We are the new abolitionists. By 11 a.m. the activists had assembled downtown, signs and banners in hand, ready to hear a succession of speakers. Across the street, a small cluster of veterans staging a counter-demonstration eyed them frostily. But these harsh words were just a warm-up for the main act. When Helen Caldicott, the Louis Farrakhan of the peace movement, took the stage, she pulled no punches.
People go shopping and do their everyday deeds as they are preparing the global gas oven.
That's what this place is about. It's about pure, unmitigated evil. Let's not mince words. The people here have big left brains and very small right brains. We have to close this place down.