[Sosfbay-discuss] Our Children's Children's War

[Tian Harter]

Wes Rolley wrote:

>Koppel's most insightful generalization: "There is a lot of wishful 
>thinking in Washington."  We must remember that political pronouncements 
>are designed to have a political effect, not to change policy.  There is 
>a reality that we have not begun to meet the challenges of the 21st 
>Century and that we, as a nation, may not be the fittest to survive.
>
>It is my personal observation that you can not change people's heart 
>with a gun to their head.  The ideologues in Washington (leader: Dick 
>Cheney) have yet to understand that fact.  You win the battle of 
>ideologies by living your ideology to the fullest.  You are what you do, 
>not what you say. 
>
>As we go forward, I believe that the Green Party needs to divorce itself 
>from the cheer leading sloganizing and to start going forward with 
>alternative solutions.  I have never believed that it is enough to say 
>"Stop!!!".  We must begin to say "Do this instead of that."   That may 
>mean that we redefine the problems of American into questions that lead 
>to Green solutions.
>
As I type this, I've been car free for more than four months.

-- 
Tian
We got great coverage for our protest in Los Gatos Saturday:
http://losgatosobserver.com/los-gatos/Article.php?article_id=0226