[Peace-discuss] [OccupyCU] 4th of July - AWARE float (or sink?)

["E. Wayne Johnson 朱稳森"]

I was asked on the airplane flying home from Dalian last night,
"Why does the American Government waste so much of the
people's money on fighting so many wars?"

I generally answer such questions by explaining how
that the US war policy benefits the elite who make
zillions off of running the militaryindustrialcomplex
and gives the elite power over people in remote places,
etc., etc.

Last night I answered by explaining that Americans really
want to be ruled by a King.  The US had its roots in England.
England has Kings, why cant the US have Kings?
England has a Queen.  Why can't the US have Kings and Queens
to rule over them and start wars?  The US people
view their president as a King and they want him to
have the King-like power to do King-y stuff like
start wars.

*

Obviously the insistence on blaming Obama is simple
lese majeste.  Railing against the King is tantamount to
Tea Party rhetoric, and we shan't have any of that.


On 06/17/13 5:21, Karen Aram wrote:
> Can we focus on the anti-war and the unconstitutionality of it all, 
> without naming individuals?
> I know its frustrating that so many democrats still have their head in 
> the sands, blaming all our ills on the republicans, but targeting 
> Obama, appears to many as teaparty rhetoric, thus in the name of 
> winning hearts and minds can we just refer to the US Govt. in general?
> I'm heading over to the White Horse Inn for the meeting, on the 
> assumption that there will be a meeting.
>
> > Subject: Re: [OccupyCU] 4th of July - AWARE float (or sink?)
> > From: carl at newsfromneptune.com
> > Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2013 15:32:59 -0500
> > CC: rohnkoester at gmail.com; karenaram at hotmail.com; 
> peace-discuss at anti-war.net; thenewmoon37 at yahoo.com; 
> m-taber at illinois.edu; occupycu at lists.chambana.net
> > To: r-szoke at illinois.edu
> >
> > Obama has chosen to prosecute a widening war at least as viciously 
> (and unconstitutionally) as his predecessor - or as Nixon in SE Asia.
> >
> > How can we exculpate him and still say we oppose the war? No one 
> made him kill all those people.
> >
> > --CGE
> >
> >
> > "Let me tell you what I felt - and maybe some of the rest of you 
> felt - when I saw the pictures of the Bush library dedication. There 
> was a group of men standing there, former presidents, the ones that 
> are alive. Every one of them is a major criminal. A major criminal. 
> Obama is continuing the grand tradition — that shouldn’t be a great 
> surprise.
> >
> > "The sentence that came to my mind at the time is from Thomas 
> Jefferson, who said, 'I tremble for my country when I think that God 
> is just, and some day will bring us to his judgment.'" [Noam Chomsky]
> >
> >
> >
> > On Jun 16, 2013, at 1:17 PM, "Szoke, Ronald Duane" 
> <r-szoke at illinois.edu> wrote:
> >
> > > Wish there were some way to relate our war & racism concerns more 
> directly to the parade's official themes. I'll walk for whatever theme 
> or slogan is chosen, but hoping it will not be merely the hundredth or 
> thousandth instance of pounding on the demon Obama. Will probably be 
> at Bloomsday event today around time of the AWARE meeting.
> > >
> > > -- Ron
> >
>
>
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