[Peace-discuss] [Peace] This list is for brief announcements, e.g., 'Obama slaughters innocents..."

[C. G. Estabrook]

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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