We Shall Overcome (?)

[judecorp]

rizzo41 and I are headed into the City with a bag full of toiletries and toothbrushes. It's not much, but it's something.

It will be the first time I've walked through Manhattan since.

It will also be the last time before I go back to icky Ohio.

W. is telling the military to "get ready." I don't like this. Doesn't anyone THINK about what this will do? Do we have to make this into a "holy war"? Does he not see that he's playing directly into The Script?

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Re: In conjecture and fantasy

[yarnaddict.livejournal.com]

I don't see how just loving these madmen who hate enough to do what they did is going to keep them from doing it again. Turning the other cheek is going to get us nothing but a bruised other cheek.

Re: In conjecture and fantasy

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Those words are easy to say, but hard to justify. So are these: "An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth leaves us eyeless and toothless."

There's really no way of knowing either way. But I think I'm not making myself clear (I got 1.5 hours sleep.) I'm not saying that we should blow kisses to Osama bin Laden. I'm simply saying that if we all loved each other to begin with, people wouldn't feel alienated. And if people didn't feel alienated, they wouldn't have to go to extreme measures to get their voices heard.

The people who flew those planes into the buildings were trying to speak to us. It's just a shame that their message wasn't one of love. They probably never received one from us.

Proactive love. Reactive love is good, I suppose, but proactive is always more effective than reactive.