<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 3:38 PM, C. G. Estabrook <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:galliher@illinois.edu">galliher@illinois.edu</a>></span> wrote:</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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If they are in fact convinced that War is a Bad Thing, how can they
defend The One Who is responsible for it? (My text today is Judges
4.6ff...)</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>While some there are who are non-believers, I have seen no one on this list actively defending Beelzebub.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"><div><div></div><div class="h5">On 10/29/10 3:14 PM, John W. wrote:
<blockquote type="cite">Thank you, Carl. I believe I speak for everyone on
this list when I say that you've succeeded in convincing us, at
long last, that War Is a Bad Thing. We owe you a profound debt of
gratitude. Or is it a debt of profound gratitude?
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<div bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> "...Obama is forever
'murdering' people around the world rather than that his
(administration's) policies indeed lead to the slaughter
of innocents..." <br>
--M. Brussel<br>
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"Killing one person is murder; killing thousands is
foreign policy"<br>
--bumper sticker purchased from AWARE table at Farmers'
Market <br>
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I met Murder on the way -<br>
He had a mask like Castlereagh* -<br>
Very smooth he looked, yet grim;<br>
Seven blood-hounds followed him:<br>
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All were fat; and well they might<br>
Be in admirable plight,<br>
For one by one, and two by two,<br>
He tossed the human hearts to chew<br>
Which from his wide cloak he drew.<br>
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Next came Fraud, and he had on,<br>
Like Eldon, an ermined gown;<br>
His big tears, for he wept well,<br>
Turned to mill-stones as they fell.<br>
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And the little children, who<br>
Round his feet played to and fro,<br>
Thinking every tear a gem,<br>
Had their brains knocked out by them...<br>
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'And that slaughter to the Nation<br>
Shall steam up like inspiration,<br>
Eloquent, oracular;<br>
A volcano heard afar.<br>
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'And these words shall then become<br>
Like Oppression's thundered doom<br>
Ringing through each heart and brain,<br>
Heard again - again - again -<br>
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'Rise like Lions after slumber<br>
In unvanquishable number -<br>
Shake your chains to earth like dew<br>
Which in sleep had fallen on you -<br>
Ye are many - they are few.'<br>
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--from "The Masque of Anarchy," by Percy Bysshe Shelley,
written on the occasion of the "Peterloo Massacre" carried
out by the British Government at St Peter's Field,
Manchester, on 16 August 1819, when cavalry charged into a
crowd of 60,000–80,000 gathered at a meeting to demand the
reform of parliamentary representation. (Cf. the attack on
the unarmed Bonus Expeditionary Force - 43,000 marchers,
including 17,000 World War I veterans and their families -
in Washington DC on 28 July 1932 by US army infantry and
cavalry supported by six tanks, and commanded by Army
Chief of Staff General Douglas MacArthur; Major, later
President, Dwight D. Eisenhower was his liaison with
Washington police, and Major George Patton led the
cavalry.)<br>
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*British Foreign Minister who eventually killed himself by
cutting his throat with a letter-opener.<br>
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