...Brock, Pacifism in the United States 359 (1968); see M. Hirst, The...
The winner of the 2009 Tony Award for best musical revival, "Hair," is now playing at the Pantages Theatre in Hollywood until Jan. 23. It is the story of a group of hopeful, free-spirited young people who advocate a lifestyle of pacifism and free love in a society riddled with intolerance and brutality during the Vietnam War. It was a lightning rod for New York's hippie subculture.
The ghost of Neville Chamberlain is haunting Europe, preaching pacifism and appeasement and promising "peace in our time" in the war against terrorism. This is the that rose out of the wreckage, blood and body parts in the Madrid train station bombing on the eve of Spain's national elections - that had all the hallmarks of al Qaeda at work. When the smoke cleared and the votes were cast, the terrorists had won their first major political victory on the European Continent.
Tip O'Neill, the former speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, once said that all politics are local. He just didn't realize how local. Try genetically local or personality local. It seems that politics are biological. According to the Sept. 19 issue of Science, the journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Douglas Oxley, et. al., showed it is how a person responds to "sudden noises and threatening visual images" that determines the probability of a traditional liberal-conservative split to a variety of topics. Support for either defense spending, capital punishment, patriotism, the Iraq war or foreign aid, liberal immigration policies, pacifism and gun control were determined by a physiological response. Go figure.
Recently, there has been a spate of nasty letters about the administration and the current war. They were written mostly by those who have never experienced war, nor understand its necessity. I have been there, and fully appreciate the horror of war, and understand that there are monsters in this world. One bit us Sept. 11, 2001. There is a moral trap between pacifism and the amoral proverb that, in love and war, anything goes. Questions about war and warfare must be subjected to moral scrutiny. But there is a limit to discussion and when to take action. In retrospect, we have learned many things we do not like. The outrage of Abu Ghraib demonstrates that we have amoral, if not immoral, people in our midst. We must be careful that what we condemn we do not perform.
Alternatives to violence can work I don't disagree with much John M. Crisp says in his Aug. 30 Viewpoint column "Mennonites have right to conviction," regarding the decision at Goshen College to play "America the Beautiful" rather than "The Star-Spangled Banner" at athletic events. But when he writes "I'm not sure . the principle of pacifism is entirely realistic," some vital historical evidence is ignored. He seems to imply that we should be respectful of Mennonites and others who choose alternatives to violence, but that we should not take alternatives to war and violence too seriously.
In Washington, there now stands a new memorial: a 30-foot-tall granite statue of Martin Luther King Jr. overlooking the Tidal Basin. For decades, liberals and some conservatives have deified King as the last of the Founding Fathers, a man whose opposition to Jim Crow embodied the culmination of the Declaration of Independence's promise of individual liberty and equal rights for all Americans, regardless of race. This is only partly true: King helped to both liberate and further hold back black Americans. Undoubtedly, King deserves much praise. He spearheaded a noble movement that eventually achieved true justice and individual freedoms for blacks in the segregated South. Today, it is hard to imagine the intense level of racial hatred and institutionalized discrimination blacks faced on ...
...He promoted socialism, pacifism and the appeasement of totalitarian communism. He ...
..., Luke's journey has moved closer to "pacifism," a position of active "non-violence." By this, pr...
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