Unspeakable

There aren't strong enough words of condemnation for this.

Or this.

Road of Good Intentions, John Gorka

I posted this some time ago, but it bears another look, especially on this most sober of anniversaries.

And please, let's not forget that this is also the anniversary of the bloody 1974 CIA led overthrow of the democratically elected government of Chilé.

We can't afford another war.

No War With Iran, No War Period

This is from Catherine Whitmire's Practicing Peace: A Devotional Walk Through the Quaker Tradition.

E. Raymond Wilson, one of the founders of Friends Committee on National Legislation, is said to have commented: "If you open your toolbox, and the only thing in it is a hammer, everything will look like a nail." ... We don't spend one percent of [our federal budget] -- not one percent of that -- on peace. So everytime we open our toolbox, the only thing, as a country, that we have are weapons ... If the only thing in your toolbox is a weapon, then the only thing you can think of to do is hit the nail. Everything will look like a nail.

Mary Lord, 2004

And I'll just add, if every time you hit the nail, you, your friends, your daddy, or your daddy's friends get even richer, there is not a lot of incentive to dig a little deeper in the toolbox to find the other tools. I believe it is an essential piece of the solution that Congress outlaws war profiteering. Not that I think they will or that this despotic administration would care even if they did.

Months ago I posted about Mark Kurlansky's book, Nonviolence. I urge you to look up the book and read it. Individual by individual, we can pick up and work with a different set of tools.