-Caveat Lector- from alt.conspiracy ----- As always, Caveat Lector. Om K ----- <A HREF="aol://5863:126/alt.conspiracy:520380">WHERE IS THE PEACE MOVEMENT? </A> ----- Subject: WHERE IS THE PEACE MOVEMENT? From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dr. Jai Maharaj) Date: Tue, May 4, 1999 7:06 PM Message-id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> WHERE IS THE PEACE MOVEMENT? Where Is the Democratic Party? The Village Voice Tuesday, May 4, 1999 By Nat Hentoff The horrors which we have seen, the still greater horrors we shall presently see, are not signs that rebels, insubordinate men, are increasing in number throughout the world, but rather that there is a constant increase, a stupendously rapid increase, in the number of obedient, docile men. �George Bernanos, 1888�1948, French novelist and antifascist In 1955, 28 New Yorkers committed civil disobedience by refusing to rush into air shelters when sirens sounded in a rehearsal of a nuclear attack. The War Resisters League was involved in that peace action. In 1960, at least 500 New Yorkers committed civil disobedience at City Hall Park to demonstrate resistance to nuclear armament. There were also stirrings of concern about American involvement in the Vietnam War. Among the organizers of that action were Dorothy Day, founder of the Catholic Worker, and A.J. Muste, master of anti nuclear, antiwar, and civil rights strategies, and a direct-action pacifist. The police randomly arrested 27 people in the park. Some, like me, managed to avoid eye contact with the cops, so we weren't busted. In other towns and cities, the anti nuclear movement expanded into antiwar demonstrations. In 1962 a young black man picketing in front of the Atomic Energy Commission in New York said, "What's the sense of being integrated into oblivion?" In 1965, as Eric Foner noted in his invaluable recent book, The Story of American Freedom (Norton), "Outrage over the war, and over the disproportionate number of young black men being drafted to fight it, contributed significantly to the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee's embrace of black power." As Foner points out, "More than any other issue, what transformed student protest into a full-scale generational rebellion was the war in Vietnam." It wasn't only the students who pro tested, of course. Across the spectrum of race, age, class, gender, and sexual preference, huge numbers of people awakened to the necessity of resistance to illegitimate authority. But where are the survivors of those movements now�especially those on the Left, who provided much of the anger and energy for a historic confrontation with a murderous American government? In December 1967, Gene McCarthy�who won enough votes in a New Hampshire primary to force Lyndon Johnson to withdraw from the presidential race�made a speech before the Conference of Concerned Democrats in Chicago: "I see little evidence," Gene McCarthy said, "that the administration has set any limits on the price [in life and property] which it will pay for a military victory which becomes less and less sure and more hollow and empty in promise." Sound familiar? Recently, we've been hearing statements that sound remarkably similar to some of the most chilling remarks to come out of the Vietnam War. An American army officer at that time said: "We had to destroy the village in order to save it." And Curtis LeMay, who was for a time in charge of the air war in Vietnam: "We're going to bomb them into the Stone Age." So where are the concerned Democrats now? Apparently remaining loyal to a president who, having no principles, keeps trying to find out which way the wind is blowing. And who, being incompetent in foreign policy, has no idea how or when to stop the rains of death that he has dunderheadedly caused�with the help, of course, of the fascist ruler of Yugoslavia. Where is the peace movement? The War Resisters League is doing what it can, along with the Fellowship of Reconciliation, the Catholic Worker, Pax Christi, et al. But the networks of people around the country that nurtured those groups during the Vietnam War�and which in turn were nurtured by them�have fragmented. "We feel lost," a previous resister told me. Where are the priests, the rabbis, the ministers who used to march with the rest of us and issue proclamations and denunciations of the makers of war? Where are the black leaders? If American ground troops go, as Pete Seeger used to sing, "waist deep into the big muddy," how many of those soldiers will be black? Where is the Left as hundreds of thousands of Kosovo refugees are torn from their homes? As families are broken apart? As fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, are murdered? The president and his invincibly obtuse secretary of state bray, "We're winning!" But in Yugoslavia, innocent civilians are murdered by our weapons of undeclared war. A notable exception to the retreat on the Left is The Nation (May 10). More on its writers, as well as on what can be done, next week. It's not only the survivors of the 1960s who are silent. Where are today's young? Nearly all the college campuses are quiet now on the war. Paul Goodman, an extraordinarily prescient analyst of the politics embedded in everything we do�and don't do�used to tell me how saddened he was that, for all the ferment of the 1960s, no meaningful, determined attention was paid to building a principled Left that would endure beyond the Vietnam War. Mike Harrington and others tried, but too many indentured themselves to the Democratic Party without being able to transform it. Why aren't members of the Left marching now against the horrors we see and have seen in Kosovo, Rwanda, and other parts of the world? Could it be they think that, God forbid, the Right will benefit if Clinton is discredited? A. J. Muste used to say, "Those who undertake a revolution are obligated to try at least to see it through." Because we of the 1960s failed to do that, the generations after us will have to start again. But where are they now? - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - I guess killing babies is still OK with the left [pre- or post-]. Mr. Hentoff echoes my own thoughts on this [War?]. Posted by: Boyd 5/04/99 19:54:35 PDT - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - To: All "Where Is the Peace Movement?" Huh? Turn on the TV, those are Clinton's Peace Bombs killing people and destroying the Balkans. Many, many men women and children are now resting in peace as a result -- as the White House spin masters may explain it to sheeple. - From: Jai 5/04/99 20:05:56 PDT - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - To: Boyd It is obvious now, that the so-called "Peace Movement" was just a Communist Front, run and organized by Moscow. No Communist Pope in the Kremlin, no Peace Movement in America. This vacuum is a huge political opportunity for conservatives and libertarians to appeal to the idealistic impulses of the young. And we can offer them the satisfaction on a patriotic movement and a movement with deep roots in American tradition. We can set a movement up that will last beyond this war, unlike the lefties. Bill Clinton has single-handedly destroyed the greatest source of power for the Democrats and the Left: The High Ground of Morality. We could take that hill and keep with some guts, creativity and action. - From: kermit 5/04/99 20:06:34 PDT - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Source of the above and more news and discussion: http://www.freerepublic.com/ Jai Maharaj Latest world news at: http://www.flex.com/~jai/topnews.html Om Shanti ===== Subject: Re: WHERE IS THE PEACE MOVEMENT? From: Pat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, May 5, 1999 4:23 AM Message-id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Keep the Propaganda coming, Dr. Jai. I realize you would rather see thousands, no, make that millions more men, women, and children burned, raped, murdered, in the allout ethnic cleansing genocide that Milosevic, the Serbian Government, Military, and Police have been systematically carrying out for the last 10 years. What surprises me though is that you aren't down there in the dirt getting in some of the good licks yourself, instead of sitting in front of a computer typing Propaganda for such a War Criminal as Milosevic. Atrocities would probably come naturally to you. Go ahead, give it a hands-on try, I'm sure you'll like it. Milosevic and Company have slaughtered thousands of people over the last 10 years, generating the fervor for such atrocities by instilling a burning nationalism which promises "A Greater Yugoslavia" in his own people, which he continues to lie to. Hitler did the same thing, "The Master Race". "The Final Solution". Hmm... Let's have a look at Milosevic's "resume", shall we..? Slobodan Milosevic's Resume from the International Press: Few public figures have been targeted for the harsh criticism leveled at Milosevic. He has been called "the perfect Stalinist" for his stealthy rise to power. He has shown a willingness to turn on friends and allies and used wars, scapegoats and fear to acquire and consolidate power. The Observer of London has noted that "everything he touches turns to dust." A critic writing in a Scottish newspaper wrote that while Milosevic has played on Serbian nationalism in his repression of Kosovar Albanians, "he would switch to cubism if it would get him a bit of Spanish coastline." The Yugoslav president has built his power base on one major pillar since his rise in 1989 as Serbia's president: his drive, sometimes at all cost, for a Greater Serbia. The mission has led his military, either directly or indirectly through surrogates, into murderous campaigns against Croatia, Bosnia and now Kosovo. Milosovic's take-no-hostages approach has earned him the title of "Butcher of the Balkans." His policy of ethnically cleansing areas where his opponents reside -- by removing entire populations -- has led to worldwide outrage. A wily master of bluff and brinksmanship, Milosevic, by his stubbornness this time, has led his nation over the brink and into military conflict with NATO. Slobodan Milosevic has retained his power structure by support of his military and secret police who have been ordered to terrorize, rape, and murder anyone who has stood in his way of "A Greater Yugoslavia", which has been his "nationalist call to glory" to his people and the reason for his quick rise to such political power in Yugoslavia. Even after years of well-documented ethnic cleansing and all-out genocide where thousands of people have been murdered at his direction, Milosevic has been maintaining a steady flow of propaganda, denying that any of this has ever occured, blaming the rest of the world for his own devastations of humanity. Yeah, sounds like a real cool guy, eh..? He looks like he needs a real pal, so go ahead, get yer hands dirty, Dr. Jai, instead of just playing another Propaganda Internet General. You're halfway there already. Regards, Pat and The Thousands of Dead People the Serbs have murdered and raped for 10 years. ===== Subject: Re: WHERE IS THE PEACE MOVEMENT? From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert Ready) Date: Wed, May 5, 1999 6:20 AM Message-id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Doubleplusgood duckspeak, Comrade Pat!! A tankard of Victory Gin will be raised to you at MiniTru's next Inner Party confab!! "...Oceania had ALWAYS been at war with Eurasia..." http://www.antiwar.com Their "New World Order"--our Global Gulag!! ----- Aloha, He'Ping, Om, Shalom, Salaam. Em Hotep, Peace Be, Omnia Bona Bonis, All My Relations. Adieu, Adios, Aloha. Amen. Roads End Kris DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substance�not soapboxing! 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