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

[E. Crockett]

--- Steve Consilvio <steve at behappyandfree.com> wrote:

> 
> 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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