[Peace-discuss] The Obama administration celebrates MLK holiday

[E. Wayne Johnson]

Clearly MLK spoke out strongly against interventionism and policing the 
world.

Surely more and more people will see through the lies and respond with 
revulsion.

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I visited the Yes Men Fix the World web site but I am a bit confused and 
non-plussed on
how to apply the method, particularly in this situation.




On 1/16/2011 3:21 PM, Stuart Levy wrote:
> 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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