skippy the bush kangaroo: don't shut up

Thursday, September 20, 2007

don't shut up

via digby, here's moveon's petition to let congress know that we will not be quiet:

the u.s. senate just told you to sit down and be quiet. they passed a resolution condemning moveon.org and it has one purpose: to intimidate all of us who care about responsibly ending this war. they wanted to send a message that anyone who speaks unpleasant truths about this war will pay. to make everyone--especially politicians--think twice before they accuse the administration of lying.

we can't let that happen, so we're letting congress know that they're not going to intimidate us. can you sign on to this statement?

a compiled petition with your individual comment will be presented to your senators and representative.

addendum: here's the message skippy wrote when he signed the petition:

i find it reprehensible that congress would seriously debate and pass a resolution about an advertisement purchased by u.s. citizens and which reflected an honest and popular point of view, rather than vote in favor of letting the troops have between deployments; or to restore habeas corpus, a cornerstone of western jurisprudence for over 500 years; or to stop the funding of the iraq war, which over 70% of americans oppose. talk about misplaced priorities!

we citizens will not be quiet, we will not sit down in a corner out of sight, we will not allow a few over-paid millionaires dictate policy without input from us. that's called democracy in case you missed that class in school.

in fact we will actively work to get such spineless enablers that allowed this waste of time vote out of office.

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