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

[E. Wayne Johnson]

You taught us that war is a sin, and a sham, and a shame
and the penance we pay for our silence is more than just taking the blame.
  - Jordan Page, (Song for Bob)

On 12/10/2009 10:25 AM, C. G. Estabrook wrote:
> 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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