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Yesterday I made a snide comment about the Mobile, AL Teabaggers against healthcare protestors being stuck on stoopid. But are they really stuck on stoopid, or are they doing what we should be doing and to quote countrycat "organzing the cleanup"? I've said it before and I'll say it again, I have to give the goppers credit where credit is due when it comes to organizing and taking a stand on principle, even if it's a misguided principle. They aren't afraid to "take it to the streets". About 100 protesters from the Tea Party Patriots are outside Congresswoman Mary Bono Mack's office in Palm Springs waving signs and flags, and presenting her with pink slips that say "You're fired."
Look at the recent protest in Iran in the aftermath of the disputed aftermath of the Presidential election. Remember the Orange Revolution after the disputed Ukranian elections? Compare what happened after these elections to what didn't happen after the 2000 American Presidential election. On election night, it became clear that Florida would be a contentious state. The national television networks (through information provided them by the Voter News Service, an organization formed by them and the Associated Press to help determine the outcome of the election through early result tallies and exit polling) first called Florida for Gore in the hour after polls closed in the eastern peninsula but before they closed in the heavily Republican counties of the western panhandle.
The North Alabama Peace Activist Network (NAPN) holds a Peace Rally every Saturday at 10 AM, at the intersection of Airport Road and Whitesburg Drive in Huntsville as they have been doing every since before the invasion of Iraq. Are they stuck on stoopid, or are they committed to their cause and willing to organize around that cause? I say they are the later. It is also an opportunity for other's committed to peace, economic and social justice, healthcare reform, GLGT rights, closing Gitmo and ending torture in our name to join them. They have organized the cleanup. Does NAPN get media coverage like the Teabaggers do? No. But I'll bet if there was a large sign waving, diverse crowd of marching chanting protestors on the corner of Whitesburg Dr. and Airport Road the media would cover it, but more importantly our elected officials would notice too. "When all the fingers on the hand work together it forms a mighty fist".~Mama Jo from the movie Soul Food.
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