Since so many are feeling betrayed by the Democrats in Congress over the war funding capitulation, I wanted to diary the following web doo-dad that serves as a great educational tool and helps serve as a reminder to keep up the pressure for change.
Although it has been put together by a bunch of libertarians, I'm hoping that its appeal can cut across ideological divisions between libertarians, anarchists, the far left, progressives and opinionated centrists. It's a simple day counter:
AMERICA IN CHAINS
DAY [XXXX]
SINCE DEMOCRATS IN POWER FAILED TO:
END THE ILLEGAL WARS IN AFGHANISTAN AND IRAQ
REPEAL THE UNCONSTITUIONAL PATRIOT ACT
ABOLISH THE FASCIST DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY
RESTORE THE BILL OF RIGHTS
I'll probably be adding it to my own site later today or this evening when I have time. If you don't care to read the libertarian political commentary in the announcement of it, just scroll to the bottom for the download link on this page.
It's also not that difficult to modify in appearance. For example, see the custom yellow version Bill St. Clair created for his own blog here (scroll down, look left).
I would suggest adding comments with any links to similar projects with broadly anti-authoritarian appeal. If I find some other good ones, I'll be mentioning them in an upcoming roundup of such things in a blog post on my own site. Some other good ones include Iraq "body count" counters from Antiwar.com and IraqBodyCount.org.
Keep up the pressure. One day, we will live in a free country.