[Seattle-editorial]Feature Proposal Seattle Protesters

[typist at speakeasy.net]

Hi all, 

Here is my second attempt at a proposal: 

Is there a format for noting at the top that this is an "opinion" or "commentary"? Would that be the subtitle at the top? 

I think the title: "Seattle protesters are hoodwinked" works well. 

I cleaned up what typos I found in the text below and noted where I think a break should be to a hyperlink to the rest of the text. It would also be nice if we had a bio on the Reverend for the end. (Reverend?) I would also suggest a hyperlink to Hunts Point Road for description and directions on how to get to the protests there. 


> 
> Seattle protesters are hoodwinked into believing they will stop George 
> W. Bush at the August 23, 2003 rally at N/E 8th and Bellevue Way. 
> 
> While in truth, George Bush will be spending his time dining and 
> laughing at the protesters in their little designated "Free Speech ZONE" 
> while the rest of America is declared a "Bush ONLY" Speech Zone. 
> 
> No George will not hear the cries of freedom, but instead be hobnobbing 
> with the sleazy likes of Craig and Susan McCaw at there Mansion at 3858 
> Hunts Point Road in Medina. At 11:30 AM on the 23rd, Bush will be 
> asking for more "cash" at a gathering with such noted contributors to 
> the new regime as Norm Maleng, Jim and John Nordstrom and a host of 
> other wealthy contributors. As these business tycoons and hangers on 
> look to buy influence and curry favor with the dictatorial and 
> unpatriotic Bush regime. 
> 
> At 12:00 noon, these patrons of the right will be sitting down to a fine 
> meal and drinks, while the majority of Americans are worrying about how 
> to feed their families, or if they will still have a job next week; and 
> of course our protesters will be quietly demonstrating far away in their 
> designated "Free Speech ZONE." 


Hyperlink to rest of text below: 


> >From the beginnings of Freedom in this land, from a time before even the 
> ink was dry on the Constitution, demonstrations have been for the people 
> to express their ideas, and protest the decisions of those who make the 
> decisions; to appeal directly to our representatives for redress of 
> wrongs, and to right injustice. George Bush has closed off the only 
> methods that the average people have of letting the Presidency of the 
> United States know what it is that a majority of Americans are concerned 
> about. White House mail is routinely thrown away, E-mail is censored 
> and divided into those who approve, and those who don't, and only 
> supporters are allowed to place a sign or voice an opinion in front of 
> King George. The majority of Americans are ushered in to "free speech" 
> pens, or small gathering sites far from where our representatives are 
> gathered or will see and hear. 
> 
> It seems to this activist, that if the People of America want Bush to 
> understand that we will not allow our civil liberties and FREEDOMS to be 
> taken away, we need to stand and defend them. America needs those 
> people and activists who will stand glaringly in the sight of the 
> wrongdoers and peacefully say "WE WILL NOT GO AWAY," WE WILL NOT BE 
> RELEGATED AND ENSLAVED, WE WILL ASSEMBLE, WE WILL MARCH, AND WE DEMAND 
> EQUAL RIGHTS." Yes I said EQUAL RIGHTS, for this is an EQUAL rights 
> issue. Just as Martin Luther King Jr. demanded equal rights for African 
> Americans, and as Susan B Anthony demanded Equal Rights for Women, so to 
> must we demand Equal rights for All Americans, not just the Rich, or the 
> Privileged, or the Republican Right wing. 
> 
> Our rally cry should be "AMERICA IS A FREE SPEECH ZONE." For without 
> Free Speech, America is doomed. The Right control more than 90% of the 
> media distribution, and with the media cut off from us, now we have the 
> streets taken as well. 
> 
> So let the cry go fourth, let us take back America, in the name of the 
> Majority, and the Minorities, in the names of the oppressed and the 
> forgotten, the homeless, the veterans, the mothers, the sons and 
> daughters. 
> 
> Let us rally in peace and freedom, let us march to Mr. Bush and demand 
> EQUALITY! Freedom can not be taken from those willing to defend it, and 
> that truth is witnessed by those who died at Iwo Jima, at Normandy, at 
> Gettysburg, in the Civil rights Marches of the sixties, and by all those 
> who refused to give in to tyranny. 
> 
> If Bush has a problem with Freedom, let him move to Saudi Arabia, or 
> China, but while any true American yet breathes, the fight to keep and 
> make America Free must go on. Do not go peacefully into the chains of 
> slavery; do not bow to the dictators of tyranny. Stand tall stand proud 
> for FREEDOM, for the future, for America and our children. 
> 
> Written by: 
> Reverend Allyn Llyr 

Bio needed.