Pastor and author Duke Robinson has circulated this note, and has given permission for us to share it here.

A couple notes from your WebWeaver:

Family and Friends:

At the January and February 2003 massive peace demonstrations in San Francisco against the Administration's rush to war, most marchers carried a sign of some sort. Barbara and I found ourselves fascinated by the signs, and I took pictures of a lot of them.

Many marchers had secondary agendas, and some signs expressed points of view that you and I may not share. But everyone was there to object to the Administration's commitment to a potentially horrific nightmare and to call for a change in plans. In the best of American traditions, they were exercising their Freedom of Speech.

By enlarging my digital pictures on screen I've developed a list of the texts of many signs, which you'll find below. I've not included such old standbys as Peace Now, War is Not good For Children and other Living things, Give Peace a Chance, etc., or group signs. There were, of course, plenty of those.

The widespread ridicule of President Bush you'll find in some signs, by the way, paradoxically testifies, it seems to me, to the marchers' anxiety and rage over the point to which he has brought us as a nation and to their celebratory spirit. (They seemed to realize we must make some kind of humor in the face of what makes us cry.)

These are the more creative signs we saw:

Stop Mad Cowboy Disease
The Asses of Evil (Pictures of Bush, Rice and Rumsfeld)
What Bombs Would Jesus Drop?
Thank you France, Thank You Germany
Blondes Against Dumb Wars (4 men in drag wearing long blond wigs)
Buck Fush (and, Duck Fubya)
Empty Warhead (Over picture of Bush)
WAR! What is it good for? ABSOLUTELY NOTHING! Ugh.
A Village in Texas is Missing its Idiot, and we know where he is.
What if I lived in Iraq? (Tee-shirt of four year old girl we saw on BART)
Read My Lips: No More Bush-it
Bad plan, dude
This War Started When they Stole the Election
Thou shalt NOT kill applies to Iraqi civilians, too!
If War is the Answer, We're asking the Wrong Question
Preemptive Peace
Killing Innocent People is the Problem, Not the Solution
Don't Send My Kid To War -- I don't own an SUV!
Be not overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good (Romans 12:21)
Silence = Consent
AN EX POW AGAINST WAR
War is TERRORISM!
Let's Change the Bill of Rights to the Bill of What's Left
Skool Not War
We Don't Want Their Blood on Our Hands
War is Way Stupid!
The Proper Use of Duct Tape (Bush picture, tape over mouth)
Brains Not Bush
Got Terror? (cartoon of Bush with blood on his upper lip)
Govt's Say WAR, But the People say PEACE!
Inspections work! War won't!
War Budget Leaves Every Child Wounded
Pride goeth before a fall
WAR! DUH!
How did our oil get under their sand?
I'm Pro-Peace, And I Vote!
Feed Bush Ecstasy
Vie La France (Over French flag)
If you're not outraged, you're not paying Attention
Bush and Dick: So Make Love, not War
Regime Change Begins at Home
Triplets for Peace More Candy, Less War (On buggy carrying triplets)
Will They Ever Forgive Us?
Drop Bombs Not Bush
War is Passé
Preemptive Strike My Ass!
No BLOOD for OIL
Make Tea, Not War (Some Brits among us)
Terror lies in the Bushes
War is Not Cool, War is Cruel (Carried by high school kids)
A Bush, a Dick and a Colon--No Wonder We're Screwed
Peace is Patriotic
Preemptive Strikes are Un-American
George said, I cannot tell a lie--Those were the good old days
War accomplishes NOTHING!
Practice Compassionate Impeachment
Real Men Fight Their Own Wars
I asked for universal health care and all I got was a lousy stealth bomber
Another War Dog for Peace (Strapped on a leashed Pit Bull)
Sponge Bob for Peace (Carried by mother with five year old)
War? Not in Our Name!
Liar! Liar! If there're no smoking gun, How come my pants are on fire? (With Bush picture)
I'm not on Your Side, George (Over a picture of Jesus)
You're Not on my Side, George (Over a picture of Jesus)
This sign is for the millions who agree with us who couldn't be here.
Check Out My Clever Slogan

Our President dismisses the significance of the demonstrators and their signs. It's true, of course, that we want a president who acts from conscience and is not influenced by every fad or breeze of opinion. But we want the president's conscience "informed" and serving the country in tune with what makes justice and peace.

We believe that preemptive military strikes against dictators we don't like that will kill thousands of innocent civilians are immoral and anti-American. We think that the failure to increase and toughen UN inspections for WOMD is irresponsible. To start a war that may play into the hands of Osama bin Laden, especially without the support of allies whom we'll need once the dust has settled, strikes us as plain stupid.

So we are trying to speak up. We've been taking prompts from moveon.org and will join its Virtual March on Washington February 26, this Wednesday on the Internet, which includes calling and faxing and e-mailing the Congress and the President. Cosponsor of the VMOW is The Win Without War Coalition, a member of which is the National Council of Churches. For information and to register to participate "launch" to their website here http://www.moveon.org/winwithoutwar/

Grace and peace,

Duke and Barbara Robinson

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