From: Women for peace

The following mail was launched in France of course, where else and is being forwarded all around the planet we hope, or else we won't have our 15 minutes of fame. This campaign will have massive media coverage because if we say it enough times, it has to happen. Please forward widely!

France LIGHTS FOR PEACE !

Like the overwhelming majority of people around the world, you are AGAINST this upcoming war because we said you are, goddammit, so you are. AGAINST a war that would be declared for the sake of controlling oil resources according to our complete lack of supporting evidence, against a war that would cause women, children and civilians to be massacred (we freely admit that we're just making up shit here), but that would spare the lives of terrorists, hiding safely far away from Baghdad when the bombing starts because we like stating things that are completely irrelevent, just for the fun of it! AGAINST a conflict that would establish a precedent as being the first <<preventive war >>, thereafter allowing anyone to attack anyone else, under the pretext that their interests are being threatened regardless of the fact that Saddam has missiles that he signed off on not having. AGAINST a war that has been planned and decided upon in defiance of public opinion, that has been so clearly expressed in the streets of our cities since a bunch of drunken hippies are the end all and be all of public opinion.

You are FOR PEACE!! Oh god, please support our annoying chain email!

This war is also a war of images : remember that, to << prove >> the existence of chemical weapons in Iraq, Colin Powell did not hesitate to brandish a phial full of mineral water in front of the world's televisions (we realize this makes absolutely no fucking sense)!!! LET US CREATE AN IMAGE THAT WILL SHAME BUSH AND HIS OILMEN AND STOP THEM IN THEIR TRACKS !!! AN IMAGE WITHOUT ANY SPECIAL EFFECTS, AN INDISPUTABLE IMAGE THAT WILL BE THE REFLEXION OF OUR CONVICTIONS ! ON SUNDAY 9 MARCH, BETWEEN 8:00 PM AND MIDNIGHT YOUR LOCAL TIME, TURN ON A LIGHT ? AS BRIGHT AS POSSIBLE ? A CANDLE, A LANTERN, A LAMP OR A PROJECTOR ? (three question marks for three statements, that's a new record in stupidity, even for us) OUTSIDE YOUR WINDOW, ON YOUR BALCONY, IN YOUR COURTYARD OR IN YOUR GARDEN ! PLEASE PASS THIS ON, YOU CANNOT REFUTE OUR CAPS-LOCKED LOGIC! WE WANT TO BE FOUND AND INVITED ONTO OPRAH FOR STARTING THIS! This image will be visible from far up in the sky, it will be photographed and filmed by satellites and planes alike, and will be reproduced by the medias because contrary to popular belief, nobody other than peace-protestors ever turn on lights. It will go down in history as a definitive testimony of our hope for a future that is common to all men and women (a hope for what? Nevermind that: YOU ARE FOR PEACE!). EVERY HOUR, EVERY MINUTE, EVERY SECOND COUNTS to stop the mighty forces that have been mustered for the attack.

FORWARD THIS MAIL, not only to ten or twenty of your friends, BUT TO FIFTY OF THEM, HAVE IT TRANSLATED, SEND IT TO DISTANT LANDS, SEND IT TO THE MEDIAS EVERYWHERE !!! BECAUSE SPAMMING RANDOM PEOPLE WILL HELP OUR CAUSE!

THANKS TO THE WEB, THE IMAGE OF A BRIGHTLY LIT PLANET CAN BE FORWARDED AND SPREAD LIKE A STREAK OF LIGHT. HUZZAH!