Here's a great long treatise forwarded to me by my friend and neighbor in Glastonbury (where I usually am living) Palden Jenkins. He sent it on from "Imaginal Diffusion Agency" :
"You raised that same hand
Which made the genocide.
Are you blind to the blood
Of the holocaust
That circulates through your hand!"
Yoko Hamada
Outcry from the Inferno
Having been born in a military hospital in the United States, my childhood is one of intimate relationship with the weaponry of war. My earliest memories are filled with large ships, submarines, jets and missiles. My identity is integrally tied to tools of annihilation, and my destiny is inseparable from their use.
The men who launch the bombs, who order the killing, who design the destruction, are not twisted demons, but friendly family. Those who feel the wrath of the military cannot see the intimate affection and concern that causes their murder. This is the enduring irony of warfare: for an empire to maintain its security, others must suffer and die. For all of the goodness and lofty ideals an empire professes, those beyond its borders must endure the opposite end of the sword.
Just click on more to read the rest. I especially liked the quotes at the bottom of this provocative and insightful read:
"A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes."
-- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
-- Abraham Lincoln
"As nightfall does not come all at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight. And it is in such twilight that we all must be aware of change in the air -- however slight -- lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness.
-- William O. Douglas, 1939 - 1975
US Supreme Court Justice
"When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall -- think of it, ALWAYS."
-- Mohandas Gandhi [ Politics/ Activism | 2002-12-30 20:57 | | PermaLink ] More >
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