Klarinet Archive - Posting 000276.txt from 2006/03

From: Laurence Beckhardt <lbeckhardt@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Remarks on Tom Fox......
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 18:43:08 -0500

The balance and "perspective" that Dan L. claimed to
be offering (not HIS opinion, of course) is known
today as "Swift Boating."

I've seen it done to decorated war veterans, even ones
that were double amputees. I hadn't yet seen it done
to a tortured and dead person.

Thank you for your post, Walter.

--- GrabnerWG@-----.com wrote:

> Published on Sunday, March 12, 2006 by
> CommonDreams.org
> To the Family of Tom Fox and to the Christian
> Peacemaker Teams
> by Cindy Sheehan
>
> To the family of Tom Fox and to the Christian
> Peacemaker Teams:
> My heart is breaking for Mr. Fox's family and for
> the world. This is a dark
> day for peace and justice. The loss of a man of the
> stature of Tom Fox and
> the loss of his voice for peace and reconciliation
> is a tragedy for our country
> which operates so often from a paradigm of violence.
> Every voice for peace
> is imperative and needed.
>
> I am always told that I am brave, but what I do
> pales weakly in comparison
> with the actions of Tom Fox and the Christian
> Peacemakers who put their actual
> lives on the line everyday to make the world a
> better place and to save
> lives of our brothers and sisters who are in danger.
>
> Jesus said: "To give up one's life for a friend,
> there is no greater love
> than this," (John 15:13). This is the same Gospel
> passage that was read at my
> son, Casey's, funeral. Jesus went on to say that it
> is even more sacred to
> give up your life for people you don't even know.
> Tom lived his life out of his moral center and gave
> freely of his life to
> save lives of people he would probably never meet.
>
> Now, the world is begging for the safe release of
> the other three Christian
> Peacemakers who are still held hostage. The way to
> peace is not violence. The
> way to peace is only through peace and a respect for
> all life. The killing
> of Tom Fox does nothing to foster peace in the
> Middle East but can be used for
> a renewed call for the immediate withdrawal of all
> coalition troops from
> Iraq so the people of Iraq can rebuild their lives
> and their country. So the
> killing of innocents and our American troops can
> stop.
>
> I did not want my son's death to be exploited to
> justify more deaths in Iraq
> and I am sure Tom and his family would agree. It is
> past time for the cycle
> of violence and killing to stop.
> It is time for we peacemakers and peace activists
> from around the world to
> join our hands and our voices together to demand an
> end to the violence and
> killing.
>
> Tom Fox and his selfless sacrifice for humanity make
> me proud to be a human
> being. I just wish such a holy act of sacrifice was
> not necessary or required
> of Tom.
> Tom is at peace now, I pray for this peace for Tom's
> family and for our
> world.
>
> In Peace and Solidarity,
>
> Cindy Sheehan and Gold Star Families for Peace.
>
>
>
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