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Bring Down Bush - Solidarity from America

farrah freedom | 18.11.2003 14:04 | Anti-militarism | Repression | Social Struggles

I am writing you in solidarity to applaud your protest. Make it loud and vivid for your sisters and brothers in America who no longer can.

I just wanted to add to the other comments of other Americans in this thread. I too am an activist and participated in the big London anti-war protest before being deported back to the US for overstaying my visa.
My treatment upon arrival back New York by Homeland Security gestapo I blame squarely on Bush. My passport was taken away and I was interrogated for 4 hours and asked about my political affiliations and activities in your fine country.

Now that the right to protest has been all but eliminated in the U.S. and people like me who worked and lived in the UK, trouble-free but politically active are routinely deported as a consequence of the "War on Terror" it seems they are seeing that we can not leave again by taking our passports upon return to the land of the not-so-free. In my case a relationship of two years was destroyed because of this. We're I still in London I'd be marching with all of you in the american expats block because.....

This is now the land of detaining people with no lawyer.

Interrogating people without arrest.

Taking away american citizenship or passports due to political beliefs.

Judeo-Christian fundamentalism and religious intolerance.

'Snatch n Grab' tactics employed by police against people handing out literature critical of the government.

Libraries asked to submit information about the books people routinely borrow.

And a news media that has been so bought out by corporate interests that they have yet to reaise what we lost.


HELP!

So I appeal to you lot, don't let the toxic texan do to you through his proxy, tony blair, what he has done to America. Help us take our country back from this unelected right wing extremist regime by shaming, shunning and showing him up to be the embodiment or american machiavellism.

My only question is is it too early for me to seek asylum in Britain or do we have to wait for some federal police massacre to happen in America before the Britain no longer laughs at such a request?

farrah freedom

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The Parodying of Amerika

18.11.2003 16:21

Prime Minister Blair spoke of a "propaganda monster" created by fanatical Muslims against freedom-loving America. Foreign Secretary Jack Straw continued this theme when he wrote in the Wall Street Journal on Tuesday about, a "parody of America that almost demonizes its power and its purpose and seeks to put the ills of the world at its door."
That image of the USA persists because it's power and purpose is demonical, and the ills of the world are at it's door... Hence, the mass protest against your maniacal President.

Monty Python


All of Britain, Unlike US, Is a Free Speech Zone

18.11.2003 17:46

I trace my roots to your great country and am grateful that all of the UK is a "free-speech zone."

The decision of the London Metro police to allow the protests on the traditional route is encouraging. Here in the US, wherever the Chimp goes to collect his political payoffs ($2000-a-plate dinners), protesters are kept out of earshot of the Butcher of Baghdad, for the most part. They are herded into "free-speech zones." Of course, we, your American cousins are very resourceful (Yankee ingenuity), and a few usually manage to get close enough to the motorcade to make appropriate sounds and gestures.

I guess you are going to have to teach us all over again about what it means to be a democracy (as we presume to teach the Arabs, by ramming our "democracy" down their throats with a bayonet).

I hope you leave your schools and offices and factories and make good use of your freecom to confront the US commander-in-thief. You are lucky to be able to confront the Toxic Texan.

I would hope that some of his planned festivities and honors could be aborted through your direct action.

American Cousin


Good luck to all of you

18.11.2003 18:21

You are doing a great thing . . . we applaud you and encourage you!

Stay strong!

F from sf


Yes! Good luck!

19.11.2003 02:45

Yes, Good luck!! The whole world is watching. Our media is full of reports of the protests. It's all you read or hear about here, re: Bush's visit. I hope it's HUGE!!
kl
chicago

kl


give em hell

19.11.2003 04:41

Rock the house you bloody Brits. It's so great to see you all making Bushy look bad. All the while a police state develops in Miami to protect the latest effort at neocolonial empire building. I think we learned that from you guys. Now we the people can take some tips from you on kicking some presidential ass. YES YES YES!!!!

Jaybo


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