife]

14. We explain why we consider his image very appropriate at...

....www.missionnotaccomplished.us

And, because of some very creative ideas he has already inspired, you will likely see his image in a series of MNA announcements as we proceed with our process to stop the atrocities and begin to nurture sustainable relationships within our country and with others.

Peace.

[EFerrari]

16. So can we. Be stinkers, that is.

:)

I believe this is all about sex and fertility -- life.

On the other hand, if I'm wrong, I know I'll find out.

Kick this!

[puebloknot]

18. Kokopelli

Hi.

Kokopelli arrived as I was writing my original message about the idea of the Pueblo Revolt, and the very clever way that event was coordinated -- by sending out knotted ropes to alert all the remote pueblos about the day of their mutual uprising.

I live in Santa Fe, and Kokopelli is all over the place here, his image used in a variety of ways. If you're a purist, he may be only about fertility (although I'm not sure of that), but his image also takes on the tone of a local "Pied Piper," leading people who follow to....what?....a roll in the hay, or a new reality. (For some, a roll in the hay may *be* a new reality, and if the Republicans asked me -- they're not asking -- a little more of that and a little less snarling at our neighbors would be a damned good thing.) Sorry, I digress.

I think Kokopelli is being *used* in a wonderful way for this project, if his image gets attention and causes people to wonder what in blue blazes that funny little flute player is up to! :)

My thoughts on the matter. Yours?

[crowcalling]

82. Thanks SpiralHawk

For educating folks! :)

[Nothing Without Hope]

17. A thought on the MNA logo - can you turn Kokopelli around? Seriously.

I was just looking at the MNA logo as I read this thread, and I think Kokopelli should be facting to the RIGHT instead of the LEFT. MNA is about a NEW BEGINNING, and in US culture, that would proceed to the right by instinct - maybe because we read from left to right. Then Kokopelli would be leading the way for us, playing his pipe. Could obviously be done easily with Photoshop.

In future additional images that could be associated with the MNA movement, the Kokopelli motif could be evolved further. I can imagine him moving toward the light, toward a sunrise, out of darkness and despair. Just think of the positive, encouraging beauty of the potential images. But in our culture, I feel that he needs to be facing toward the RIGHT. Contrary to our political situation, European-derived culture has named the LEFT the "sinister" side.

I did a quick Google image search to make sure there wasn't a traditional reason he faced the left, and I quickly found that this is NOT the case. In fact, in the very first Kokopelli petroglyph I found, he was facing the right:


(This image is at the bottom of this page: http://www.swcp.com/~spsvs/outdoors/anasazi/RockArt.html
Other Kokopelli petroglyphs I found faced in either direction.)

Please consider this change - I think it would make a difference and lend itself to wonderful evolution of imagery for the movement.

[puebloknot]

19. Kokopelli facing right

Hi.

I agree with your idea. This whole thing came together very quickly after we started talking about it, and our original graphic was just kind of put together on a whim by the graphic artist (sorry, forgot the "handle" for whoever did it, so please check in).

I was really grateful to see this imagery pop up. I'm pretty good with words, but I can't do graphics. So this was a cooperative effort among a number of us to launch an idea. It's open to infinite refinement!

We need Kokopelli to turn toward us, not look off into the distance. I suspect it will be a simple matter, for someone who has the talent, to spin him around and leave him smiling!

This movement, of course, is open to anyone's using any image they desire to promote the basic concept of quiet, concerted effort to end the war and hold accountable those who are destroying our country. This was just the one that showed up for me.

I've just started reading "The Tipping Point," and I feel that an image like this could take hold, grab the imagination of people, and start to move the idea, like one ink drop through a container of water, that we are not powerless, and that we should not plan our future based on the current outrage being perpetrated by an unelected band of brigands.

[puebloknot]

20. Kokopelli image

And, now that I take another look, if we turn Kokopelli around, we want him facing the knot, don't we, so it doesn't look like he's turning his back on it?

Actually, for me, the image carries a certain suggestion of movement, in any case. So maybe it doesn't matter too much, as long as people are curious and responsive.

[Nothing Without Hope]

22. Actually, I like him facing away from the knot - because it is the

BEGINNING and he is leading the way forward. So putting the knot on the left side and having him facing to the right side feels right to me. He's not DENYING what is represented by the knots, he is taking it as a starting place and moving forward. That's the way it feels to me.

[puebloknot]

23. Koko and the Knot

Hi.

That's another way of seeing things, yes.

Actually, I think the more important image is the knot, and not kokopelli. Most people out of the Southwest may not get either reference, but using the knot to show people that back in the 1600's, a hopeless and isolated group of people found a way to come together and defeat their particular tyrannical overlords, is the main message I wanted to relay, when first I was seized with this imagery!

Whatever works, I say! Today's knot is the Internet, I think, and personal word-of-mouth telling of the tale.

[Nothing Without Hope]

25. I think the Kokopelli image - though not its full authentic symbolism - is

pretty much recognized throughout the country now. It's seen as a symbol of Native American culture and of joy and creativity. For non Southwest people seeing the logo for the first time, they won't understand the knot until it is explained to them, but Kokopelli they will identify immediately.

I am so glad that someone came up with these symbols for MNA. They are powerful, loaded with meaning, and so visually appealing that they will be readily communicated.

I like the idea of people coming to understand the meaning of the knotted cord - that is a beautiful symbol and will be new - fresh - to most people around the country.

[understandinglife]

26. Credit belongs to puebloknot for the imagery and the reason for...

...adopting the knotted rope as the icon we will use, repeatedly, though hopefully as few times as possible, given that each time it appears after May 2 2005, it will mean that 22 more of our brave soldiers will have died in Iraq.

And, Hope, the dialogue you have initiated here is very much part of the message of what can happen when folk reflect, think, create and prepare for "how" they are going to stop the atrocities and the lies of the Bu$h theocratic neoconster regime.

Peace.


www.missionnotaccomplished.us

[puebloknot]

27. Credit not needed

It's very kind of you to say that, but those images came to me out of an exchange you and I were having on a web site, and which others joined. I think credit belongs to the particular muse which visited us both that day.

My only interest in "credit" is just keeping the message that the rope implies intact, and explaining to people what the historical context is.

Some people might say, given that there was a bloody uprising here in New Mexico against the Spanish conquerors, that a symbol like that is negative. I just think it's a good symbol for the interesting resonance that occurs when people come together to work together toward a given end. Unfortunately, "resonance" can have it's bad side, too, as in the Nurnberg rallies, but the power of *our* intention is to start a ripple effect to create a sane and just society, for America and the world.

[savannahana]

30. "those images came to me...

...out of an exchange you and I were having on a web site, and which others joined. I think credit belongs to the particular muse which visited us both that day," puebloknot said.

just read this - same thing as happened, #29, below!

the rope of this thread and each of its dancers
was the muse that visited me :-)

thanks!
peace :hi:

[puebloknot]

40. The muse

It's fascinating, isn't it, how an image can transform itself into so many variations?

The knot as spine, vehicle for the rising of kundalini....

The Trickster, who seduces us out of our usual ways....

Thanks for your poetic vision.

[savannahana]

60. fascinating, yes :-)

Muse and Trickster
both such fine teachers.

Thank you for your poetic vision, puebloknot.
And for hearing and responding with such beautiful comprehension.

[Nothing Without Hope]

28. I don't have Photoshop - but I am thinking about the image some more

On our maps, the east, where sunrise is, is shown on the right- another indication of the subliminal message of that direction on objects that are read.

And I was imagining:

He is turned to the right, and the background grades a bit from darker on the left to lighter on the right, with a symbolic edge of the sun and/or perhaps some rays coming in from the right. The message is about moving away from darkness and despair into a new day and hope. This version of the logo would not need writing on it - it would be self-explanatory once the MNA message had become disseminated.

I could paint a suggested draft version of this (watercolors) if someone wants it.

[understandinglife]

33. "I could paint a suggested draft version of this (watercolors) if ....

....someone wants it.

If you did and it could then be basis of imagery on T-shirts and posters and that would be really excellent.

Thank you.

[chlamor]

24. Media strategists noted afterwards....

Media strategists noted afterward that Mr. Sforza and his aides had choreographed every aspect of the event, even down to the members of the Lincoln crew arrayed in coordinated shirt colors over Mr. Bush's right shoulder and the "Mission Accomplished" banner placed to perfectly capture the president and the celebratory two words in a single shot. The speech was specifically timed for what image makers call "magic hour light," which cast a golden glow on Mr. Bush.

[savannahana]

29. wonderful thoughts, all posts above

going to try to catch what i just saw, heard, felt, from reading all you've written here

.

world axis, horizontal, vertical

.

Kokopelli dances the circle as spiral, as figure-8s, turning this way and that way, same way we travel on the inward ground. sometimes the pattern feels clear, sometimes not-so, but the dance just goes around, winding its own way. grounding us, where we live, the horizontal round.

(only apparently linear, our human path)

Kokopelli dances the spirals, the figures, the letters and the numbers, in the circle around the sun. Earth's way, human way.

.

Rope as Kokopelli's spine, knots as nodes of consciousness, chakras, stations of awareness, opening of choices, what we know sets us free. bound by what we understand, how we wonder. Vertical path, how ground speaks to spirit, and spirit to ground. Secular and daily to sacred and timeless. Rope as the spine of the dancer, the dance.

Swaying rope, where light climbs into breath.

(symbols appear as side-by-side. experience, as one.)

.

Flute instrument of breath, making light audible. Giving voice to the sway of the rope as we grasp our choices, choose our pitch and rhythm of expression. Breath itself the knot, binding the planes together.

Inward dance, outward song - we voice what moves in us.
Inward light, outward dance - we act what we realize.

.

Kokopelli draws up courage, power, fertility of soul.
Qualities we accept, to care for the Earth, for each other.

.

Turns of the dance, always finding East.

Breath of the flute, always waking light.

Swaying of the rope. Knotting of the will.

.

We can feel again, how we are not separate, from ourselves, from each other. We remember what connects us to Earth, and Sky. How we ourselves connect the Earth, and the Sky.

Kokopelli is remembering. Kokopelli is imagining.
Showing us how. How to show each other. Each other, self to other.
Other within self.

.

Joy, pinch of blue cornmeal
Peace, fragrant smoke rising

Reverent, the hunger for peace
Playful, the dance of body and spirit

.

Kokopelli, playful, reverent, moving in all our dimensions.
Soothing us, daring us, breathing us, moving us

To trust, to wonder, to seek, to remember
What we know, who we are, in all our dimensions

Sometimes to be still, while Kokopelli dances
Sometimes to listen, while the flute bridges light
East and West, Earth and Sky, human being and human being.

.

now i've said what i've heard!

please, tell me what you hear?


peace, and thanks :-)

[puebloknot]

39. How wonderful!

Thank you for such a beautiful expansion of Kokopelli's presence among us.

[savannahana]

57. "...Kokopelli's presence among us"

yes :-)

& thanks so much for your kind response, puebloknot :hi:

[understandinglife]

41. I hear harmony, compassion, commitment, and hope. Thank you.

www.missionnotaccomplished.us

[savannahana]

58. then i am very glad that i trusted and dared

to follow Kokopelli as he danced through....

Thank you, UL. And thank you for all your work on MNA.

For me, MNA is a wellspring of hope and courage.

peace

[EFerrari]

31. No matter our personal struggles, we must stay on task.

We must remember the things being done in our name

We must be stronger than the evil in our government.

We need a good ceremony.

Kick!

[Wilms]

32. .

[EFerrari]

34. Our first MNA is Monday. What will you do that day?

[Just Me]

35. Today is the day we prove "compassion" is a verb, not an empy word.

One great act of compassion is opposition of those who deliver oppression upon other human beings.

Today is the day we unite in our humanity against those who heartlessly advantage themselves of the human race.

[EFerrari]

36. May 2 - Monday - We can begin to take this country back

from the corruption we all feel, we all know.

We don't need anyone to tell us this has happened to our country. We feel it on our skin.

What will you do on May 2? My television will be off, I will not drive, I will not buy, I will not pay into a system that kills our children -- or anyone else's children.

We can do so much better than this. Please join us. This can be our day -- quiet if not secret at first, but surely it will gain ground, acknowledgment -- to reject complicity in torture, in casual destruction, in spreading "Democracy" with napalm and depleted uranium.

We can do so much better than this! DUers, we can do better in our sleep.

Let us not be sleepwalkers or confine our dissent to our keyboards.

Do not comply with this misadministration on May 2.

peace,
Beth

"Power concedes nothing without demand. It never has and it never will." -- Frederick Douglass

[EFerrari]

37. KICK for a small gesture of sanity.

:kick:

[EFerrari]

38. Sometimes even doing nothing seems like hard work

"Where do we find ourselves?" Emerson, "Circles"

We can do so much doing so little on May 2

Remember how nauseating it was to watch the Resident under that mendacious banner.

Remember the cooked bodies hanging over a bridge.

Remember Nick.

Remember, you knew better before all this was started.

www.missionnotaccomplished.us

[EFerrari]

42. kick

[Nothing Without Hope]

43. A great thread - we need to discuss the images further before I paint

With a painting instead of starting with a pre-exisitng photograph, we can do ANYTHING. And we can make different variations, from simple and iconic to complex and meditative. And everything in between.

We need to discuss this. The ideas are ready to ripen.

[understandinglife]

63. Am thinking through several ideas and will post them....

....as May 3 dawns........Thank you.

www.missionnotaccomplished.us - May 2 2005 is just THE BEGINNING OF MNA

[Andy_Stephenson]

44. Get Back up there.

:kick:

[understandinglife]

47. Thank you Andy. Hope your garden is thriving. (nt)

www.missionnotaccomplished.us

[Andy_Stephenson]

49. Everything is in

Bloom.

[flyarm]

45. thank you for mna day!!!

we will not forget!!!!!!!!!!!!!

thanks doll!!

fly

[merh]

48. Not in my name.

Not in my name.
:cry:

We have to stop being accomplices to their crimes.

[EFerrari]

50. UL, thank you for all your work on MNA!

It's a wonderful idea!

I found out where the San Francisco VA is -- I can see it from here. A big white building up in the hills.

:thumbsup:

[merh]

51. We must stop the injustice.

To do injustice is the greatest of all evils.
Plato (427-347 B.C.)

[understandinglife]

52. MissionNOTAcccomplished - May 2 2005 is just the BEGINNING of our....

........www.missionnotaccomplished.us

[dzika]

53. UL, Thanks for organizing this opportunity!

Activism made easy... everyone can participate in this peaceful protest.

Thank you!

[understandinglife]

54. " Violence in Iraq Claims More Than 100 Lives in Past 3 Days"

Violence in Iraq Claims More Than 100 Lives in Past 3 Days

By RICHARD A. OPPEL Jr.

Published: May 1, 2005

BAGHDAD, Iraq, May 1 - Insurgents used car bombs to attack a Kurdish funeral near Mosul and children playing next to an American military convoy in Baghdad while gunmen ambushed a squad of Iraqi police officers in the capital, killing at least 35 people today and wounding 80 more.

American and Iraqi officials hoped the formation of a new government last Thursday would dampen the insurgency and reassure Iraqis. Instead, insurgents have launched coordinated attacks that American officials describe as a clear effort to undermine and challenge the confidence and authority of the new government. Since Friday, more than 100 Iraqis have been killed and 200 more have been wounded.

(more at the link, if you have the stomach for it):
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/01/international/middleeast/01cnd-iraq.html?hp&ex=1115006400&en=7c266e492cd2122e&ei=5094&partner=homepage

Until America announces a planned, scheduled end of its occupation and demonstrates a coordinated effort with the UN to provide security and reconstruction support, you can be certain that the carnage will continue.

People do not dig having their nation occupied and ravaged by foreign oppressors -- just a tad bit of knowledge of history makes that lesson perfectly clear.

Peace.

www.missionnotaccomplished.us - May 2 2005 is just the BEGINNING OF MNA

[DearAbby]

55. Kick ~ Through peace

:kick:

[EFerrari]

56. My "peace" roses are in full bloom. And nothing, no crisis, nothing

will prevent me from observing this day.

We may be quiet at first. This first day may be quiet. But, we will be slow, steady and quiet as turtles. And as enduring.

We have had enough lying.

We have had enough death.

We have had enough homelessness, poverty and despair.

We are ready to move from darkness to light.

www.missionnotaccomplished.us

[savannahana]

61. "But, we will be slow, steady and quiet as turtles. And as

enduring."

thank you, Beth :hi:

[Ellipsis]

59. "Resistance is fertile", one Michael Moore's Headlines...Hmmmm.

I'm breakin' out the Ocarina at midnight to pay homage to the trickster.

Great thread.


:loveya:

[understandinglife]

64. "George's answer to any problem at the ranch is to cut ....

.... it down with a chainsaw. Which I think is why he and Cheney and Rumsfeld get along so well." -- FLOTUS, 30 April 2005.

I think Ms Bush is primed to endorse MissionNOTAccomplished, don't you!!

Let's all send her email and ask her to join MNA -- seriously.


www.missionnotaccomplished.us - May 2 2005 is just THE BEGINNING OF MNA

[merh]

65. kick

:kick:

[merh]

70. Another kick

:kick:

[understandinglife]

66. 'Mission Accomplished' Two Years Later- A Photo Essay; chlamor nails it...

....http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=3581511#3581750


www.missionnotaccomplished.us - May 2 2005 is just THE BEGINNING OF MNA

[savannahana]

68. kick around midnight, for chlamor's photo-essay

peace

[understandinglife]

67. DUer 'Jara sang' has provided: "List of War Profiteers' Sites Around U.S."

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=3581798&mesg_id=3581798

Welcome this relatively new DUer and think about all the letters you can write on MNA May 2 2005

www.missionnotaccomplished.us -- for all those who care

[savannahana]

69. quiet kick for DUer Jara sang's powerful contribution

peace

[EFerrari]

71. Hey! I've been looking forward to tomorrow so much!

Thank you, everyone, for making it happen!

peace,
Beth

[understandinglife]

72. Fristian values: "...I said a prayer. I stood up, and I shot them down."

From 'Gook' to 'Raghead'
By BOB HERBERT

Published: May 2, 2005

I spent some time recently with Aidan Delgado, a 23-year-old religion major at New College of Florida, a small, highly selective school in Sarasota.

<snip>

Mr. Delgado, who eventually got conscientious objector status and was honorably discharged last January, recalled a disturbance that occurred while he was working in the Abu Ghraib motor pool. Detainees who had been demonstrating over a variety of grievances began throwing rocks at the guards. As the disturbance grew, the Army authorized lethal force. Four detainees were shot to death.

Mr. Delgado confronted a sergeant who, he said, had fired on the detainees. "I asked him," said Mr. Delgado, "if he was proud that he had shot unarmed men behind barbed wire for throwing stones. He didn't get mad at all. He was, like, 'Well, I saw them bloody my buddy's nose, so I knelt down. I said a prayer. I stood up, and I shot them down.' "

(more at link): http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/02/opinion/02herbert.html?hp

And, Bu$h goes to bed at 9pm and sleeps so well that, evidently, his desperate housewife needs to complain about it before 'the media.'



Those fristian, neoconster values clearly include no remorse for atrocities, no matter what the scale.


www.missionnotaccomplished.us - for those with human values

[EFerrari]

73. Kick it for the morning crew!

www.missionnotaccomplished.us

:kick:

[merh]

74. kick --

:kick:

[EFerrari]

75. kick for sanity and reason n/t

[merh]

76. This is so very important!

:kick:

[merh]

79. kick

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[EFerrari]

77. Say no to torture, to fake wars, to fake news, to fake investigations

Today, we begin to take this country back.

www.missionnotaccomplished.us

[savannahana]

78. kick.

[savannahana]

80. kick for the one-hearted witness of collective action

at work within this community today.

A wise and compassionate counselor once said to me:

"Just align your personal will with a higher will,
and witness what happens."

Today, MNA Day, here within the DU family
we are witnessing together such a realignment
of personal will, yielding to the deepest compassionate
response within so many individuals. What exists,
in truth, at the core of "ordinary people of good heart".

Collective awareness and ability-to-respond
reconnects us with the best in ourselves,
revealing among us the vision and heart
to see and feel, as well, the best in each other.

It is a good day! A good day to remember what we do know,
and to realize what is possible when we each...

"Just align personal will with a higher (& deeper) will"

Witness, with joy and remembrance and hope,
what is happening.

May the qualities of this day's generous spirit
take firm root among us, and may the garden bloom
and flourish and bear truth's abundant fruit.

[understandinglife]

81. MNA 1608: Day 2 of MissionNOTAccomplished

DU Announcement:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=3588644&mesg_id=3588644

American Deaths since war began (March 19 2003) as of May 3 2005 midnight EDT is 1586

Source of information:
http://www.antiwar.com/casualties/

MNA Day 2 will be announced when the number of American deaths in Iraq is 1608

That day is designated MNA 1608

24 hours after receiving any form of communication containing the MNA logo:



YOU are requested To Do Two Things:

1. Do NOT do anything you normally would do for 24 hours, excepting essential activities (which includes communicating with all those who care);

2. Contact at least 10 other individuals and encourage them To Do # 1 and # 2.

For reference:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x3572770

Peace.


www.missionnotaccomplished.us -- Because We The People Care and Because We The People Are America