I’d like someone to explain to me how a boycott of local, privately owned shops and services is going to tell the “people in power” that be that the war in Iraq is illegal or immoral. Seems to me that such a boycott does a lot towards promoting a Marxist-Leninist agenda, and very little towards “reminding our religious leaders and our politicians” to end the war in Iraq Correct me if I’m wrong, but the owners of, e.g., Brodo or Spot coffee or even Wegmans are not the “people in power.” The only people this would hurt are the owners of your local shop/service and the people who work there. By the way – this country doesn’t have religious leaders. Only secular ones. If you have a religious leader, it’s because you choose to.
By the way - Marxism-Leninism is far more offensive to me than the war in Iraq. This war was entered into imprudently, and is/was planned ineffectively if not downright incompetently. Fortunately, it will someday end. For us, anyway. Thousands have died as a result of the war in Iraq. (Let's not forget that hundreds of thousands, if not millions, also died under Saddam Hussein's fascist regime).
Tens of millions of people, however, have been victims of Marxist-Leninist-Stalinist-Maoist leftist fascism. Millions remain oppressed under the yokes of so-called "dictatorships of the proletariat." People throughout the world have labored and fought - at the risk of torture, imprisonment, and death - to overthrow the vicious communist regimes around the world. Some still do, in places like North Korea, PR China, and Cuba.
If you want to stop the war in Iraq, march, make phone calls, blog, vote, get involved.
Not shopping at Lord & Taylor isn't going to bring our troops home.
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