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

[John W.]

On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 3:38 PM, C. G. Estabrook <galliher at illinois.edu>wrote:

 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...)
>

While some there are who are non-believers, I have seen no one on this list
actively defending Beelzebub.




> 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>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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