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Saturday appears to be a big day for rallies against the looming war in Iraq. Footstools will be provided, and at exactly 1930 GMT, peace-loving people around the world will simultaneously leap to the ground, unleashing colossal seismic forces that we expect will engulf the White House in a fury of tidal waves, swiftly sweeping it into international waters, where the law of no man prevails. Barring that, we will march.
The rally in Austin will take place at 1pm at the usual place, in front of the state capitol building. I’m not thrilled about at least one of the speakers, and as we’ve discussed before, these events tend to be derailed by a plethora of random tangential causes, which is not a baseless complaint by any means, but it seems to me that it’s still more important now to show up and be counted. I haven’t done this sort of thing in a few years, but I guess I think it still matters at least a little bit. See you there.
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i’ll go to this one, the last one was too early in the morning… weather forecast is a chance of showers, but it won’t be too cold at least.
posted by chris on February 12, 2003 1:06 PM
I’ll be there. However, if I get too excited and start 1) yelling at the police 2) talking to the media or 3) calling for a sit-in, it’s your responsibility to send me home.
posted by sarah on February 12, 2003 4:27 PM
I’ll be there with an umbrella with which to 1) keep the rain off and/or 2) poke sarah if she engages in any yelling, talking, or calling.
I think I’ll wear a suit.
posted by seth on February 12, 2003 4:35 PM
An Uncle Sam suit
posted by seth on February 12, 2003 7:39 PM
jacob - can you give me your phone number?
posted by leah on February 12, 2003 9:46 PM
or better yet, here’s my number. call me on thursday when you get home from work or something. 617-817-9483.
posted by leah on February 12, 2003 9:49 PM
I’ll be at the anti-war rally in Dallas, but I’ll be favoring the invasion of Iraq. What you don’t realize is that we’re already at war. Muslims and Arabsa hate America and desire to destroy it. Terrorist atttacks in the US will become more frequesnt and more severe. And these terrorist groups are funded by contries such as Iraq, Iran, Syria, et al… So, the US must stop these attacks on us by going to the source. If you can’t understand this (or refuse to understand it), you are being both naive and irresponsible. So I say, yes, certainlt do invade Iraq and kill Saddam Hussein. Any American opposed to this is, well, un-American.
posted by Dave on February 14, 2003 10:07 AM
Say, I’d be happy to discuss this with anybody with an intelligent, nuanced perspective. Non-paranoiacs a plus.
posted by jacob on February 14, 2003 12:28 PM
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