[Peace-discuss] Re: [Imc] letter to my former comrades

[Jason Pitzl-Waters]

Robert Dunn wrote:
>you sophisticated Limousine Liberals will not utter, VALUES. They matter 
>the most to us.

Which values are those? The values of violence and hate speech against 
gays? The values of being "pro-life" yet being pro-war? The values of 
torture? The values that create poisoned water? The values that make 
wounded soldiers pay for their own trip home? The values that allowed the 
right to demonize the military records of people who served in Vietnam? The 
values of corporate sell-out to levels we have never seen before? The 
values that place the possible life of stem cells over the real actual-life 
poor children without health care?

If you haven't seen the left praying you haven't been looking. If you 
haven't heard the left praying you haven't been listening.

As someone who spent quite a few years poor, and as someone who grew up 
with "the poor" in a "red" state I ask you to stop speaking for us. You are 
not our voice no more than Bush or Kerry or Cobb or Nader is. No matter how 
hard my life got I never bought the rhetoric of the right and while I may 
be skeptical of some element on the left at times they are a lot closer to 
honestly reaching out to the downtrodden than the "right" is.

Religion, faith, values and morals don't belong to a party or ideological 
affiliation. The quicker you understand that, the quicker you will know 
real peace, and real faith.

You are obviously filled with anger and pain right now Robert. I'll pray 
for you.

Jason Pitzl-Waters
a member of the religious left
http://www.wildhunt.org/blog.html