The Workermonkey

Tuesday, January 17, 2006

Let Us Remember 

# posted by wyldshaman @ 1/17/2006 10:16:00 AM

We can no longer afford to worship the god of hate or bow before the altar of retaliation.

Even when pressed by the demands of inner truth, men do not easily assume the task of opposing their government's policy, especially in time of war. Nor does the human spirit move without greatdifficulty against all the sympathy of conformist thought within one's own bosom and in the surrounding world. Moreover when the issues at hand seem as perplexed as they often do in the case of this dreadful conflict we are always on the verge of being mesmerized by uncertainty; but we must move on.

A true revolution of values will lay hands on the world order and say of war: "This way of settling differences is not just." This business of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation's homes with orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous drugs of hate into veins of people normally humane, of sending men home from dark and bloody battlefields physically handicapped and psychologically deranged, cannot be reconciled with wisdom, justice and love. A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.

We still have a choice today; nonviolent coexistence or violent co-annihilation.

By Rev. Martin Luther King
Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence, 4 April 1967

Full Text: http://www.nippies.com/martin_luther_king_speech.html
Listen to at(Jan 16th Show): http://www.democracynow.org/streampage.pl?issue=20060116

4 comments

I was actually thinking about this the other day. We as leaders in the world should be waging peace not war. What kind of example are we? If we can influence people with brute force, why cant we influence through peace and kindness. Sappy i know, but ideals are what discussion is all about.

By  Brancibeer, at Tuesday, January 17, 2006 12:02:00 PM  

I read about a video game (don't know if it'll be released in US) that is all about nonviolent protests and building your movement up by joining with other groups to topple a regime. It was made by the leader of the Croatian group that brought down Slobodan Milosovic. He was actually saying how half the leaders in his rebel group were avid video gamers so they made thier own.

"Q: What's the key to winning?"
"A: Stay low until you can accept a blow from the regime."

By  DJ Booze Piñata, at Tuesday, January 17, 2006 1:07:00 PM  

i dont know if anyone will look down this far, but here is the address to that Video Game: http://www.aforcemorepowerful.org/game/index.htm

By  wyldshaman, at Thursday, January 19, 2006 10:30:00 AM  

I looked down this far.

By  Damon, at Thursday, January 19, 2006 11:08:00 AM  

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