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Politics of War*Murder 17 y
The Politics of War & Murder
The year begins with war- Wendell Berry 17 y
The year begins with war-
The year begins with war.
Our bombs fall day and night,
Hour after hour, by death
Abroad appeasing wrath,
Folly, and greed at home.
Upon our giddy tower
We’d oversway the world.
Our hate comes down to kill
Those whom we do not see,
For we have given up
Our sight to those in power
And to machines, and now
Are blind to all the world.
This is a nation where
No lovely thing can last.
We trample, gouge, and blast;
The people leave the land;
The land flows to the sea.
Fine men and women die,
The fine old houses fall,
The fine old trees come down:
Highway and shopping mall
S ... read more i choose love 17 y
i choose love
Christians Resist War in the Revolutionary War 18 y
Some Americans supported neither side in the Revolution. Instead, as Mennonite and German Baptist leaders said in 1775, "We have dedicated ourselves to serve all men in everything that can be helpful to the preservation of men's lives, but...we are not at liberty in conscience to take up arms to conquer our enemies, but rather to pray to God, who has power in heaven and on earth, for us and them." Chief among these nonresistant Christians were the Quakers, Mennonites, German Baptists, Moravians, and Schwenkfelders.
US Anabaptists
during the Revolutionary War
The following material is excerpted from the fifth grade social studies course produced by Christian Light Publications.
Not Everyone Favors Independence
The Loyalists. Not all the people could say ”Amen” to independence. A sizable minority stayed loyal to King George. These loyalists were called Tories by the revolutionaries.
Why did the Tories stay loyal? Some Tories supported the king because they thought the revolutionaries were rabble-rousers. In their minds democracy meant mob rule, tarring and feathering, and destruction of prop ... read more Teens Refuse Recruiter's ASVAB Scam 18 y
Often administered under the guise of a career aptitude test, the ASVAB's purpose is to better equip the State to prey on young people tricked or pressured into taking the test. According to Debbie Hopper of Mothers Against the Draft, it is often given under the pretext of being a "career placement" test. (In some cases it has in fact been used that way, no doubt in an attempt to legitimize what many Americans regard as not legitimate: the use of government schools as military recruiting grounds.)
November 24, 2006
Teens Frustrate Military Recruiter’s ASVAB Scam
by Scott Horton
With MySpace.com bulletins and a handful of homemade flyers, two teens have struck a blow against the American Warfare State, Lindale, Georgia Division.
On a Friday afternoon the 17th of November, 17-year-old high school seniors Robert Day and Samuel Parker decided to act after Day overheard some teachers at Pepperell High School saying that first thing Monday morning the school’s juniors would be made to take the ASVAB military aptitude test.
The school board answered a concerned email from Parke ... read more Lessons from Death 18 y
When I was a child I hid from the darkness by pulling my sheets up over my head.
or...Lessons from having died and living to tell the tale...
I didn’t know what was out there in the night but I was afraid. Something in the darkness that I did not know I feared could get me. I didn’t know much about the world way back when I was young and what I didn’t know made me fearful. When I was in the third grade, Vietnam was on the television most every evening. Television was not ”real” to me back then but I knew my country was at war. It was during those Vietnam years that I remember singing songs about brave soldiers who fought and died for my country in choir and those so ... read more War & Guilt 18 y
Editor's note: Camilo Mejia spent more than 7 years in the military and 8 months fighting in Iraq. On a furlough from the war, he applied for Conscientious Objector status, and was declared a Prisoner of Conscience by Amnesty International. He was convicted of desertion by the U.S. military for refusing to return to the war in Iraq and was imprisoned. Mejia was released from prison on February 15th.
Editor’s note: Camilo Mejia spent more than 7 years in the military and 8 months fighting in Iraq. On a furlough from the war, he applied for Conscientious Objector status, and was declared a Prisoner of Conscience by Amnesty International. He was convicted of desertion by the U.S. military for refusing to return to the war in Iraq and was imprisoned. Mejia was released from prison on February 15th.
Regaining My Humanity
By Camilo Mejia
Thursday 17 February 2005
I was deployed to Iraq in April 2003 and returned home for a two-week leave in October. Going home gave me the oppo ... read more Whose American Dream? 18 y
I joined the military over 25 years ago when I believed doing so was for "God and Country." I became a soldier, but I left when I came to believe the army was controlled by a lesser god and souless corporations. Wesley Clark says so well what I believe. Every person who is considering military service should listen to what Wesley Clark has to say and let it settle deep down inside of you. View this video to know who is in charge of the military. When I served, we called the people who are out there ruining America's image in the world "out of control cowboys" with billions(now trillions) of dollars. They are part of the shadow government. They were just beginning the seizure of the military when I served but today they own the military, media, churches, and state. Watch Wesley Clark's video and see a man who believes the idea that is America should be more than what it has degenerated into today.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ELJSZM1WSwM
I joined the military over 25 years ago when I believed I was serving a nation that was bigger than torturing in the name of God... I left being a soldier as soon I figured out who the bad guys were. visit the page A new Chernobyl... 18 y
Caught between this world and the next, I often see moments when human misery could have been avoided. Chernobyl is just one tragedy among many that has occured in the past and will occur in the future because of the use of uranium. Tons of so-called depleted uranium are being used today as weapons in wars that may leave our whole planet as a new Chernobyl. We trust these men who play with our lives but who are they to tell us to send our children to lay on their grenades? Men and women serving in the armed forces are returning to their country with chronic illnesses that may well be the precursor to the end of mankind.
When I was a teen, I remember tearing bumper stickers off of cars that had logos saying "no nukes" because I believed it was un-American but today...I have children... grandchildren...and through an amazing return from death... days have been added to my life...somehow...and...today...I recognize the new "Chernobyl" in the world as "depleted uranium." Think before y
Please look into the window of a potential coming reality...
http://youtube.com/watch?v=dXKz5J8USyQ&mode=related&search= visit the page Ain't that America... 18 y
If you think that's okay....what you gonna' say when it is you or your child or your wife? What makes that America to you? It is up to you what America is. You let America be what America is and you decide for you and you alone...What it is you want America to be... Maybe the changes you want for other people in the world to change...should start inside of you...By changing you...you may be the catalyst that changes the world. It starts with you.
These documents present irrefutable evidence that U.S. operatives tortured detainees to death during interrogation,” said Amrit Singh, an attorney with the ACLU. “The public has a right to know who authorized the use of torture techniques and why these deaths have been covered up.”
US Operatives Torture Detainees to Death in Afghanistan and Iraq
Sources:
American Civil Liberties Website, October 24, 2005
Title: “US Operatives Killed Detainees During Interrogations in Afghanistan and Iraq”
Tom Dispatch.com, March 5, 2006
Title: “Tracing the Trail of Torture: Embedding Torture ... read more I am a Veteran for Peace 18 y
or kill'em' all and let God sort'em out?
There are 200,000 stories and more about the deaths of non-combatants in Iraq, Afganistan, and now Lebanon. They are attached to real lives and real tragedies in real families. Those 200,000 men, but mostly women and children who have died in the most recent extension of the Middle East War may be multiplied a hundred fold with American,UK, and Israeli use of depleted uranium munitions. The millions affected by these tragedies may have foreign sounding names and they may speak in other languages than me but their tragedies are real... They are human beings with souls just like me.
As fa ... read more Crying Shame 18 y
Jack Johnson - Crying Shame
It’s such a tired game
Will it ever stop?
How will this all play out
Out of sight out of mind
By now we should know how to communicate
Instead of coming to blows, We’re on a roll
And there ain’t no stopping us now
We’re burning under control
Isn’t it strange how we’re all burning under the same sun?
Buy now and save, it’s a war for peace
It’s the same old game
But do we really want to play?
We could close our eyes its still there
We could say it’s us against them
We could try but nobody wins
Gravity has got a hold on us all
We could try to put it out, but it’s a growing ... read more Ripple of Hope 18 y
"Each time a person stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others. . .they send forth a ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance."
- Robert F. Kennedy
I woke up from a dream, where I was a monster who had been mutilated so badly that they would not even allow shiny objects in my cell to avoid me seeing myself but i broke loose and saw myself on a prison monitoring camera. I believe the gruesome monster I had become in my dream was the potential inner me. I stared in disbelief at me. But in the dream it was reversed in that the potential me was the outer me. We can run from the brute who lives inside of us but one day we will have to face ourselves...even if it is in our dreams.
It is 5 a.m. I wanted to say things as raw as I can say t ... read more Humour: Skeet Shooting in Israel 18 y
A little humor with a message
One day this could happen...
http://youtube.com/watch?v=fEz3efYJfGU visit the page Calvin & Hobbes: War & Peace 18 y
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http://youtube.com/watch?v=kC22sVuD4ng&mode=related&search= visit the page Blessed are the Peacemakers: Ron Paul 18 y
Ron Paul has many views that I can relate to. Ron Paul answers why Americans are so angry.
Why Are Americans So Angry?
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2075686410728803039&q=blessed+are+the...
A short poem by Rudyard Kipling;
”If any question why we died/ Tell them, because our fathers lied”. 1915
& another poem by Rudyard Kipling
My Boy Jack (1916)
Have you news of my boy Jack?’
Not this tide.
’When d’you think that he’ll come back?’
Not with this wind blowing, and this tide.
’Has any one else had word of him?’
Not this tide.
For what is sunk will hardly swim,
Not with this wind blowing, and this tide.
’Oh, dear, what comfort can I find?’
None ... read more Don't Go.
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The solution for young men is to not listen to old men who offer them shiny objects such as medals and promises of college to go and fight in wars they will not send thier own children to fight in...
Ask congress how many of their sons and daughters are fighting in Iraq or Afganistan. They will not answer you with a straight face and they will divert their eyes if they have a conscious but if youwant to know the number...that number is zero= 0
This video makes a statement... I hope you will watch it.
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