Filibusteritis

Short and sweet this morning. Write your senator. The filibuster fight is about the rights of the minority part, the majority of individuals, being heard in the senate. Those minority of Democratic senators actually represent more citizens than the Republican majority.

Make yourself be heard. You can find your senators address at:
http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm

I wrote to the President this morning as well. I can't believe how stunned I am by the rhetoric of the administration and the right. I listen to the twisting and turnings of logic and my intestines become all knotted up. It is ever more clear that humans are not rational. How can you be 'pro-life' at the same time you are pro-death penalty and pro-war? How can we continue to be accountable for the death and maiming of unaccounable Arabs and Iraqis but not allow a white woman to die naturally as she desired? How can we live with what we are doing to the world?

At times it just seems short sighted and arrogant, at other times it seems racist and vindictive.

And still we dance and make art. Last night we danced solos for each other and then worked on composition. It is still important to show up to what is true in our hearts, to make art, to love fully, to raise the children well.

And it is important to make a fuss when the world turns ugly. So make a fuss today. Here is what I sent to Senator Smith, use as inspiration or use it directly as you like:

Please do not be swayed into supporting the removal of the judicial filibuster. Our country depends on the rights of the minority to speak and stop an issue when their conscious tells them that moving forward is truly wrong. In a consensus model of governing this is called a 'block' and can be done by any individual at any time. One person, if their conscious is so disturbed by the way forward, can block that way. In the Senate the filibuster serves at the right of conscious. It should not be used lightly, and I don't believe it has been or will be. But the right of the minority to hold their conscious up and stop an action they feel is truly misguided must be preserved. I beseech you to not be party to the removal of the right of conscious as part of the senatorial process.