Subject: Next weekend's anti  Bush War protests
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 00:44:12 -0500
To:       lp_manhattan <lpny_manhattan@yahoogroups.com>,
From:     Bob Armstrong <bob@cosy.com>

 There is some strange sort of anti-symmetry between the
 suppression of ownership of even vague replicas of weapons
 of personal defence by the local population and US
 government salivating to unleash its massive arsenal of
 weapons of mass destruction even , if need be ,
 as a dictator to the world  in defiance of the UN ,
 our only approximation to a democracy of nations .

 The tyranny of the State has never in my lifetime been
 more frightening .

 Does anyone have contacts with the organizers of next
 weekend's protest ? Every effort ought to be made to 
 get a 3 minute slot for LIBERTARIAN speaker to make the
 point that :

 WAR is the product of the STATE ,
  not of business , not even the oil business .

 It is the STATE that makes the WAR on DRUGS .
 It is the STATE that makes Class Warfare .
 
 It is the STATE whose product and tool is FORCE . 

 It is the STATE whose budget is swelling with their
 Wars both at home and around the world .

 It is not capitalism , it is STATE fomenting this
 catastrophe .


 Can anyone reach the program organizers ?
 Suggest a speaker ?

 We greatly broaden the Peace message .

I have included below a note I sent the one contact 
I have .

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>=A0From:
>=A0Bob Armstrong <bob@cosy.com>
>=A0=A0Subject:
>=A0Do you have a LIBERTARIAN speaker on you agenda ?
>=A0=A0Date:
>=A0Fri, 7 Feb 2003 12:18:19 -0500
>=A0=A0=A0=A0To:
>=A0<andrea@globalexchange.org>
>
>=A0Andrea
>
>=A0You will see from my website that I am a
>=A0bleeding-heart Libertarian activist .
>
>=A0We will be with you , passionately , on the 15th .
>
>=A0Do you have anyone representing the LIBERTARIAN
>=A0view of this GOVERNMENT GONE BERSERK ?
>
>=A0We believe a lot of the socialist left is naive
>=A0in believing that any business interests , including
>=A0the global energy industry is backing Bush's Bonfire .
>
>=A0The rules of business are voluntary transactions
>=A0between individuals . One look at the stock market
>=A0every time the warmongers announce another escalation
>=A0in their impatience for blood to flow puts the lie
>=A0to that notion .
>
>=A0I believe it would be very powerful to include a
>=A0Libertarian voice in your program to make visible the
>=A0broad spectrum of thought that is horrified by tyranny
>=A0US have become .
>
>=A0Please consider the power of adding this additional
>=A0dimension to our mutual message .
>
>=A0Bob A