My weekly update from the handsome women at Code Pink tells me that they’re “occupying” Wall Street this week for some reason;<\/p>\n
We are the 99 percent \u2014the vast majority who will no longer tolerate the greed and corruption of the 1% who hold all the wealth. CODEPINK has been in Wall Street camping out with other activists in Liberty Plaza because we know real change begins with direct action to challenge corporate greed and endless war. Though we face serious obstacles, we are committed to disarming the military industrial complex with humor and positive energy, both at this vibrant \u201cAmerican Tahrir Square\u201d to Freedom Plaza in Washington DC starting Oct 6 for the tenth anniversary of the Afghan War to denounce war and demand funding for housing, jobs, healthcare, and education. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n
i think I’m in tha 99% they’re talking about, but I’d like them to leave Wall Street alone – I have hundreds of thousands of dollars working for me on Wall Street and I’m taking part in capitalism. I’m pretty sure that the ingrates of Code Pink are taking part in the Wall Street experience, too. Everyone with a mutual fund or a money market account is happily watching “evil” Wall Street grow our money. And what does their protest on Wall Street have to do with their anti-war message, anyway? I guess the protest on Wall STreet looked more lucrative than complaining about the war.<\/p>\n
I guess they realized that, too, when they were writing the letter, because they switched gears to the Afghanistan War;<\/p>\n
The recent uptick in violence in Kabul provides a chilling reminder of the truth we\u2019ve known all along: violence begets violence. The U.S. must stop propping up drug lords and war lords and bring our war $$ home. The international community must support real peace negotiations in Afghanistan, which includes women\u2019s equal involvement in the process. Let\u2019s stop pretending men with weapons represent the will of the people; we support real democracy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Violence begets violence, huh? I guess that’s why we’re over there in the first place because of the violence that was committed against us. “Real peace negotiations”? With who? Those guys who throw acid in the face of school girls? Do you really think that the taliban is interested in hearing what women have to say in the future of Afghanistan? Now Code Pink asks if we really think that men wih guns represent the will of the people in Afghanistan…who are you talking about? The Taliban? They’re the ones who ruled the country from the barrel of their guns, numbnuts. How can you think that the Taliban are honest brokers for the people of Afghanistan? The same folks who are committing that “recent uptick in violence”<\/a> against the people of Afghanistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"