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| - | ====== Politics ====== | + | ====== World Peace ====== |
| - | It seems to me that Americans could save money, lives and reputation by having a more peaceful foreign policy. | + | |
| - | I spent $US 3,000 of my own money on an ad for America's biggest //anti-war// presidential candidate, [[http://www.ronpaul.com|Ron Paul]]. | + | ===Feel free to share this=== |
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| - | I [[http://www.bellinghamherald.com/2012/03/01/2417622/letter-hopes-democrats-will-vote.html#storylink=misearch|cajoled]] my neighbors to vote for him, and said those who didn't left me feeling like [[http://www.bellinghamherald.com/2012/05/16/2523149/unhappy-county-gop-didnt-back.html#storylink=misearch|the meat in an imbecile sandwich]]. | + | ==== Do something nice for Iraq (for a change) ==== |
| + | Instead of a normal birthday gift, ask people to give some money in your name to [[https://www.mercycorps.org/countries/iraq|Mercy Corps]] for Iraqis. My mom did. | ||
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| + | [[https://www.mercycorps.org/countries/iraq|{{ :mercy_corps.png?300 |}}]] | ||
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| + | ==== Campaign for anti-war candidates ==== | ||
| + | I spent $US 3,000 of my own money on an ad for America's biggest **//anti-war//** presidential candidate, [[http://www.ronpaul.com|Ron Paul]]. | ||
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| + | I [[http://www.bellinghamherald.com/2012/03/01/2417622/letter-hopes-democrats-will-vote.html#storylink=misearch|cajoled]] my neighbors to vote for him, and [[http://www.bellinghamherald.com/2012/05/16/2523149/unhappy-county-gop-didnt-back.html#storylink=misearch|ridiculed]] those who didn't. | ||
| He won in my county in 2008.\\ | He won in my county in 2008.\\ | ||
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| + | ==== Rally opposing war with Syria ==== | ||
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| + | ==== The beauty of a neutral foreign policy ==== | ||
| + | I admire Switzerland's neutral foreign policy. I expect it helps them live in peace, stay [[http://en.worldstat.info/Europe/Switzerland/Civil_Liberties|free]] and [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_in_Europe_by_monthly_average_wage|prosper]]. Unfortunately, it evidently began only after a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Marignano|rare military defeat]]. {{ peace:swiss_neutrality.gif }} | ||
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| + | I can imagine two more reasons for Swiss neutrality. | ||
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| + | - It's an [[http://worldmilitaryintel.blogspot.com/2013/05/blog-post_9655.html|alpine fortress]], so they're less likely to be attacked. My understanding is that tunnels are booby trapped with explosives, tank traps are built into highways, modern homes have no-nonsense bomb shelters, all men must serve in the reserves and there are thousands of underground military installations. It's like a big porcupine. | ||
| + | - The [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Council_%28Switzerland%29|government's executive branch]] is seven people, instead of one. This deters a power hungry president from starting a war. | ||
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| + | ==== A looooong running peace vigil ==== | ||
| + | {{:bellingham_peace_activism.png?700}} | ||
| + | {{ bellingham_whatcom_peace_vigil.png:?300 }} | ||
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| + | ==== History behind America's wars ==== | ||
| + | [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04P4zPzspuI|{{:dwight_eisenhower.png?200 |}}]] | ||
| + | [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04P4zPzspuI|On April 16, 1953, U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower said:]] | ||
| + | Every gun that is made, every warship launched, | ||
| + | every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, | ||
| + | a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, | ||
| + | those who are cold and not clothed. This world in | ||
| + | arms is not spending money alone. It is spending | ||
| + | the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its | ||
| + | scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not | ||
| + | a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the | ||
| + | cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging | ||
| + | from a cross of iron. | ||
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| + | [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TY2DKzastu8|{{ :wesley_clark.png?200 |}}]] | ||
| + | [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TY2DKzastu8|On October 3, 2007, U.S. General Wesley Clark said:]] | ||
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| + | I went through the Pentagon ten days after | ||
| + | 9/11 and an officer from the Joint Staff called | ||
| + | me into his office and said | ||
| + | > I would want you to know, sir, we are going to attack Iraq. | ||
| + | Why? | ||
| + | > We don’t know. | ||
| + | Will they tie Saddam to 9/11? | ||
| + | > No | ||
| + | I came back to the Pentagon about six weeks | ||
| + | later, I saw the same officer, I said why | ||
| + | haven’t we attacked Iraq? | ||
| + | > oh sir, it’s worse than that. I just got this memo from the Secretary of Defense’s | ||
| + | > office, it says we are going to attack and destroy the governments in in seven countries in | ||
| + | > five years. We are going to start with Iraq and then we are going to move to Syria, Lebanon, | ||
| + | > Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Iran | ||
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| + | [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3_EXqJ8f-0|{{:smedley_butler.png?200 |}}]] | ||
| + | [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3_EXqJ8f-0|In the 1930s, two time Congressional Medal of Honor recipient and Major General Smedley Butler said:]] | ||
| + | > WAR is a racket. It always has been. | ||