Tuesday, August 19, 2008

IMPEACH: PATRIOTIC/MORAL DUTY TO ATTEMPT NEED 1 MIL. SIGNATURES BY 9/11

Please consider giving this opportunity, in whatever form of documentation (good stuff at his site) immediate, forceful, urgent visibility:

From Kucinich's site:

Impeachment is a formal filing of charges. It does not mean removal from office. The Judiciary Committee investigates the misconduct and sends a report to the House of Representatives, with specific articles of Impeachment.A vote in the House in favor of the Articles of Impeachment is similar to the process of indictment.The person impeached would then be subject to a trial in the US Senate.It takes a two-thirds vote in the Senate for conviction.Removal occurs only upon conviction.


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VIDEO:

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9/11/08!!!

More from Kucinich's site:

Dear Friends,

On August 1st, I delivered to Speaker Nancy Pelosi; a petition bearing the names of over 100,000 Americans that, like us, feel that the President must be held accountable for abusing executive power and disregarding his Constitutional obligations.

Your voices have been heard and your support continues to send a powerful message to lawmakers. That is why I call on you again to help us in a new effort to deliver 1 Million signatures to Speaker Pelosi on September 10, 2008.

Together we can:

  • Urge real Congressional action to hold President Bush accountable now

  • Reinstate the authority of our Constitution

  • Document crimes committed by President Bush for historical account

  • Facilitate post-Administration law enforcement and prosecution

  • Reset the standard for the incoming and future administrations

  • Demand justice for the over 3,000 who died on 9/11and whose deaths were tragically exploited to take us into an illegal war in Iraq

  • Demand justice for the estimated 30,324 U.S. military personnel who have been injured/wounded

  • Demand justice for the estimated 4,138 U.S. military personnel who have been killed or died

  • Demand justice for the 1 Million innocent Iraqis who have died*

  • Avert another illegitimate looming war – this time against Iran

We need your active participation to deliver 1 Million signatures to Congress by September 10, 2008.

Please give at least ten of your friends the opportunity to stand up for our country – the way you and I have, by inviting them to sign the impeachment petition online at www.Kucinich.us. Send your friends an email invitation to sign the petition by clicking here.

Together we can make September 10, the day before the world changed, a day we change the world!

Thank you for your active and ongoing citizenship.

Dennis Kucinich



Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Recovery continues

Clearly I'm out of any health danger.

Still limited to about 10 waking hours per day. All other energy goes to simply digesting food, it seems - sound sleep. Frustrating! My days are cut so short.

Sunday, August 10, 2008

Eat and Sleep - all I can handle. Recovery slow.

Hmmm. This is the longest, slowest Hunger Strike recovery for me yet. I'll guess that 62 days of Hunger Strike within 120 has something to do with it; it pretty extreme heat.

Body seems to be functioning properly - kidneys functioning again, it seems.

But zero energy. Zero stamina.

Sleeping, like the dead, 18 hours per day.

Friday, August 8, 2008

Day 9: Storm breaking, beginning to recover, I think.

The last several hours tonight I sense that my body is on the rebound after 8 days quite ill.

Remaining Ill

Letter to a friend:

I just wanted to acknowledge that yes, I am doing an awful lot of lying around. But it turns out I am fairly ill from this last trio of Hunger Strikes. I am now sure that my kidneys have been doing badly along with my bowels.

I am quite sure they are mending, finally, but extremely slowly.

The evening at the signs seems to go fine. But beyond that, I awake in the morning after a long, long sleep, feel fine, sit at the computer for 30 minutes or so, and my body crawls itself back into bed.

My kidneys have a mild, dull ache, and my bowl is not doing well.

My only point in sharing this is to acknowledge that I am doing a lot of lying around and not much else that is useful.

I suspect this will finally pass, soon.

-----

Letter to another friend - joan D arc - a fellow warrior:

FYI, I've been sick this time for four days solid. I am quite sure it is my kidneys. Have zero energy, am pretty yellow (alarmed some of my friends), have ZERO energy - just sleep all day and night, and ach in the mid-section - kidney area; waves of low fever. Today I am feeling fairly normal, so far, for the first time in a week; but now I've been sitting up for 30 minutes, and my body is crawling back into bed.

Now, this is a warning to us both. But, at the same time, if I am NOT in harms way, I am of no damn good, not in this rapidly disintegrating world.

Wednesday, August 6, 2008

Continuing in Recovery

Among my many failings is the ability to anticipate how long it takes me to recover - physically, emotionally, and psychologically - from these campaigns. Aside from sleep 16 hours per day, and a little bit of praying for guidance, there is little else I've had the energy to do for days now.

Health seems ok although some of my friends on the street are alarmed at how yellow I am. They are afraid of kidney malfunction - jaundice. I'm sure it is just the way my tan has faded. My eyes are NOT yellow. I'm also running a fever but that will pass soon. It has happened before.

Thomas may be away for several weeks so I will be helping maintain the signs in the Park many of those days.

My best guess currently is that when Congress returns in early September I will be Called to return to the Hill on the issue of Impeachment or Free Palestine.

Monday, August 4, 2008

"Bomb / Don't Bomb Iran" decision finalized. Hunger Strke / Vigil Suspended

I wish I was all-knowing enough to tell YOU what to believe. But with the following I can tell you what I believe enough to act on.

Recent reports (see below) have substantially convinced me that global corporate/financial forces, those well beyond those that have been within my personal reach - Cheney / Bush / Congress / Pentagon - have made the bomb / don't bomb decision. What decision has been made? Don't know yet. But the decisionmakers - global corporate & finance powers are beyond my reach, for now anyway. Hence I've terminated the Hunger Strike and will not undertake the Pentagon vigil for today anyway.

The "News" I now ascribe to indicates:
  1. It is clear that the decision to bomb Iran is the decision to bring about world-wide economic depression that dwarfs what was seen in the 1930's. This is known by Bush, Cheney and Israel, hence it is a decision that is beyond them, above them - the decision is in the hands of their corporate handlers.
  2. The Pentagon has made its opposition clear to the Administration and Israel - DON'T BOMB. The Pentagon is no longer "on the fence," but in opposition.
  3. Congress is beyond my reach now physically, recess, even if their cowardice did not make them irrelevant to the decision.
  4. $125 / barrel oil has been extremely useful in making it clear to the world that Bomb Iran is Global Financial Meltdown. Bush / Cheney / Israel will be prevented by the Global Financial masters from making the decision. Whew!
Will Iran be bombed? Hmmm. Have you read Naomi Klein's, "The Shock Doctrine?" Bombing Iran would be perfect for bringing about the new, Fascist one-world-order.

As for my next campaign? Not sure yet. I've been standing Against (Iraq War, Bombing Iran) and that is NOT where I want to be. I want to be standing FOR Waging Love. Yes, in doing one I've been doing the other, but I'd like to find a way to entirely stand FOR Waging Love. Don't know if the time is now.

Need more time to Pray for Guidance. ("Pray?" Like Watching for Cars, both are seeking for Vision).

Some of the articles that have helped me arrive at this perception:
  • etc
  • etc

Question of Bombing Iran may already be decided

The way "News" is developing it looks as if either one of two things will happen -
  1. we will NOT bomb Iran because clearly it would unleash global catastrophe, a fact universally recognized; or
  2. we (global / one-world-order capitalists) WILL bomb Iran precisely TO bring about global catastrophe and accelerate a one-world order.

Either way I'm not sure that my presence at the Pentagon makes much sense if these options are already clearly established.

I'll let you know.

Saturday, August 2, 2008

Poster Ideas for the Pentagon Vigil

Hmmm. I had hoped to start the Pentagon Vigil tomorrow, Monday, but I've been unable to get the new Posters designed and produced yet. Subject to input I think these will suffice. Comments WELCOME.





Friday, August 1, 2008

Exhausted. Praying for guidance. Hunger Strike day #26.

Well, Congress has retired to their Country Clubs for August, poor dears.

Although my health seems solid, I am exhausted what with the Hunger Strike and the almost 50 block round trip lugging my stuff to the Hill. I can't yet think straight about my next steps, although my sense of direction is - Continue the Hunger Strike as planned at the Pentagon weekdays and White House weekends through day 5o.

Why? To stiffen the resolve of the few Heroes at the Pentagon that are our greatest hope of not bombing Iran.

Added to the posters recently is a boombox playing clips of last Friday's Impeachment Hearings:


PATRIOTS IMPEACH. YOU? 1 0F 2 *MATURE* *PROMOTE!*
http://youtube.com/watch?v=O46Cis9ZwQU

Highlights, dozens of clips from the July 25 2008 Congressional Pre-
Impeachment Hearing. Patriots held this hearing. What are YOU going
to do, NOW? Promote this video far and wide and...? [Note: among the
photos are babies, Depleted Uranium DU deformed - your tax $ at
work - ant-tank weapons.]



Highlights, dozens of clips from the July 25 2008 Congressional Pre-
Impeachment Hearing. Patriots held this hearing. What are YOU going
to do, NOW? Promote this video far and wide and...? [Note: among the
photos are babies, Depleted Uranium DU deformed - your tax $ at
work - ant-tank weapons.]

Recommended Reading:

"Obama is the American Blair," John Pilger. "Their failing or ours," Start Loving?

Sunday, July 27, 2008

Hmmm. Again, why is this cause worth EVERYTHING?

4,000 US Combat Deaths, and Just a Handful of Images - NY Times

BAGHDAD — The case of a freelance photographer in Iraq who was barred from covering the Marines after he posted photos on the Internet of several of them dead has underscored what some journalists say is a growing effort by the American military to control graphic images from the war. (Full Article)

Zoriah Miller, the freelance photographer who took this image and others of marines killed in a June 26 suicide attack and posted them on his Web site, was subsequently forbidden to work in Marine Corps-controlled areas of Iraq. Maj. Gen. John Kelly, the Marine Corps commander in Iraq, is now seeking to have Mr. Miller barred from all United States military facilities throughout the world. Mr. Miller has since left Iraq.

In November 2004, Stefan Zaklin, a photographer then working for the European Pressphoto Agency, was embedded with a United States Army company. Mr. Zaklin photographed this soldier, who was shot and killed in Falluja, in a house used as a base by insurgents. The photograph ran in several European publications, and Mr. Zaklin was immediately banned from working with the unit.

Chris Hondros of Getty Images was with an army unit in Tal Afar on January 18, 2005, when its soldiers killed the parents of this blood-spattered girl at a checkpoint, and his photo was published around the world. Mr. Hondros was kicked out of the unit, though he soon became embedded with a unit in another city.

Thursday, July 24, 2008

Hunger Strike Day 22; Vigil Day 154

This vigil that started early October 2007 (photo left) continues on Capitol Hill through next week at the end of which Congress goes to golf for the month.

Weekends are spent at the White House (photo right).

The Hunger Strike will continue through day #50 at the Pentagon, where a few heroes have been holding off President Cheney. Hunger Strike is suplemented with about 350 calories per day to offset the up to 50 block round trip walk to Capitol Hill. Health is good. There are as many as a dozen Congressmen that now pointedly seek my attention to give me thanks and encouragement daily when they cross to and from the White House. Once every few days or so some person or persons also, at random, spends time with me from around the country or around the world and seems to leave quite inspired, moved and committed; not unusually there are tears. News is unclear, but maybe positive regarding Iran ( Anti-War Movement Successfully Pushes Back Against Military Confrontation With Iran by Mark Weisbrot (source: Alternet) July 24, 2008). It is conceivable that I will terminate the Hunger Strike earlier than planned if the trend continues positive; saving my body for a more urgent time.

But today, with horrifying echoes of pre-Iraq II: Iran Ends Cooperation With UN Nukes Probe

ps. 6:45pm As I sit on Vigil on Capitol Hill, just this second, a congressman, from Georgia I believe, stopped, drew my attention and very pointedly said, "Friend, please do not stop what you are doing. Now is the most important time. If you can, get others with you, but PLEASE DO NOT STOP."

pps: Just a few minutes later another congressman walked past, stopped, turned, and stuck out his hand to shake mine, "God bless you sir," he said with great sincerity and gusto. In kind I thanked him for stopping, upon which, to set the record strait I think, he added, "I am on the other side of the issue from you, but God bless you." "And God bless you sir," I responded equally, from the heart.

CONVERSION FROM HOSTILITY TO HUMANITY IS THE ENTIRE WORK OF PEACEBUILDING.

Monday, July 14, 2008

HOPE: THE RON PAUL REVOLTION CROWD

Hi sis.

I've been in DC 3 years now doing the work I do. I've never seen what I've seen this past week. Yes Code Pink is awesome, but this Ron Paul Revolution crowd, about 3000 on Saturday - they truly "get" how rotten our system is in a way that is, hmmmm, deeply hopeful. One, Tom, came in a week early. 33, from Detroit, ex Army doing construction, very bright, very well informed... I'm pretty sure he is going to return to Detroit, settle his affairs and return here to fight. Brick, I met him today, 20ish, his dad owns a successful construction firm, he may do the same - return here full time in the fight. Saturday I met a guy at the rally, my age, from VT, extremely well informed, may do the same.

Now, the pattern we have to watch for and foster, is what always brings about change - people start dropping "normal life," and going to the "fight." I often think of the soldiers at Valley Forge - abandoned by their "country" - no pay, "patriots," no matter what the cost, having left "family," farm and security, why? Because it needed to be done; it was the right thing to do.

For the first time I've seen seeds of this in a group of some mass - the Ron Paul Revolution.

Yes, you, I and a few others may stay alone for a long time, but maybe not....

1938 Germany 70 years later

Silly me, I see that my choice of titles on the prior two posts below has caught NSA attention. I've now got these people REPEATEDLY checking the site, JUST THESE TWO POSTS, all referred by email, from Georgia, Maryland, State Col PA, RCN....
  • Government of the District of Columbia
  • Cellco Partnership DBA Verizon Wireless, Huston Texas
  • RCN Corporation, DC
  • Ellicott City, MD
  • ruetgers-organics-corp.com, State College, PA....

If I disappear, you'll know where to look - a black site somewhere in the world.

Hey my brothers and sisters in the NSA, you can find me in plain sight, with big signs of children you've killed due to your paranoia, in Lafayette Park or on Capitol Hill most every day, trying with MY body at risk (NO ONE ELSE'S) on modified hunger strike, Day 15, to stop your insane military response to everything.

I suppose that once you've killed or imprisoned just about everyone on the planet, THEN you'll feel safe?

Assault on our Deadness begins at the Pentagon

Pentagon Assault Aborted


ps: I would take a bullet for you. I AM putting my body on the line for you.
pps: Who are YOU doing this for; the "government?" the Constitution? We the people? Are you making us safe by destroying all our constitutional and human rights?
ppps: Heil Hitler!
pppps: You DO know that protecting our rights, freedom and constitution by DESTROYING them is, er, um... clinically insane, don't you?

Sunday, July 13, 2008

Pentagon Assault Aborted

Aborted: Assault on our Deadness begins at the Pentagon

Tragic. It was a terrific mission at the Pentagon, and it was off to a promising start. The officers had no idea what to do when I arrived at 9:30am with all my stuff off the metro. Within minutes they were intrigued and I had maybe 6 of them as a captive, and ever more supportive audience for half an hour or more. But by late in the afternoon the "rules" had come down from on high that the campus is closed to non-full time employees from 8pm until 6am, and technically weekends as well. I do NOT believe this was trumped up, which is a different question from whether someone could fight it. But fighting that rule is not my battle right now, and BECAUSE of the rule the logistics of this mission for one man on his 54th day of hunger strike within the last quarter is more than I can manage.

Will I remain on Hunger Strike? Where will I vigil? Will it be round the clock? I'm not sure. My guess is that I'll end the hunger strike; be on the Hill Tue-Thu (when congress is there) and at the White House other days. Round the clock? Not sure.

Pity there are not more fighters. There is Hell to pay. Am I bitter? I am sad. It is like, there is this huge banquet of opportunities, and Diane, Ann, Code Pinkers... and few others at the table. For ever plate we can eat, 10,000 go untouched. What a waste. It is going to cost us this very planet.

Assault on our Deadness begins at the Pentagon

Wow. This one will be interesting. Will I be in jail within minutes? Dehydration? Spawn one, just one Daniel Ellsberg?
Deadness, Apathy, Zombieishness, Irresponsibility, Hypocrisy, Cowardice... this is the enemy... unHumanity by whatever name, both within and outside the Pentagon, Peace mOVEMENT, dEMOCRATIC party....

My intent is to maintain a round the clock vigil / Hunger Strike (Day 14) at the Pentagon Metro entrance on the Pentagon campus for 2 weeks; then to return to the Hill until congress leaves for August golf; at which point to return to the Pentagon to finish out the 50 days of intended Hunger Strike.

I have a new weapon - sound - in addition to the signs. My intent is to play, during "rush hours," quite loud:
Sermon on the Mount Sun-Wed. Excerpts.

Sermon on the Mount

...and then for 2 days each Yikes McGee!s devastating...
Liar in Chief
Bad President
Propagandy

As Sy Hersh's recent article reminded me, our best hope to escape the Bombing of Iran (and the launch of King George marshall law / police state) is a few inspired patriots inside the military. This is my best shot at adding to their inspiration.

As always... join in!

ps: Why Sunday for start? Seems to me it might help disarm the police, making it more likely I remain undisturbed, and set the correct tone with the broadcasting of the Sermon on the Mount on Pentagon campus.

Friday, July 11, 2008

Update 7/11: Hunger Strike Day 13

Monday was spent in recovery from acute dehydration.

Tuesday was on the Hill.

Wednesday was in preparation to introduce some very powerful music into the actions:
Bad President
Propagandy
Liar in Chief

Thursday on the Hill WITH the songs. For whatever set of reasons there was more Congressperson initiated "thanks" for this campaign than in any previous 2 months; about 20 congressfolks made contact with me to express thanks. Amazing.

Friday at the White House, and in the evening making final arrangements for sound equipment for future vigils, with donations from a variety of folks.

Photo thanks to

Flickr: isisDC's Photostream


Saturday and Sunday will be spent at the White House, at the Revolution March in support of a worthy musician (sharing the sound system) and preparing for the "Perpetual" Occupation of the Pentagon - by far my most dangerous assignment yet - no water, no bathroom, extremely remote, totally uncharted "legal" territory....

Note: Regarding the Hunger Strike, last Sunday was Day 14 but in Sunday evening and Monday I took almost a full day's calories in juice and fruit attempting to recover somewhat. Since then I've taken maybe 400 calories per day (25% RDA) in an attempt to stabilize my body. In an attempt to keep my Day Count high in integrity I've dropped back to #12 Day yesterday and will count upward from there expecting to divide my time between Pentagon, 2 weeks, Capitol Hill 2 weeks, and finish out the 50 days back at the Pentagon; with some time in the hospital likely interspersed.

Monday, July 7, 2008

Due to Severe Illness Hunger Strike Terminated; Vigil Continues Day 141

The only way I know to describe how I felt the last two days at the White House 7/24 is that it was like I was dying. Only day 14 of this water only hunger strike but day 50 of water only hunger strike within the last 3 months in full sun with no ability to recline - sitting 24 hours per day - my lower back in unbearable agony. This morning I flagged down an officer and requested to be taken to the Hospital, but they said it would cost too much. I seem to have lost the capacity to demonstrate in this way; for now at least. I am so sad - it is such a powerful way to fight.

This week congress is debating the Blockade of Iran - a declaration of war. This morning I began taking calories and my body is responding. Hopefully I will be on Capitol Hill with my "NO BOMB IRAN," and "STOP YOUR WAR" signs during the day as soon as tomorrow, accepting refuge from Thomas and Ellen at night while I recover. Then I expect to go to the Pentagon were there are officers standing against Bush and Cheney's mad lust to war on Iran - the third largest oil reserve in the world. Iran is a country that has not initiated war on any other country in 250 years; and one that the US Intelligence Agency - all agencies - declared had dropped its Nuclear Program in 2003. But Bush and Cheney say otherwise. My hope is to help stiffen the resolve of these brave officers.

As always others are welcome to participate.

Thursday, July 3, 2008

Hunger Stike Day 10. Moving to Pentagon Monday


Round the clock vigil continues at the White House through Sunday per plan.

A change in plan results from Seymour Hersh...
A major hope for prevention of the Iraq bombing is Mid-level officers in the military.

I expect Monday morning to move the round-the-clock occupation / hunger strike to the Pentagon at the Metro entrance for the purposes of supporting / emboldening / mandating HEROIC PREVENTION of the bombing of Iran.

It may be that such an "Occupation" has never been attempted at the Pentagon; the legalities/police reaction are unknown.


Monday, June 30, 2008

"No PIGS, No PEACE!" OpEd to the Washington "Peace" Community

The following is NOT the opinion of the Washighton Peace Center. Opposing or alternative opinions are welcomed.

My much loved brothers and sisters in the "Peace and Justice" Community:

For the 3 years I've been among you I have more and more ached to become able to voice the agony I feel for you, and because of you. For you? Because you, in this dire time, could be experiencing such extraordinary, heroic lives instead of the zombie-like existence I observe among you. Because of you? I have 6 billion in my family currently and virtually all are writhing in material and/or spiritual death throws, and you are my best hope of saving them.

"Peace and Justice" mOVEMENTS are wonderful for making participants feel good. But as we can see throughout history they NEVER bring any consequential change.

"Flesh and Blood" Movements [I'm open to a better term, but the substance is captured WELL here] are the only thing that have, and the only thing that ever will bring substantial change. Someone at the White House yesterday said to me, "demonstrations don't work any more. 10 years ago we had a million people in the streets and they still bombed Iraq." "How long were they in the streets," I asked? "Hmmmm. A few hours."

We've seen "Flesh and Blood" Movements fighting because, UNMISTAKABLY, THEIR Flesh and Blood (non-related) depended on it: King, Gandhi, Jesus, Romero, Anti-Apartheid, Suffrage, Anti-Slavery, Code Pink's Liz Des Murphy Medea, Diane Wilson, Ann Wright....

No, Symbolic / Sacramental / Self-Saving Actions don't count no matter what they cost the practitioners.

Only Flesh and Blood saving (non-biological) Flesh and Blood constitutes the bunker- buster weapon that pierces the concrete casings that entomb our western hearts. Everything less is wasted energy - to THE GLEE OF BUSH AND CHENEY.

"THE CHICKEN IS INVOLVED ["Peace and Justice mOVEMENT"],

THE PIG IS COMMITTED ["FLESH AND BLOOD MOVEMENT"]"


Am I remotely qualified to cast such a dire diagnosis? Well, YOU are. You can read history as well as I. But additionally, unlike most of you, I have been on, in, forming, coaching, leading high performance PIGS on extreme, SUCCESSFUL change missions my ENTIRE adult life and... with hardly any exceptions other than those noted above, you are not Pigs. But you can be. You must become. Or there is no hope.

"NO PIGS, NO PEACE."

Sunday, June 29, 2008

ILL, VIGIL SUSPENDED FOR A DAY MONDAY 6/30

Hunger Strike continues but vigil, in the park, in the full sun all day suspended for a day.

No structural damage going on that I can tell, but Sunday I took quite ill with nausea and uncharacteristic exhaustion/weakness.

I expect to resume on Tuesday in Lafayette Park and continue there thru Sunday night and then return to Capitol Hill.

Saturday I was interviewed by a New York Times reporter for a larger story she was doing so I'll spend time Tuesday God willing, to compete a host of unfinished posts at the Start Loving site.

NOTE:

IRAN: Report says US waging secret war
Los Angeles Times, CA - 6 hours ago
The Los Angeles Times reported in April about the kaleidescope of Iranian separatist groups along Iran's borders, some of which said they were receiving ...

Preparing the Battlefield

The Bush Administration steps up its secret moves against Iran.

The New Yorker, by Seymour M. Hersh

Friday, June 27, 2008

Hunger Strike / Occupation Moves to White House

With Congress on one week vacation more impact can be achieved at the White House - Lafayette Park - than on the Hill.

Day 6 of the Hunger Strike, Saturday, will commence there along with 24 hour occupation excepting significant times of storm.

"THE CRITICAL THING IS NOT
WHO IS SITTING IN THE WHITE HOUSE,
BUT WHO IS SITTING IN."
Howard Zinn

Monday, June 23, 2008

Roll Call June 23, 2008

Score one for the children of Iraq. Roll Call.

Sunday, June 22, 2008

50 Day Hunger Strike - 24/7 Hill Occupation Commences per Plan

The invitation to join in stands [per post below].


"A time comes when
silence is betrayal...

We are at the moment when
our lives must be placed on the line
if our nation [and world]
is to survive its own folly."


Martin Luther King
[truths the Empire effectively killed exactly one year later].

Friday, June 6, 2008

U.S. PROVOCATION OF WAR is what PROVOKED THOREAU. And what about you? Me?

HEADLINES TODAY:

U.S. provocation of war with / unprovoked attack on Mexico became Thoreau's defining issue, and the launch of so-called Nonviolence; Thoreau's ACTION provoked Tolstoy, Gandhi, King....

GERMANY'S UNPROVOKED ATTACKS ON NEIGHBORS AND INOCENTS DID NOT PROVOKE GERMAN CITIZENS TO HEROIC ACTION EN MASSE; and this cowardice defines Nazi era Germans - an irredeemable place in infamy. (There were exceptions: Holocaust Rescuers).

What is the question in such a situation as this? How do I stop the bombing of Iran? This and questions like it are questions of cowardice and inhumanity.

The question asked by our exemplars of Humanity in the face of pending atrocity - King, Gandhi, Biko, Corrie, Jesus... - is along the lines of:

  • "What will happen to [them] if I do NOT act?" MLK
  • How should one stand in the face of a threatened crime against humanity? Bonhoeffer.
  • How can I FULLY express / communicate / VOTE: WHAT I STAND FOR, and my opposition? Hanh.
  • What does a Sister/Brother/Family Member ("All Men are Brothers," asserted Gandhi, et al) do in the face of impending atrocity to world-family?
  • If this is not my time to put it ALL on the line, when WILL it be my time? What will it take for me to put it all on the line? "A [person] is not equipped to live until he/she knows what she/he would die for," MLK.
  • How MIGHT I spark the Miracle it would take?
  • What is the best shot I can imagine for ME to take right now, in time?

I expect to resume occupation of the Hill (PEACEMAKERS FOR US FORCES, IRANIANS, IRAQIS) up to 24/5 (weekdays) (originally an idea Col. Wright and Gael Murphy of Code Pink gave me) beginning Monday, EXCEPT DURING STORMS. Hundreds of Congressfolks walk within feet, back and forth every day. Ridiculous? In late June I expect to escalate this by undertaking my third Hunger Strike in 4 months, of 40 days duration, water and vitimin only. The previous two recent Strikes were 20 days each. In the late stages of the Strike this clearly gets into the heads of these Congressfolks. Quite powerful.

Join the "Occupation" campaign, bring your signs, courage, solidarity with Iranians, and perseverence, or...

... FORMULATE WHAT ACTION YOU FEEL IS ENTIRELY COMMENSURATE with this situation, what meets the test of History / Humanity / Honesty / "Family"... let me know, and I'll join you, and then maybe others will join us.... You know where to find me; or how to ignore me.

Nobel Peace Prize winner Albert Schweitzer:
"Example is not the major thing in influencing people.
Example is the ONLY thing in influencing people."

It is not so much WHAT you do.
It is THAT you do with total commitment,
great sacrifice, and universal love.
Start Loving

Expactation: RESUME "OCCUPATION" OF THE HILL MONDAY

Recovery from the two 20 day Hunger Strikes of April/May is progressing.

As per my earlier estimations I expect to return to the Hill 24/5 (weekdays) this coming Monday, until late June when I expect to go 7/24 and mount a 24/7 Hill "Occupation" in demand of the Congress taking a courageous, suffiicent stand against bombing Iran.

EVERY CITIZEN should be acting with similar commitment in the face of the Bush administration's insanity - threatening joint bombing of Iran with Israel. Madness. What will it take for the US citizenry to leave their orgy of selfishness and come to the defense of their children's, and more broadly humanity's defense?!?!!?!

Friday, May 30, 2008

Washington Post

Start Loving, formerly known as Jay McGinley, marches with protesters decrying conditions at the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Photo | 05/28/2008

Start Loving, formerly known as Jay McGinley,...

Nikki Kahn

Covering Events While Away from the Hill


Harrowing Inside Report of the Trial and also...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/29/AR2008052903103.html?hpid=moreheadlines

Friday, May 23, 2008

OFF THE HILL FOR 2 WEEKS - CONGRESS AND ME

Well, neither is the war on Iraq stopped nor is the bombing of Iran prevented; so neither am I done on the Hill. However, per plan the 20 Day Hunger Strike ended yesterday with the departure of the Congressfolks from the Hill for 2 weeks.

I expect to regain strength away from the Hill and return to the Hill when they do in early June. I expect to resume 24 hour/day occupation of the Hill weekdays, and accept refuge weekends if available so I can complete some computer intensive work, and rest.

I expect to resume Hunger Strike the end of June with a target of 40 days this time so that Congress has something worthy of pondering when they go off on their August vacations.

Friday, May 16, 2008

Vigil Day 115 off Hill for rainy weekend. Hunger Strike day 11.

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Monday, May 12, 2008

Off the Hill a 2nd Day with high wind and rain forcast

Tuesday AM return expected.

Saturday, May 10, 2008

1 Day off the Hill. Monday Return expected.

After days of rain I've accepted refuge for a day indoors. With another 14 days of Hunger Strike ahead in May, and 54 days of Hunger Strike planned by the end of July this seems prudent to take a day of rest inside.

Sunday, May 4, 2008

HUNGER STRIKE TO END/PREVENT WAR RESUMES

Although my body is not recovered from the last 20 day Hunger Strike of just a few weeks ago, King rightly spoke of "the fierce urgency of NOW."

With the news...



WHDH-TV
Sword of Damocles hanging over Iran
PRESS TV - 9 hours ago
By Ismail Salami, Press TV On April 29, a second American aircraft carrier, the USS Abraham Lincoln, arrived in the Persian Gulf in what observers see as a tacit declaration of war on the Islamic Republic of Iran. US officials say it is only a show of ...
Mullen Cites US 'Vulnerability' Washington Post
US officials: Decision on confronting Iran up to Iraq The Associated Press
Reuters - guardian.co.uk - Colorado Daily - guardian.co.uk
all 451 news articles »

Iran: US seeking scapegoats for fiascos
Tehran Times - 3 hours ago
“Now as Washington sees its bellicose policies have ended in failure in the Middle East, it attempts to point the finger of blame at other countries to justify its fiascos,” he noted in clear reference to the claims by the US officials that Iran has ...
US terror report cites Venezuela, Iran, Syria PoliGazette
Iran tops US list of terror sponsors The Age
AZG Armenian Daily - Democracy Now - El Universal - Aljazeera.net
all 634 news articles »

US feels the heat after Iran-Switzerland $42b gas deal
Tehran Times - 4 hours ago
The US and its allies are worried that the sanctions regime against Tehran is under threat from a possible new wave of European investment in Iran’s strategically important gas sector. Tehran has already concluded gas deals with Chinese and Malaysian ...

... the "fierce urgency of now," is NOW.

Tomorrow morning, Monday I expect to be on the Hill 24/7 waging another 20 day Hunger Strike within inches of where the Congressfolks walk to and from the Capitol multiple times per day with 2'x3' signs of mutilated children reading "Stop Your War," "Hunger Strike," and "Wage Love - End HATEfulness."

Start Loving - Wage Love and End HATEfulness

Friday, May 2, 2008

OFF THE HILL UNTIL MONDAY

Congress is gone. Covering for another activist.

Friday, April 25, 2008

Vigil Day #100; Hunger Strike Ends; 3 days off Hill

More later, but for now, off the Hill until Monday when Day #101 Vigil Resumes 24/7 I expect.

Dennis Kucinich, God bless him, stops by several times per week now to thank me for my courage. And according to one of his staff members who stopped by this week, he is deeply moved by what I am doing, as I am deeply moved by HIS patriotism.

This solo campaign is proving to be of tremendous power. Enough to stop the war? Enough to keep me going at it.

Sunday, April 20, 2008

REFUGE FROM THE RAIN. STRIKE DAY 13

Discretion is the better part of valor - so it goes.

The storm raging in DC today exceeded my ability to avoid becoming soaked so I accepted the kind offer of sister Ellen to accept refuge for the night.

I expect to be on the Hill days until the storm breaks.

Sunday, April 13, 2008

WHY AM I ON HUNGER STRIKE?

An acquaintance just asked me. It is covered on this site, but shehe didn't have the time or interest to look at the site below so let me outline it here.

  • The worst bullies in the schools we grew up in have been given by YOU AND ME $3 trillion dollars to rape and plunder Middle East oil by terrorizing the local population.
  • If you don't know the human cost we've extracted from the Iraqis, US Forces, US POOR, and soon the Iranians I'll not insult you by telling you.
  • The folks with the power, and maybe enough sanity to stop this warring are on Capitol Hill.
  • The strongest, clearest way I can think to cast my vote is with my body on vigil, and often on Hunger Strike.
  • "What is my demand?" I'm asked by this individual. My demand is that Congress shift 18o degrees from being Hell bent on rape and plunder to Waging Love to immediately end this war; and that they immediately act to PREVENT the Nazi's in the White House from bombing Iran.
  • When will I stop? When I perceive that there is a better way for me to fight. My guess is a total of 20 days this time, but it may go longer, maybe much longer.

IF I'M NOT RISKING MY LIFE FOR MY FAMILY I AM PART OF THE PROBLEM (or they're not my family)

A dear friend reminded me that an activist shehe knows first lost eyesight and later mind due to Hunger Strikes. Now I don't expect that will happen to me, although I realize it might.

But it got me thinking. If when my family is being raped, pillaged and murdered by folks with the most cruel and deadly weapons ever conceived; by the bullies we all grew up with in school turned loose with $3 billion of your tax dollars to do the job, YOU RISK YOUR LIFE TO STOP IT! DON'T YOU?

And the US Forces, Irsnians and Iraqis ARE my family.

Hmmm. I'm surprised it has taken me so long. This riddle has been trying to fully solve itself within me for years - "How do you live in the face of Genocide?" "How do you live in the face of your country being the world's Terrorist?"

IF I'M NOT RISKING LIFE AND LIMB I AM PART OF THE PROBLEM.
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GANDHI ON HIS DEATH BED - I NEVER UNDERSTOOD

You know how in the movie Gandhi, whenever he was on Hunger Strike he looked like he was dying? I never understood. I have lots of experience with Hunger Strikes now and I never understood.

Now, I get it. I''ve never felt on day #44 what this time I'm feeling on days 4-7; deathly listless and sick. For the last 18 hours I've been taking juice thinking that might jolt me back to my old fasting self, but so far, no impact.

My body should be in a hospital seeking medical care which I will do as soon as all of my family in Iraq, Haiti, Darfur, Palistine and among the US poor can do the same; which will only happen when in mass we Middle Class realize that our Family consists of 6 billion, not 5 or 10. When the time comes I'd much rather leave my body than my Humanity that I seem to have at long last after decades of struggle regained

Beginning tomorrow morning I expect to be on Capitol Hill 24/7. It is too exhausting going back and forth to the Peace House and it is not time for half measures.

Start Loving
Wage Love and End War

9pm update:

I am feeling slightly better after 3.5 days. Calories, juice, soup and vitamins didn't seem to touch the deathly malaise that had me in its grip.

Then Thomas got me some bananas and I had some salt. I remembered that on Strike often potassium plummets. I am certainly a little improved.

Thursday, April 10, 2008

Hunger Strike Day 4; Off the Hill till Monday

It has been a very interesting week, but day 4 of a hunger strike is usually among the worst and this strike is proving no different - no energy to write much.

My strike related poster reads "2o Day #4." My goal is 20. I'll do less if Good needs me elsewhere, and more if Good asks. My guess is the latter - but I'm not great at projecting these things.

My other posters are the same - 2 of the children we've mangled - 2 of the depleted uranium children.

Why not on the Hill till Monday? My focus is the Congressfolks. They take long weekends and will not be in session tomorrow as near as I can tell. My previous and current efforts leave not doubt in their minds as to my seriousness and commitment. With the Hunger Strike there is sufficient "punch" to my during-the-week presence that 24/7 will be marginal return. Better for me to accept the support of Ellen in the Peace House for daily transportation and a place in the evening to get online and sleep.

Start Loving
WAGE LOVE
ps: 'WAGE LOVE" is now tattooed on my cheeks in large letters.
pps: "WAGE LOVE" is the closest we'll get in the English language to how to save the world.

Sunday, April 6, 2008

SCEDULE UNCERTAIN MON-WED

Hi beloved friends.

I am very well thank you, and I pray the same for you.

Much is going on this week:
1. My need to be on the Hill with our Iraq children (posters)
2. General Betray Us? is in town Tue/Wed
3. Another activist is planning an effort that may require me to be off the Hill video taping.

Your Loving brother,

Start Loving (Join Jesus, Wage Humanity)

Friday, April 4, 2008

OFF HILL THIS WEEKEND

Returning Monday I expect.

All is well with me; all is Hell with the world. No? You are not paying attention then.

A gift from our beloved sister Start Caring:

Song by Nickelback
It goes something like this
If everyone Loved and nobody lied
If everyone cared and nobody cried
If everyone shared and swollowed their pride
We'd see the day when nobody died.

Humanity begets Humanity. In/Unhumanity begets In/Unhumanity.

What will you spawn today?


Tuesday, April 1, 2008

WE'RE IN THE DARK AGES ALREADY! AM I THE LAST TO KNOW?

[Email exchange with an international activist / her0]

From: xxxxxxx
To: start_loving@yahoo.com
Sent: Monday, March 31, 2008 10:53:23 AM
Subject: Re:

HUNGER AND THIRST FOR HUMANITY STRIKE 3/31/08 CAPITOL HILL 7/24


Hey Start, you are as close to Holy Man as I'm ever gonna see. Wouldn't
think to question your judgment.

If only this USA had the same sense of
outrage at the destruction we are causing and the moral courage to do
something about it.

I am ever your sister. keep me posted. Let me
know.

xxx

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Well by God you ARE my sister.

Xxxx, I don't go out on a limb, into the desert, or on suicide missions to learn. No ma'am I don't! I go when the Almighty Powers, as best I can hear It says "GO!" And many times now I expected it was a suicide mission. Fine with me! Just tell me what you want me to do!

But I'm still here Sister! About 5 times now God has asked for my life; I've said "ok fine" and I'm still here.

The point? God so far us using these things to tell me, show me stuff.

2 days and I'm off the Hunger & Thirst for Humanity Strike. If you had asked me 3 hours ago I'd have said with entire peace, "Sister, this is it. By end of next week I'm gone. We're headed off of the cliff as a species and we either start paying with our lives now or it is just too late. We're on the brink of the dark ages and these are our last seconds."

Xxxxxx, did you see my error? I didn't until 2 hours ago. Like everything I value I didn't "figure it out," flash - it was just there. "Start, you imbecile, WE'RE ALREADY IN THE DARK AGES! WE'VE ALREADY GONE INTO THE ABYSS! Don't rush off to die now, rather the flame is alive in you, you need to keep it alive until such time as Humanity is ready to regain its sanity."

Sister, did you know this already? This is big for me. I had misdiagnosed where we were, but now I think I have a better grasp of the problem, and a better idea of where to go/how to approach things/how to best serve - similar to what I've been doing, but with a better of idea of WHY - to keep the flame alive until such time. The monks of the dark ages did this - but mistakenly they went literally into the desert, or into caves. No, I think the "cave" we are to go to is "the least of these." For me I think it is on the Hill 24/7 with those signs, but not with the idea of flaming out.

I thank God for you Sister and about 7 others. That is not many.

Thank God for you Xxxxx,

Start Loving (Join Jesus)

Sunday, March 30, 2008

HUNGER AND THIRST FOR HUMANITY STRIKE 3/31/08 CAPITOL HILL 7/24

Cannon House Office Building as before. Zero intake of food or liquid - anything.

I've got one vote, my body, and in these darkest of days for Humanity, in these last minutes where a new Dark Ages might be staved off I'll continue to cast that vote in the most heart-piercing, Humanity-building way-in-potential that I can imagine, minute my minute, hour by hour. Nothing less from anyone has any hope or appropriateness anymore; or our rhetoric about the darkness of these times is a lie, and it is not a lie, but rather our rhetoric is understated by orders of magnitude. Spitballs are not going to pierce these hardened hearts of our middle and overclass brethren here in the US and globally. The Fourth Reich is on the rise. Only the highest megatonage Weapons of Mass Humanity we can imagine individually becoming have any hope or appropriateness now. We must stop "playing activist" and become the Anti-Terror - now; and I can't control you, but I can control me, so I'm going to "roll."

"Never think that an individual cannot change the world. In fact, it is the only thing that ever has." Start Loving. The individual can no longer wait for the group. It has always been the action of the individual that has been the catalyst that spawned the EFFECTIVE group, always, throughout history, invisible though these individuals have been. Let's stop waiting, watching, worrying and wasting time. Let's stop killing time; the little time Humanity may have left. "We individuals must be willing to fail; but entirely unwilling not to make the attempt, with our last breath if that is what is asked of us by conscience, by our Humanity." Start Loving.

"Live as though the whole world depends on what you do; and realize that what you do probably will not make any difference at all," anonymous ancient Buddhist. I have few illusions; but I've shed most of my carefully indoctrinated-by-society delusions including the one that hope lies in the group; it never has and it never will.

We talk, and talk and talk but it is as if we don't hear what we ourselves are saying. If Bush and Cheney operated in a more identifiable setting, for example a neighborhood, they would be known as muggers, rapists, thugs, thieves, hoodlums, criminals; and your loved one is being raped as we speak.

If the American people were looked at with historical perspective Nazi Germany comes to mind with the mainstream concerned with getting more while the marginalized are ignored, neglected and then oppressed as scapegoats. (Did you ever see the movie "High Noon?" We are in it. We're the townspeople.)

We Americans violate with abandon every natural law of decency, humanity, ecology, economics... like folks at a drunken orgy that has gone on way too long... and now they face a tab that is totally beyond their means, so they return to debauching to dull their senses.

And where are those still with any sanity, with any Humanity left? Demoralized. Confused. Writing. Talking. Once-a-week demonstrating. Doing what they "want" to do rather than starting with the constraints of the problem: we are out of time, the tactics we've employed show no hope of changing history, we need to spark Revolutionary PeaceBuilding / Hunanity now or whatever we do will be too little too late. Looks like activists are on a personal mission to be able to report that they did "something," unwilling to face the question - "did you take your best shot, regardless of cost?"

With what's at stake: what's left of Iraq, our US Forces, Iran's integrity, Congress's Humanity, activists' courage, US's Humanity... it is time to pull out the stops; especially realizing that we know that at this exact moment Bush / Cheney could be launching nukes at Iran, and/or allowing another False Flag terrorist attack to trigger Marshal Law, or both. It is time for all-out action even as individuals until such time as groups begin to show signs of life.

I expect to remain on Hunger and Thirst Strike on Capitol Hill until either:
  • a. Congress exhibits a Revolution of Humanity starting with elevating the least of these our Iraqis, US Forces and Iranians from the bottom of their priority list to the top;
  • b. I see some better way to serve;
  • c. They stop letting me out of the hospital to return to the Hill;
  • d. I am incapacitated or expire.

I have almost no experience with a Thirst Strike so all I can do is guess that as soon as this weekend but more likely next week at some point I'll have some sort of medical event - hallucination, loss of consciousness, whatever. Almost certainly if the officers spot it in time they'll have me taken to the hospital, force hydrate/feed me, eventually let me out; I expect to return to the Strike on the Hill, repeat.... When they get tired of this, incarceration? Banning from the Hill? Commitment?

"It is not my responsibility what they do. It is my responsibility what I do." Start Loving

Know that I am completely at peace with this. I need nothing; but Action needs everything.

Based on past experience I expect no press, but if there is press for which I have some respect, I intend to stay entirely on point of the mission - what I am doing, why - and to allow no side trips to all the voyeuristic stuff they love to distract their audiences with. In short, I'd not be a very fun interview on this campaign - all business.

What do I expect to achieve? If you ever watch the extraordinary movie, "Cry Freedom," notice how at the end of the movie they scroll through the list of activists murdered by the apartheid system of South Africa. The list is chronological and begins in the 1960's as I recall. Apartheid finally was overthrown, partially, in 1993, 30 years later? The way things currently look I am working to start the clock so whoever is left 30 years from now can achieve some significant success in throwing off the Police State we are headed for. No, I do NOT expect we will see Bush / Cheney leave office in 300 days; nor do we deserve to see them leave.

By the way, if / when I get into health trouble the cruelest possible blow to me would be to divert net energy away from sparking the Revolutionary Humanity I'm striving to initiate. I am expendable. Humanity is NOT expendable.

[Those two photos are the results of our 300 tons of Depleted Uranium poison, weapons of mass destruction we've unleashed on Iraq, and our US Forces.

POISONOUS LEGACY - a 3 minuete primer on DU, YOUR tax dollars at work.]

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