tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19785125.post7549160772881808725..comments2024-01-03T07:56:32.311-05:00Comments on quaker oats live: "what would you do if you found out the voting machines were rigged?"Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07488876505679035140noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19785125.post-89573855374971278772008-10-28T20:09:00.000-04:002008-10-28T20:09:00.000-04:00As a Christian anarchist, I think voting itself sh...As a Christian anarchist, I think voting itself should be protested.<BR/><BR/>I pray that Obama loses. But then again, I also pray (probably harder) that McCain loses.John Kindleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13897832130417651667noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19785125.post-90780007877748829472008-10-22T12:29:00.001-04:002008-10-22T12:29:00.001-04:00I forgot to add, that protest can be on so many le...I forgot to add, that protest can be on so many levels, not just mass demonstration. There are people in Oregon who chain themselves to oldgrowth trees to make a point. I am talking 70-year-old Quaker women doing this. They eventually get arrested, but they do what they can. We have kids of this generation protesting this way, as well, or climbing the walls of the mayor's office, pole sitting, sleeping in front of it, what-have-you. Maybe things don't change ASAP, but they didn't necessarily change in the 60's ASAP, either. The Vietnam war still lasted until the mid-70's, didn't it? <BR/><BR/>As for the government and media's approach to protest being unpatriotic, I have to admit that I personally stopped peace marching during the first Gulf War because the police were video taping the protests. They were making a visual record of every free citizen excercising their rights. It made me furious. Now days, pushing 40, I don't care. What can they really do to me? Make me an enemy of the state for advocating for peace? Oh... okay!<BR/><BR/>Great post with interesting ideas, btw. Thanks!Laurie Chase Kruczekhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15517846044382639311noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19785125.post-6788536977166064212008-10-22T12:29:00.000-04:002008-10-22T12:29:00.000-04:00Cherice, All I know to do is to try to change my l...Cherice, <BR/><BR/>All I know to do is to try to change my life and seek to imitate Christ, being a vessel for God's love to those around me. We have got to change our lives, each and every one of us, and we must come together as communities to live drastically differently. Our very salvation as a nation and as a planet depend upon it.<BR/><BR/>How are we supposed to seriously challenge this system we find ourselves in when most of us aren't even willing to make sacrifices on the order of giving up our cars when it is undeniable that driving automobiles contains the seeds of war?<BR/><BR/>In terms of the Empire - I'll vote. But I don't know what to do beyond that. <BR/><BR/>In Love,<BR/><BR/>Micah<BR/>http://valiantforthetruth.blogspot.com<BR/>http://lambswar.blogspot.comMicah Baleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06849915973708989620noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19785125.post-1097810585038542372008-10-22T12:15:00.000-04:002008-10-22T12:15:00.000-04:00If my vote were invalid due to some other party, I...If my vote were invalid due to some other party, I would protest like there was no tomorrow. I really would. I fight for my vote. I know it is all imperfect, but it is what we have to work with. I love this country and I will do what I can to have a voice in it, no matter how small.<BR/><BR/>As for that song, I'm not a fan. All of those people Folds is so disturbed by are our brothers and sisters. If he wants to be elitist and "above" them, that's really sad. He thinks Americans just want more and more and don't care about anything else? I think he needs to spend more time in the real world with those very real people. Does he think he needs to re-educate the masses? I bet the masses could teach him a few things.<BR/><BR/>I am as liberal as they come, but I'm not defeatest about the future election or the people WHO WILL vote Barack Obama the next president of the United States.Laurie Chase Kruczekhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15517846044382639311noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19785125.post-70824985207448859582008-10-10T10:54:00.000-04:002008-10-10T10:54:00.000-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.Tom (Mystics Meeting)https://www.blogger.com/profile/02106304861509275285noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19785125.post-31875446054233476732008-10-10T09:48:00.000-04:002008-10-10T09:48:00.000-04:00On top of that you didn't even mention that the el...On top of that you didn't even mention that the electoral college selects the president anyway- so in reality we have even less of a voice- there were several states in Bush/Gore that Gore won the "popular vote" and Bush won the state and vice versa. It makes it hard to want to vote when you realize that.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com