[Peace-discuss] The Obama administration celebrates MLK holiday

[Stuart Levy]

Actually, having just watched (with Jenifer Ron Karen Dale, and with delight)
"The Yes Men Fix The World," this sounds like something
the No Men might say.   As boldly outrageous as the Yes Men,
but instead of undermining the powerful, the No Men support them.

On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 01:05:59PM +0800, E. Wayne Johnson wrote:
> It's not your average everyday pathetic lie.
> It's a total perversion and mockery.
> And a bold one at that.
>
> But it is is a beautiful and elegant lie surely worthy of the Pentagon's 
> praise.
> They are all standing around saying, "Wow, I wish I had thought of that."
>
> It really does illustrate, and beautifully so, the unlimited depths of the 
> depravity of the "defence" department.
>
> How can such an open mockery be allowed to stand?
>
> The answer is unpleasant, and encouraging.
>
>
>
> On 1/16/2011 11:55 AM, C. G. Estabrook wrote:
>> from <http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2011/01/14/who-would-mlk-bomb/>:
>>
>> Dr. Martin Luther King’s outspoken opposition to the war in Vietnam put 
>> him neatly in the milieu of modern Christian non-violence that started 
>> with the religious writings of Leo Tolstoy, and which had impacts well 
>> beyond Christendom (Gandhi’s interest in non-violence, for instance, was 
>> heavily influenced by Tolstoy). The answer, then, to who would MLK bomb is 
>> pretty clearly “no one.”
>>
>> But he’s been dead for quite awhile, and people may be a little vague on 
>> who exactly the fellow was and what he stood for. To that end, Pentagon 
>> officials are now making it clear, they’re pretty sure Dr. King was a 
>> hawk.
>>
>> Jeh Johnson, the Pentagon’s general council, has informed the public 
>> that he is pretty sure, were Dr. King alive today he would be strongly in 
>> favor of the US occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan, because “he would 
>> recognize that we live in a complicated world.”
>>
>> Johnson’s argument begins and ends with Dr. King’s fondness for the 
>> parable of the “Good Samaritan,” and his (Johnson’s) assumption that 
>> no one is a better Samaritan than US occupation forces.
>>
>> In case you’re not thoroughly confused, Johnson closed by announcing 
>> “every day, our servicemen and women practice the dangerousness – the 
>> dangerous unselfishness Dr. King preached.” So there you have it, the 
>> Pentagon’s history has MLK as a danger junkie, and nobody rocks the 
>> danger like occupation forces.
>>
>> ***
>>
>> [In spite of things like this, our charlatan of a president is praised by 
>> liberals. The Nation writes, "...for a few minutes on Wednesday night, we 
>> dared with our president to answer cynicism with idealism, to answer 
>> tragedy with hope, to answer division as one nation, indivisible.” Then 
>> our president ordered more missile strikes in Pakistan, and killed some 
>> more kids, just like Christina Green. --CGE]
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