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

[C. G. Estabrook]

The aptly-named Mort?

On 10/29/10 3:48 PM, John W. wrote:
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> On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 3:38 PM, C. G. Estabrook <galliher at illinois.edu 
> <mailto:galliher at illinois.edu>> wrote:
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>     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...)
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> While some there are who are non-believers, I have seen no one on this list 
> actively defending Beelzebub.
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>     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
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>>     On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 5:15 PM, C. G. Estabrook <galliher at illinois.edu
>>     <mailto:galliher at illinois.edu>> wrote:
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>>         "...Obama is forever 'murdering' people around the world rather than
>>         that his (administration's) policies indeed lead to the slaughter of
>>         innocents..."
>>         --M. Brussel
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>>         "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:
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>>         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.
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>>         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.
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>>         And the little children, who
>>         Round his feet played to and fro,
>>         Thinking every tear a gem,
>>         Had their brains knocked out by them...
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>>         'And that slaughter to the Nation
>>         Shall steam up like inspiration,
>>         Eloquent, oracular;
>>         A volcano heard afar.
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>>         'And these words shall then become
>>         Like Oppression's thundered doom
>>         Ringing through each heart and brain,
>>         Heard again - again - again -
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>>         '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.'
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>>         --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.)
>>         ___________
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>>         *British Foreign Minister who eventually killed himself by cutting
>>         his throat with a letter-opener.
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