Are you gonna stop Bush or just sit on your hands?

Over at dKos today and I commented on the thread to this post that:

This is absolutely what every reader of this post…

site should DO!

Git up off yer butts and go to the phone NOW!

Make that call.

Be polite but firm in your demand that your Congessperson SPEAK out against this madness and that they support…

Impeachment of both Bush and Cheney.

If you’ve already done this then…Do it again tomorrow.

I got this response:

silly phone calls and letters wont accomplish shit.

These neocons are contemptuous of the people. This is approaching a showdown. We need to mobilize at a higher level than that.

To which I replied:

You are mistaken indeed if you believe they and the BushFucker are gonna get away with their crimes.

Here’s my primer on why they Fukin’ A won’t!

Of course you will do as you see fit.

Me?

If it takes the rest of my life I’ll see these criminal scum in the dock.

Do you agree with my correspondent? If so, please go away and come back when you realize that making ‘a call’ or writing ‘a letter’ ain’t ’silly’ it’s the first step in putting pressure on our elected representatives. Yeah, we gotta do more but we’ve already seen that when ‘folks’ tell their Congressperson what they want done.

Congress will do it.

They like their jobs.

You’ve gotta be determined to win. You’ve gotta put in the time. You’ve gotta have the tools and know how to use ‘em. Otherwise your just another sheep like my friend above imagining that you just fine when in fact ‘they’ are measuring you for lamb chops.

After they shear all the wool off ya…

Here’s the link from that dKos diary referenced above where you can tell Congress to stop Bush in his tracks. It might take two minutes.

Can you spare that much time?

Martin Luther King speaks to our nation and his words were never more apt nor important.

I come to this magnificent house of worship tonight because my conscience leaves me no other choice. I join you in this meeting because I am in deepest agreement with the aims and work of the organization which has brought us together: Clergy and Laymen Concerned about Vietnam. The recent statements of your executive committee are the sentiments of my own heart, and I found myself in full accord when I read its opening lines: “A time comes when silence is betrayal.” And that time has come for us in relation to Vietnam.

The truth of these words is beyond doubt, but the mission to which they call us is a most difficult one. Even when pressed by the demands of inner truth, men do not easily assume the task of opposing their government’s policy, especially in time of war. Nor does the human spirit move without great difficulty against all the apathy of conformist thought within one’s own bosom and in the surrounding world. Moreover, when the issues at hand seem as perplexed as they often do in the case of this dreadful conflict, we are always on the verge of being mesmerized by uncertainty; but we must move on.

And some of us who have already begun to break the silence of the night have found that the calling to speak is often a vocation of agony, but we must speak. We must speak with all the humility that is appropriate to our limited vision, but we must speak. And we must rejoice as well, for surely this is the first time in our nation’s history that a significant number of its religious leaders have chosen to move beyond the prophesying of smooth patriotism to the high grounds of a firm dissent based upon the mandates of conscience and the reading of history. Perhaps a new spirit is rising among us. If it is, let us trace its movements and pray that our own inner being may be sensitive to its guidance, for we are deeply in need of a new way beyond the darkness that seems so close around us.

Over the past two years, as I have moved to break the betrayal of my own silences and to speak from the burnings of my own heart, as I have called for radical departures from the destruction of Vietnam, many persons have questioned me about the wisdom of my path. At the heart of their concerns this query has often loomed large and loud: “Why are you speaking about the war, Dr. King?” “Why are you joining the voices of dissent?” “Peace and civil rights don’t mix,” they say. “Aren’t you hurting the cause of your people,” they ask? And when I hear them, though I often understand the source of their concern, I am nevertheless greatly saddened, for such questions mean that the inquirers have not really known me, my commitment or my calling. Indeed, their questions suggest that they do not know the world in which they live.