[Peace-discuss] The conscious acceptance of guilt in the necessary murder

[C. G. Estabrook]

In Champaign, our compromised state's attorney lets the killers of an unarmed 
15-year-old off scot-free.  In Oslo, our charlatan of a chief magistrate accepts 
a peace prize while asserting the right of the US -- with the world's strongest 
military and largest prison population -- to devastate one of the world's 
poorest countries in a colonial war in Asia.

Instead of condemning these officials for justifying these killings, we greet 
their statements with respectful silence.  It's hard to imagine that we will not 
pay, locally and nationally, for our acquiescence in murder.

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