[Peace-discuss] Harvard Law School Dean Search

[Boyle, Francis A]

Thanks for the elongated  perspective Carl. Fab.
The Greatest Generation?

By Professor Francis A. Boyle 

11 October, 2013
Countercurrents.org

Oh really?
 If they were so great
 Then why did they send
 Their Sons so willingly
 Off to die 
 In Vietnam
 A war they started
 While we suffered from

58,000 young men
 Of my generation
 Were murdered 
 By The Greatest Generation
 Hundreds of Thousands
 Of our Lives were destroyed
 Plus 3 million genocided Vietnamese
 Not that “gooks” mattered to 
 The Greatest Generation
 Then neither did we their Sons 

Why didn’t The Greatest Generation
 Rise up as One
 And tell the American Empire
 That you will not have our Sons


Over our dead bodies!
 Hell no!
 They will not go!

Why did The Greatest Generation
 Not fight for US their Sons 
 Against the American Empire
 As they did against the German and Japanese Empires
 We the Sons of the Greatest Generation were not worth it


They said they were liberating Peoples in Foreign Lands
 Then why did The Greatest Generation send their Sons
 To fight and die
 In that God-forsaken Land?
 And to murder millions living in their own Land?


Was this some blood-sport
 we had to play
 With them as pony riders
 and US as buzkashi goat carcasses


Was it reverse Freudian Oedipal Complex
 Them killing us off
 before we got to them
 And took their place


Were we blood-sacrifice to Moloch
 With them as Priests
 And we as sacrificial lambs


Were they our Abrahams
 Actually murdering US their Isaacs
 In a Holocaust
 To their Genocidal Yahweh


Hard to say
 What was going on
 In the Minds of The Greatest Generation
 If anything at all
 Mindless Patriotism 
 The last refuge of them Scoundrels!

They knew all about War
 then sent their Sons marching off
 Into the Valley of Death
 Charge of the Light Brigade


The result was predictable 
 A Decimated Generation
 A Shattered Generation
 MY GENERATION!
 BUT WE ENDED THEIR DAMN WAR!

The Greatest Generation?
 Hell no!
 A Pathetic Generation!


May they ever be tormented
 By Their Own Son’s Souls

Professor Francis A. Boyle is an international law expert and served as Legal Advisor to the Palestine Liberation Organization and Yasser Arafat on the 1988 Palestinian Declaration of Independence, as well as to the Palestinian Delegation to the Middle East Peace Negotiations from 1991 to 1993, where he drafted the Palestinian counter-offer to the now defunct Oslo Agreement. His books include “ Palestine, Palestinians and International Law” (2003), and “ The Palestinian Right of Return under International Law” (2010).



Francis A. Boyle
Law Building
504 E. Pennsylvania Ave.
Champaign IL 61820 USA
217-333-7954 (phone)
217-244-1478 (fax)
(personal comments only)


-----Original Message-----
From: Carl G. Estabrook [mailto:galliher at illinois.edu] 
Sent: Friday, January 13, 2017 7:50 AM
To: Boyle, Francis A <fboyle at illinois.edu>
Cc: peace-discuss at anti-war.net; C. G. ESTABROOK <carl at newsfromneptune.com>; a-fields at uiuc.edu; Hoffman, Valerie J <vhoffman at illinois.edu>; Miller, Joseph Thomas <jtmiller at illinois.edu>; Szoke, Ron <r-szoke at illinois.edu>; sherwoodross10 at gmail.com; Arlene Hickory <a23h23 at yahoo.com>; David Swanson <davidcnswanson at gmail.com>; peace-discuss-request at lists.chambana.net; Dave Trippel <davetrippel at ameritech.net>; abass10 at gmail.com; mickalideh at gmail.com; Lina Thorne <lina at worldcantwait.net>; chicago at worldcantwait.net; Mildred O'brien <moboct1 at aim.com>; David Johnson <davidjohnson1451 at comcast.net>; Jay <futureup2us at gmail.com>; Joe Lauria <joelauria at gmail.com>; David Green <davegreen84 at yahoo.com>; Karen Aram <karenaram at hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: Harvard Law School Dean Search

Actually, I think you’re skipping a generation (or more) here, Francis, in regard to the 'political class' (roughly the 20% of the US population who went to a ‘good’ college).

[1] Halberstam’s "The Best and the Brightest" (1972) discussed the assault on Vietnam by JFK’s contemporaries - born ca. 1920.

[2] Their sons and daughters were the baby boomers, including those who protested the Vietnam War, at Harvard and elsewhere.

[3] Their grandsons and granddaughters (b. ca. 1970) are now protesting Trump (who’s not PLU) in a desperate attempt to revive the Democratic party against the world-wide threat of populism.

[4] And the next generation are the much-touted millennials, who’ve grown up in an America of increasing (and accelerating) inequality - and have taken sides in it, in various ways.

These generational views are I think visible even in what Chomsky once called "the academy for the passive and obedient” in Harvard Square.

Regards, CGE


> On Jan 13, 2017, at 7:15 AM, Boyle, Francis A <fboyle at illinois.edu> wrote:
> 
> Of course, what else do you expect from Harvard: “The Best And The Brightest” indeed. Now we are dealing with the Sons and the Daughters of The Best And the Brightest who gave us the Vietnam War.
> Fab.
> Ed Norton Professor of Law
> Carl Schmitt College of Law:
> “Mein Fuhrer, I can walk!”
>  
>  
> Francis A. Boyle
> Law Building
> 504 E. Pennsylvania Ave.
> Champaign IL 61820 USA
> 217-333-7954 (phone)
> 217-244-1478 (fax)
> (personal comments only)
>  
> From: Boyle, Francis A 
> Sent: Friday, January 13, 2017 6:52 AM
> To: peace-discuss at anti-war.net; C. G. ESTABROOK <carl at newsfromneptune.com>; a-fields at uiuc.edu; Hoffman, Valerie J <vhoffman at illinois.edu>; Miller, Joseph Thomas <jtmiller at illinois.edu>; Szoke, Ron <r-szoke at illinois.edu>; sherwoodross10 at gmail.com; Arlene Hickory <a23h23 at yahoo.com>; David Swanson <davidcnswanson at gmail.com>; peace-discuss-request at lists.chambana.net; Dave Trippel <davetrippel at ameritech.net>; abass10 at gmail.com; mickalideh at gmail.com; Lina Thorne <lina at worldcantwait.net>; chicago at worldcantwait.net; Mildred O'brien <moboct1 at aim.com>; David Johnson <davidjohnson1451 at comcast.net>; Jay <futureup2us at gmail.com>; Estabrook, Carl G <galliher at illinois.edu>; Joe Lauria <joelauria at gmail.com>; David Green <davegreen84 at yahoo.com>; Karen Aram <karenaram at hotmail.com>
> Subject: RE: Harvard Law School Dean Search
>  
> OK people. Now you really have to admit this is the Sick Joke of the day: The President of Harvard sets up a Search Committee for a new Dean of Harvard Law School and includes on their Search Committee a notorious torture lawyer and war criminal. The Nazis had their law schools too. Ditto for the Illinois Nazis Law School.
> Fab
> Ed Norton Professor of Law
> Carl Schmitt College of Law:
> “Mein Fuhrer, I can walk!”
>  
>