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wtf

2007-12-20T20:49:12Z

this tribe is D-E-A-D dead

do you think this tribe's name may be keeping people out of here. it is quite contraversial as you can tell. what does anyone think? I have thought a bit about it and think the only name change I would support is pansies

close enough to get the message across, though I do like looking like I have a pervert tribe in my tribe list.

hmmm we pussy's need action (couldn't resist)

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balls

2007-02-12T04:40:43Z

How come no one has the balls to post any thing on this pussy tribe?

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military recruiters

2005-05-19T12:51:49Z

a couple of weeks ago we forced some military recruiters at umass amherst to pack up early. in january, students at seattle central community college chased recruiters right off campus.

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/210741_protest04.html

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cowardice!

2005-05-19T12:48:14Z

"War isn’t hell at all. It’s man at his best; the highest morality he’s capable of … it’s not war that’s insane, you see. It’s the morality of it. It’s not greed or ambition that makes war: it’s goodness. Wars are always fought for the best of reasons: for liberation or manifest destiny. Always against tyranny and always in the interest of humanity. So far this war, we’ve managed to butcher some ten million humans in the interest of humanity. Next war it seems we’ll have to destroy all of man in order to preserve his damn dignity. It’s not war that’s unnatural to us – it’s virtue. As long as valor remains a virtue, we shall have soldiers. So, I preach cowardice. Through cowardice, we shall all be saved."

charlie madison, in "the americanization of emily"

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carl webb

2005-04-20T05:47:52Z

my tribe friend carl webb has deserted the US military because of his opposition to the iraq war. for this, he potentially faces several years in jail if he's charged.

his website: http://www.carlwebb.net/

i saw carl speak at umass amherst a few weeks ago. read about it here: http://www.dailycollegian.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2005/04/08/4255d552e0a3b?in_archive=1

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Hi/Bye

2005-04-19T04:50:21Z

I just joined after reading George's post in Buddhism tribe, read the very first post in this tribe which was markedly anti-Israeli, and now I'm leaving. Let me just say that it saddens me deeply to see something like that right off the bat. Should you ever find yourself with loved ones living in Israel or friends of yours murdered for no appreciable reason whatsoever at a blues bar which welcomes Jews AND Muslims, for Christ's sake, should you have to make phone call after phone call after every act of terrorism you see on the news to make sure your loved ones are OK, nice people who just want to live in their country, should you have this issue shoved in your face almost every time you let it slip to some stranger that you're Jewish; you might take a different opinion.

Me, that's one area in which I'm NOT going to be an apologist.

George thanks and sorry for the rant, I know you have good intentions; I'm going to stick to the Jewish and TB tribes I guess.

Best,
C

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note from tribe.net: please assign a moderator

2005-04-19T04:44:10Z

Hey there, "Pussies!" members--

This Tribe doesn't have a moderator, but as a matter of policy, Tribe.net likes all groups to have a leader.
Could you collectively choose someone to moderate your Tribe?

When you've reached consensus, have the new moderator send a note to help@tribe.net, letting us know that you've selected a new leader.

Thanks,

-- TOU (Terms of Use) Guy

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april 20

2005-04-18T16:00:06Z

what's everyone doing to commemorate hitler's birthday?

i'm going to a talk by cheri honkala (http://www.kwru.org/), organized by student activists. then i'm going to a klezmer concert, organized by the office of jewish affairs. then i'm going to smoke shisha with the arab student club. then i'm going to beat up some nazis.

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pussy quote of the week

2005-04-15T15:01:12Z

Dalai Lama Quote of the Week

The human essence of good sense finds no room with anger. Anger, jealousy, impatience, and hatred are the real troublemakers; with them problems cannot be solved. Though one may have temporary success, ultimately one's hatred or anger will create further difficulties. With anger, all actions are swift. When we face problems with compassion, sincerely and with good motivation, it may take longer, but ultimately the solution is better, for there is far less chance of creating a new problem through the temporary "solution" of the present one.

-- His Holiness the Dalai Lama from Kindness, Clarity and Insight, published by Snow Lion Publications.

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Gandhi in Palestine

2005-04-08T04:16:47Z

http://nytimes.com/2005/04/07/international/middleeast/07gandhi.html

"April 7, 2005
On a Screen in the West Bank, Gandhi's Message of Nonviolence
By GREG MYRE

RAMALLAH, West Bank, April 6 - For the Palestinians, nonviolent resistance has rarely been the guiding principle in their struggle with Israel.

But on Wednesday, more than two decades after the movie "Gandhi" filled theaters worldwide, the first version dubbed in Arabic was screened here, with the blessing of the Palestinian leadership. It marked the start of a project financed by wealthy American businessmen that aims to bring the film to Palestinians as a whole.

The screening, at the Palace of Culture, was attended by an audience of several hundred, among them several Palestinian cabinet ministers. Ben Kingsley, who won an Oscar for his starring role as Mohandas K. Gandhi, was in Ramallah as a guest of the Palestinian prime minister, Mahmoud Abbas. The movie's message, Mr. Kingsley said, was as timely today as when the film was released in 1982. "The force of truth is irreducible, and this is the center of the message." he said at a news conference here.

Organizers of the "Gandhi Project" plan to show the film throughout the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, in cities, refugee camps, and villages. Beginning next month, the film will be presented to the large Palestinian refugee communities in Jordan, Lebanon and Syria.

The film, which won eight Academy Awards, has been issued previously with Arabic subtitles, but never before dubbed in the language. The organizers said they received permission from Sony Pictures to show it without charge in Palestinian communities.

Mr. Kingsley and the organizers said that their message was nonpolitical, and that they were not trying to take positions in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Nevertheless, it ignited a debate at the theater, where Palestinians differed over whether Gandhi's philosophy could be applied in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

"I wanted to see how he confronted occupation," said Abla Afanah, a teacher in Ramallah. "I think it may be possible to implement this here."

"It's not possible," interjected Sudki Safat, a friend of Ms. Afanah and an official in the Ministry of Education. "I know Gandhi and his principles. But I also know my enemy very well."

"Gandhi would fail if he faced the Israelis," said Mr. Safat.

Many of the invited viewers were youths from refugee camps in Ramallah. Several said they were interested in other aspects of Indian resistance to British colonial rule, like economic self-reliance and the boycott of British products.

"We have studied revolutions all around the world, and try to learn from them," said Rajai al-Biss, 18, a college student. "But I don't think we have the means to boycott Israeli products. We have a different reality here."

Opinion polls have consistently shown that a large majority of Palestinians have supported attacks against Israel as the best way to end Israel's occupation and to achieve Palestinian statehood.

However, in recent months, Palestinians have generally been supportive of Mr. Abbas, who is calling for an end to the armed uprising and has sought to revive full-fledged peace talks with Israel.

Palestinians argue that they have pursued nonviolent resistance at various times over the years, to no avail. Over the past two years, unarmed Palestinians have staged numerous protests against Israel's separation barrier in the West Bank, but they point out that their efforts have attracted relatively little attention.

Israel, meanwhile, says the Palestinians as a whole have never made a strategic decision to abandon violence."

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MLK Jr. Killed 37 yrs ago today

2005-04-04T23:32:42Z

http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0404.html#article

"Martin Luther King Is Slain in Memphis; A White Is Suspected; Johnson Urges Calm

Guard Called Out Curfew Is Ordered in Memphis, but Fires and Looting Erupt

By Earl Caldwell

Special to The New York Times

Memphis, Friday, April 5 -- The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who preached nonviolence and racial brotherhood, was fatally shot here last night by a distant gunman who raced away and escaped.

Four thousand National Guard troops were ordered into Memphis by Gov. Buford Ellington after the 39-year-old Nobel Prize-winning civil rights leader died.

A curfew was imposed on the shocked city of 550,000 inhabitants, 40 per cent of whom are Negro.

But the police said the tragedy had been followed by incidents that included sporadic shooting, fires, bricks and bottles thrown at policemen, and looting that started in Negro districts and then spread over the city.

White Car Sought

Police Director Frank Holloman said the assassin might have been a white man who was "50 to 100 yards away in a flophouse."

Chief of Detectives W.P. Huston said a late model white Mustang was believed to have been the killer's getaway car. Its occupant was described as a bareheaded white man in his 30's, wearing a black suit and black tie.

The detective chief said the police had chased two cars near the motel where Dr. King was shot and had halted one that had two out-of-town men as occupants. The men were questioned but seemed to have nothing to do with the killing, he said.

Rifle Found Nearby

A high-powered 30.06-caliber rifle was found about a block from the scene of the shooting, on South Main Street. "We think it's the gun," Chief Huston said, reporting it would be turned over to the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Dr. King was shot while he leaned over a second-floor railing outside his room at the Lorraine Motel. He was chatting with two friends just before starting for dinner.

One of the friends was a musician, and Dr. King had just asked him to play a Negro spiritual, "Precious Lord, Take My Hand," at a rally that was to have been held two hours later in support of striking Memphis sanitation men.

Paul Hess, assistant administrator at St. Joseph's Hospital, where Dr. King died despite emergency surgery, said the minister had "received a gunshot wound on the right side of the neck, at the root of the neck, a gaping wound."

"He was pronounced dead at 7:05 P.M. Central standard time (8:05 P.M. New York time) by staff doctors," Mr. Hess said. "They did everything humanly possible."

Dr. King's mourning associates sought to calm the people they met by recalling his messages of peace, but there was widespread concern by law enforcement officers here and elsewhere over potential reactions.

In a television broadcast after the curfew was ordered here, Mr. Holloman said, "rioting has broken out in parts of the city" and "looting is rampant."

Dr. King had come back to Memphis Wednesday morning to organize support once again for 1,300 sanitation workers who have been striking since Lincoln's Birthday. Just a week ago yesterday he led a march in the strikers' cause that ended in violence. A 16-year-old Negro was killed, 62 persons were injured and 200 were arrested.

Yesterday Dr. King had been in his second-floor room- Number 306- throughout the day. Just about 6 P.M. he emerged, wearing a silkish-looking black suit and white shirt.

Solomon Jones Jr., his driver, had been waiting to take him by car to the home of the Rev. Samuel Kyles of Memphis for dinner. Mr. Jones said later he had observed, "It's cold outside, put your topcoat on," and Dr. King had replied, "O.K., I will."

Two Men in Courtyard

Dr. King, an open-faced, genial man, leaned over a green iron railing to chat with an associate, Jesse Jackson, standing just below him in a courtyard parking lot:

"Do you know Ben?" Mr. Jackson asked, introducing Ben Branch of Chicago, a musician who was to play at the night's rally.

"Yes, that's my man!" Dr. King glowed.

The two men recalled Dr. King's asking for the playing of the spiritual. "I really want you to play that tonight," Dr. King said, enthusiastically.

The Rev. Ralph W. Abernathy, perhaps Dr. King's closest friend, was just about to come out of the motel room when the sudden loud noise burst out.

Dr. King toppled to the concrete second-floor walkway. Blood gushed from the right jaw and neck area. His necktie had been ripped off by the blast.

"He had just bent over," Mr. Jackson recalled later. "If he had been standing up, he wouldn't have been hit in the face.

Policemen 'All Over'

"When I turned around," Mr. Jackson went on, bitterly, "I saw police coming from everywhere. They said, 'where did it come from?' And I said, 'behind you.' The police were coming from where the shot came."

Mr. Branch asserted that the shot had come from "the hill on the other side of the street."

"When I looked up, the police and the sheriff's deputies were running all around," Mr. Branch declared.

"We didn't need to call the police," Mr. Jackson said. "They were here all over the place."

Mr. Kyles said Dr. King had stood in the open "about three minutes."

Mr. Jones, the driver, said that a squad car with four policemen in it drove down the street only moments before the gunshot. The police had been circulating throughout the motel area on precautionary patrols.

After the shot, Mr. Jones said, he saw a man "with something white on his face" creep away from a thicket across the street.

Someone rushed up with a towel to stem the flow of Dr. King's blood. Mr. Kyles said he put a blanket over Dr. King, but "I knew he was gone." He ran down the stairs and tried to telephone from the motel office for an ambulance.

Mr. Abernathy hurried up with a second larger towel.

Police With Helmets

Policemen were pouring into the motel area, carrying rifles and shotguns and wearing helmets.

But the King aides said it seemed to be 10 or 15 minutes before a Fire Department ambulance arrived.

Dr. King was apparently still living when he reached the St. Joseph's Hospital operating room for emergency surgery. He was borne in on a stretcher, the bloody towel over his head.

It was the same emergency room to which James H. Meredith, first Negro enrolled at the University of Mississippi, was taken after he was ambushed and shot in June, 1965, at Hernando, Miss., a few miles south of Memphis; Mr. Meredith was not seriously hurt.

Outside the emergency room some of Dr. King's aides waited in forlorn hope. One was Chauncey Eskridge, his legal adviser. He broke into sobs when Dr. King's death was announced.

"A man full of life, full of love, and he was shot," Mr. Eskridge said. "He had always lived with that expectation- but nobody ever expected it to happen."

But the Rev. Andrew Young, executive director of Dr. King's Southern Christian Leadership Conference, recalled there had been some talk Wednesday night about possible harm to Dr. King in Memphis.

Mr. Young recalled: "He said he had reached the pinnacle of fulfillment with his nonviolent movement, and these reports did not bother him."

Mr. Young believed that the fatal shot might have been fired from a passing car. "It sounded like a firecracker," he said.

In a nearby building, a newsman who had been watching a television program thought, however, that "it was a tremendous blast that sounded like a bomb."

There were perhaps 15 persons in the motel courtyard area when Dr. King was shot, all believed to be Negroes and Dr. King's associates.

Past the courtyard is a small empty swimming pool. Then comes Mulberry Street, a short street only three blocks away from storied Beale Street on the fringe of downtown Memphis.

Fire Station Nearby

On the other side of the street is a six-foot brick restraining wall, with bushes and grass atop it and a hillside going on to a patch of trees. Behind the trees is a rusty wire fence enclosing backyards of two-story brick and frame houses.

At the corner at a Butler Street is a newish-looking white brick fire station.

Police were reported to have chased a late-model blue or white car through Memphis and north to Millington. A civilian in another car that had a citizens band radio was also reported to have pursued the fleeing car and to have opened fire on it.

The police first cordoned off an area of about five blocks around the Lorraine Motel, chosen by Dr. King for his stay here because it is Negro-owned. The two-story motel is an addition to a small two-story hotel in a largely Negro area.

Mayor Henry Loeb had ordered a curfew here after last week's disorder, and National Guard units had been on duty for five days until they were deactivated Wednesday.

Last night the Mayor reinstated the curfew at 6:35 and declared:

"After the tragedy which has happened in Memphis tonight, for the protection of all our citizens, we are putting the curfew back in effect. All movement is restricted except for health or emergency reasons."

Governor Ellington, calling out the National Guard and pledging all necessary action by the state to prevent disorder, announced:

"For the second time in recent days, I most earnestly ask the people of Memphis and Shelby County to remain calm. I do so again tonight in the face of this most regrettable incident.

"Every possible action is being taken to apprehend the person or persons responsible for committing this act.

"We are also taking precautionary steps to prevent any acts of disorder. I can fully appreciate the feelings and emotions which this crime has aroused, but for the benefit of everyone, all of our citizens must exercise restraint, caution and good judgment."

National Guard planes flew over the state to bring in contingents of riot-trained highway patrolmen. Units of the Arkansas State Patrol were deputized and brought into Memphis.

Assistant Chief Bartholomew early this morning said that unidentified persons had shot from rooftops and windows at policemen eight or 10 times. He said bullets had shattered one police car's windshield, wounding two policemen with flying glass. They were treated at the same hospital where Dr. King died.

Sixty arrests were made for looting, burglary and disorderly conduct, chief Bartholomew said.

Numerous minor injuries were reported in four hours of clashes between civilians and law enforcement officers. But any serious disorders were under control by 11:15 P.M., Chief Bartholomew said. Early this morning streets were virtually empty except for patrol cars riding without headlights on.

Once Stabbed in Harlem

In his career Dr. King had suffered beatings and blows. Once- on Sept. 20, 1958- he was stabbed in a Harlem department store in New York by a Negro woman later adjudged insane.

That time he underwent a four-hour operation to remove a steel letter opener that had been plunged into his upper left chest. For a time he was critical list, but he told his wife, while in the hospital, "I don't hold any bitterness toward this woman."

In Memphis, Dr. King's chief associates met in his room after he died. They included Mr. Young, Mr. Abernathy, Mr. Jackson, the Rev. James Bevel and Hosea Williams.

They had to step across a drying pool of Dr. King's blood to enter. Someone had thrown a crumpled pack of cigarettes into the blood.

After 15 minutes they emerged. Mr. Jackson looked at the blood. He embraced Mr. Abernathy.

"Stand tall!" somebody exhorted.

"Murder! Murder!" Mr. Bevel groaned. "Doc said that's not the way."

"Doc" was what they often called Dr. King.

Then the murdered leader's aides said they would go on to the hall where tonight's rally was to have been held. They wanted to urge calm upon the mourners.

Some policemen sought to dissuade them.

But eventually the group did start out, with a police escort.

At the Federal Bureau of Investigation office here, Robert Jensen, special agent in charge, said the F.B.I. had entered the murder investigation at the request of Attorney General Ramsey Clark.

Last night Dr. King's body was taken to the Shelby County morgue, according to the police. They said it would be up to Dr. Derry Francisco, county medical examiner, to order further disposition"

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tribe name

2005-03-27T00:10:11Z

may I suggest a change to "wimps" or "wipe-ass"?

pussies is very sexist. it implies to be female is to be inferior.

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Power of the Pussy

2005-03-15T03:15:47Z

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/latimests/20050314/ts_latimes/hostagescoolcompassiondisarmedatlantafugitive

"Hostage's Cool Compassion Disarmed Atlanta Fugitive"

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Pussies Beware

2005-03-03T08:26:20Z

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/krwashbureau/20050302/ts_krwashbureau/_bc_thurmond_fbifiles_king_wa

"Thurmond encouraged FBI to build case against King, memo reveals

Tue Mar 1, 9:16 PM ET

By Lauren Markoe and John Monk, Knight Ridder Newspapers

WASHINGTON - U.S. Sen. Strom Thurmond and his staff tried to get the FBI (news - web sites) to build a case against civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. in 1965 on the grounds that King was "controlled by communists," according to a recently released FBI memo on the late senator from South Carolina.

The memo shows Thurmond's attempt to marry two causes dear to him - fighting communism and defeating civil rights.

On Monday, the FBI released a portion of Thurmond's FBI file - nearly 600 pages of sometimes heavily edited memos, letters and other documents. The file details a long, secret and mutually beneficial relationship between Thurmond and the FBI. Another 1,700 pages remain to be released. The documents were released in response to requests by The State newspaper in Columbia, S.C.

Thurmond wasn't the only conservative politician who tried to paint the civil rights movement's leaders as "red." But the FBI memo plumbs the depths of Thurmond's aversion to desegregation. And with other pages in the now-public file, it shows how much of Thurmond's politics was dedicated to fighting the "Red Menace."

Thurmond, an iconic figure in Southern political history and an ardent segregationist who later publicly embraced his black constituents, was willing to go to great lengths to vilify King in the 1960s.

The Sept. 15, 1965, memo, written by Cartha "Deke" DeLoach, a top deputy to then-FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, recounts a meeting in the senator's office that was supposed to include Thurmond; instead, Thurmond was represented by aides.

One Thurmond aide, according to the FBI memo, said the senator wanted King to be exposed as a communist. DeLoach's memo recounts the aide "stated that it was widely understood that King was controlled by communists in this country."

The aide, whose name the FBI edited out of the memo, also reportedly asked DeLoach "if there was a concerted effort on the part of the FBI to discredit King."

DeLoach wrote that he responded that "such matters were beyond our jurisdiction."

It was later revealed that the FBI indeed had tried to discredit King by secretly wiretapping his telephone and leaking information to reporters and others.

At the meeting, the aide also showed DeLoach recent newspaper clippings in which Thurmond had criticized King for "injecting himself into matters of foreign policy at the United Nations (news - web sites)."

Those same clippings, DeLoach wrote, criticized Arthur Goldberg, then the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, for meeting with King.

Joe Darby, vice president of the South Carolina chapter of the NAACP, said Tuesday that those who opposed the civil rights movement tried to label its activists as communists.

"That was a very dirty word to get folks stirred up," he said. Many blacks were intimidated into silence, he said, because they knew standing up for their rights could invite the charge.

Today, Darby said, it's hard for people to realize how inflammatory the "communist" label was, but "it made sense to the white South in the 1960s."

"It was not a matter of logic; it was a matter of gut reaction."

Dan Carter, a nationally known civil rights historian at the University of South Carolina, attested to the power of the communist smear upon the civil rights movement.

"As late as 1962 or 1963, a majority of Americans actually believed that communists were involved or were instigators of the civil rights movement," he said.

Moreover, he said, the segregationist White Citizens Councils - in their appeals to Northerners - stressed the supposed communist leanings of civil rights workers rather than segregation.

"The segregationists played the anti-communist card," Carter said. "It was the one card they could deal to both Northerners and Southerners."

The FBI never conclusively found King was a communist, Carter said. But it tried to link him to communists by saying he associated with them or had ties to organizations that included communists.

Nevertheless, said Thurmond biographer Jack Bass, Hoover "no doubt was a source of Strom Thurmond's belief that Martin Luther King Jr. was heavily influenced by communists."

The 1965 memo says DeLoach expressed to Thurmond's aide an unwillingness to take up the senator's suggestion.

Instead, DeLoach advised the staffer that it was "the prerogative of any of the senators" to "expose" King, but they should "do their homework well."

Asked for advice on how to proceed against King, DeLoach recalled himself warning that Thurmond, as a Southerner, "would no doubt be considered subject to bias and suspicion in any statements he might make."

The Thurmond aide, according to DeLoach, also said the senator would like to meet with DeLoach on the matter. Records released by the FBI to date don't indicate whether that meeting ever took place.

The memo makes clear Thurmond's dislike of King. But the senator's admirers of today ask that his actions be considered in the context of the times - but also in the context of Thurmond's changing record on race.

It's a complicated picture. In his 1947 inaugural address as governor of South Carolina, Thurmond - widely considered a progressive - urged whites to improve black public schools, which were generally far inferior to white schools.

His tack soon changed. In 1948, he ran for president on the segregationist States Rights Party ticket, promising to fight for separate schools, churches and swimming pools for blacks and whites.

But Thurmond, who set records as the longest-serving and oldest senator in history, charted a new course in the 1970s. In 1971, he became the first Southern senator to hire a black aide. And in 1983, he voted to make Martin Luther King Day a national holiday.

South Carolina state Sen. John Courson, R-Richland, a longtime Thurmond friend and supporter, said Thurmond's criticism of King must be understood in context. The senator and many other Americans were genuinely concerned about the spread of communism, Courson said.

In the 1940s and 1950s, eastern Europe and China both turned communist. The "iron curtain" went up, restricting movement in Europe. Communist North Korea (news - web sites) invaded South Korea (news - web sites).

In the United States, the spy trial of State Department official Alger Hiss, the selling of secret hydrogen bomb plans to the Soviet Union and the hearings of U.S. Sen. Joseph McCarthy into communism in the State Department provoked widespread fear.

"One didn't know whether one's next-door neighbor was a Marxist or not," Courson said."

Beware of the state.

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What can we do?

2005-02-24T03:15:54Z

How can we use our pussy-ness to help the world on a large scale? I'm looking into going to Iraq to help the people, though I don't know if I can swing it. Any ideas on how to show the world the value of peace and non-aggressive strength?

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Why are you?

2005-02-06T22:18:10Z

Is it religious beliefs? A result of psych work? A personal hero?What motivates you to be strong and passive?

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ghandi

2005-02-05T17:21:08Z

I like this tribe!

Ghandi is my favorite pussy.

I may not get this quote just right but it's one of my favorites:

"First they ignore us,
Then they laugh at us,
Then they fight us,

Then we win!"

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tibet invasion pics

2005-01-28T16:59:42Z

On the idea of uploading pics to this tribe (and I am happy to see the pic i uploaded is the main photo) i was looking for pics of the chineese army killing monks who were just sitting and praying during the invasion, nothing says peacful resistance and a commitment to non-violence as images like that. personally I'm not sure I could be one of them, but I am not a monk.

just think that would be a powerful image.

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Moderator change?

2005-01-26T00:47:19Z

So, I don't seem to be that great at being a moderator. Maybe it's a mis-perception, but I think that it is so.

Would you people prefer someone else? I know that there would be some people that I think would do better than I, but I think that it should be up to you.

Anyone want to volunteer or nominate another?

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happy MLK day!

2005-01-26T00:43:52Z

every day the 17th.

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Welcome!

2005-01-16T02:01:45Z

To Uri, who has joined at the time of this posting, and anyone else who enters!

For those that know me, I've been an aggressive, and at least reactive, person. I'm doing my best to change!

As a result, I was called a pussy! It felt good. It meant that I wasn't being an asshole, a jerk, or a dick any more! I wasn't being abusive!

It feels good to not let it affect you, and that's what this Tribe is about. Being nice and not letting the abusive affect you.

Passive resistance and good will to all!

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Different name?

2005-01-13T06:41:05Z

I liked it b/c it is supposed to be a bad thing, but I find that it is a much better way to live a life.

Would people prefer something else? Peaceful Strength or something?

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1393 pussies

2005-01-13T00:01:23Z

a big part of the israeli anti-occupation movement is the soldiers, prospective soldiers and reservists who declare their refusal to serve in the army. there are currently almost 1400 such soldiers. i wish we had something like this in the US. the US has maybe 50 times the (jewish) population of israel, so 1400 israeli refuseniks would be like 70,000 american refusers.

then again, israel has a draft and obligatory reserve duties. if we had that here, we probably *would* have 70,000 refusers.

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