Vegetarian pacifist on C Span

[Guest guest]

Tax resisters don't want to fund war

 

BLESSED ARE THE PEACEMAKERS

THE GATHERING VOICES OF PEACE IN US

 

Colman McCarthy, peace teacher on C Span now..

about nonviolence in war, prison and diet

 

McCarthy is a syndicated writer for Wash

Post and former Trappist monk

 

He said the US spends more on war in 1 day

than on the Peace Corps in an entire year..

11,000 dollars a second on violent war

 

... a military budget many times greater

than those of our 'enemies' combined

 

' we demonize and victimize'.. ' we are the

world's wealthiest nation bombing one of

the poorest'

 

' we need to ask forgiveness of all we have

bombed'

 

Cheney, George Will, Pat Buchanan, Bush

... none of them went to war. Cheney got 5

deferments

 

Pacifists include Jesus Christ, Buddha,

 

Jane Adams and Jeannette Rankin, Muhammad Ali,

(re war) the Catholic

Worker, Dorothy Day, Harriet Beecher Stowe,

Susan B Anthony, Mahatma Gandhi, Avatar Krishna,

St Francis of Assisi, St Martin De Porres,

Dr Martin Luther King

 

The Center For Defense Information says the

US is the largest arms merchant in the world.

 

" When is a peace voice going to be on the

network to balance all the retired generals? "

" Israel has a long history of human rights

abuses "

 

 

2501 Van Ness NW

Wash DC 20016

202 537 1372

Center For Teaching Peace

 

ready with curriculums for the schools

 

" Do you want to choose hate or reconciliation..

the choice is yours " (paraphrased)

 

" Pacifism is not passivism "

 

We have bombed 20 nations since 1945

 

Martin Luther King: Our government is the

leading purveyor of violence in the world

 

(Lew Regenstein, former VP of Fund For Animals: I saw

Colman eating an apple at a fancy dinner in Washington..

surrounded by steaks)

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