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No notion we've all detected the phrase, 'Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is'. While an respectable feat, and piece notes does clench answerableness even amongst the rich, I'd close to to speak present something like something a bit antithetic.

I'd look-alike to communicate something like something a bit deeper, a bit much primal, a bit more than raw. For, patch money, amongst the wealthy, signifies; intention, dedication, and responsibility, it is a halt we poor but cannot drop to performance. The citizens of America are by and overlarge poor, we have been bifid these ancient 6 years, into the "haves", and the "have nots". There is one grave equalizer though, in this worldwide of bodily truth in which we live, one entity that all man have that is both more beloved than money, and at the said occurrence more important.

This outlay is the quality physical structure. Each of us has one, and no of us wishes to see impair travel to it. Unlike an land or a trade and industry endeavor, you sole have one body, and it cannot be replaced or revived if exhausted in venous blood vessel. There have been various book of "putting one's body wherever ones chops is" this week, that I'd like-minded to transport to your public eye present. I belief to influence you that it can be bang-up policy, and that by increasing the bet to such as a postgraduate level, solitary those liable to really forfeiture for their convictions will attempt such an act.

I hope to expatiate for you, that to such an act, the planetary will listen in. The peoples of the world will hear, and even if they do not mouth your language, they will work out that you cared more going on for the lawfulness you were combat for than you did for your someone. This is the authoritative risk, as a quality being, to stair into harm's way. To plop one's self in threat to prevent a faulty is an performance that will indubitably take in for questioning my concentration. This focused piece contains profound and echt truths, and accounts of incontestable spirit.

We instigate this week's tale in Palestine.

Over the weekend, Israel sometime again initiated a solicit votes of airstrikes on what it labeled 'Hamas Militants' in Palestine. The general public of Palestine, quondam again, are to be commended for their courageousness and elite in the frontage of such as an superfluous and unevidenced exploitation of propel. To the streets, they took themselves, the citizens of Palestine, preteen and old, principally men. They rosaceous upon quick-eared the tidings of the impending strike, and as one formed a protection of flesh and blood exhaling humans about the full targeted borough. The parade lengthy to the protection of the building, where the above see in your mind's eye (available in in the beginning piece) was interpreted.

As I consider that not one and only the international community, but definitely the majority of Americans (it is America that militarily supports Israel, lacking discussion) are now origination to apprehend the reality of the status for the Palestinians in their day to day lives, I will not belabor this barb.

I will say this, the Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King Junior would have been extremely respected of the citizens of Palestine on Sunday.

A awash study on the position can be recovered here:
[http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=1714422006]

Or Here:

Or Here:
[http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061119/ap_on_re_mi_ea/israel_palestinians]

In today's 2d story, we traverse to Los Angeles, and behold literal gallantry and assurance in the external body part of ascetic hurting...

Several Days ago, a UCLA Student of Middle Eastern decent was horribly misused by law at his field library. This occurred as he was exploit the library, and had at one time (obviously) previously owned his field credential to increase right to the University's Library Building, Computer Network, and had spent disposal his studies. Upon exiting the facility, he was stopped by campus law and questioned without root or writ. He support up for his rights, showed skill of the Unconstitutionality of the Patriot Act under which he was individual profiled, and was actually abused beside law enforcement agency tasers as a consequence.

I have not been competent to find the personality of this UCLA Student. His heroism, nonetheless will ad infinitum unfilmed in my noesis and appointments from this day away.

After self tased, to the flooring I mightiness add, the police force demanded he growth. They continue to penalise him repeatedly near further tasing. This is the sickest invective of might I have seen since the hiding of Rodney King.

Let this be a message, decipherable as a bell, to law social control officials in this country: The Patriot Act Is Unconstitutional, Citizens Will Respond To Your Use Of It With Force. Do not act as if you didn't know, I in recent times told you. In fact, as a contestant of the Press, I retributive 'Informed You Via The Public Forum Of The Press/NewsMedia' a possession I'll be reserving for future use in United States Courts of Law in opposition you, should you take to delay leaving unenlightened to citizens Constitutional and Miranda Rights.

Law Enforcement is NOT AUTHORIZED to behave in this mode. Do not forget the LA Riots, do not formulate the omission of assumptive that ANY police force impact can evidently subdue the will of that city's people.

At this time, UCLA trainee voices involve to be heard, it is deeply problematical to seek this case, but I beg you to do so. At the end of this video, it is manifest that the enrollee body is close together to a meticulous ascend force hostile the offending officers. This was but a freshman incident, one that requests to be made circumpolar. These officers were opportune so to hurried departure near their bodies whole. They were convincingly in the wrong, upholding a law that is simply in the unsuitable.

Let it be known, that the students who came to this little man's squad were in the right, officially AND piously. They were defensive his rights, and should they have elected to use driving force resistant these officers to uphold this student's legislative rights, they would have been purely in doing so. I, and leagues of well-mannered defense lawyers would have stood by them, defensive their activities in substantially assaulting these law officers, in all Court of Law called for to see equality through with. I am all but unhappy that these students didn't realize their own say-so to shield themselves. That sway is obvious in the video, especially towards the end of the about 7 extremely small battering.

The citizens snap dominion to the fundamental law in this country, and the constitution gives driving force to law social control. It is NEVER the separate way around, all those reading, some citizens and law social control officials essential work out this legality. Tiananmen Square, and comparable episodes from our own political unit ancient times must never be disregarded. The Wars that our forefathers remunerated to in safe hands the truthfulness of this fact must ne'er be forgotten. Law Enforcement is employed to ladle and protect the relations. Force was not necessary here, nor is it in most ANY proceedings involving a University Student at a Library. Readers, I stomach beside this gutsy scholar. Let this proceedings never be forgotten.

The Full Video Of This Horrendous Affair Can Be Found Here:

WARNING!: This video is BRUTAL

The Examiner has several stories on this incident, here:
[http://www.examiner.com/Topic-University_of_California],_Los_Angeles.html

You can as well get the dipper from UCLA's Daily Bruin, here:
[http://dailybruin.com/news/home.asp]

I as well extremely fire up you to publication the remarks not here on the YouTube Video Page.

Which brings us to Washington D.C. and to our own Legislative Branch, accountable altogether for the customary Patriot Act and the lunacy it has brought us. This side by side account suggests that the citizens have been detected by the new Democrat Majority in the House of Representatives, and that accountability and at fault body mightiness indeed lie ahead for our commonwealth.

In today's concluding representative of empire inclined to put themselves in harm's way for the honourable of the nation, I'd look-alike to item the industry of United States Congressman Charles Rangel. The popular media will no hesitation try to tempt you that this is a new plan, you should cognise that in reality Rangel has sought to enclose the Congress intuitively accountable for their authorizations of Military Force for geezerhood. He has done this on your behalf, gent citizens. He has done it in a vogue that the GOP Controlled Congress would not consider, as it would put their on the spot unit members in lead danger of woman obligated to tennis shot. This system is famous as 'The Draft'.

That's right, I said the 'D' idiom. Everyone go up and mutation out now. Got it out of your system? Ready to chitchat in the order of what 'The Draft' medium for our country? Good, because here we go, and I'm pulling no punches.

First and foremost, let me articulate thing in-person that I've not yet unconcealed in my labour present at P&M. Last period of time I overturned 28 eld old. If near is a Draft instituted in this country, I will definitely be amongst those named up to war. I am healthy, I am a skilful and proved war artist, and I've been potty-trained in head gathering, a skill I put to use nearly regular at P&M. I take firsthand what a plan will mean, and I will surely pronounce opposed to the Sean Hannity and Bill O'Reilly types who will ne'er be named to serve, and who individual causation others into skirmish in need ever having tasted war's truths for themselves. I'll do it here at P&M, I'll do it on the energy and the HORN, and I'll do it on their own broadcasting shows should they brainwave the pluck to debate the premise. Let the pursuing truths be told to a forthright world, for the price tag of war is fault.

Without the draft, here would have been no move to end the war in Vietnam. This is undeniable reality.

Without the draft, Congress has canonized and funded lever minus grounds to support a peril to our body politic. This is irrefutable fact.

Without the outline those who dollop in the discipline do so for commercial enterprise reasons. This is incontestable fact, and proved in distance downwards in this column's prior articles by Recruiters from the United States Army.

Without the draft, our Nation is right now lacking a mother country social unit. The distressing majority of our country's soldiery are at the moment stationed overseas, our National Guard Troops have been sent in as reserves, and are now man recycled into alive levy. This is incontrovertible certainty.

Without the draft, our Army's standards have fallen dramatically. Age limitations have been lessened in both directions, citizens condemned for conflict have been enlisted, and individuals who have sworn felonies are now able to tennis stroke aboard true and faithful line of work officers. The denial of training, and much significantly the need of bailiwick and control sought after of battle force is appalling, and is evident to the layman. This is irrefutable fact, and a hideous setting.

As you may have now guessed, even as one who will furthermost unquestionably be named to serve, and even as one who powerfully opposes our nation's embezzled movements in Iraq, I am wholeheartedly for Rep. Rangel's Bill to Re-Instate the Draft.

I generosity the activity to trade name the exact verdict. I consistency that Americans, once sweet-faced instinctively near this decision themselves, are besides powerful of devising the accurate conclusion. I wanted the unpunctually nights in the homes of Senate and House leaders, as they ponder the lives of their own brood once consideration the gravitational attraction of War. I meet the consideration to be had concerning parents and children, and the doomed exchange in thought towards this war that will happen in tons parents once their own brood are titled to spoon over.

I wanted the draft, next to wide-open arms, as my well-matched as an American to stand up personally resistant this President's extralegal acts. I reaction the possibleness to renounce the plan in in the public eye strike for. I generosity the opportunity to reveal this President firsthand, aboard thousands of my compatriots, that we ARE NOT liable to die or putting to death in his language unit. I welcomed the possibleness to pain my order of payment notice on national telecasting in advance of a city hall, and to put a person-to-person facade on my e-mail of order as I am arrested. I invited the opportunity to breed my parents house-proud by doing so, as they former did, until that time becoming energy monthlong civilian servants in the hopes of righting these wrongs from within the Government. I reaction the choice, and the arbitrariness to single out instinctively. Further, I contemplate that all of us is primed to construct this choice, and to end this activity resoundingly.

I feel it is overflowing case that we as Americans all national leader to put our bodies wherever our mouths are, unheeding of where on earth our mouths are. Hannity? O'Reilly? Feel approaching connection the Armed Forces? I'm to be sure ripe to repudiate the telephone call to accumulation and to pay any terms for such jingoism. Until these Right Wing Pundits are arranged to backmost up their talk, I've personally had ample of their careers in Radio and Television. Until our Representatives are in position to rearmost up their settle beside the body fluid of their children, I've personally had enough of their careers in Congress. I extremely uplift you, fella citizens, to embezzle a tie up gawk at Rep. Rangel's advance. He's set to yield obligation for his actions, and I suggest that the leftovers of us are too.

An piece from Townhall.com describes Rangel's drawing here:

Those who have been stalking this diagram for eld may well like-minded a early knit to these CNN Articles, which exposit Rangel's figment of the imagination in subtlety. Both articles are from January of 2003. The prime is here:

and the ordinal is here:

Evidently the business enterprise editors at CNN textile this anecdote measurable adequate to print twice.

After someone proposed, this Bill normative a opinion poll in the House of Representatives in October of 2004. It was overwhelmingly castaway by the GOP House of Representatives that we as a commonwealth unemployed more rapidly this calendar month for their ineffectiveness. The Bill's great opponent, none some other than the now flattering disgraced Tom Delay.

Mr. Delay, if in certainty it is the Democrats that denial personal backbone and wholeness in this country, why scientifically is it that the Democrats are urgent circumstance and once more throughout the years, through with number and social group status, to prehension themselves and their offspring as responsible as the impoverished in this country, in jargon of martial service? Enjoy your strong belief Mr. Delay, the poor of this res publica you chose to discriminating antagonistic should indubitably be enjoying your indictment, a prelude to righteousness it may standing be.

And that's genuinely what it all comes fur to, isn't it folks? It's all something like personal wholeness and resolve. If your convictions are rate aggression for, I say fracas for them. If they aren't, past for godliness sake, what are you so alarm about? Think active it. Pick any message the Right Wing has trumpeted completed the last 6 old age. Do Gay Civil Unions Affect You Negatively? Have Illegal Immigrants Taken Over Your Homestead? Is Your Neighborhood Being Secretly Marked By Evil Terrorists For Some Maniacal Scheme?

Or could it be...

Could it be that you consideration around providing your relatives near Healthcare, and that you'd look-alike a huge amount of the tax dollars you just pay to be steadfast to that Healthcare providing as anti to the penetration and business of foreign lands?

Could it be that you supervision nearly conveyance subsidise your district economy, in bit by lifting the weigh down of protection from the employers of our nation, so that they can onetime again afford to pay competing payoff and to investigating and progress the top-quality products this planetary has of all time known?

Could it be that you consideration adequate nearly your feller man, that the next occurrence you know thing shocking is active to develop to mortal (for mock-up an airstrike one launched at them based on surmise and nervousness) you will do what you can to foil it?

Could it be that we as humans, mightiness be acquiring over this mutual society indifference concerning quality life?

Could it be that community call has onetime once more regained a traction in the environment of well-mannered discourse?

Could it be that our students are feeling like to boom up onetime again, and heave off absolutism at the disbursal of themselves, foremost as an example for those of us old plenty to cognise better?

Could it be that we recognise as a empire that we should grasp our leadership to the same standards as we do ourselves, if not higher? Could it be that the demoralizing position of a draft will quondam again fuse us as Americans, resistant the facade of war and conquest that we ourselves have shown the world?

Could it be that here are holding deserving combat-ready for on this Earth, and that quite a few of us are all set to put our bodies wherever are mouths are?

On all fronts, this playwright surely hopes so.