Dear Al Gore: You start with the Civil Disobedience and we’ll see how it goes

Despite a past disagreement, I believe David Swanson of “Let’s Try Democracy” is a decent guy who truly wants what’s best for the United States and the planet. But when he wrote tips on how to “make a citizen’s arrest of a war criminal” like Karl Rove or Donald Rumsfeld, I felt like he was missing one vital bit of advice – how to recover from the bullets that the “war criminal’s” security would surely put in your head if you touched them.

My feelings are the same in regard to Al Gore. He’s done a wonderful job of trying to get global warming information out to as many people as possible. But when he says things like: “It’s time for civil disobedience to stop the construction of new coal plants,” the former Vice-President needs to grasp reality a little better.

Mr. Gore, you start with the civil disobedience and we’ll see how that goes. A multi-millionaire defying authority sends a much stronger message than a bunch of poor people tying themselves to trees. The rest of us need to deal with things like consequences. And the U.S. is currently in position to deal out consequences in a pretty severe way.

–WKW

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