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Re: Please vote HARRY BRAUN for President
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Oct 4, 2004 12:06 PM
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> Well, Jimmy, not much can come from yelling over such
> historic phenomena.
>
> While showing that the bomb would indeed work, with
> then unknown consequences, with the certain knowledge
> of what had just occurred in and around Okinawa, with
> the mounting casualties and death on all sides, with
> projections into the millions, with the uncertainties
> surrounding the construction of shocking new weapon
> systems within the arsenals of Japan and Germany,
> including the real possibility of nuclear, rocketry
> and jet air power, all of this, being considered
> together with the emerging possibility of Stalinist
> Communism dominating eastern Europe, certainly
> figured into showing what we had, and what it was
> capable of doing.
>
> With even imperfect hindsight being 20/20 historians
> today can argue what instead might have been done.
> But, you should remember that these leaders were
> just humans acting within their parameters of
> experience and contemporaneous knowledge of the
> events that swirled around the history then being
> made. Yes, we can look back now, after the
> revelations of the Venona files, the revelations of
> Whitaker Chambers, the Japanese nuclear program
> files recently uncovered, the collected papers of
> the leaders of that time, and make guesses as to
> alternatives, if that was known to those leaders in
> 1945. But it was not. And we cannot apply moral
> lessons of today, with this new knowledge, to that
> time and those actions. I wish that we could. But
> we can't.
>
> If so, we could alter history! We could eliminate
> the guillotine! We could instruct Rousseau as to his
> false assumptions concerning noble savages and the
> nature into which humans are born, we could counsel
> Roosevelt as to the activities of Harry Dexter White,
> and Alger Hiss, we could counsel Marx as to his false
> assumptions concerning economies being the
> foundations of human action, we could warn the West
> that Cronkite's, "We are mired in stalemate"
> broadcast in 1968 was false as it referenced the Tet
> Offensive, and the Vietnam War may well have ended
> within the next year, and so on.....
>
> The never ending pillorying of America is the remnant
> of the Chomskyist movement. The socio-political
> cultural damage is incalculable. He's been at it
> since the 50's. There's a great essay in the
> "Commentary" Oct. '04, issue about this phenomenon
> titled, "Chomsky's Universe". I do not make this up,
> I merely relay what others have discovered, I'm the
> messenger. What concerns me is that there is no one
> else. In the circle of art, it's kick Bush, and
> anything connected, that's about it. Oh, and kick
> the West. Oh, and have a good laugh. Go figure.
>
> And thanx for posting concerning these items as I
> find it difficult to post concerning art. I think
> about art but find it superficial at this time.
let me call you brother:
We Chicanos have always served our country. I was ideologically opposed to the Viet Nam War. Yet I stood with my uncle with half of his forehead blown away and his face scared by shrapnel and said the pledge of alliagence for him at every Fourth of July Parade. Where he other's who had served were honored; the brave and valient merit our concessions. When the invitation to register for the draft came; I went down and personally handed in my name. I am a Chicano. I am an American. I my disagree politically with administration but if called I will serve. We Chicanos are American Bob; we are not "half Norweigan and half Mexican". We are "whole".
One source on the internet claims that 1/3 of the new Marines are Chicano. The Marines serve first. They die first. I am a Longoria, Felix Longoria died in WWII. At end his wife was not allowed to bury his bones with "White People". His case became the one of the threads that created the Chicano Political Movement. When I ask Art Authorities when they will open thier doors to Chicanos they give me a list of Hispanic Names of hyphenated names. They will die for our country as we Chicanos chose to. I have no love superficial liberals. They only want the limelight and the opportunity to speak for us. I prefer the Conservative who holds me to my metal and accepts me for the strength of my convictions.
When you side with "intellectuals" right or left; I think you betray your inteligence. I admire you art work and enjoy jousting with you on ideas. I have little respect for those Minnesota Nice People who run and hide behind whispers and do not meet the challenge of thier hipocracy. I ask myself are they those that have felt the sting of truth? Have they known the taste of death? Have the felt rectchedness of losing your community to Gentrifacation? Or are they the "Sun Shine Patriots", full of words of American Arrogance and not of the "shrapnel of service". To this day at a almost feeble age of 50 I can still place four "Ace" shots in a deck of cards at 50 yards. Training gives one perspective on the art of "war". I know myself as the man with a gun who could have and would have killed in the service of his country. My heart with with the men and women over there.
But I cast my vote in memory and stead of my uncle; I will vote for one who has served. One who has felt the fire of schranel in his body. Truth is not a function of intelectual debate; it is the result of first hand knowlege.
You are missing the point of my noble house guest. She has more reason than the fanatics on either side of the Iraq conflict to wage incessant war. Yet she is here as an "...ambassador of my people and my City to learn your language, culture,..". I am not asking you to second guess history; I am pointing to you that history is being made in my home, one lovely person at a time. The bigotry that both sides of the war question would use to marshall us to war, ceaseless, pointless war, is a pathetic affront to the grace and decency of the Citizens of Nagasaki. You and others need to acknowlege that history is best made by those that do not forget but do forgive.
coyote infinity
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