Response to NDP Post
Hey El Moe: Good to hear your voice yesterday. Didn't have time to read your piece in depth....believe the NDP are playing party politics. If they were in power they'd be spouting a different line. As my mother's anarchist bumper sticker read "Don't vote, it only encourages them".
But.....general comment. We know historically so-called peace-keeping forces have a 'piece-keeping' agenda. I've come to the place where there is no justification for any war. All uniformed, armed, state and non-state supported soldiers commit atrocities against their supposed enemies. People who take up arms to defend themselves do the same, maybe not on the same scale, but it happens.
If we human beings can't get over ourselves we're toast, literally.
Back to work,
Love to you, Roisin
But.....general comment. We know historically so-called peace-keeping forces have a 'piece-keeping' agenda. I've come to the place where there is no justification for any war. All uniformed, armed, state and non-state supported soldiers commit atrocities against their supposed enemies. People who take up arms to defend themselves do the same, maybe not on the same scale, but it happens.
If we human beings can't get over ourselves we're toast, literally.
Back to work,
Love to you, Roisin
Comments
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?, 1967)
Still, it defensive violence, or violence in defense of the weak persecute by the cruel never justified. Perhaps, if one believes that this is not all there is, if one has that kind of Faith, perhaps the bravest thing a person can do is stand in the way of the persecution, knowing it will often be an sacrifice. Maybe you are right.