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

[John W.]

On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 4:07 PM, C. G. Estabrook <galliher at illinois.edu>wrote:

 The aptly-named Mort?
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Nope.  You're so far out on the fringe, Carl, I'm not sure you know who the
REAL Beelzebub is any more.  Seriously.




> 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>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:
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>> 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>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
>>>
>>> "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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