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CONTACT: Veterans for Peace Mike Ferner 419-360-3621; Will Covert 619-402-5206; Elliott Adams 518-441-2697; John Amidon 518-312-6442 |
Banner-Drop on Pennsylvania Avenue: "Mr. Obama: End These Fucking Wars! War is the Obscenity"
Veterans' 25 x 17 Banner Tells it Straight to Obama at 555 PA Ave. N
WASHINGTON - October 1 - Today at 1:00pm eastern time, U.S. military veterans hung an enormous banner on the front of the Newseum, wrapping their message around the First Amendment chiseled in five stories of limestone.
Opposed to the wars and occupations in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Palestine, the vets' message said loud and clear: "MR. OBAMA: END THESE FUCKING WARS! WAR IS THE OBSCENITY." 
Several veterans dropped the banner down the front of the Newseum, while others distributed special edition copies of the War Crimes Times, explaining the action and what they considered obscene.
"The American public should be shocked that we are still killing and crippling thousands of innocent people in these countries as well as our own soldiers -- that's what's truly obscene," said Mike Ferner,59 who served as a navy corpsman during Vietnam. "Blowing people's arms and legs off, burning, paralyzing them, causing sewage to run through their streets, polluting the water that kills and sickens children, terrorizing and bombing people and their livestock with flying robots-- that defines obscenity. If this banner shocks and offends a single person who hasn't been shocked and offended by what's being done in our name, we've accomplished our misson."
Veterans and activists taking part in the event include Ken Mayers, Kim Carlyle, Mike Ferner, Bruce Berry, Debbie Tolson, Nic Abramson,Tarak Kauff, Mike Hearington, Will Covert and Elliott Adams of Veterans For Peace.
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Show AllAnd while we're at it, call for an end to those dirty DU "depleted" uranium shells.
It has been known since 1946 that the dust from the so-called "depleted" uranium weapons is anything but.
The US is mindfully breaking every treaty it ever signed in the use of these things, and only sickening our military and their families without a care in the world.
Also causing cancer and birth defects so far in Iraq, and soon to be coming to a hometown near you. Or so I hear.
Speak up! The Democrats stand to lose in a month. Make this their priority and for the sake of votes, they may jump at it. Ha!
Thank you veterans for your sanity. Please speak louder. I appreciate your words of encouragement. War the most obsene word in the human language. Tell us the truth about war. Tell us how you feel. Tell us what you did. Tell us everything we don't know. Tell us what you think of our war commanders. Tell us about the suffering you saw. Tell us until we act. War the most obsene word that humanity has ever devised. Pornography should be rated for childrens audience and War should be rated as XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX Not fit for human consumption, speech, books, policy or discussion. Stop war now! Veterans speak out, write, do anything you can to get the message across. I thank you, I support you and I will die for you who speak out against war. The only reason to kill is in the name of love.
And the media...shining for its absence? Or just sweeping this story under the carpet...as it does with so many others? The US won't be 'liberated' until the masses start taking to the streets EVERY DAY! A Russian proverb says: make a sheep of yourself and you will soon find a wolf nearby. And so it is - turning the other cheek and remaining passive just invites more and more abuse.
yes, i'm voting for the under the rug option. so much already under that rug it's a wonder there's room for more. yet, so few of us notice the stench. inured, i guess. i took this bit o' obscenity to a discussion board the other day, but with the battle for congress and all this got little notice there as well.
i googled for a news search page, saw a few blogs had picked up on this, but NOT ONE MAJOR NETWORK!