--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "emptybill" <emptybill@...> wrote: > > > Back in 1971 on the Humbolt TTC, MMY insisted that it was our duty to go > and fight if called to join the conflict in Vietnam. A lot of people > dismissed it, attributing this view to his Indian background and the > fact that he was Kshatriya caste. I have since learned that in > "Vedic parlance" the view is that all of the karma of a war goes > to the "king" in this case to the President and > Congressional "rulers". > > This flatly contradicts Nuremberg principle number IV that the > conduct of belligerents in battle is ultimately the moral responsibility > of each combatant. > > Principle IV states: "The fact that a person acted pursuant to order of > his Government or of a superior does not relieve him from responsibility > under international law, provided a moral choice was in fact possible to > him". > > Many of us knew the gist of this declaration and dismissed MMY'S > advise as "cultural programming". > > Much later, when he condemned the U.S. as a terrorist nation for > pursuing war against al-Qaeda , I realized just how out of touch he > really was. With each increasing bizarre pronouncement, his personal > view became a parody of rationality and even more easily dismissed. > > In the end, he sounded like a shrill old man pissing into the wind, > cursing everyone because they didn't give a hoot about what the > said. Such is old age.
"Somewhere along the line MMY took a left turn", Charlie Lutes (paraphrased)
