It appears the folks at World Can't Wait! are trying to get students to walk out of high school tommorow to protest the Bush regime. They even say "Stay in school if you like Bush."
As much as I hate Bush I'd love to hit these people over the head with a frying pan. One thing I will never do is try to convince impressionable young minds to get their asses in hot water for some protest I'm trying to organize.
I mean, forcing kids to go to school is bullshit, but that doesn't mean getting yourself suspended and grounded by your parents is a good idea. There really are better ways to express yourself.
Also, the folks at World Can't Wait! are extremely unoriginal in their thought, and use the same cliches that hippies have been using for 40 years to try and persuade people. I doubt they'll achieve anything at all with such lame tactics.
Though I do hate Bush...
You know, Rush, you're a pretty sharp kid
"with special messages from Sean Penn"
OMG I hope he writes another open letter.
Instead they should circle around a petition to impeach Bush.
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"Why don't I send you my poems to read, Pontilianus? I'm afraid that you might send me yours." - Martial
I used to have a little shred of respect for Tom Morello's politics because he had a desire to change the system, but now he's just a pawn of the Democrat crowd.
"Drive out the Bush Regime" is a good idea, but the problem with World Can't Wait is that it seems to be a way for Bob Avakian's RCP to raise money from rich Hollywood liberals who don't know what they're really supporting. Chairman Bob needs to pay his rent in Paris somehow, I guess. WCW and the RCP's previous front groups have never been taken that seriously by most of the grassroots antiwar movement -- their events in DC have always been much smaller than those put on by other national antiwar organizations and, from my experience, have tended to be greeted with a great deal of skepticism among most long-time antiwar activists.
Bingo. Avakian probably couldn't care less about who is currently in the White House. The main objective is to attract politically disillusioned kids that already see themselves as being on the fringe and introduce them to his freakish Maoist cult with hopes of getting some of his books sold. The rent ain't going to pay itself.
What do they plan to do exactly?"Oh, a bunch of high school kids don't like me, I think I'll give up my position as the most powerful man in the world."--------------------- Dale Ministry of Awesome
What does "driving out" the Bush regime entail, exactly? Is there to be a Coup, and if so, how will the interim government be organized, and eventually dismantled to make room for a sustainable government? Obviously, these questions are frivolous; the World Cant Wait movement cannot be taken seriously for the very reason that its message calls on people circumvent lawful processes envisioned by the guys who lit this freedom firecracker (our founding fathers) to protest the government. Even though they employ just methods (petition, lawful congregation, free association) they're calling for something more...and come off sounding simultaneously like trigger-happy neocons and sociopathic Che Guevara-types.
