{"article":{"id":30043,"heading":"More: Whittier Witness for Peace","author":"Tony","created":"2003-02-19 02:52:58","modified":"2005-08-15 01:12:06","last_modified":"Mon, 15 Aug 2005 08:12:06","article":"<p>Whittier Witness for Peace Every Sunday. From 1:00 to 2:30 p.m. At the Intersection of Painter and Whittier Blvd<\/p>\n","contact":"","link":"","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","summary":"Whittier Witness for Peace Every Sunday.","numcomment":8,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/2003\/02\/image1.jpg","filesize":"81.4 kibibytes","article_url":"\/news\/2003\/02\/30043.php","image":{"original":"\/uploads\/2003\/02\/image1.jpg","small":"\/uploads\/2003\/02\/image1.jpgthumb.jpg","medium":"\/uploads\/2003\/02\/image1.jpgmid.jpg"}},"attachments":[{"id":30044,"heading":"more","article":"","author":"Tony","parent_id":30043,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","created":"2003-02-19 02:52:58","modified":"2005-08-15 01:12:06","fileurl":"\/usr\/local\/www-domains\/la.indymedia.org\/public\/uploads\/2003\/02\/image2.jpg","image":{"original":"\/usr\/local\/www-domains\/la.indymedia.org\/public\/uploads\/2003\/02\/image2.jpg"}},{"id":30045,"heading":"more","article":"","author":"Tony","parent_id":30043,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","created":"2003-02-19 02:52:58","modified":"2005-08-15 01:12:06","fileurl":"\/usr\/local\/www-domains\/la.indymedia.org\/public\/uploads\/2003\/02\/image3.jpgy5ljta.jpg","image":{"original":"\/usr\/local\/www-domains\/la.indymedia.org\/public\/uploads\/2003\/02\/image3.jpgy5ljta.jpg"}},{"id":30046,"heading":"last","article":"","author":"Tony","parent_id":30043,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","created":"2003-02-19 02:52:58","modified":"2005-08-15 01:12:07","fileurl":"\/usr\/local\/www-domains\/la.indymedia.org\/public\/uploads\/2003\/02\/image4a.jpg","image":{"original":"\/usr\/local\/www-domains\/la.indymedia.org\/public\/uploads\/2003\/02\/image4a.jpg"}}],"comments":[{"id":30070,"heading":"Why the UN?","article":"When has the UN done anything for World Peace?  Who stopped Hitler's Nazi Germany?  Who stopped Japan's might military?  Who ended the Cold War causing the fall of the Soviet Union?  The UN?  NO!  The United States of America.  Why are there so many American citizens attacking their own nation that protects them and gives them so much freedom?  We are not going after the Iraqi citizens, we are going after Saddam Hussein.  We are trying to liberate the Iraqi citizens to grant them freedom which they, like all humans, deserve!  Why are people protesting the U.S.A. and not Saddam Hussein???  Who is it that is keeping his own people from being free?  Saddam.  From liberating the French, to freeing Yugoslavia from Milosevic, to stopping the Communist oppression of the Soviets over their own people, to saving South Korea from North Korea\/China aggression.  We, the U.S.A., have faced the full brunt of Enemies of Freedom, yet we are despised by many, and some of our own people.  Think any nation can do better?  Think again!  And God Bless America!","author":"Seth M. Johnson","parent_id":30043,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-02-19 03:49:49","modified":"2003-02-19 03:49:49","fileurl":""},{"id":33190,"heading":"Because the UN is for Peace","article":"The UN was established AFTER WWII\u2026because of WWII \u2013 to keep rouge nations and dictators from invading other nations and causing death and destruction. The Soviet Union imploded on itself. America\u2019s military had something to do with it \u2013 but so did the end of the cold war and the treaties put in place. We are not \u201cattacking our own nation\u201d by protesting. We are simply voicing our opposition to what this \u201celected\u201d administration has decided to do in the name of Freedom and Democracy. \r\n\r\nBeing the aggressor in a war is not what America, Freedom or Democracy stands for. Annihilating Iraq with \u201cShock & Awe\u201d first wave attacks \u2013 surely to kill thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of innocent Iraqi citizens in the capital of the country - is NOT \u201cliberating\u201d the citizens of Iraq. It\u2019s killing them. It\u2019s what the Bush Administration stands for, yes \u2013 but not the people of this country. They tell you what they want you to know \u2013 but not what\u2019s really going on.\r\n\r\nWith the frightening roll back of our own civil liberties that Mr. Ashcroft has implemented in the past year and a half (Total Information Awareness, The Patriot Act I & II) we have already begun to feel what it\u2019s like to have our freedom taken away. Freedom of dissent, information, privacy \u2013 forget about it! Try reading up on what you\u2019re lamenting about \u2013 you will be just as mad as I am. \r\n\r\nWe have to let the UN do what it can to stop this immoral and illegal war. The rest of the world agrees that inspections must be allowed to progress. Isn\u2019t that what your Mom taught you \u2013 talk it out, don\u2019t fight. Barbara must be beside herself with shame right now. The US \u2013 under this Bush administration \u2013 is just a big bully. They want control. We ARE NOT THE RULERS OF THE EARTH. We have to work together to save ourselves, to love each other and to stop this war. God Bless the Protesters! \r\n","author":"Dorothy Hernandez","parent_id":30043,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-03-06 00:17:44","modified":"2013-11-10 23:48:54","fileurl":""},{"id":33196,"heading":"Mr War","article":"Dorothy, I'd like to thank you for your comments.   As a matter of fact , you should be the Head of the UN so you can save the world by telling everyone to hold hands and love eachother.  You obviously live in a dream world.  The UN is no more effective  than the Articles of Confederation.  So what happened to that?  You probably don't know what I'm talking about because you don't currently understand why we are going to war.   Why can't we just go up and give that  Saddam Hussein a hug and tell him that we 'd like him to stop being a murderous dictator.  Saddam does not understand this language, you should know that.  Not everyone understands why we shouldn't go to war and Saddam is one of them.  You can talk all you want with him, but he will always screw you over in the end.  OK, 17 resolution, why not one more.  I wonder, why not one more resolution?  Gee, I don't see a pattern here.  He's 0 for 17 now, maybe he can be 1 for 18. You're a moron, I suggest that you maybe read more.  ","author":"Pro War","parent_id":30043,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-03-06 00:31:05","modified":"2003-03-06 00:31:05","fileurl":""},{"id":33201,"heading":"Simon,....","article":"...still getting paid by the word or are you salary?","author":"knifeyes","parent_id":30043,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-03-06 00:57:42","modified":"2003-03-06 00:57:42","fileurl":""},{"id":33653,"heading":"War is not Peace!","article":"I love all this propaganda about how the US has to make the world safe for democracy. The US is and empire just like the old europian empires. Any of you right wing idiots ever read history. The us is only interested in makeing the world safe for its own economic interests. Thats why we went to war in Afganastan and thats why were are going to Iraq. Open you eyes and take a look at whats going on wherever their is oil being extracted there is represion of the local indeginous peoples. Perfect example is Nigeria in the Niger Delta.In  Indoniesia Surato,  a Us backed killer dictator killed millions of  peasants and invaded East Timor and massacred more people with the blessings of Trickey Dick and our infamous war criminal Mr Kissinger. It goes on an on, look  around the world and you will see the Iron Fist of the US Empire repressing the local people with some kind of pupet regime or economic sabotage. \r\nPeople of the world are not only opposed to this war they are opposed to this Empire! Step out of the Matrix and take the red pill and fight the empire for a better world and a more just and sustainable economic society.","author":"take the red pill","parent_id":30043,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","created":"2003-03-07 16:41:31","modified":"2005-08-15 01:12:07","fileurl":"\/usr\/local\/www-domains\/la.indymedia.org\/public\/uploads\/2003\/03\/3-3i55.jpg","image":{"original":"\/usr\/local\/www-domains\/la.indymedia.org\/public\/uploads\/2003\/03\/3-3i55.jpg"}},{"id":36305,"heading":"Dr.","article":"lil brain johnson from UC Davis?\r\ndo they have books in your university, how about history professors?\r\na damn shame and a waste of a college slot that could have been filled with a well rounded student\r\n","author":"Strangelove","parent_id":30043,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-03-18 07:58:43","modified":"2003-03-18 07:58:43","fileurl":""},{"id":36307,"heading":"OneEyedMan","article":"Slow Bore: &quot;Not everyone understands why we shouldn't go to war and Saddam is one of them.&quot;\r\n\r\n\r\n...???????.......","author":"KPC","parent_id":30043,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-03-18 08:14:06","modified":"2003-03-18 08:14:06","fileurl":""}]}