[Peace-discuss] Karen's Fine Commentary in NG on Urbana Sanctuary

[Boyle, Francis A]

And then David Johnson let me follow it up on his radio program with my Campaign against Killer Koh and the Illinois Nazis Law Faculty. My sincere thanks to David. And to all of you who showed up on October 28 and those who were not there but supported us like Jay and Amanda. We stood up against these American Nazis. In Urbana too—as Karen pointed out in her letter today. Fab.
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Stanlingrad

We got off the boat at the dock
Walking into town I was asked
Could I lay some flowers
At the War Memorial
On the Banks of the Volga?
Of course I said yes
Honored and pleased
My Dad had fought the Japanese
At Saipan and Tinian and Okinawa
Nazis were not his war
But We were all Allies together
In the Noble Cause to Defeat Fascism
As I neared the Statue
On the Banks of the Volga
Young Komsomol Girl appeared
All dressed in white
Carrying a wreath of red roses
She gave to me
A band was playing
Joyful, not somber, but subdued
Town Elders assembled
Sun was shining
Most beautiful day
On the Banks of the Volga
I lay my wreath of roses
To the Defenders and Victims of Stalingrad
Bowed my head in silent reflection
If the Soviets had not held at Stalingrad
All Europe today would be speaking German
And saluting: Heil Hitler!
Deutschland, Deutschland
But not Uber Alles
My Dad was smiling
On the Banks of the Volga

38.

Fab.

Francis A. Boyle
Law Building
504 E. Pennsylvania Ave.
Champaign IL 61820 USA
217-333-7954 (phone)
217-244-1478 (fax)
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From: Boyle, Francis A
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To: 'Carl G. Estabrook' <galliher at illinois.edu>
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Subject: RE: Karen's Fine Commentary in NG on Urbana Sanctuary

Yeah, and I want to commend Carl for letting my start my Campaign against Killer Koh and the Illinois Nazis Law Faculty on his Aware TV Program. We all do what we can where we can. Fab.

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: Carl G. Estabrook [mailto:galliher at illinois.edu]
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Subject: Re: Karen's Fine Commentary in NG on Urbana Sanctuary

President Trump: End U.S. Wars
“...provide for the common defence...”
BRING ALL U.S. TROOPS AND WEAPONS HOME

The U.S. is today making war in at least seven countries: Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Yemen, Somalia and Pakistan. In addition, the 70,000-member U.S. ‘Special Operations Command’ is active in no less than 70% of the countries of the world. Their activities include kidnapping (‘rendition’), torture, and murder.

Since World War II, U.S. presidents have killed more than 20 million people in 37 nations. The U.S. continues to be what Martin Luther King called it long ago: “The greatest purveyor of violence in the world today.”

Why has our government plagued the world with war for more than two generations? The answer is simple and horrible - to protect the profits of the one percent - the American economic elite.

When World War II ended in 1945, the U.S. was the only undamaged major country, and controlled the world economy, for the benefit of that one percent. In all the years since, U.S. administrations have been willing to kill people and make war to “maintain the disparity,” as American planners said.

As a result, the U.S. government is today engaged in war and war provocations around the world:

MIDEAST. Our anti-war group AWARE was established fifteen years ago, after the attacks of 9/11/2001, by citizens of Champaign-Urbana who realized that the U.S. government would use those crimes to justify its already long-standing attempts to exercise military control over the Mideast and its energy resources. The U.S. doesn’t need oil from the Mideast, but Mideast gas and oil are needed by America’s economic competitors in Europe and Asia, and so control over them gives the U.S. a major advantage over China, Germany, and other countries - a chokehold which benefits only the American one percent. In 2003 the US illegally invaded Iraq - and killed perhaps a million people for that purpose - and now has thousands of troops and mercenaries throughout the Mideast.

UKRAINE. The Obama administration arranged the overthrow of an elected president in Ukraine and helped to install the only European government since WWII to contain Nazis. Then it encouraged an attack on the eastern Ukrainian provinces who refused to submit to the coup, killing thousands. The attack continues, while Russia tries to arrange a cease-fire (Minsk II).  The Crimea region, appalled by the coup government, voted to join Russia.

E. EUROPE. When East and West Germany were reunited, in 1990, the U.S. promised it would not extend NATO into Eastern Europe. But the Clinton administration broke that promise, and NATO advanced to the Russian border. In his last days in office, President Obama sent troops and tanks into Poland. The last national leader to do that was Hitler: Russia, attacked through Poland in both WWI and WWII, was understandably alarmed.

S. CHINA SEA. President Obama in 2011 said that creating an American presence in the Asia Pacific was his "top priority.” His “pivot to Asia” is a U.S. military build-up that threatens China’s trade routes, but for America's arms industry, the prize is huge profits. And the danger of confrontation grows by the day.
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The U.S. government says we’re fighting terrorism, but we are in fact creating terrorists - in response particularly to the drone assassinations, “the most extreme terrorist campaign of modern times” - which have killed more than 5,000 people, including U.S. citizens and hundreds of children.

William Blum (author of “Killing Hope: US Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II”) writes,

                  “If I were the president, I could stop terrorist attacks against the United States in a few days. Permanently. I would first apologize - very publicly and very sincerely - to all the widows and the orphans, the impoverished and the tortured, and all the many millions of other victims of American imperialism. I would then announce that America's global interventions - including the awful bombings - have come to an end. And I would inform Israel that it is no longer the 51st state of the union but – oddly enough – a foreign country. I would then reduce the military budget by at least 90% and use the savings to pay reparations to the victims and repair the damage from the many American bombings and invasions...”

ANTI-WAR ANTI-RACISM EFFORT - on Facebook at <AWARE of Champaign Urbana Illinois>
~ U.S. troops & weapons out of the Mideast! ~ Medicare for all! ~ Universal basic income! ~

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[Flyer distributed at the regular monthly demonstration by the “Anti-War Anti-Racism Effort" of Champaign-Urbana, 4  March 2017]

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