Hi Frederick,
I understand your thoughts, which I always follow with attention together
with Henry's, and I can see Deborah's point, which represents the yin of the
situation.
If you think of heraldry, for example, how did all these dukes become dukes?
They simply invaded the castle of the duke, killed him, raped daughters and
wives, killed them with their sons and became dukes. This is history. The
same trend is valid for the great French Revolution... which gave power to
the emerging middle class, which gave power to the presidents we have now.
The fact is that this war, and all the other wars, as the psychological
daily wars one has to fight, are killing us all, especially if you have
something, if you don't have anything, they will kill you the same --- no
problem.
Thanks for having read me, anny
From: "Frederick Pollack" <[log in to unmask]>
> Deborah Russell wrote:
> >
> > I like the pure passion of Henry Gould, and his statements directly
related
> > to poetry, but I do not support this war or any other war.
> >
> > *****************
> >
> > My Ode To Coffee
> >
> > War is a manipulative tool for mass control, a brain washing of the
citizens
> > of the planet earth. War is unpatriotic, because: in order to be
patriots of
> > the land, you must love the land.
> >
> > War never loved anything except destruction, rape, the killing of
children
> > and enslavement of the masses for it's purpose. War is,
> > in the end, a major force of government population control just as much
as,
> > government programs for abortion and birth control.
> >
> > Less people? More for the government, more for politicians - and when
their
> > blood thirst is sated, by the bottom line, the world's citizens are
rewarded
> > with a few moments of peace and subsidies - low income housing, non
> > effective legislation (sounds good on paper, but try to believe that it
> > works), welfare (with enough fine print to keep needy people
continuously
> > needy), education to mould 'good citizenship' and promote incompetent
pro
> > 'patriotism' literacy and please, don't forget the most generous
subsidies:
> > powder milk, imitation cheese product and peanut butter with canola.
> >
> > Good morning America! Isn't it time you switched to coffee?
> > I think I'll have another cup, it always seems to calm me down.
> > I hope there is still some Babka in the fridge.
> >
> > Deborah Russell
> >
>
> The fact that the poor are citizens rather than slaves, serfs, or rabble
> resulted from war. The fact that they are cared for at all instead of
> being left to starve resulted from wars their predecessors fought
> against their rulers. If they want more than dehydrated cheese, they
> will, again, have to fight for it. Alan Sillitoe, a working-class Brit
> writer I loved in my youth, once said that guns are the language of
> history. It's a language the sentimental pride themselves on not
> learning.
>
> "Politics means making use of the bad to fight the worse. This
> recognition will never be comfortable, or even possible, for people
> who pride themselves on their virtue, not their effectiveness."
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