<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<meta content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type">
</head>
<body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000">
Clearly MLK spoke out strongly against interventionism and policing the
world.<br>
<br>
Surely more and more people will see through the lies and respond with
revulsion.<br>
<br>
*<br>
<br>
I visited the Yes Men Fix the World web site but I am a bit confused
and non-plussed on<br>
how to apply the method, particularly in this situation.<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
On 1/16/2011 3:21 PM, Stuart Levy wrote:
<blockquote cite="mid:20110116072145.GB27843@osage-vm.ncsa.illinois.edu"
type="cite">
<pre wrap="">Actually, having just watched (with Jenifer Ron Karen Dale, and with delight)
"The Yes Men Fix The World," this sounds like something
the No Men might say. As boldly outrageous as the Yes Men,
but instead of undermining the powerful, the No Men support them.
On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 01:05:59PM +0800, E. Wayne Johnson wrote:
</pre>
<blockquote type="cite">
<pre wrap="">It's not your average everyday pathetic lie.
It's a total perversion and mockery.
And a bold one at that.
But it is is a beautiful and elegant lie surely worthy of the Pentagon's
praise.
They are all standing around saying, "Wow, I wish I had thought of that."
It really does illustrate, and beautifully so, the unlimited depths of the
depravity of the "defence" department.
How can such an open mockery be allowed to stand?
The answer is unpleasant, and encouraging.
On 1/16/2011 11:55 AM, C. G. Estabrook wrote:
</pre>
<blockquote type="cite">
<pre wrap="">from <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2011/01/14/who-would-mlk-bomb/"><http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2011/01/14/who-would-mlk-bomb/></a>:
Dr. Martin Luther King’s outspoken opposition to the war in Vietnam put
him neatly in the milieu of modern Christian non-violence that started
with the religious writings of Leo Tolstoy, and which had impacts well
beyond Christendom (Gandhi’s interest in non-violence, for instance, was
heavily influenced by Tolstoy). The answer, then, to who would MLK bomb is
pretty clearly “no one.”
But he’s been dead for quite awhile, and people may be a little vague on
who exactly the fellow was and what he stood for. To that end, Pentagon
officials are now making it clear, they’re pretty sure Dr. King was a
hawk.
Jeh Johnson, the Pentagon’s general council, has informed the public
that he is pretty sure, were Dr. King alive today he would be strongly in
favor of the US occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan, because “he would
recognize that we live in a complicated world.”
Johnson’s argument begins and ends with Dr. King’s fondness for the
parable of the “Good Samaritan,” and his (Johnson’s) assumption that
no one is a better Samaritan than US occupation forces.
In case you’re not thoroughly confused, Johnson closed by announcing
“every day, our servicemen and women practice the dangerousness – the
dangerous unselfishness Dr. King preached.” So there you have it, the
Pentagon’s history has MLK as a danger junkie, and nobody rocks the
danger like occupation forces.
***
[In spite of things like this, our charlatan of a president is praised by
liberals. The Nation writes, "...for a few minutes on Wednesday night, we
dared with our president to answer cynicism with idealism, to answer
tragedy with hope, to answer division as one nation, indivisible.” Then
our president ordered more missile strikes in Pakistan, and killed some
more kids, just like Christina Green. --CGE]
_______________________________________________
Peace-discuss mailing list
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:Peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net">Peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace-discuss">http://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace-discuss</a>
</pre>
</blockquote>
<pre wrap="">_______________________________________________
Peace-discuss mailing list
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:Peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net">Peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace-discuss">http://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace-discuss</a>
</pre>
</blockquote>
<pre wrap=""><!---->
</pre>
</blockquote>
<br>
</body>
</html>