 masbury says: This is the kind of very brave thing that can stop wars. Read the article, it's heroic. good news. 10x masbury. it is Time fighters & ex-fighters will sit down to make peace. We know that Fighters can be called heroes, terrorist or freedom fighters, ALL at the same time just seen from a different angle. One thing is sure: if fighters surpass their fear and self concerned and got the courage to put their lives in the battlefield they should be brave enough to surpass whatever it needs in order to find the way for making peace. * Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they? George Carlin * The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters - not to talk in armies and nations and numbers -- but to track it home. David Herbert Lawrence I was listening to NPR tonight as I drove home from work, to two of the key Combatants For Peace and how they formed the group. Their own thoughts of who the enemy was, what a terrorist was or looked like and how they realized they could not be part of the problem any more. It was time to become part of the solution. Whether this flies in the face of the insanities of war or not, I fully support and respect their heroic stance of civil disobedience and dissention. Political disobedience. The odd thing is that tonight as I was finishing my own work, I used the term dissention as a descriptive as a part of the process of change. It is clearly necessary, isn't it? To stand and say "no more" ... Altpsych--thanks for sharing that moment and welcome to clippers...added to my list and hope you enjoy this....it's hard not to. When I refused to go to war in '70 it changed the course of my life so much for the better, it's amazing the experiences i've had because of that decision to stand up against the war machine....from learning about life from a deaf blind boy while doing alternate service to counseling young people to find alternatives to the military ruining their lives.. Best thing I ever did. papananook: I'm 38 years too late, but thank you for your courage. You're an American hero, in my book. Masbury--I'm no hero, just a man with a conscience who acted as such. But thanks, anyway. Peace be with you, friend. I no longer even think of it as "My country" since it's so far from anything I hold dear. What a waste. All that death, destruction and money spent for such a tragedy. I can't feel "America" any more...it's gone...even though I lost my illusions about it long ago, I still had hope...now, not so much. |
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