[Peace-discuss] [Peace] This list is for brief announcements, e.g., 'Obama slaughters innocents..."
C. G. Estabrook
galliher at illinois.edu
Fri Oct 29 15:38:20 CDT 2010
If they are in fact convinced that War is a Bad Thing, how can they defend The
One Who is responsible for it? (My text today is Judges 4.6ff...)
On 10/29/10 3:14 PM, John W. wrote:
> Thank you, Carl. I believe I speak for everyone on this list when I say that
> you've succeeded in convincing us, at long last, that War Is a Bad Thing. We
> owe you a profound debt of gratitude. Or is it a debt of profound gratitude?
>
> Reverently.
>
> John
>
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 5:15 PM, C. G. Estabrook <galliher at illinois.edu
> <mailto:galliher at illinois.edu>> wrote:
>
> "...Obama is forever 'murdering' people around the world rather than that
> his (administration's) policies indeed lead to the slaughter of innocents..."
> --M. Brussel
>
> "Killing one person is murder; killing thousands is foreign policy"
> --bumper sticker purchased from AWARE table at Farmers' Market
>
> I met Murder on the way -
> He had a mask like Castlereagh* -
> Very smooth he looked, yet grim;
> Seven blood-hounds followed him:
>
> All were fat; and well they might
> Be in admirable plight,
> For one by one, and two by two,
> He tossed the human hearts to chew
> Which from his wide cloak he drew.
>
> Next came Fraud, and he had on,
> Like Eldon, an ermined gown;
> His big tears, for he wept well,
> Turned to mill-stones as they fell.
>
> And the little children, who
> Round his feet played to and fro,
> Thinking every tear a gem,
> Had their brains knocked out by them...
>
> 'And that slaughter to the Nation
> Shall steam up like inspiration,
> Eloquent, oracular;
> A volcano heard afar.
>
> 'And these words shall then become
> Like Oppression's thundered doom
> Ringing through each heart and brain,
> Heard again - again - again -
>
> 'Rise like Lions after slumber
> In unvanquishable number -
> Shake your chains to earth like dew
> Which in sleep had fallen on you -
> Ye are many - they are few.'
>
> --from "The Masque of Anarchy," by Percy Bysshe Shelley, written on the
> occasion of the "Peterloo Massacre" carried out by the British Government
> at St Peter's Field, Manchester, on 16 August 1819, when cavalry charged
> into a crowd of 60,000–80,000 gathered at a meeting to demand the reform
> of parliamentary representation. (Cf. the attack on the unarmed Bonus
> Expeditionary Force - 43,000 marchers, including 17,000 World War I
> veterans and their families - in Washington DC on 28 July 1932 by US army
> infantry and cavalry supported by six tanks, and commanded by Army Chief
> of Staff General Douglas MacArthur; Major, later President, Dwight D.
> Eisenhower was his liaison with Washington police, and Major George Patton
> led the cavalry.)
> ___________
>
> *British Foreign Minister who eventually killed himself by cutting his
> throat with a letter-opener.
>
>
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