Getting ready to go to Washington DC for the anti-war march. Over half a million people expected in DC and 250,000 expected in the San Francisco area march on the same day. Last month over 400,000 thousand people marched in London against this war and in Italy it was about 150,000. times have changed. Perhaps people aren't as asleep as one would guess.
But wait… earlier this week I emailed my intentions to go and an invitation to a bunch of my friends and associates not just here in Miami but all over the States. I have been so surprised at the small number of responses I have received back. No one I know is going. In fact no one even knows about it. I received a lot of “you go Ed,” type replies. But nothing of any real substance. Everyone seems more interested in this weekend’s Halloween festivities rather than anything else. Derek Cintron did reply back, with a very passionate but convoluted letter promoting total annihilation to Iraq due to some connection at least in his mind between Iraq and the September 11th attacks. I love Derek. And I love his passion. I cannot wait for him to make that subtle switch in his thinking that takes place just before a person joins the light side of the Force. He and many others continue to fail to realize year after year and century after century that fighting force with force and violence with violence will only lead to more death and more murder of all of us.
That on September 11th, we lost some 4000 of our people. In 1991 Iraq lost over 200,000 of theirs at our hands. Over the next ten years they lost an additional 1,000,000 people (that is one million) due to our economic sanctions and this maniac that is in power Saddam Hussein. My feeling is that before we go to war with anyone else, we really need to decide as a people if we want these figures on our heads and if we are willing to continue to let them build up. not just on our side but their side too.
