From: covici@ccs.covici.com (John Covici)
Reply-To: covici@ccs.covici.com
Newsgroups: alt.activism,bit.listserv.catholic
Subject: Re: If You Want to Feedd Somalia -- You Must Demand Development!!
Date: 13 Dec 92 18:28:46 GMT
Organization: Covici Computer Systems

met48546@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Marc E. Talbot @ University of Illinois at Urbana) once wrote....
>covici@ccs.covici.com (John Covici) writes:
>
>
>>                - If You Want to Feed Somalia, -
>>                - You Must Demand Development! -
>
>[stuff about Somalia and Africa deleted]
>
>>               - The Development Program -
>>   With development, Somalia could be feeding itself today. The
>>United States should implement the following action program.
>>  1. Food must be brought to people, not the people to the
>>food. Special trucks and overland transport vehicles are
>>required. Food must be delivered together with the means of
>>transport.
>
>Um, who's paying for this?  Trucks are expensive.


For details as to "who pays" see another posting in this thread and 
the documentation mentioned in that article.  I must say that we are 
supposed to be a Christian country and "who pays" should not be the 
first question which comes to our minds.
>>   2. U.S. soldiers must not only deliver food supplies, but
>>begin immediate construction of roads and bridges for lasting
>>infrastructure. U.S. soldiers must act like a corps of
>>engineers, building, not killing. The U.S military deployment
>>must not be used as a pretext to set up a new colonial
>>protectorate system, nor to establish a new U.S military base in
>>Mogadishu.
>
>I agree with the last sentence, but roads and bridges are expensive.
>Who's paying?  I have a few other priorities for my tax dollars, as well
>as my charitable donations.
>
>>   3. Africa's debt must be frozen or cancelled. During
>>1986-91, Africa paid out more money to the International Monetary
>>Fund (IMF) than it received! It is like sucking blood to take any
>>debt payments from starving people.
>
>All of Africa is not starving.  Once again this is a VERY costly solution.
>Is the US government going to bribe banks to cancel loans?

Again, see my other article.  The banking system needs to be 
reorganized along "American system" lines.  By "American system" I
mean a modern version of the economic proposals of Lincoln, the 
Careys, etc. which made the United States the industrial power it is 
today.  For further details, see other postings on alt.activism "Why 
The British Had to Kill Lincoln" which can be found in 
red.css.idt.umish.edu in directory poly/larouche .

... stuff deleted ...
>The LaRouche independent party (?) is not even remotely reputable or
>reliable.  In 1986 in Illinois, when two Larouche candidates wormed their
>way onto the ballot as democrats, the democratic candidate for governor
>removed himself from the democratic ballot because he "refused to run on the
>same ticket as Neo-Nazis" (his words, not mine).

So what -- is there anything Nazi about this leaflet?  If you think 
so, say what it is.
>>   "Today, we suffer mass destruction, because yesterday, we
>>did not lay the foundation for reconstruction. In the midst of
>>this nightmare, even the best minds seek magical solutions.
>>However, no stable construction, or reconstruction, can proceed
>>from anything less than a properly conceived and correctly laid
>>base.
>>   With the fundamental principles that undergird a working,
>>constitutional-democratic republic under attack and uprooted in
>>our nation, we as a nation cannot give constitutional, or moral
>>leadership. So, we offer brute force, and another form of
>>colonial rule.
>>   Now in this crisis, if African-Americans do not work for the
>>constitutional rights of the African people, I would say they
>>were hard pressed to prove they are not anti-African, and
>>anti-American. If Christians refuse a Christian economy to
>>Africa, are they not anti-Christian?
>
>As a Christian am I obligated to give to every beggar on the street?
>It might get difficult to walk through Manhattan.

Don't be rediculous!  You are your brother's keeper, however -- the 
crisis in Africa and the one at home are one and the same.
>>   Who are you? And which side are you on? Let it not be said
>>of you that ``ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have
>>lost its savour, wherewith shall it be salted? It is thenceforth
>>good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden underfoot
>>of men.''
>>I call on statesmen, religious leaders, and labor,
>>community, and student leaders, to come together to forge a new,
>>constitutional self-hood and nationhood document, that can serve
>>as a catalyst and guide to a new thrust for freedom and justice.
>>This should use the principles and methods that are in keeping
>>with the freedom and justice sought.
>>   If we react to the present-day destruction, rather than lay
>>a foundation, then tomorrow there will be another reaction,
>>rather than reconstruction."
>
>>Leaflet of The Schiller Institute.

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         John Covici
          covici@ccs.covici.com

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