[Peace-discuss] Letter to editor

[Ricky Baldwin]

Great letter, Carl!

As we discussed at the AWARE meeting Sunday night, we
all need to write a letter to the editor ASAP. (I'll
post mine separately.)  For material, Carl's "News of
the Week" and other articles in the listserv archives
should provide plenty to write about.

The limit, as Carl reminds us, is 250 words.

Ricky


--- "C. G. Estabrook" <galliher at alexia.lis.uiuc.edu>
wrote:
> [This week's 250 words.  Comments welcome. --Carl]
> 
> Editor, News-Gazette:
> 
> At the end of the Second World War, George Orwell
> (author of the
> anti-totalitarian novels 1984 and Animal Farm) wrote
> an essay in which he
> insisted, "Nationalism is not to be confused with
> patriotism."
> 
> By patriotism, Orwell meant "devotion to a
> particular place and a
> particular way of life, which one believes to be the
> best in the world but
> has no wish to force on other people."  But
> nationalism, he thought, "is
> inseparable from the desire for power. The abiding
> purpose of every
> nationalist is to secure more power and more
> prestige, not for himself but
> for the nation or other unit in which he has chosen
> to sink his own
> individuality."
> 
> Orwell's contrast is on display every Saturday
> afternoon on Prospect
> Avenue in Champaign.  As you drive north from I-74,
> you will pass a group
> of nationalists who proclaim that they "support our
> troops" in their
> assault on a nearly defenseless country in the
> Middle East (perhaps the
> first of several) -- an assault based on outright
> lies by the Bush
> administration.  The cheers of this group, perhaps
> more suitable for a
> sporting event, suggest that Orwell was right to say
> that nationalists
> "sink [their] own individuality" in the nation.
> 
> Beyond the nationalists you will find a group of
> patriots, "anti-war
> protesters," who have been on North Prospect every
> Saturday through the
> winter, demonstrating their devotion to the people
> and political
> traditions of the United States by calling on the
> government to reverse
> its illegal and immoral war policy.
> 
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