Hearing on Downing Street Minutes: C-SPAN 2 Friday 8PM EDT, & website

[Guest guest]

The hearing on the Downing Street Minutes will be shown again Friday

at 8PM EDT on C-SPAN 2. It is also on the C-SPAN website and can be

seen there at your convenience.

C-SPAN

 

http://www.c-span.org/

 

We need to not just " preach to the choir. " Each of us must get

someone else to wake up and see the truth. Inspiring them to watch

this hearing would sure give them an education. Recording it to lend

to others would help. Writing to the editor or asking the media to

cover the truth would be even better. We must act to get more to see

the truth and demand that Congess investigate the Downing Street

Minutes and act upon what they learn.

 

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Below is an inspirational excerpt from:

David Koff

Editor,

http://messagetoamerica.c.topica.com/maadD1kabhUohbOSfTebaehn4o/

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At the Crossroads of American Politics

 

This, ultimately, means that the biggest problem isn't the system:

it's us. We've become lazy and unwilling to work for what we want

politically. If just one out of every ten people in this country

picked up the phone to tell their Senator that they didn't support a

political action -- say, a never-ending war with Iraq -- then that's

almost 30,000,000 people making phone calls, an unprecedented form of

political action made up, simply, of regular folks like you and me.

 

But, often, we don't act because our brains lie to us by saying that

one person can't make a difference. In reality, by working together,

we become the next super power. 30,000,000 united voices becomes a

true mandate of the people. And if this country is to steer itself

towards a brighter future of equal rights for all citizens, fighting

and punishing corporate crime, respecting the environment, caring for

those less fortunate than ourselves, then we all need to be willing

to RAISE OUR VOICES UP RIGHT NOW AND DEMAND IT. You want your wake up

call, here it is: your country needs you and your democracy depends

on you.

 

Raise your voice. Disrupt the calm. Talk about how you feel. And

then, for heaven's sake, so something about it. Find out who your

Congressional Representatives are. Then see how they've voted on the

issues...all of them. It takes ten minutes a day. That's it. Then

tell your friends. And then pick up the phone and remind your

representatives that you're watching and discussing what they do.

Don't be rude. Just let them know when you agree or disagree. They

are there, afterall, to do your bidding and to represent you.

 

We are at a crossroads historically and politically. The time for

ordinary people to remain as spectators has passed. I'm convinced

that the next phase of our evolution as a country won't come from our

leadership and trickle down to us, it will come from The People and

rise up, ensuring that our representatives follow the will of The

People.

 

Science tells us that for every action, there is an equal and

opposite reaction. If we're not happy with the current set of

actions, than our job is to become that equal and opposite reaction.

We can't do this by complaining. Rather, we must stand up and speak

up for what we believe to be right and moral and just, even in the

face of great darkness and despair.

 

I, for one, look forward to being a part of that equal and opposite

reaction. "