Calling patriotic Americans of good will

i'm going to go out on a limb here, but, hey...!

here's a list of issues i compiled during a random, 15-minute stroll through four progressive/liberal blogs i read regularly...

Think Progress

Iraq
ethics
truth in media
intelligence
immigration
women
health care
judiciary
terrorism

TPMmuckraker

U.S. Attorneys
George Bush
Monica Goodling

AMERICAblog

Iraq
George Bush
gay
insurance
U.S. Attorneys
consumer protection
FDA
Mary Cheney

Daily Kos

Iraq war
Iraq supplemental
Democrats
Racism
Fox News
Black Caucus
2008 elections
primaries
debate

only ONE person on ONE site talked about this...

general strike
moratorium
protest

and NOBODY on ANY site mentioned this...

The United States Constitution

i'm going to make a radical proposition... since we - meaning those of us who are seriously concerned with the direction of our country as charted by the bush administration - are scattered all over the map issue-wise, and our efforts are likewise no doubt seriously splintered, i propose that we unite behind something that we ALL share as an overriding priority - THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION... the constitution, more than anything else, is the guts of who we are as a nation, and it has been under unrelenting attack, not only for the past 6 1/2 years of the bush administration, but, truth be told, for far longer than that... if we would all pull together with the constitution as our rallying cry, accept that it's the single most important, most urgent thing we could possibly be fighting for, and that bringing it back to life would make addressing all those other issues ever so much easier, wouldn't that be worthwhile...?

i envision a cross-country march, starting at the golden gate bridge, citizens joining at every stop, working our way across country, city-by-city, state-by-state, with nothing but copies of the constitution in our hands, until, numbering in the hundreds and hundreds of thousands, possibly millions, of people, highways and byways literally choked with masses of humanity, we arrive in washington d.c., where we demand a return to the principles embodied in that precious document, and where we won't leave until the unconstitutional practices of torture, extraordinary rendition, warrantless domestic wiretapping, waging of illegal wars, manipulative signing statements, and the like are formally renounced, and the perpetrators hounded from office...

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