[Peace-discuss] Re: Real ID

[n.dahlheim at mchsi.com]

Real ID is really occurring, and nobody is talking about it.  Talk about the ultimate Orwellian plan.  Oh, 
well.  The Republic just is having more dirt piled on top of its unmarked grave.


----------------------  Original Message:  ---------------------
From:    "John W." <jbw292002 at gmail.com>
To:      "C. G. Estabrook" <galliher at uiuc.edu>, Peace Discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net>
Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] Letters on a low, dishonest decade 
Date:    Tue, 4 Sep 2007 12:11:20 +0000

> 
> Very powerful, Carl.
> 
> Is any of you out there in AWAREland aware of something called the Real ID 
> Act?   http://www.norealid.com/
> 
> 
> 
> 
> At 03:59 PM 9/3/2007, C. G. Estabrook wrote:
> 
> >[I sent the following letter(s) to the slender reeds upon which our 
> >representation to the federal government rests. --CGE]
> >
> >September 1, 2007
> >
> >Senator Richard Durbin
> >309 Hart Senate Building
> >Washington, DC 20510
> >
> >[cc: Senator Barack Obama
> >713 Hart Senate Office Building
> >Washington, D.C. 20510]
> >
> >[cc: Representative Timothy V. Johnson
> >1207 Longworth House Office Building
> >Washington, D.C. 20515]
> >
> >
> >Dear Senator Durbin:
> >
> >The rumored attack on Iran by the United States must be stopped, and it is 
> >your responsibility to do so.  You cannot acquiesce in the war crime that 
> >the Bush-Cheney administration seems about to commit.  Please do all that 
> >you can to prevent this enormity from occurring.
> >
> >An attack on Iran would obviously violate the United Nations Charter, 
> >which forbids "the threat or use of force against the territorial 
> >integrity or political independence of any state."  American leaders would 
> >be guilty of what the German leaders were condemned for at Nuremberg -- 
> >"the planning, preparation, initiation or waging of a war of aggression." 
> >In a famous passage from their judgment, the four judges of the tribunal 
> >(American, British, French and Russian) declared the crime of aggressive 
> >war to be "the supreme international crime, differing only from other war 
> >crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the 
> >whole" -- i.e., even worse than terrorism.
> >
> >Of course the German leadership had excluded the legislature from the 
> >decision to wage aggressive war, so only the leaders were punished.  But 
> >if the Congress of which you are a member permits the executive to commit 
> >the supreme international crime, you too should be answerable before a new 
> >Nuremberg court.
> >
> >Sincerely,
> >
> >C. G. Estabrook
> >
> >L. S. Estabrook
> >
> >Enc.: W.H. Auden, SEPTEMBER 1, 1939
> >
> >=================
> >
> >SEPTEMBER 1, 1939
> >W.H. Auden
> >
> >I sit in one of the dives
> >On Fifty-second Street
> >Uncertain and afraid
> >As the clever hopes expire
> >Of a low dishonest decade:
> >Waves of anger and fear
> >Circulate over the bright
> >And darkened lands of the earth,
> >Obsessing our private lives;
> >The unmentionable odour of death
> >Offends the September night.
> >
> >Accurate scholarship can
> >Unearth the whole offence
> > From Luther until now
> >That has driven a culture mad,
> >Find what occurred at Linz,
> >What huge imago made
> >A psychopathic god:
> >I and the public know
> >What all schoolchildren learn,
> >Those to whom evil is done
> >Do evil in return.
> >
> >Exiled Thucydides knew
> >All that a speech can say
> >About Democracy,
> >And what dictators do,
> >The elderly rubbish they talk
> >To an apathetic grave;
> >Analysed all in his book,
> >The enlightenment driven away,
> >The habit-forming pain,
> >Mismanagement and grief:
> >We must suffer them all again.
> >
> >Into this neutral air
> >Where blind skyscrapers use
> >Their full height to proclaim
> >The strength of Collective Man,
> >Each language pours its vain
> >Competitive excuse:
> >But who can live for long
> >In an euphoric dream;
> >Out of the mirror they stare,
> >Imperialism's face
> >And the international wrong.
> >
> >Faces along the bar
> >Cling to their average day:
> >The lights must never go out,
> >The music must always play,
> >All the conventions conspire
> >To make this fort assume
> >The furniture of home;
> >Lest we should see where we are,
> >Lost in a haunted wood,
> >Children afraid of the night
> >Who have never been happy or good.
> >
> >The windiest militant trash
> >Important Persons shout
> >Is not so crude as our wish:
> >What mad Nijinsky wrote
> >About Diaghilev
> >Is true of the normal heart;
> >For the error bred in the bone
> >Of each woman and each man
> >Craves what it cannot have,
> >Not universal love
> >But to be loved alone.
> >
> > From the conservative dark
> >Into the ethical life
> >The dense commuters come,
> >Repeating their morning vow;
> >'I will be true to the wife,
> >I'll concentrate more on my work,'
> >And helpless governors wake
> >To resume their compulsory game:
> >Who can release them now,
> >Who can reach the dead,
> >Who can speak for the dumb?
> >
> >All I have is a voice
> >To undo the folded lie,
> >The romantic lie in the brain
> >Of the sensual man-in-the-street
> >And the lie of Authority
> >Whose buildings grope the sky:
> >There is no such thing as the State
> >And no one exists alone;
> >Hunger allows no choice
> >To the citizen or the police;
> >We must love one another or die.
> >
> >
> >Defenseless under the night
> >Our world in stupor lies;
> >Yet, dotted everywhere,
> >Ironic points of light
> >Flash out wherever the Just
> >Exchange their messages:
> >May I, composed like them
> >Of Eros and of dust,
> >Beleaguered by the same
> >Negation and despair,
> >Show an affirming flame.
> >
> >         ###
> 
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