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

[C. G. Estabrook]

Ooooh, tell me, Unca' John!  (Just in time for Hallowe'en!)

And can we get Barack off the hook by blaming it on the Lord of the Flies?


On 10/29/10 4:10 PM, John W. wrote:
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>  On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 4:07 PM, C. G. Estabrook
>  <galliher at illinois.edu <mailto:galliher at illinois.edu>> wrote:
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>  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.
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>  On 10/29/10 3:48 PM, John W. wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 3:38 PM, C. G. Estabrook
> > <galliher at illinois.edu <mailto: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 <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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