Posted by Dinah on March 8, 2004, at 10:30:14
In reply to I am impressed, what articulate posts, posted by Jai Narayan on March 6, 2004, at 18:39:34
> My mind and heart have always been with the people, the land, water, air and the animals. I love nature and hope to perserve it while I am alive.
Mine too. I consider that a very conservative position. What can be more conservative than to admit our duty to our descendents.
> I am a radical....left wing all the way. It's hard to find others now who really have the same bent. I love the freedoms that we celebrate in this country but....you don't have the same freedoms if you are: a person of color, a woman, poor, gay, from the Middle East......there are so many ways we can be disqualified from all these wonderful freedoms.
It's a shame that a person of color, the poor, gays, and those from the Middle East are sometimes treated without the respect that our constitution guarantees them. I'm not sure that's a problem of our country so much as a problem of hearts and minds of people. (I just refuse to include women in there. I've always been treated with respect, and no has attempted to repress me because of my gender.) But I think if you look around the world, you might find that people from the Middle East and people of color and people of differing religions, and women, and gays enjoy a lot more freedoms here than they would elsewhere.
> I am sad that my environment is being threatened by a nuclear power plant five miles away.
Although nuclear plants are generally cleaner alternatives than coal based ones. And those of on computers are probably not averse to electricity.
> I am sad that Judges that are right wing are being choosen for our courts.
I am happy that the constitutional protection between the branches of government is being shored up, and that legislation is being left to the... legislature.
> I am sad that we choose to kill people in Iraq and Afghanistan.
I am sad that a group of people decided to come to our country and kill thousands of innocent people on their way to work. I'm sad that the regime of Afghanistan provided refuge for those people, while not allowing their women to get an education or receive adequate healthcare. I am sad that the people of Afghanistan have lived through decades of war that started way before we got there. I'm glad my brother is on his way to Afghanistan to help with the rebuilding of a long insufficient infrastructure. I'm happy that he met someone who reassured him that the Afghan people had a generally positive attitude towards the military working on rebuilding that infrastructure. I hope for a peaceful and prosperous future for the people of that country.
I'm sad that the leadership of Iraq chose to place their people in harms way by not living up to the conditions of the peace agreement put in place at the end of the war in which they invaded their neighbor. I feel very sorry for the people of Iraq who had to live under years and years of an oppressive regime. I hope that women and men of that country learn to live without fear, and I hope that they complain about their government or even the U.S. every day, if only because they *can* without fear of reprisal.
> I am sad that the President uses the 9/11 disaster to promote his run for the next election.
I'm sad that there was a 9/11 mass murder. (I always tend to think of disasters as being earthquakes, mudslides, fires, etc.)
> I want to be happy. I want to be uplifted by my life and the political environment.
Yeah, me too.
> I hope and pray that we see a new day.Definitely.
> I would dearly love to have Ralph Nader as president but I know that will never happen. So I will vote for the next best thing Kerry in 2004.I'm guessing I'll abstain. I could change my mind.
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