[jjr69] Re: Martin Luther King et Soljenitsine
- From: AD Levan <adlevan@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: jjr69@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, salonmixte@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 21:14:29 -0800 (PST)
Chere soeur Van
Dans le temps de l'empire sovietique, un homme est
accuse par le gouvenement d'avoir ecoute les nouvelles
diffusees par la VOA et la BBC.
ET voici les 3 actes d'accusation :
1- Avoir manipule les composantes electroniques pour
fabrique une radio a onde courte
2- Avoir ecoute la radio imperialiste
3- Et avoir tellement bien cache la radio que le KGB
n'a jamais reussi a la retrouver !!!
Trente ans apres , voici les 3 actes d'accusation
contre l'IRAQ, de notre ami americain :
1- Avoir manipule les composantes chimiques pour
fabriquer les armes de destruction globale
2- Avoir l'intention d'utiliser ces armes contre
l'Amerique
3-Et avoir tellement bien cache ces armes que meme les
meilleurs agents de la CIA n'ont jamais reussi a les
retracer
Quelle similitude !!!!
LVAD
--- Vanthdo@xxxxxxx wrote:
> Dear friends,
>
> Here is another article written by Mr. Phil Nash
> about the impending war in
> Iraq.
>
> Van
>
>
> Dear Friends and Colleagues,
>
> Here is a piece I wrote for Asian Week this week.
> Feel free to redistribute, send feedback, or let me
> know if I can be of help.
>
> I hope you all are having a good 2003!
>
> Peace,
>
> Phil
>
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> Phil Tajitsu Nash
> Asian American Studies
> University of Maryland
> 1174 Tawes Fine Arts Bldg.
> College Park, MD 20742
> 301-263-9302
> 301-263-9303 (fax)
>
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>
> --
>
> Martin Luther King's Opposition to the War on Iraq
>
>
> Thirty-six years ago, at the height of the Vietnam
> War,
> an African American pastor known more for his
> opposition to poverty and racism gave a speech at
> the
> Riverside Church in New York City that stirred the
> nation.
> Denouncing the â??evil tripletsâ?? of racism,
> poverty, and
> militarism, his words ring just as true today as
> they did
> in 1967.
>
> The rest of this weekâ??s column are excerpted
> words
> from the â??Beyond Vietnamâ?? speech of the Reverend
>
> Martin Luther King, Jr. As you read them,
> substitute the
> word â??Iraqâ?? for â??Vietnam,â?? and â??men and
> womenâ?? for
> â??men.â?? To read the speech in its entirety, go
> to
> <A
>
HREF="http://www.africanamericans.com/MLKjrBeyondVietnam.htm";>http://www.africanamericans.com/MLKjrBeyondVietnam.htm</A>
>
> =====================================
>
>
> A time comes when silence is betrayal. That time has
>
> come for us in relation to Vietnam.
>
> ***
>
> There is at the outset a very obvious and almost
> facile
> connection between the war in Vietnam and the
> struggle
> I and others have been waging in America. A few
> years
> ago there was a shining moment in that struggle. It
> seemed as if there was a real promise of hope for
> the
> poor, both black and white, through the poverty
> program.
> There were experiments, hopes, new beginnings. Then
> came the buildup in Vietnam, and I watched this
> program broken and eviscerated as if it were some
> idle
> political plaything of a society gone mad on war.
> And I
> knew that America would never invest the necessary
> funds or energies in rehabilitation of its poor so
> long as
> adventures like Vietnam continued to draw men and
> skills and money like some demonic, destructive
> suction tube. So I was increasingly compelled to see
>
> the war as an enemy of the poor and to attack it as
> such.
>
> Perhaps a more tragic recognition of reality took
> place
> when it became clear to me that the war was doing
> far
> more than devastating the hopes of the poor at home.
>
> It was sending their sons and their brothers and
> their
> husbands to fight and to die in extraordinarily high
>
> proportions relative to the rest of the population.
> We were taking the black young men who had been
> crippled by our society and sending them eight
> thousand
> miles away to guarantee liberties in Southeast Asia
> which
> they had not found in southwest Georgia and East
> Harlem.
> So we have been repeatedly faced with the cruel
> irony of
> watching Negro and white boys on TV screens as they
> kill and die together for a nation that has been
> unable to
> seat them together in the same schools. So we watch
>
> them in brutal solidarity burning the huts of a poor
> village,
> but we realize that they would hardly live on the
> same
> block in Chicago. I could not be silent in the face
> of such
> cruel manipulation of the poor.
>
> ***
>
> As we counsel young men concerning military service,
>
> we must clarify for them our nation's role in
> Vietnam and
> challenge them with the alternative of conscientious
>
> objection.... I recommend it to all who find the
> American
> course in Vietnam a dishonorable and unjust one....
>
> We are at the moment when our lives must be placed
> on
> the line if our nation is to survive its own folly.
> Every man
> of humane convictions must decide on the protest
> that
> best suits his convictions, but we must all protest.
>
> ***
>
> It is with such activity in mind that the words of
> the late
> John F. Kennedy come back to haunt us. Five years
> ago
> he said, "Those who make peaceful revolution
> impossible
> will make violent revolution inevitable."
> Increasingly, by
> choice or by accident, this is the role our nation
> has taken,
> the role of those who make peaceful revolution
> impossible
> by refusing to give up the privileges and the
> pleasures that
> come from the immense profits of overseas
> investments.
> I am convinced that if we are to get on the right
> side of the
> world revolution, we as a nation must undergo a
> radical
> revolution of values. We must rapidly begin the
> shift from
> a thing-oriented society to a person-oriented
> society.
> When machines and computers, profit motives and
> property rights, are considered more important than
> people,
> the giant triplets of racism, extreme materialism,
> and
> militarism are incapable of being conquered.
>
> ***
>
> A true revolution of values will soon look uneasily
> on the
> glaring contrast of poverty and wealth. With
> righteous
> indignation, it will look across the seas and see
> individual
> capitalists of the West investing huge sums of money
> in
> Asia, Africa, and South America, only to take the
> profits
> out with no concern for the social betterment of the
>
> countries, and say, "This is not just." It will look
> at our
> alliance with the landed gentry of South America and
>
> say, "This is not just." The Western arrogance of
> feeling
> that it has everything to teach others and nothing
> to
> learn from them is not just.
>
> ***
>
> We still have a choice today: nonviolent coexistence
> or
> violent coannihilation. We must move past indecision
> to
> action. We must find new ways to speak for peace in
> Vietnam and justice throughout the developing world,
>
> a world that borders on our doors. If we do not act,
> we
> shall surely be dragged down the long, dark, and
> shameful corridors of time reserved for those who
> possess power without compassion, might without
> morality, and strength without sight.
>
> Now let us begin. Now let us rededicate ourselves to
>
> the long and bitter, but beautiful, struggle for a
> new
> world. This is the calling of the sons of God, and
> our
> brothers wait eagerly for our response. Shall we say
>
> the odds are too great? Shall we tell them the
> struggle
> is too hard? Will our message be that the forces of
> American life militate against their arrival as full
> men,
> and we send our deepest regrets? Or will there be
> another message--of longing, of hope, of solidarity
> with their yearnings, of commitment to their cause,
> whatever the cost? The choice is ours, and though
> we might prefer it otherwise, we must choose in this
>
> crucial moment of human history.
>
>
>
>
>
=====
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