Tuesday, May 11, 2004

No Apology Necessary — Off to the Hague!

By Daniel Patrick Welch
Julia Nambalirwa-Lugudde

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  1. Bless Julia and Daniel. However, I want to focus on one enormous negative here.  Letters of personal support for troops the students know are overseas?  How about letters urging them to resist...or letters reassuring them that once they come home they’ll find ways to fight the U.S. government’s “forays” in solidarity w others?  School won’t let you?  I taught for over thirty years in various institutions that wouldn’t let teachers speak the truth about what’s going on.  The sad, challenging fact is, however, that that cannot be used as an excuse for dancing around the reality that pushes youngsters into the military.  For all the crying about how the economics of the country put youngsters into a predicament whereby they are “forced” to join...how about entertaining the notion that dancing around realities in school and elsewhere...leaving protest words for grounds that are permitted only...has every bit as much to do w why youngsters join up as the economic crunch does?  How about acknowledging that Rangel’s idea is no more going to solve this PROBLEM of the U.S. military than voting does?  How about considering what part taking risks as teachers might play in helping youngsters to avoid the military service that is so abominable?  Keep up the good work and good intentions Welch and Nambalirwa-Lugudde, but please consider pushing the envelope with the students...and I don’t mean those envelopes that have content inside that meets the approval of the powers that be at School Elementary.  Loving regards, Richard P.S.  I wrote this primarily because I noticed that you were only shelving the writing project as presently constituted “for now.”

    Posted by Richard Oxman from  on  05/12  at  09:28 AM

  2. Kudos to the important work of the Greenhouse School and their writers.

    Just as an aside, some relevant forgotten/unknown history to add yet more perspective to these scary times we live in. A while ago I watched a video taped lecture (thanks to “Democracy University” tapes) of the International Action Center-organized NATO war crimes tribunal, regarding the US onslaught of Yugoslavia in 1999. According to extensive eyewitness testimony, NUMEROUS hospitals, schools and religious sites were intentionally either strafed with bullet fire or bombed. There can be no more imaginable horrible crime than bombing a maternity hospital, can there? (luckily I believe the babies were removed safely before the attack). Of course, the bombings also caused massive environmental pollution due to the bombing of petro chemical factories etc.

    This took place under a “Democratic” administration, and we can expect more of the same under an unprincipled thuggish President Kerry. I was very disappointed but not surprised to see the so-called liberal candidate, Dennish Kucinich enthusiastically (unofficially as yet) endorse Kerry for running a “good campaign,"while working to keep those votes from being stolen by that awful guy, Ralph Nader. Shows you what a fraud the Dem party is, including most everyone who stays in it.

    Posted by Rhino Rick from  on  05/12  at  06:17 PM

  3. I’d say.  Is it going to get that bad that Kucinich is going to endorse the political weathervane?

    Posted by Tracy McLellan from  on  05/12  at  07:59 PM

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