Wat de wereld aan Bush en zijn oorlog denkt
Na het Verslaan van Straat | De één mens doden moet zich aan een hoofdmisdaad schuldig maken, tien mensen moet doden de schuld verhogen tien keer, honderd mensen moet doden het verhogen hundred-fold. Dit de heersers van de aarde allen erkent en toch wanneer het over de grootste misdaad-waging oorlog op een andere komt prijzen staat-zij het!
Het is duidelijk zij niet weten het verkeerd is, want zij dergelijke akten die aan posterity moeten worden overgeleverd registreren; als zij het wisten zij verkeerd, waarom waren zouden zij om hen en hebben hen overgeleverd aan posterity te registreren moeten wensen?
Als een mens bij een weinig zwart zien moest zeggen het zwart is, maar bij het zien van heel wat zwarte te zeggen waren het wit is, zou het duidelijk zijn dat zulk een mens niet zwart-wit kon onderscheiden. Of als hij een paar bittere dingen moest proeven was hen uit te spreken snoepje, duidelijk zou hij onbekwaam zijn om tussen zoetheid en bitterheid onderscheid te maken. Zo zij die een kleine misdaad als dusdanig erkennen, maar niet de verdorvenheid van de grootste misdaad van alle-waging oorlog op een andere staat-maar eigenlijk lof erkennen het-kunnen niet net van verkeerd onderscheiden. Om te herstellen of verkeerd, zijn de heersers van de wereld in verwarring.
- Mozi, China, circa 470-391 V.CHR.
Als de kracht van wapens als de enige middelen van gezag wordt beschouwd, is het geen gunstig instrument.
- Lao Tsu, Tao die te ching, vijfde eeuw BC.
[Wij vragen vrede] in naam van God, aangezien zonder vrede niemand God zal zien.
- De vergadering van de vrede in Le Puy, 994
Hoe hij uit tegen iedereen zou gegeseld hebben wie durfte om varkensvlees op een Vrijdag te eten, en toch nu niet kan hij tot het afwerpen van het bloed van mensen een gewetenskwestie maken…
- Petr Chelcicky op zijn debat 1420 in Praag met Jakoubek van Stribro
Wij abhor die voor Vrijheid vecht. De vrijheid die door het zwaard wordt gekregen is gevestigde bondage aan één of ander deel of andere van de verwezenlijking. De overwinning die door het zwaard wordt gekregen is een overwinning dat de slaven over een andere krijgen.
- Gerrard Winstanley, leider van Gravers, 1650
The professed object of war generally is to preserve liberty and produce a lasting peace; but war never did and never will preserve liberty and produce a lasting peace, for it is a divine decree that all nations who take the sword shall perish with the sword. War is no more adapted to preserve liberty and produce a lasting peace than midnight darkness is to produce noonday light.
- David Low Dodge, War Inconsistent with the Religion of Jesus Christ, 1815
We expect to prevail through the foolishness of preaching.
- William Lloyd Garrison, Declaration of Sentiments adopted by the Peace Convention of Boston, 1838
Our country is the world, our countrymen are all mankind. We love the land of our nativity only as we love all other lands. The interests, rights, liberties of American citizens are no more dear to us than are those of the whole human race. Hence, we can allow no appeal to patriotism, to revenge any national insult or injury.
- William Lloyd Garrison, Declaration of Sentiments adopted by the Peace Convention of Boston, 1838
The governments of the earth have built up a structure that exists only by the power of money. The head of the land-the Queen-is honored in proportion to the pomps and vanities of her immediate attendants. Her governors all hold out their hands for their wages, without which their patriotism would shrivel up.
- Te Whiti, Maori chief, 1879
I find it so difficult not to hate; and when I do not hate I feel we few are so lonely in the world.
- Bertrand Russell, Letter to Colette, 1918
The kind of pacifism that does not actively combat the war preparations of the governments is powerless and will always stay powerless. Would that the conscience and common sense of the people awaken!
- Albert Einstein, speech in New York, December 14, 1930
Whether mankind will consciously follow the law of love, I do not know. But that need not perturb us. The law will work, just as the law of gravitation will work whether we accept it or no. And just as a scientist will work wonders out of various applications of the laws of nature, even so a man who applies the law of love with scientific precision can work greater wonders.
- Mahandas Gandhi, published in Young India, October 1, 1931
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From Nonviolence: Twenty-Five Lessons From the History of a Dangerous Idea by Mark Kurlanskey publish by The Modern Library, New York, 2006.
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Simon King
Posted: Apr 29th, 2008 at 4:07 am | Link to this
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Simon King
Posted: Apr 29th, 2008 at 4:21 am | Link to this
ReplyI did not make the above post for attention but i wanted too be true to myself as i feel that truth is a precious and rare commodity in both GOVERNMENTS and the lapdogs of THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA . Thank whatever god you believe in that sites like this exist and i implore you too get involved by either posting or spreading the word about sites like this because the way the world is being manipulated by the few information on sites like this will be the only way to be FREE!!! .
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Simon King
Posted: Apr 29th, 2008 at 6:11 am | Link to this
ReplyI have had a think mick and you are right there is nothing wrong with anger in fact its our duty to be angry at the hypocrisy of those that control us , as long as its channelled in the correct way as you say . So i have decided too keep on posting as long as i am welcome on the site , not because i am more qualified than anyone else or even more informed than any other person but because i can . I have a VOICE in fact we all have a VOICE and that VOICE SHOULD BE USED TO ITS FULL EXTENT . That voice should be used to make sure that those that would manipulate us and lie to us and try to control us should know that their crimes will NEVER GO UNNOTICED AS LONG AS THE ALT-MEDIA EXISTS and i have realised that the biggest killer to what is left of our freedoms is indeed SILENCE!!! .
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Dan Williams
Posted: Apr 29th, 2008 at 10:11 pm | Link to this
ReplyTry venting in the local newspapers, even some editors are not bought and paid for. So many people are still not on the internet, show them the truth!
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I am very new here i have commented on a few topics but did not really have a clear ideology of what this site was about . What i saw here got me very angry and i was able too vent my pent-up frustrastions about all the injustices that the US and UK governments have perpertrated on the rest of the world . But reading these words made me feel ashamed as i wanted too fight fire with fire i wanted VENGANCE which i misstook for JUSTICE . I realise now the differance between the two . I also realised that my thirst for VENGANCE made me no better than those that were responsible for the CRIMES that got me angry in the first place . I dont know if i will post again , i hope i will . THESE WORDS ARE INDEED WISE AND ALL OUR WORLD LEADERS WOULD DO WELL TOO FOLLOW THEM - IN FACT THE WORDS IN THE POST SHOULD BE MADE LAW!!! . Simon .