Rocky redux
FROM THE ANTI-BUSH PROTEST....Rocky Anderson addressed the protesters at the City-County Building, his former constituents, as "true patriots":
You are beautiful Salt Lake City. Thank you for standing up.Rocky, like the crowd, seems older and angrier. In praise of the preceding speaker, Daniel Ellsberg*, he shouts:
He helped bring down that lying constitution-betraying Nixon administration.Rocky warned against the president launching a last-minute war against Iran, aided by complaicent citizenry and "complicit mainstream media."
He took a moment to reflect on loathing felt for him throughout Utah — outside Salt Lake City — for his high-profile opposition to Bush and the war whenever the president visited the city.
People tell us to be quiet and just go along. We... Won't... Keep... Our... mouths shut. ...We'll never let up. We call on them to join us.As usual, of course, Rocky with microphones in front of him, had much, much more to say. And he did. Ending with, "Let us never be silent!"
*Ellsberg, a Pentagon consultant on Vietnam, leaked the Pentagon Papers, a secret report on U.S. involvement in Vietnam, to the press.
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Rocky sees things in black or white, which is a quality I hate about my conservative friends. It's probably why he's so divisive.
But when he came to drinking liberally he asked a question of all of us: where is your moral line in the sand? How much are you willing to tolerate before your moral breaking point is crossed?
For Rocky, that point was a long time ago. Despite his personality quirks he's still got my admiration.
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