An interesting find on Houston’s Indymedia site:
Fort Worth Representative Lon Burnham hosted the Peace in Iraq caucus at the Democratic State Convention to encourage democratic peace activists to hold elected leaders accountable for invading Iraq and for the occupation aftermath. His three part strategy of accountability consisted of:1. Find out how your representative voted on peace issues.
2. Contact your elected representatives and candidates running for office. Tell them they will no longer have your vote if they do not adopt a clear pro-peace platform
3. Take it to the streets.
And the part that really gets me going:
Representative Burnham said Texas democrats representing districts south of I10 have a poor record on peace issues. Burnham found it ironic that most of these representatives are hispanic. Low income hispanic youth are being targeted by military recruiters. Burnham said hispanic democratic leaders are taking a stand on immigration while allowing their youth to be recruited for cannon fodder. It is this lack of moral courage concerning issues of peace that Burnham wants democratic leaders to address or be held accountable.
There’s just so much wrong with that passage. I don’t even know where to start.
Representative Burnham’s state home page can be found here. He’s also the Director of the radical Dallas Peace Center. I guess that explains everything.
