[Peace-discuss] [Announce] [Peace] WCIA has posted a petition re resignation of Mayor Schweighart

[John W.]

On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 9:50 PM, C. G. Estabrook <galliher at illinois.edu>wrote:



> I assume the squiggle at the end implies mordant sarcasm, right, John?
>

*yawn*  Not in the least, Carl.  It's a simple smiley face.  I was and am
glad to see Durango posting.

Now let me go and look up "mordant"....   :-)     <------- another smiley
face, virtually identical to the last one



> Given the mayor's record - neatly summarized by Neal Parthun on this list -
> going after him for having Wrong Thoughts about the Blessed Obama is at best
> like indicting Al Capone for tax evasion.  --CGE


Ah, but tax evasion is what finally got Capone sent up, isn't it?  As a
pragmatist, I'll take whatever I can get.




> On 4/17/10 8:24 PM, John W. wrote:
>
>> It's wonderful to see some "new" voices on the peace-discuss list, and
>> making
>> so much sense at that.  :-) John
>>
>> On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 7:56 PM, Durango Mendoza <durangom at hotmail.com
>>  <mailto:durangom at hotmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>> Adding sugar and cream to the tea party birther line with a couple of
>> verbal
>> pastries on the side is to cloud the issue at hand. We have not just seen
>> a
>> slip of the tongue after quaffing from the tea party cup. We have glimpsed
>> the underlying and fundamental base that guides the mayor’s thoughts,
>> actions
>> and non-actions.  They reveal, if not fully, why he could let the killing
>> of
>> a black teen not have logical consequences.
>>
>> Adding side issues that national wrongs should be addressed instead, and
>> pointing out one’s right to lie bears a striking resemblance to school
>> yard
>> retorts, “Oh, yeah, what he did is nothing compared to what big so-and-so
>> did, so just shut up already! Why don’t you make HIM stop if it bothers
>> you
>> so much?” Such dismissive and pot-stirring comparisons are too easily made
>> and are fundamentally unhelpful. That larger issues need work does not
>> mean
>> local ones do not need action. This issue adds traction to the injustice
>> ones.
>>
>> I’m sure there were some major national and world issues that needed work
>> at
>> the same time that a tired Rosa Parks decided to sit where she was rather
>> than move. “Why, I bet some of those white passengers were more tired than
>> she was. I mean, like, like...what makes her better than them? Don’t they
>> have rights too? I bet she wasn't really tired. She just wanted to make
>> local
>> trouble.” And she did have a plan: start local and personal and larger
>> change
>> could follow. In spite of dismissers, apologists, assassins, and "moles"
>> planted among the change agents, positive change happened. And more is
>> needed
>> as our work is not yet complete. It requires the helpful support of the
>> many.
>>
>> Change does start one person at a time. Sadly, so does hate.
>>
>> DM
>>
>

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