The Liberation of America Begins

Thursday, 30 March 2006

"If you start looking at them as humans, and stuff like that, then how are you going to kill them?"So says Jody Casey, a U.S. soldier who had just left military service and almost immediately joined a remarkable march of atonement, protest and patriotism led by Iraq Veterans Against the War, walking 130 miles from Mobile to New Orleans along with military families and survivors. (The full story is in the Guardian, via the indispensible Information Clearing House.)

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This march, and the testimony of the soldiers, should be seen as part of the on-going liberation of the United States from the nihilistic militarism that has captured the nation's government – and its psyche.

Like the protests of Cindy Sheehan at Fortress Crawford last summer (see "The Fire Sermon: A Spark is Lit in the Texas Scrub"), the march is a milestone in what will certainly be a long and perilous struggle to reclaim and redeem the Republic.Honour these men and women.

They are fighting for you. Listen to their words, support their cause, and denounce at every turn the crimes of the liars and killers at the top who have brought our long-running infection of blind and brutal militarism to a fever pitch. Let the days of our shame and degradation be done with at last. Reclaim, renew and redeem the Republic!Excerpts from the Guardian after the jump:

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