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February 12, 2003

Citizen to Citizen

At the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research (about which I know nothing) you can read an open letter from some American citizens to the rest of the world. If you agree with enough of it, you can sign it.

Here is the first paragraph:

It is a troubled time. The drums of war, already loud, are daily being amplified by the megaphones of modern media. The U.S. government is adopting a doctrine of "pre-emptive war." There are large numbers of people in the United States who do not agree. We want to extend our hands to people all over the world to work together for peace, justice, economic equity, and environmental sanity.

(Yeah, we could do without the mixed drums and megaphones metaphor.)

Posted by D. Weinberger at February 12, 2003 04:49 PM


Comments

Amplification - probably depends upon how you experience the combined effects of drums and megaphones, and the reach of media

Posted by: Jon Husband | February 13, 2003 08:57 PM


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