Fwd: Urgent Action: Speak Out to Protect the People of Burma
Sug...@aol.com
roger satterthwaite
Rog
--- Sug...@aol.com wrote:
> Hi again!
>
> Here is an easy way to get those letters out! I
> hope everyone realizes that
> I was NOT implying that we should ignore the
> struggles of other countries. I
> would never feel that way...only wish our
> government would quit throwing
> millions at the war and send some back to our
> own country's needs...such as the
> Safe and Drug Free Schools program that lost
> ALL of its funding this year.
>
> Peace to all,
> Sulyn
>
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> > Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2007 19:23:54 -0800
> From: The Pen <demo...@peaceteam.net>
> Subject: Urgent Action: Speak Out to Protect
> the People of Burma
> To: sug...@aol.com
>
> TELL CONGRESS IT'S TIME FOR MORE THAN LIP
> SERVICE ON BURMA
>
> On October 2, 2007, taking a break from
> honorary renaming of Post
> Offices, the House of Representative dusted off
> and quickly passed
> (413-2) a concurrent resolution on Burma, which
> had been languishing
> in inactivity.
>
> Sadly, that resolution doesn't actually DO
> anything, and makes no
> reference whatsoever to the massacres of the
> last week or the ongoing
> horrors taking place in that country now.
>
> BURMA ACTION PAGE:
> http://www.usalone.com/burma_action.php
>
> We have documentary evidence of the Burma
> military junta machine
> gunning peaceful civilian demonstrators,
> including the murder of
> foreign journalists in cold blood. There are
> credible reports of
> people being burned alive in government
> crematoriums. There are
> widespread accounts of EMPTY monasteries, and
> thousands of monks
> being herded into concentration camps in remote
> parts of the country,
> bodies dumped in the jungles, pictures of monks
> floating face down in
> the rivers and more. The ASEAN (Association of
> Southeast Asian
> Nations) expressed "revulsion", and that was
> BEFORE most of the above
> reports. You can see the brutal oppression from
> space. [The action
> page above is heavily annotated with links to
> all the factual
> sources.]
>
> And none of this, NONE of it was even mentioned
> in the House
> resolution passed today. Congress must
> immediately
>
> 1) Declare the military dictatorship in Burma
> to be a terrorist
> organization. They were sure quick enough to do
> that for the Iran
> Revolutionary guard, who have been shown by no
> evidence to do any of
> the above things. People who go into houses of
> worship to murder
> religious devotees ARE terrorists. Remember
> when we were told Saddam
> was murdering his own people, 15 YEARS after
> the fact. These
> massacres are going on NOW!
>
> 2) Act to freeze the assets of the military
> junta and urge all
> international banks to bar any monetary
> transfers in the interim. Our
> government was sure quick enough to do that to
> try to stop Al Qaeda.
> Similar actions were taken against North Korea
> by banning the
> importation of luxury goods and the like, a
> successful example of
> application of diplomatic pressure, and
>
> 3) Call for an international peace keeping
> force under the aegis of
> the U.N. to protect the people of Burma and the
> monasteries in
> particular, and to allow under its umbrella
> real fact finding of the
> crimes against humanity committed there. If
> Japan can send
> peacekeepers to Iraq they can certainly be
> persuaded to do so where,
> where they are already demanding for an
> accounting for the murder of
> their journalist. Are not the members of the
> ASEAN repulsed enough to
> participate? Let this be an example of how the
> world is supposed to
> react to tragic events like these, by acting
> THROUGH the U.N.
>
> BURMA ACTION PAGE:
> http://www.usalone.com/burma_action.php
>
> But what Congress had done is nothing more than
> an empty gesture.
> Nowhere in the concurrent resolution is there a
> single tooth. The
> military strongman in Burma is said to be
> stubborn. The world must
> stand up to that monstrous bully, and do so in
> a way that stands in
> clear contrast to everything that was done
> WRONG in Iraq, where the
> phony coalition of the willing was mostly
> blackmailed into
> participation. Burma needs a protection force,
> not an offensive
> force. If Congress can vote 413-2 to say
> anything about Burma, can
> not a majority be found to call for real
> action?
>
> Write Congress now using the action page above.
> Tell them they must
> do more.
>
> Is it said that China and India among others
> are doing too much
> business with Burma to rock the boat. Would not
> a country of free
> people also sell they resources on the world
> market? It's time to
> pressure the corporations and let them know
> that we the people will
> no longer tolerate murderous business as usual.
>
>
> Please take action NOW, so we can win all
> victories that are supposed
> to be ours, and forward this message to
> everyone else you know.
>
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