<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">I think your response may qualify as a counsel of despair, Wayne. <div><br></div><div>Watch closely - we may go as far as criticizing the king's evil advisers. <br><div><br></div><div>Coraggio, CGE<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div><div>On Jun 16, 2013, at 6:38 PM, "E. Wayne Johnson 朱稳森" <<a href="mailto:ewj@pigsqq.org">ewj@pigsqq.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">
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I was asked on the airplane flying home from Dalian last night,<br>
"Why does the American Government waste so much of the <br>
people's money on fighting so many wars?"<br>
<br>
I generally answer such questions by explaining how<br>
that the US war policy benefits the elite who make<br>
zillions off of running the militaryindustrialcomplex<br>
and gives the elite power over people in remote places,<br>
etc., etc.<br>
<br>
Last night I answered by explaining that Americans really<br>
want to be ruled by a King. The US had its roots in England.<br>
England has Kings, why cant the US have Kings?<br>
England has a Queen. Why can't the US have Kings and Queens<br>
to rule over them and start wars? The US people<br>
view their president as a King and they want him to<br>
have the King-like power to do King-y stuff like <br>
start wars.<br>
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*<br>
<br>
Obviously the insistence on blaming Obama is simple<br>
lese majeste. Railing against the King is tantamount to <br>
Tea Party rhetoric, and we shan't have any of that.<br>
<br>
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On 06/17/13 5:21, Karen Aram wrote:
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<div dir="ltr">Can we focus on the anti-war and the
unconstitutionality of it all, without naming individuals?<br>
I know its frustrating that so many democrats still have their head in
the sands, blaming all our ills on the republicans, but targeting
Obama, appears to many as teaparty rhetoric, thus in the name of
winning hearts and minds can we just refer to the US Govt. in general?<br>
I'm heading over to the White Horse Inn for the meeting, on the
assumption that there will be a meeting.<br>
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<div>> Subject: Re: [OccupyCU] 4th of July - AWARE float (or sink?)<br>
> From: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:carl@newsfromneptune.com">carl@newsfromneptune.com</a><br>
> Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2013 15:32:59 -0500<br>
> CC: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:rohnkoester@gmail.com">rohnkoester@gmail.com</a>; <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:karenaram@hotmail.com">karenaram@hotmail.com</a>;
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:peace-discuss@anti-war.net">peace-discuss@anti-war.net</a>; <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:thenewmoon37@yahoo.com">thenewmoon37@yahoo.com</a>;
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:m-taber@illinois.edu">m-taber@illinois.edu</a>; <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:occupycu@lists.chambana.net">occupycu@lists.chambana.net</a><br>
> To: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:r-szoke@illinois.edu">r-szoke@illinois.edu</a><br>
> <br>
> Obama has chosen to prosecute a widening war at least as viciously
(and unconstitutionally) as his predecessor - or as Nixon in SE Asia. <br>
> <br>
> How can we exculpate him and still say we oppose the war? No one
made him kill all those people.<br>
> <br>
> --CGE<br>
> <br>
> <br>
> "Let me tell you what I felt - and maybe some of the rest of you
felt - when I saw the pictures of the Bush library dedication. There
was a group of men standing there, former presidents, the ones that are
alive. Every one of them is a major criminal. A major criminal. Obama
is continuing the grand tradition — that shouldn’t be a great surprise.
<br>
> <br>
> "The sentence that came to my mind at the time is from Thomas
Jefferson, who said, 'I tremble for my country when I think that God is
just, and some day will bring us to his judgment.'" [Noam Chomsky]<br>
> <br>
> <br>
> <br>
> On Jun 16, 2013, at 1:17 PM, "Szoke, Ronald Duane"
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:r-szoke@illinois.edu"><r-szoke@illinois.edu></a> wrote:<br>
> <br>
> > Wish there were some way to relate our war & racism
concerns more directly to the parade's official themes. I'll walk for
whatever theme or slogan is chosen, but hoping it will not be merely
the hundredth or thousandth instance of pounding on the demon Obama.
Will probably be at Bloomsday event today around time of the AWARE
meeting.<br>
> > <br>
> > -- Ron <br>
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