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Visto che domani e' Martin Luther King day
http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0116-22.htm
10 Things Martin Luther King Would have Done about Iraq
by Juan Cole
Every year we honor Martin, and we hear again his stirring sppech, "I
have a Dream." But in many ways, that speech is among the least
challenging of his charges to us, however hard and unfulfilled it
remains. He dreamed other dreams, of the end of exploitative
materialism and relentless militarism, of an America devoted to social
justice and creative non-violence, which our mainstream media do not
dare repeat over and over again.
We do not have Martin among us to guide us with his wisdom. But it is
not hard to extrapolate from his "Beyond Vietnam" address of 1967 to
what he would think about the Iraq morass.
He would say we have to treat with the Sunni Arabs and the Shiite
Sadrists. We have to treat with the enemy. Not only for their sakes,
for the sake of ruined cities like Fallujah and Tal Afar, and those to
come-- but for our own sakes.
1. Martin urged the end of the offensive bombing raids.
    ' Number one: End all bombing in North and South Vietnam. '
The US has increased the number of its bombing raids in Iraq from 25 a
month last summer to 150 in December. Bombing raids are very bad
counter-insurgency tactics and should be rethought.
2. Martin suggested that the US begin, on its own account, a cease
fire.
    ' Number two: Declare a unilateral cease-fire in the hope that such
action will create the atmosphere for negotiation. '
3. He urged that the widening of the war be stopped:
    ' Three: Take immediate steps to prevent other battlegrounds in
Southeast Asia by curtailing our military buildup in Thailand and our
interference in Laos. '
If we applied that to Iraq, I think it implies that the US should seek
better relations with Syria and Iran and cease menacing the latter with
an air attack.
4. He insisted that the US recognize the widespread political support
for the NLF:
    ' Four: Realistically accept the fact that the National Liberation
Front has substantial support in South Vietnam and must thereby play a
role in any meaningful negotiations and any future Vietnam government.
'
With regard to Iraq, this principle would imply that the US should
recognize that the Neo-Baath Arab nationalist leaders, the Salafi Sunni
revivalists, and local guerrilla chiefs have genuine popular support
among Sunni Arabs, and cannot be shut out of the new order. (Note that
some 150 candidates who ran in the Dec. 15 elections were excluded
after the fact by the debaathification committee controlled by Ahmad
Chalabi.) The Cairo Conference held last fall was a step toward this
recognition, and acknowledged the right to mount a resistance to
foreign military occupation. The work of the conference must be
continued.
5. Martin supported a timetable for withdrawing US troops.
    Five: Set a date that we will remove all foreign troops from
Vietnam in accordance with the 1954 Geneva Agreement. [sustained
applause]
Iraqi Sunni parties, as well as the Shiite fundamentalist bloc of
Muqtada al-Sadr, have demanded that the US set a timetable for
withdrawal. Some 120 Iraqi parliamentarians out of 275 called for it
last year. The new parliament may well have a majority that supports
it.
These five principles are not the only ones that can be extrapolated
from Martin's sermon. They concern more tactics than over-arching
strategy. Here are some principles of strategy that he mentioned:
6. It is necessary to understand the common people among the "enemy" if
anything is to be accomplished:
    ' And as I ponder the madness of Vietnam and search within myself
for ways to understand and respond in compassion, my mind goes
constantly to the people of that peninsula. I speak now not of the
soldiers of each side, not of the ideologies of the Liberation Front,
not of the junta in Saigon, but simply of the people who have been
living under the curse of war for almost three continuous decades now.
I think of them, too, because it is clear to me that there will be no
meaningful solution there until some attempt is made to know them and
hear their broken cries. They must see Americans as strange liberators.
'
7. Concern to save US troops from creeping cynicism must be paramount:
    ' I am as deeply concerned about our own troops there as anything
else. For it occurs to me that what we are submitting them to in
Vietnam is not simply the brutalizing process that goes on in any war
where armies face each other and seek to destroy. We are adding
cynicism to the process of death, for they must know after a short
period there that none of the things we claim to be fighting for are
really involved. Before long they must know that their government has
sent them into a struggle among Vietnamese, and the more sophisticated
surely realize that we are on the side of the wealthy, and the secure,
while we create a hell for the poor. '
In Iraq, too, virtually "none of the things we claim to be fighting for
are really involved." Not weapons of mass destruction, not
international terrorism, not Swedish style democracy, not social
justice, are actually on the agenda of the present administration.
8. The initiative belongs to the US:
    ' Somehow this madness must cease. We must stop now. I speak as a
child of God and brother to the suffering poor of Vietnam. I speak for
those whose land is being laid waste, whose homes are being destroyed,
whose culture is being subverted. I speak for the poor of America who
are paying the double price of smashed hopes at home, and dealt death
and corruption in Vietnam. I speak as a citizen of the world, for the
world as it stands aghast at the path we have taken. I speak as one who
loves America, to the leaders of our own nation: The great initiative
in this war is ours; the initiative to stop it must be ours. '
Likewise, in the Sunni Arab heartland, homes are being destroyed and
culture subverted.
9. A revolution in American values away from consumer materialism and
militarism is needed if we are not to go on having one Vietnam after
another:
    The war in Vietnam is but a symptom of a far deeper malady within
the American spirit, and if we ignore this sobering reality [applause],
and if we ignore this sobering reality, we will find ourselves
organizing "clergy and laymen concerned" committees for the next
generation. They will be concerned about Guatemala and Peru. They will
be concerned about Thailand and Cambodia. They will be concerned about
Mozambique and South Africa. We will be marching for these and a dozen
other names and attending rallies without end unless there is a
significant and profound change in American life and policy . . .
    Increasingly, by choice or by accident, this is the role our nation
has taken, the role of those who make peaceful revolution impossible by
refusing to give up the privileges and the pleasures that come from the
immense profits of overseas investments. I am convinced that if we are
to get on the right side of the world revolution, we as a nation must
undergo a radical revolution of values. We must rapidly begin
[applause], we must rapidly begin the shift from a thing-oriented
society to a person-oriented society. When machines and computers,
profit motives and property rights, are considered more important than
people, the giant triplets of racism, extreme materialism, and
militarism are incapable of being conquered . . .
    A true revolution of values will soon look uneasily on the glaring
contrast of poverty and wealth. With righteous indignation, it will
look across the seas and see individual capitalists of the West
investing huge sums of money in Asia, Africa, and South America, only
to take the profits out with no concern for the social betterment of
the countries, and say, "This is not just . . ."
    A true revolution of values will lay hand 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 the veins of peoples 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.
[sustained applause]
10. Love and justice, not aggression and exploitation, hold the real
hope for a peaceful and prosperous future:
    ' This call for a worldwide fellowship that lifts neighborly
concern beyond one's tribe, race, class, and nation is in reality a
call for an all-embracing and unconditional love for all mankind. This
oft misunderstood, this oft misinterpreted concept, so readily
dismissed by the Nietzsches of the world as a weak and cowardly force,
has now become an absolute necessity for the survival of man. When I
speak of love I am not speaking of some sentimental and weak response.
I'm not speaking of that force which is just emotional bosh. I am
speaking of that force which all of the great religions have seen as
the supreme unifying principle of life. Love is somehow the key that
unlocks the door which leads to ultimate reality. This
Hindu-Muslim-Christian-Jewish-Buddhist belief about ultimate reality is
beautifully summed up in the first epistle of Saint John: "Let us love
one another (Yes), for love is God. (Yes) And every one that loveth is
born of God and knoweth God. He that loveth not knoweth not God, for
God is love. . . . If we love one another, God dwelleth in us and his
love is perfected in us." Let us hope that this spirit will become the
order of the day. '
Note that Martin recognized love as the principle that all the great
religions saw as the "supreme unifying principle of life," including
Islam. His religious universalism might be a starting point for
Americans to rethink the Islamophobia that has become so widespread.
We cannot in any simplistic way extract a template from Martin's sermon
that we can apply to Iraq today. We can, however, explore his wisdom
for inspiration in how to go foward, end the quagmire, and make amends
for the horrors of the way we have waged this illegal war of choice.

 by Juan Cole
Poveraccio di un Martin Luther King.  Essere abusato della sua figura da
un *COGLIONE* come Juan Cole....
-Stefano

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DI sicuro ha scritto questo
". . . You declare, my friend, that you do not hate the Jews, you are
merely 'anti-Zionist.' And I say, let the truth ring forth from the
high mountain tops, let it echo through the valleys of God's green
earth: When people criticize Zionism, they mean Jews--this is God's
own truth.
"Antisemitism, the hatred of the Jewish people, has been and remains a
blot on the soul of mankind. In this we are in full agreement. So know
also this: anti-Zionist is inherently antisemitic, and ever will be
so.
"Why is this? You know that Zionism is nothing less than the dream and
ideal of the Jewish people returning to live in their own land. The
Jewish people, the Scriptures tell us, once enjoyed a flourishing
Commonwealth in the Holy Land. From this they were expelled by the
Roman tyrant, the same Romans who cruelly murdered Our Lord. Driven
from their homeland, their nation in ashes, forced to wander the
globe, the Jewish people time and again suffered the lash of whichever
tyrant happened to rule over them.
"The Negro people, my friend, know what it is to suffer the torment of
tyranny under rulers not of our choosing. Our brothers in Africa have
begged, pleaded, requested--DEMANDED the recognition and realization
of our inborn right to live in peace under our own sovereignty in our
own country.
"How easy it should be, for anyone who holds dear this inalienable
right of all mankind, to understand and support the right of the
Jewish People to live in their ancient Land of Israel. All men of good
will exult in the fulfilment of God's promise, that his People should
return in joy to rebuild their plundered land.
This is Zionism, nothing more, nothing less.
"And what is anti-Zionist? It is the denial to the Jewish people of a
fundamental right that we justly claim for the people of Africa and
freely accord all other nations of the Globe. It is discrimination
against Jews, my friend, because they are Jews. In short, it is
antisemitism.
"The antisemite rejoices at any opportunity to vent his malice. The
times have made it unpopular, in the West, to proclaim openly a hatred
of the Jews. This being the case, the antisemite must constantly seek
new forms and forums for his poison. How he must revel in the new
masquerade! He does not hate the Jews, he is just 'anti-Zionist'!
"My friend, I do not accuse you of deliberate antisemitism. I know you
feel, as I do, a deep love of truth and justice and a revulsion for
racism, prejudice, and discrimination. But I know you have been
misled--as others have been--into thinking you can be 'anti-Zionist'
and yet remain true to these heartfelt principles that you and I
share.
Let my words echo in the depths of your soul: When people criticize
Zionism, they mean Jews--make no mistake about it."
    From M.L. King Jr., "Letter to an Anti-Zionist Friend," Saturday
Review_XLVII (Aug. 1967), p. 76.
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Figuriamoci come interprete dei pensieri di un cadavere...
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 Review_XLVII (Aug. 1967), p. 76.
Ora arriva il pippone di giorgino sulla falsificazione di Martin Luther King, ti 
avverto.
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 own truth.
No, sembra proprio che NON l'abbia scritto:
http://electronicintifada.net/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi/10/2356
L'intero articolo va letto.
GT

 L'intero articolo va letto.
ROTFL. Cosa ho vinto?
L'ho già discusso e sminuzzato tempo fa.
Google è amico.
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Google è amico.
Letto tutto..Giorgino è un profeta dell'uso anticonformista delle
fonti. 
MMAX
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 L'ho già discusso e sminuzzato tempo fa.
Insomma, la lettera e' una bufala.   il "discorso di Harvard", e'
misteriosamente passato inosservato a Harvard, o dappertutto tranne da
un congressista filo-Israeliano, quando tutti i discorsi di MLK sono
pubblicati parola per parola.
ROTFL.
GT

 Insomma, la lettera e' una bufala
Giorgino, google è tuo amico.
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No, sembra proprio che NON l'abbia scritto:
http://www.camera.org/index.asp?x_context=8&x_article=369
Ma sembra che abbia detto le stesse cose ad Harward nel 1968.
Riprova, sarai piu' fortunato.
-Stefano

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No, probabilmente non le ha dette neanche a "Harward":
http://electronicintifada.net/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi/10/2356
Congressman Lewis claims Dr. King made this comment "shortly before his
death" during "an appearance at Harvard." Lipset states it was "shortly
before he was assassinated" at a "dinner given for him in Cambridge."
This quotation seems on its face much more credible. Yet, SPME presents
snippets from the fake letter while apparently citing this statement (a
1968 "speech" at Harvard).
There are still, however, a few reasons for casting doubt on the
authenticity of this statement. According to the Harvard Crimson, "The
Rev. Martin Luther King was last in Cambridge almost exactly a year
ago--April 23, 1967" ("While You Were Away" 4/8/68). If this is true,
Dr. King could not have been in Cambridge in 1968. Lipset stated he was
in the area for a "fund-raising mission," which would seem to imply a
high profile visit. Also, an intensive inventory of publications by
Stanford University's Martin Luther King Jr. Papers Project accounts
for numerous speeches in 1968. None of them are for talks in Cambridge
or Boston.
GT

 L'ho già discusso e sminuzzato tempo fa.
Sai che hai ragione? Non mi ero accorto che quel *COGLIONE* di Torrieri
a distanza di un anno ripubblica la stessa merda di Juan Cole.
In ogni caso
http://www.camera.org/index.asp?x_context=8&x_article=369
-Stefano


http://electronicintifada.net/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi/10/2356
Scusami ma della merda di ElectronicIntifada al limite mi ci posso
pulire il culo :)
-Stefano

 misteriosamente passato inosservato 
Cazzata. Studia meglio.
Magari anche fuori da Ihatethefuchinzionists.com
I link li hai avuti.
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E la faccia... che tanto son la stessa cosa :)

E la faccia... che tanto son la stessa cosa :)
...disse il bue all'asino...
-Stefano