Outrage! 30 days of anti-war free speech remaining!

In a despicable act of partisan politics flying in the face of the town citizens' overwhelming majority of opinion, the Town Council for the city of San Anselmo, California, voted once again to deny local anti-war activists their First Amendment rights to freedom of speech. The citizen's vote: 80% for free speech, 20% against. The Town Council's vote: 00% for free speech, 100% against.

At issue is the large anti-war billboard which long-time anti-war activist Ford Greene maintains where undeniably truthful facts about Bush's wars and the growing fascism in America are expressed, truths that the Town Council doesn't want the town's people to see along a busy city street where thousands of people read the sign every day.

To make matters worse for the Town Council, local citizens have been emailing Greene with suggested messages for him to post to the movable-type billboard, making the controversial sign a significant threat to the Council's already tattered reputation for engaging in partisan politics.

Controversial? The messages Greene posts certainly aren't. Greene asks rhetorical questions of citizens sitting waiting in traffic for the light to turn green:

ARE DOCTORS WHO GUIDE
GUANTANAMO INTERROGATIONS
ACTING MORE LIKE US
OR MORE LIKE NAZIS?

Offensive? Yes, if you support Bush's regime and his atrocities in Iraq and Afghanistan and don't like reading the undeniable truth. Rape and torture aren't what _real_ America is about and Green underscores the undeniable fact that the Bush regime does _not_ represent Americans.

Greene states undeniable yet embarrassing -- embarrassing to Republicans who support and defend George W. Bush's war crimes -- statements of fact in his no-nonsense, straight-forward manor:

DEFY EVIL BUSHISM
SPEAK FREELY OF ITS LIES
REGARDING MASS DESTRUCTION
PISS ON THEIR ARROGANCE

And while the vast majority of the citizens of San Anselmo are applauding someone who finally has the guts to stand up and speak the truth about the Bush regime, Greene addresses the religious aspects of Bush's invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, both of which have been touted as the will of the Christian Gods:

TO STEAL, LIE, INVADE
AND TORTURE IS WRONG
GET RELIGION OUT
OF THE WHITE HOUSE

Invading innocent countries, murdering children, seizing control of the oil that doesn't belong to them... These are sins within the Christian community, sins which happen to make the Top 10 List of sins that Christians are admonished not to commit. And yet Bush and his regime proclaim they've got the word straight from the mouth of God to invade Iraq and Afghanistan and to "install Democracy" -- the Republican style of "Democracy" where the will of the people are ignored, just lately like it's ignored in the town of San Anselmo.

On August 9'th, the Town Council meeting was packed wall to wall with supporters of the anti-war protest billboard, and supporters crowded around the building's doors outside, standing in the hopes of speaking to the Council, demanding that the Council abide by the overwhelming will of the people to stop trying to deny them their Constitutional right to speak.

But despite the will of the town's citizens, and despite the Constitution of the United States, the Town Council once again exercised their putative legal ability to violate people's rights with the mere movement of a pen, glibly and without shame signing away the right of the citizens to speak, justifying their un-American Republican fascism under the banner of "fighting eye-sores" and under the banner of "public safety," a catch-all term well loved by the Bush regime along with its twin, "national security."

The fascists claimed that the sign was a traffic hazard that causes accidents. During the meeting when the local police were asked how many accidents had occurred, the police said "none."

Fascism is winning, folks. The Constitution means nothing to Republican war mongers and the will of citizens.

Write to the Town Council and express -- no, _scream_ -- your outrage:

pbreen5@@comcast.net
bthornton9000@yahoo.com
wcooper@fcblaw.com
jktk@jps.net
lwight@ci.san-anselmo.ca.us
dchignell@aol.com

Then visit Greene's web site at http://www.fordgreene.com/

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