Why I'm Getting Arrested at the White House Today by David Swanson

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http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_david_sw_051025_why_i_m_getting_arre.htm

October 26, 2005
by David Swanson

http://www.opednews.com

The first reason I'm going to lie down, refuse to move, and wait to be arrested outside the White House today is my belief that massive civil disobedience is needed if we are going to end the war and forestall the next war. The power of nonviolent sacrifice has been tried and tested. It may not work this time, but nothing else seems remotely likely to do the job, not even my most extravagant hopes for indictments. I'm being as practical as I know how to be. Public opinion is widely against the war in this country, in Iraq, and around the world. Talk is cheap. Our democracy is a shell. Something more is needed.

But there are other reasons for my action. A few of them are…

* Solidarity – I've been encouraging civil disobedience and reporting on it, but have not been engaging in it. If I miss another useful opportunity to engage in it, I become a hypocrite and a bad example. And were I to miss it, I would miss the bonds of solidarity that are formed in such actions.

If you think I am right, what do you think about what you, yourself, are doing? Or not doing?...

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1. I marched. I thought about arrest. If I did it I can be pretty sure

I'd lose my two teaching jobs. Would be bankrupt in no time and you can't declare bankruptcy anymore.