[Mb-civic] Re: [Mb-hair] A New Age of Aquarius

[Michael Butler]

Scott,
I still feel that way. Maybe mores so as Bush & Co. ride roughshod over the
country it may go so far as to finally wake many up. If he really becomes a
"compassionate conservative" that will be good. So we have nothing to lose
unless we abdicate our beliefs.
Peace and Love
Michael
-- "A time comes when silence is betrayal.  Even when pressed by the demands
of inner truth, men do not easily assume the task of opposing their
government's policy, especially in time of war. Nor does the human spirit
move without great difficulty against all the apathy of conformist thought,
within one's own bosom and in the surrounding world." -- Dr. Martin Luther
King Jr. 



> Michael Butler flew to St. Louis in August 2001 to see New Line Theatre's
> production of HAIR, and he told me that he saw a new 60s youth movement rising
> up, that it would transform America, that the HAIR tribes would be at the
> forefront. I think we just saw the beginning of that, this summer. Even though
> Bush 
> won, we have to remember that more people voted against him than in any other
> election in US history, and that fully 80% of our total population did NOT
> vote for him -- and 80% also did not vote for Kerry.
> 
> Yes, there were setbacks in the election results, but the same was true of
> the Civil Rights movement in the 60s (during which members of Congress often
> denounced "activist judges" who were forcing the schools to desegregate --
> sound 
> familiar?). When you look at how politics changed this cycle, when you see the
> record turnout, there's only one conclusion that can be drawn. We are at the
> beginning of something big. Howard Dean and a lot of other people see it
> coming, just like Michael Butler does.
> 
> We can't get discouraged. We have to get more and more engaged until America
> is all it should be. We needed to get people riled up, and four more years of
> Bush is gonna do just that. I think Michael Butler is right -- a new American
> activism has been born, and so were a bunch of new American activists. That's
> pretty exciting...
> 
> Scott
> 
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