tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30407212.post4913334583602859618..comments2023-04-11T05:13:20.921-04:00Comments on Sung a Lot of Songs: Darwin BondGrahamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08898207904227084144noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30407212.post-27281600259798660182009-01-14T16:31:00.000-05:002009-01-14T16:31:00.000-05:00You are leading us to a higher state in our evolut...You are leading us to a higher state in our evolution brother Darwin! ;-)<BR/><BR/>(I wonder why your parents name you after such a great critical thinker).<BR/><BR/><BR/>"...the ideologues behind the anti-nuclear nuclearist platform justify invasions, military strikes, economic sanctions, and perhaps even the use of nuclear weapons themselves against the "rogue states" and "terrorists" whose possession of weapons technologiesvastly less advanced than those perpetually stockpiled by the United States is deemed by the anti-nuclear nuclearists the first and foremost problem of the nuclear age."<BR/><BR/>The antidote to dismantle the hypocrisy of their imperial agendas is to expose their cognitive dissonance, because:<BR/><BR/>OUR MEANS ARE OUR ENDS.<BR/><BR/>If the U.S. wants a "world without nukes", well, let the Cold War quartet walk their talk. We want to see, _with actions_, how the University of California and its labs, for example, stop making new nuclear weapons. <BR/><BR/>RRW? Reliable Replacement Warhead? Is there such a thing as a "safer" nuclear weapon? Will the Obama administration support this fallacy? Will they baptize "RRW" with another oxymoron to try to deceive the public?<BR/><BR/>If the U.S. want "security", what about demilitarizing the streets, the Universities and stopping the support of genocide in the other side of the planet?<BR/><BR/>Until then, the double standards of the last Empire won't take us anywhere.<BR/><BR/>"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." Martin Luther King Jr.<BR/><BR/>We all are Chiapas! We all are Atenco! We all are Oaxaca! We all are New Orleans! We all are Oakland! We all are Gaza!<BR/><BR/>Perhaps, we can give the Obama team (which seems to be not "change" but more "continuity") the benefit of the doubt AND be ready to escalate our civil disobedience.<BR/><BR/>"The battle...has to begin here. In America (the U.S.). The only institution more powerful than the U.S. government is American civil society. The rest of us are subjects of slave nations. We are by no means powerless, but you have the power of proximity. You have access to the Imperial Palace and the Emperor's chambers. Empire's conquests are being carried out in your name." -- Arundhati Roy<BR/><BR/>"Ultimately the creation of a new paradigm in the contemporary society is essentially, not about putting the right kind of people in power, but the right kind of power in people." --Michael Nagler<BR/><BR/>Yes we can! as Cesar Chavez said ;-)<BR/><BR/>The antidote for the reactionary/retrograde goals of nuclearists, again: OUR MEANS ARE ENDS ON THE MAKING.<BR/><BR/>Love you brother Darwin! :-)<BR/><BR/>If you want to be a rebel, be kind. Human-kind, be both.<BR/>Pancho<BR/><BR/><BR/>PS: Powerful paragraph! Well done!<BR/><BR/>"Perhaps the Obama administration will undertake a more visionary and just campaign to eliminate nuclear weapons? The incoming president could reintroduce the CTBT, nix the RRW and any new weapons designs, cut the nuclear weapons budget in half, stop construction of the plutonium bomb pit factory in New Mexico, close one of the weapons labs, and downsize the entire nuclear weapons complex. Obama could dismantle the profit-driven system of contracts that have made such powerful lobbying interests out of firms with government nuclear contracts. His administration could enjoin talks toward implementing Article VI of the NPT. He could go against the explicitly pro-nuclear power Energy secretary he appointed and enact a ban on new nuclear power development. Continuinity of the status quo, however, is altogether more likely. Hope and change, as this election showed, are possible, but only if those who desire it unconditionally demand it."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com