[Peace-discuss] [OccupyCU] sleepwalking into the drone age - "I Met a 16-Year-Old Kid. 3 Days Later Obama Killed Him"

[C. G. Estabrook]

Suppose there was demonstration in Berlin in 1942 with banners reading  
WAR IS NOT GOOD FOR CHILDREN AND OTHER LIVING THINGS and WAR DESTROYS  
FAMILIES.

Would the authorities suppress it? Or would they trust that those  
banners would be interpreted as a critique of those foreigners who had  
thrust war upon Germany, which after all was trying to bring the war  
to an end, and wanted only to defend its citizens and those others  
whom it had taken under its protection. (See the Amnesty International  
demonstration in Chicago at the time of the Nato meeting for an  
analogue.)

I think AWARE should avoid the ambiguity involved in deploring war in  
general; if nothing else, it's unnecessary - who after all celebrates  
it?  We should instead point out to our fellow citizens - many of whom  
are unaware of the fact - that our government is today committing what  
the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, which followed World  
War II, called "essentially an evil thing ... not only an  
international crime [but]  the supreme international crime, differing  
only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the  
accumulated evil of the whole" - that is, aggressive war.

Now "the accumulated evil of the whole" includes Obama's purposely  
killing kids: he can hardly claim that they're just accidentally there  
when he attacks their families.


On Jun 20, 2012, at 1:30 PM, Karen Medina wrote:

> Jenifer wrote: >
> "
> A banner w/ the famous quote -- WAR IS NOT GOOD FOR CHILDREN AND  
> OTHER LIVING THINGS -- would cover most of the suggestions so far  
> for the 4th of July Parade..."
>
> "War destroys families" is a particular favorite of mine. I think I  
> will make a poster with this on it.
>
> I also like the idea for the banner.
>
> -karen medina
>
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