[Peace-discuss] Letter

[Morton K. Brussel]

David, I missed reading your letter but I hope you will write essentially the same thing to the DI, where students are more likely to see it. 
--Mort

On Sep 12, 2010, at 12:11 PM, Jenifer Cartwright wrote:

> Great letter, David, very truthful, tho' I'd have put patriotic in quotes thru out and left out the name-calling wrt the mindless chief-loving chicken-hawk chanting ninnies, etc. Probably a more effective letter w/o the last paragraph, tho' it feels soooooooo good to tell it like it is.
>  --Jenifer
> 
> --- On Sun, 9/12/10, David Green <davegreen84 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> From: David Green <davegreen84 at yahoo.com>
> Subject: [Peace-discuss] Letter
> To: "Peace Discuss" <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net>
> Date: Sunday, September 12, 2010, 10:57 AM
> 
> This letter was submitted to the DI:
>  
> The vast majority of 9/11 observances in this country cannot be seen as politically neutral events. Implicit in the nature of these events are the notions that lives lost at the World Trade Center are more valuable than lives lost in Afghanistan, Iraq, Palestine, and elsewhere; that the motives of the 9/11 attackers had nothing to do with genuine grievances in the Islamic world regarding American imperialism; and that the U.S. has been justified in the subsequent murder of hundreds of thousands in so-called retaliation.
> 
> The observance at Saturday’s football game was no different. A moment of silence was followed by a military airplane flyover; in between, Block-I students chanted “U.S.A., U.S.A.” This was neither patriotism nor remembrance in any justifiable sense, but politicization, militarism, propaganda, and bellicosity. The University is a public institution that encompasses the political views of all, not just the most (falsely) “patriotic.” Athletic planners should cease exploiting events for this political purpose.
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> The overwhelmingly white, privileged, chief-loving Block-I students should be ashamed of their obnoxious chicken-hawk chant, while less privileged members of their cohort fight and die in an illegal and immoral war for the control of oil. Athletic administrators need to free events from patriotic observances, which in this country cannot be separated from implicit justifications for state-sponsored murder.
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> David Green
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