Sean Penn: “WE are the deciders”
The Nation
by John Nichols
01/29/07
Actor Sean Penn summed up the new energy — and the new focus — of the anti-war movement Saturday, when he turned George Bush’s own words against the president. Just hours after the president had again reasserted his false claim to authority to pursue a war that is not wanted by the American people or the Congress, Penn told anti-war demonstrators gathered in Washington that Bush would be wise to review the Constitution. ‘In a democracy,’ the actor told the cheering crowd, which organizers said numbered in the hundreds of thousands, ‘we are the deciders.’ Saturday’s anti-war demonstrations, which filled the streets of cities from San Francisco to Washington, marked a return to form for an anti-war movement that had trouble building momentum during the three years that followed Bush’s decision to launch a preemptive war against a country that posed no serious threat to the United States or its allies...
http://www.thenation.com/blogs/thebeat?pid=161056
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=John+Nichols
by John Nichols
01/29/07
Actor Sean Penn summed up the new energy — and the new focus — of the anti-war movement Saturday, when he turned George Bush’s own words against the president. Just hours after the president had again reasserted his false claim to authority to pursue a war that is not wanted by the American people or the Congress, Penn told anti-war demonstrators gathered in Washington that Bush would be wise to review the Constitution. ‘In a democracy,’ the actor told the cheering crowd, which organizers said numbered in the hundreds of thousands, ‘we are the deciders.’ Saturday’s anti-war demonstrations, which filled the streets of cities from San Francisco to Washington, marked a return to form for an anti-war movement that had trouble building momentum during the three years that followed Bush’s decision to launch a preemptive war against a country that posed no serious threat to the United States or its allies...
http://www.thenation.com/blogs/thebeat?pid=161056
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=decider
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jan27
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=John+Nichols
rudkla - 30. Jan, 15:39
