[GJM] #851, An Open Letter to Ron Paul And Lew Rockwell, In Behalf of Ron Paul.

[Steve Consilvio]

On ThursdayJan 3, 2008, at 3:11 PM, discussion- 
request at globaljusticemovement.net wrote:

> For Catholics, the following points
>         might be mentioned: Ron?s views are
>         fully compatible with Catholic just war
>         theory,


The "just war" theory is an intellectual farce.  It is a "just war"  
that Osama argues in his Letter to America.  It is a "just war" that  
Jefferson argues in the Declaration of Independence.  It is a "just  
war" that Hitler argued, as well as Stalin and Mao.  Fear, and the  
lust for power, are the continuing rational for war, and all violence  
is seen as "just" by the violent.  Even Timothy McVeigh, Charles  
Manson and the Unibomber view their violence as "just."  Every stone- 
thrower believes he is just.

Even Kucinich, the only real peace candidate, whose slogan is  
"Strength through Peace," repeats this babble of a "just war."  He  
tries to wrap himself in the same Constitutional hypocrisy that has  
governed every nation.  The blind lead the blind.  Lincoln was "just"  
when he slaughtered Americans and Natives alike.  Always the claim is  
that the ends will justify the means, and that might is on the side  
of right.

Every fascist has a gun in one hand and a piece of paper in the  
other.  The paper gives him the right to kill, and he either wrote it  
or interpreted it to say that his killing is "just."

What kind of justice is it that says one man should live and another  
should die?

Fear and pride rule the world.  Fear leads men to kill, and pride  
leads men to repeat their mistakes.  The thing that men are most  
proud of is their killing and how they "conquered" their fears.  In  
fact, in victory they fall deeper into the abyss.  Only the most  
ruthless are victorious.

Every war starts as a civil war.  The rebel and the tyrant are the  
same person.  Men battle their mirror and their own hypocrisy, not evil.

The world is flowing rivers of blood from "just" wars, and the only  
thing that will stop them is mercy and compassion; the courage not to  
kill.
If men have no mercy for others, then they will harvest the sword.   
We reap what we sow.  We can live and die by the sword, or live and  
die by the word.  Either way, hypocrisy does not fit into a label.   
To campaign that Ron Paul is as good a hypocrite as others is hardly  
a prescient argument.

peace,
Steve Consilvio
www.behappyandfree.com
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