What We've Accomplished...And What We Must Do to Drive Out the ...
http://rwor.org/a/026/what-we-accomplished-world-cant-wait.htm
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Revolutionary Worker Online - Chicago,IL,USA
Now there is absolutely no juice behind impeachment right now--that would
take more than the Democrats in Congress, even if they did want to push
that. But that could change with a big movement in the streets. I can never
resist the example of Richard Nixon, who won by the biggest landslide ever
in the 1972 election; and was gone in disgrace less than two years later.
But whether it's by impeachment or resignation--it can only happen with a
huge social movement, determined to settle for nothing less than getting
this regime OUT OF THERE.
And we are not talking about a President Cheney or Rice, either. We are
talking about a REGIME, not just one individual. And we are saying "Take
your whole program with you." We are building a movement to drive out this
regime, and as we do that we are galvanizing people against the whole logic
and direction this crew is taking society.
But we got a problem.
We're up against a way things work politically in this society that people
have come to accept. We're up against a framework of "how things work"
which is killing us. It's called accommodation. Some people who should know
better, like the President of the National Organization for Women, are
declaring that "the tide has turned" because a Democrat won election in
Virginia over a Republican Bush campaigned for. This guy Kaine is
anti-abortion and pro-death penalty and ran on the basis that he's more
openly religious than the other guy! This wasn't a victory against the
moves to turn this country into a theocracy. This was not a blow against
the trend to force intolerant and absolutist religious dogma into every
realm of public and private life -- including into the law. No, this was a
maneuver -- yet again -- on the part of the Democrats to see if they could
become more like the Republicans we all hate and should hate so much. And,
they are saying openly, this is a model for them, something to emulate.
.... oppose Christian fundamentalist attacks on evolution and on science and
the scientific method in general, and on the separation of church and
state? ...
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Posting and reading from alt.politics.usa.constitution OR alt.education
You are invited to check out the following:
The Rise of the Theocratic States of America
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/theocracy.htm
American Theocrats - Past and Present
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/theocrats.htm
The Constitutional Principle: Separation of Church and State
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/index.html
[and to join the discussion group for the above site and/or Separation of
Church and State in general, listed below]
HRSepCnS · Hampton Roads [Virginia] SepChurch&State
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HRSepCnS/
[Its not just Hampton Roads folks who are members, there are members from
all over the U.S. and a couple from overseas as well]
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.. . . You can't understand a phrase such as "Congress shall make no law
respecting an establishment of religion" by syllogistic reasoning. Words
take their meaning from social as well as textual contexts, which is why "a
page of history is worth a volume of logic." New York Trust Co. v. Eisner,
256 U.S. 345, 349, 41 S.Ct. 506, 507, 65 L.Ed. 963 (1921) (Holmes, J.).
Sherman v. Community Consol. Dist. 21, 980 F.2d 437, 445 (7th Cir. 1992)
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