[statecom-discuss] disgusting pro-war ad in the Globe today signed by "progressive" Democrats

[John Walsh]

Here is why we have to emphasize over and over that a vote for ANY
Green is a vote against war.  Why?  Because we need to build a third
party from the ground up if we are to have a national party to oppose
war.
We need a slogan for this.  I would say "Let's take off the soiled
shirt of the Democratic Party" although the historical roots of that
might give us problems.
But we must stop being a bunch of goody two-shoes in our campaigns and
stop limiting ourselves to local issues.  By doing the latter we do
not take advantage of the thing that is on everyone's mind, the number
one issue, the war(s).
Why would we give up that issue?  Why would we not make it a central
issue?  Where does that show up in a militant, hard-hitting, leading
way in our campaign literature?  This cannot be an item way down on a
laundry list - it must be front and center.
It is our issue.
jw

On 7/20/06, david rolde <davidrolde at yahoo.com> wrote:
> There is a DISGUSTING pro-war ad on Page A7 of the
> Boston Globe Today (Thurs July 20) titled "WE STAND
> WITH ISRAEL" . It is signed by many prominent
> Massachusetts politicians including Deval Patrick,
> Chris Gabrielli, Tom Reilly, Kerry Healey, Christy
> Mihos, William Galvin and Tim Cahill, i.e., all the
> people (except John Bonifaz) who have a chance of
> being on the ballot against Grace, Jill and Jamie.
> Also signing were Democratic candidates for lieutenant
> governor: Deborah Goldberg and Andrea Silbert. Also
> signing were Andrea Cabral, Diane Wilkerson, Alice
> Wolf, James McGovern and of course Jarrett Barrios.
> There is a whole long list.  You can look in the Globe
> to see which other "progressive" Democrats have outed
> themselves as being racists who support war.
>
> The text is disgusting and blatant and has the
> situation completely backwards. Here it is:
>
> "As concerned citizens, we stand with the Jewish
> community and proudly raise our voices in solidarity
> with the people of Israel, a brave democracy that has
> yearned so long to live in peace.
>
> We firmly support Israel's right to defend her
> population against unprovoked acts of terror,
> including the missile attacks launched against
> Boston's sister city, Haifa, which have killed and
> maimed innocent civillians.
>
> We express our heartfelt concern for the safety of
> innocent people, Israeli, Palestinian and Lebanese,
> who have been hurt most by the brutality of those
> terrorists who have brought a new level of violence to
> the area.
>
> We call upon terrorist organizations and the regimes
> that support them to put and end to the terror. We
> call upon all who care about peace to join us in our
> support of Israel as she defends herself against the
> enemies of peace."
>
>
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