"So said Dwight Pelz, Washington State Democrats Chair, in a short speech this afternoon at the Heritage Park fountain, which followed a pretty successful (as far as success can be measured for these symbolic events) rally against the war along 4th Avenue today. Of course, his use of the word insane was based on the folk definition of insanity, which is doing the same thing repeatedly while expecting different results. Not a real diagnosis, nor even much of a rhetorical step above cliché, but it does make a good lead.My friend Mike said it well. If you weren't at the peace rally yesterday, you missed a good event. It felt good to be there. To take a stand. And many, many people who drove by us on the bridge greeted us with peace signs, honks and other signs of support.
I went to the rally not because I it might bring about a change in policy (I’m not insane, by any definition), but because I thought it was time, once again, to stand out in public with others who think the same as I do as witnesses to our belief that the war is wrong, has always been wrong, and should be ended. Now."
The are numerous events in February and early March--I encourage you to participate in one or more.
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