Times Square activists urge peace, not war

[sbp]

Times Square activists urge peace, not war (http://www3.cnn.com/2001/US/09/22/rec.newyork.rally/index.html)

"Hundreds of people marched peacefully from Union Square to Times Square to demonstrate against U.S. military action in the wake of terrorist attacks that leveled the World Trade Center and damaged the Pentagon, killing thousands.

'Peace, not war,' chanted many of the crowd, many of whom appeared old enough to have been involved in similar demonstrations in the early 1970s.

Police estimated the crowd size at 900; an organizer estimated it to be 'in the thousands.'

'We feel that the acts committed last Tuesday are a crime against humanity and that those responsible should be held accountable,' said a release to the news media announcing the Friday evening march.

'We now have international mechanisms such as the International Criminal Court and the U.N. War Crimes Tribunal as forums for international justice. We call on the Bush administration to embrace these mechanisms and to work with the U.N. and the international community to prosecute these and other war criminals.'"

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Wake up you fools your country was attacked! While your peace thoughts are nice, its misguided in this situation. To not defend ourselves would appear as weakness, and weakness invites more attacks. As soul brother said tonight, some idiots need to be lined up in a row and slapped hard repeatedly until they get it.

[Kenas]

Originally posted by sbp
Times Square activists urge peace, not war (http://www3.cnn.com/2001/US/09/22/rec.newyork.rally/index.html)

"Hundreds of people marched peacefully from Union Square to Times Square to demonstrate against U.S. military action in the wake of terrorist attacks that leveled the World Trade Center and damaged the Pentagon, killing thousands.

'Peace, not war,' chanted many of the crowd, many of whom appeared old enough to have been involved in similar demonstrations in the early 1970s.

Police estimated the crowd size at 900; an organizer estimated it to be 'in the thousands.'

'We feel that the acts committed last Tuesday are a crime against humanity and that those responsible should be held accountable,' said a release to the news media announcing the Friday evening march.

'We now have international mechanisms such as the International Criminal Court and the U.N. War Crimes Tribunal as forums for international justice. We call on the Bush administration to embrace these mechanisms and to work with the U.N. and the international community to prosecute these and other war criminals.'"

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Wake up you fools your country was attacked! While your peace thoughts are nice, its misguided in this situation. To not defend ourselves would appear as weakness, and weakness invites more attacks. As soul brother said tonight, some idiots need to be lined up in a row and slapped hard repeatedly until they get it.



Yes!! Let make a peace with all the contries in the world. Let them kill another millon of Americans, and we'll make peace again. Until, there will be nobody to make peace with. I am wondering how do they propose to make peace with terrorists?

[mojo]

Originally posted by Kenas
Yes!! Let make a peace with all the contries in the world. Let them kill another millon of Americans, and we'll make peace again. Until, there will be nobody to make peace with. I am wondering how do they propose to make peace with terrorists?

perhaps they like butter tarts? :idea:

[INeedAVacation]

I wish the people who are protesting against us taking action against these thugs would have been the people inside the world trade center instead of the peolpe who were there.
To all you...."ignorant" (to put it as nicely as possible) people who think we should just let it go and who think we should have just minded our own business every time a Hitler or a Stalin or a Saddam or any of the those people get something going with another country, in another part of the world, just THINK about what could have happened had we not interfeared any (or just one) of those times. Their regime could have grown bigger and bigger and bigger as they conquered more and more people until finally they were so big that we wouldn't be able to stop them no matter what we threw at them. If we don't stop this now, or at least show the rest of the world why we ARE known as, "the sleeping giant" then this will only snowball. As I heard from someone who is obviously a very intelligent person, "If I am called upon again to serve this country I will; as sad as it would be for my son to possibly grow up without a his dad, he can not grow up without a country".
If you want to argue any of what I said, or if you don't agree with some of it, well, you have that right, you have it because people died for you and all the rest of us top have that freedom. If you want to protest the great people of this nation defending ourselves, if you want to burn our flag, then your in the wrong country and I suggest you leave to one where you agree with its vision because you obviously don't agree with The United States Of America's vision: FREEDOM.

[Burzhui]

Originally posted by Kenas




Yes!! Let make a peace with all the contries in the world. Let them kill another millon of Americans, and we'll make peace again. Until, there will be nobody to make peace with. I am wondering how do they propose to make peace with terrorists?

Agreed, however America already has lost it's chance to bomb... thanks to that other bush... idiot he is all talk and no action :angry:
Retaliation should have been taken right away.

[pennypinch]

I can agree with the tone of their plea. I think war, in the traditional conception, would be a mistake. Why are we bombing some farmer or grocery cart owner because of an unpopular government and its rogue "guest". I don't think killing other equally innocents because we have the moral highground is admirable or in any way shows how tough we are.

Surgical strikes with commandoes to remove the leaders, yes. War, no.