Dissident Veteran For Peace: Thai Rightists Show the Way

Dissident Veteran For Peace

"I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America." —Alexis de Tocquevile. Democracy in America, Book I, Chapter XV.

With a nod to the Most Rev. Dom Helder Camara: When I support Palestinians some call me an 'anti-Semite', when I try to explain why I stand in solidarity with Palestinians they call me a Nazi.

"WAR is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives." —Major General Smedley Butler, USMC (ret.)

"... no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means; it is an end." —character of O'Brien in 1984, part 3, ch. 3 by George Orwell.

"Every prophet has realized that nobody loves you for being the enemy of their illusions. Every prophet has realized that most of us want peace at any price as long as the peace is ours and somebody else pays the price. That is why the prophet Jeremiah said, ' "Peace, peace," they say, when there is no peace,' ..." —The Rev. William Sloane Coffin. "Not to Bring Peace, But a Sword."

Friday, December 05, 2008

Thai Rightists Show the Way

While the US peace movement--hamstrung by Zionists and liberals and often Zionist liberals--is reduced to street theater and begging the masters for peace, thousands of Thai protesters--"anti-democratic" or not--showed us what could be done. They shut down Bangkok's international airport for a week and "forced the Prime Minister ... out of office". Of course, it will be argued and with good reason that the Thai protesters enjoyed the backing of the elites and the military. But we don't need that kind of support here. We, in the US, live in a democracy, right?

Labels: anti-war movement, politics, Thailand, United States