[Peace] PLEASE- ANNOUNCEMENTS only

[Pauline Bartolone]

I'd like to beg people not to use this list to post articles and other items 
for discussion.

PLEASE only use this list for ANNOUNCEMENTS of EVENTS only.

The peace-discuss list can be used for articles and such.

To sign on, go to lists.groogroo.com, click on the "peace-discuss" link, and 
follow instructions.

THanks, Pauline



Bombs don't meet needs.



>From: blue2 at net66.com
>Reply-To: blue2 at winslow.net66.com
>To: peace at lists.groogroo.com
>Subject: [Peace] a quote
>Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 08:50:19 -0500
>
>Someone posted this to a bb I'm on.  The last paragraph is
>particularly relevant ... and chilling.  The quote is supposed to
>appear in Gustave Gilbert's Nuremberg Diary (1945), but I haven't
>confirmed it.
>Meg
>
>"Why of course the people don't want war. Why should some poor
>slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best he can
>get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece?
>
>Naturally the common people don't want war: neither in Russia, nor
>in England, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood.
>But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the
>policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along,
>whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a
>parliament, or a communist dictatorship.
>
>Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding
>of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are
>being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of
>patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same
>in any country."
>
>Hermann Goering
>
>
>******************************************************************
>
>"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that.  Hate
>cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."
>--Martin Luther King, Jr.
>
>"O we are all racist  we are all sexist  some of us only some of us
>are the targets of sexism of homophobia of class denigration but we all
>all breathe in racism with the dust in the streets  with the words we read
>and we struggle those of us who struggle  we struggle endlessly endlessly
>to think and be and act differently from all that"
>-- unattributed; Isis International Bulletin, no. 21 (1981)
>_______________________________________________
>Peace mailing list
>Peace at lists.groogroo.com
>http://lists.cu.groogroo.com/cgi-bin/listinfo/peace


_________________________________________________________________
Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp