Campaign Notebook: Results

Progressives getting a toehold in Minnesota…don’t stop now… Progressives are gaining a toehold in Minnesota and on the national scene. It’s about time. Then too,  there’s Kucinich’s impeachment resolution a day ago,  that was actually read on the floor of the Senate… although in some sick attempt to embarrass the silence-of-the-lambs Democrats, was backed by Republicans, as Democrats sat twisting their ties into a noose?
  Maybe I’m too naive to understand the games played here…so it’s good to know , at least, back at the homefront progressives have replaced some of our ineffective stooges?

Way to go, but all these  liberal mayors and councilmen now coming into power are but baby steps, hey…so  don’t stop now.
Shouldn’t this enlightened election outcome take a few giant steps furthur, like take a clue from the Pakistani protests; bonfires of dissent growing daily. Watch Pakistan demanding Change with a capital C and can you believe it,  the first dissent was the legal minority; the lawyers and some judges too? The few ‘haves’ among the masses of ‘have-nots’ in Pakistan took to the streets and opposed the authoritarian claws of an anxiety-prone Musharraf. Followed by small bands of students, academics and poets pock-marking the country. But bless my dog, it was the legal profession and judges too; first to show their discontent? We could use some of that, eh?

Could it happen here? No, sad to say where here law is sold more often in the marketplace, than justice served. But picture this, in  Minnesota -Minneapolis, Duluth etc. – after  the nation has quit yawning from how many feel-good election night parties – and as unrealistic as it may be, I can’t get the image of members of our legal profession dropping their briefs and trucking down Hennepin, Superior Street or down Pennsylvannia Avenue in unprecedented dissent against the unacceptable policies mandated by this administration? Lawyers with a conscience? They are out there maybe and the times they may be changing?
beryl k gullsgate

Progressives getting a toehold in Minnesota…don't stop now… Progressives are gaining a toehold in Minnesota and on the national scene. It's about time. Then too,  there's Kucinich's impeachment resolution a day ago,  that was actually read on the floor of the Senate… although in some sick attempt to embarrass the silence-of-the-lambs Democrats, was backed by Republicans, as Democrats sat twisting their ties into a noose?
  Maybe I'm too naive to understand the games played here…so it's good to know , at least, back at the homefront progressives have replaced some of our ineffective stooges?

Way to go, but all these  liberal mayors and councilmen now coming into power are but baby steps, hey…so  don't stop now.

Shouldn't this enlightened election outcome take a few giant steps furthur, like take a clue from the Pakistani protests; bonfires of dissent growing daily. Watch Pakistan demanding Change with a capital C and can you believe it,  the first dissent was the legal minority; the lawyers and some judges too? The few 'haves' among the masses of 'have-nots' in Pakistan took to the streets and opposed the authoritarian claws of an anxiety-prone Musharraf. Followed by small bands of students, academics and poets pock-marking the country. But bless my dog, it was the legal profession and judges too; first to show their discontent? We could use some of that, eh?

Could it happen here? No, sad to say where here law is sold more often in the marketplace, than justice served. But picture this, in  Minnesota -Minneapolis, Duluth etc. – after  the nation has quit yawning from how many feel-good election night parties – and as unrealistic as it may be, I can't get the image of members of our legal profession dropping their briefs and trucking down Hennepin, Superior Street or down Pennsylvannia Avenue in unprecedented dissent against the unacceptable policies mandated by this administration? Lawyers with a conscience? They are out there maybe and the times they may be changing?

beryl k gullsgate