Famous Quotes about War & Peace # 40

"Naturally the common people don't want war... but after all it is the leaders
of a country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to
drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship,
or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship.

Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the
leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked,
and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the
country to danger. It works the same in every country."

Hermann Goering

 

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Rivers of Blood Flow thru the Corporate-Spine Spin

Diana Gwinn
8/2004

 

On a conveyor belt of carnage and death
Flag draped coffins glide silently by,
Hidden from view.

Sacrificial lambs fed to the false god of insatiable greed and endless war.
Endless war for endless peace.

Corporate spin zone kicked the “Vietnam Syndrome”.
No body bags this time around.

Trapped in 1984, conditioned, unthinking drones
Rest in peace in living tombs.

Wolves wrapped in red, white and blue
Battle dark skinned phantoms.
Emboldened by our silence and indifference to life
Rivers of blood flow

Rivers of blood flow thru the corporate spine
Rest in peace till the end of time.

WAKE UP!

 

 

 

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Dear Dr. El-Najjar,

I was pleased to see portions of an article of mine quoted in Mike Whitney's piece "Guantanamo 'Mock Trials.'" 

Mr. Whitney, however, misquotes me at one point.  He writes that "Perhaps, Justice Scalia (inadvertently) summed it up best, (recorded by Van Bergen) We 'can point to no case or other authority for the proposition that those captured on a foreign battlefield . . . cannot be detained outside the criminal process.'"

As I wrote in my article, this was a criticism in the plurality decision in the Hamdi case against Scalia's dissenting opinion.  It was not part of Scalia's opinion.  The plurality opinion was written by Justice Sandra Day O'Connor and joined by Chief Justice Rehnquist, and Justices Kennedy & Breyer.  (Separate opinions were filed by Justices Souter & Ginsburg, concurring in the result but disagreeing with parts of the opinion.  Thus, six justices joined in the result, but only four in the opinion.  This is why it is called a plurality opinion.  Justices Thomas and Scalia dissented for completely opposing reasons.  Thomas dissented because he felt that the Court should have given more deference to the President's "unlawful enemy combatant" determinations, and Scalia dissented because he felt, as I do, the process required for habeas corpus was equal to procedures used in criminal cases.)  The opinion can be found at:  http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/03-6696.ZS.html

Also, here in the United States, it is customary, when one quotes from an internet source, to provide both the title of the original article and the internet address of that source.  The article is "Hamdi and the End of Habeas Corpus: The Death of the Great Writ of Liberty" (by Jennifer Van Bergen) at http://www.counterpunch.org/bergen07192004.html.

Thank you.
Sincerely,
Jennifer Van Bergen
 

 

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Palestinian prisoners are on hunger strike

Israeli prison wardens are using what they would maybe term psychological methods to get the prisoners on hunger strike to eat; by cooking outside the prisoners' cells and by eating in front of them, thinking maybe they would be tempted to eat.

The wardens are not motivated by the welfare of the prisoners. These are the prisoners routinely beaten and tortured. Instead the wardens and the Zionist government want to torment the prisoners into giving up their hunger strike.

These prisoners are not eating to draw attention to their plight of being arrested and detained for no other reason than being Palestinian. Hopefully more people will come to realise that Israel is committing genocide instead of listening to the Zionists.

Janice Keenan.

 

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Fawaz Turki

Please explain to the writer (Fawaz Turki-m.moore movie) that Bowdlerism is nothing new in history.

In fact, the cnn station gave a report (8-19-04, Wolf Blitzer report) on how the United States government desires to bludgeon the standards of depravation into Arabic school texts.

The American fetidness of teaching seven and eight year olds to depucelate should not be TOLERATED.

Appeasement of American heteronomy is not a wise path to travel.

Abla Mutaa

 

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