Blogging for Peace

Posted on February 14, 2003 in Peace

I might go to the rally in downtown Orange or I might just stay home, writing my usual commentary against the absurd machinations of the Bush Administration.

Today, United for Peace has called on people to not go to work. Not in Our Name plans a moment in which everyone drops what they are doing to do something to express their opposition against the war later this month.

Online activism looks so much spiffier than we did when I helped run the resistance to the Gulf War out of the offices of the Institute for Global Communication and my desk at home in 1990-91. We posted our announcements through abUSENET. A prototype blog roach made it his duty to attack every word I said as “propaganda”.

He took the infamous Kuwaiti incubator story as truth. That fish denied to the very end that the hook was in his mouth.

They’re like trout farm catches: they never thrash. Just reel them in and toss ’em in the bucket.

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