Typical Ithaca/liberal logic, that is, non-existent.
Posted on 08/16/2006 9:34:31 AM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
The Ithaca Chapter of A Global Call to Action views the war in Iraq through a lens tainted by the clouds of fallout. It is an anti-war group with a message even more specific than merely ending the war; and the recognition of Nagasaki Day on the Commons last Wednesday provided the group with the opportunity to spread its message using the images of death in Japan, burned into the historical record.
"We need to think a little bit about the lost of humanity," siad Laurie Konwinski, mistress of ceremonies. "In thinking broadly about nuclear weapon proliferation, we're calling for peace, particularly peace in Iraq,"
Using "shadow" images of children and adults, burned into the walls and streets of Nagaski, the event provoked an exchange of thoughts and ideas from participants about how nuclear arms are tied to the war in Iraq.
"A Global Call to Action is asking people to consider a pledge for peace ... called a declaration for peace," Konwinski said.
Several speakers at the event spoke about the current capacity of world powers, and others, to unleash of nuclear weapons. "Because of what our nation spends on nuclear weapons, many other human needs will not be met," Konwinski said.
One of the groups litanies, recited during the event, was as follows:
"We can't be surprised at this proliferation of nuclear weapons, and we don't need peace activists to tell us why; none other than Defense Secretary Robert McNamara made this statement: '[I]f the country with overwhelming conventional superiority funds new nuclear weapons, it sends a clear message to states seeking to acquire nuclear weapons and to the rest of the world that nuclear weapons are an important component of battlefield strategy and tactics, and thereby justifices other states' pursuit of nuclear weapons capabilities.'"
A global art installation sat at the center of the Commons for everyone to view, and toshare and add photos, drawings and prayers to the memorial.
The main display demonstrated the destructive power of nuclear weapons and featured, items pertaining to peace, such as Origami cranes.
"The traditional way of remembering the dead is lanterns. They put paper lanterns on floats and sent them out into the lake," said Linda Holzbaur, one of the organizers of the event. "Shadow paintings are representative of the victims of the nuclear bombs [in Hiroshima and Nagasaki] and how they're bodies were completely gone."
The next event planned by A Global Call to Action will be raining on non-violent civil disobedience, scheduled for Sept. 9.
Typical Ithaca/liberal logic, that is, non-existent.
Real Peace thru Victory!
They should be protesting against Iran if they want to stop proliferation of nuclear weapons.
But then again it is their favorite countries that are the proliferators right now. What is an illogical liberal to do but cdecalre the world flat.
I'll tip down a couple beers for Fat Boy and Little Man tonight..
""We need to think a little bit about the lost of humanity,"
Do these useful idiots ever think about all the "humanity" that the commies and socialists have killed in the last 100 years?
Hundreds of millions, all because of a system that doesn't work worth a damn.
Grow up and get out of Ithaca. Jeesh.
It was a legitimate military target and we needed to drop the bomb on Japan again - there's no getting around the hard facts.
Still, it was a real shame.
Their insanity is boundless, in the mathematical sense.
Can someone help me out on this? I recently visited Ithaca and drank the water and now I can't seem to think straight anymore ...
Is Ithaca on the same acquifer as the Love Canal?
Tojo's orders regarding POWs was very clear. Guards "must supervise their charges rigidly, taking care not to become obsessed with mistaken ideas of humanitarianism or swayed by personal feelings toward prisoners that might grow over a long incarceration." (50) Rarely did top government officials visit any Japanese prison camps. Therefore, the local commanders could do as they wished without reprimand. However, considering the indoctrination of Japanese troops, reprimand was highly unlikely. If the commander wished, he could make anything, even whistling, a crime and inflict any type of punishment, including execution. (51)
The Geneva Convention stated that if a prisoner escaped and was recaptured, he was not to be punished. However, the Japanese did not care. The POWs were forced to sign non-escape oaths soon after they reached the POW camps. They signed at the advice of their officers with the secret understanding that the oaths were not morally binding. Escapes were rare. Any re-captured escapees were executed. Not only were they killed in front of the other POWs, but ten additional POWs were executed as well. While some officers knew the Geneva Convention said it was their duty to escape, many did not know this and the rest did not want to have the POWs left behind to suffer for their actions should they get caught. Therefore, few escapes were attempted. Fewer still succeeded. (52) Successful escapees, such as Dyess, were the rare exception and not the rule.
There were over 140,000 white POWs in Japanese prison camps. They received the harshest treatment of all.
One in three died in captivity at the hands of the Japanese, starved to death, worked to death, beaten to death, dead of loathsome epidemic diseases that the Japanese would not treat. From the beginning, what the Japanese did to their prisoners, body and soul, was humanly appalling. Even so, the prisoners stayed and took it. For them the stakes were: try to escape, with the chances of suffering and dying almost a hundred percent, or stay with what turned out to be a two-to-one chance of surviving. The final gross score was: died trying to escape, next to none; died as prisoners, tens of thousands. (54)
Of course we all recall when these same people demonstrated on December 7 to commemorate Pearl Harbor Day - not.
Do you think this same group has a vigil in December for the Rape of Nanking. Oh, forgot its not a tradgedy unless the Americans do it. Sheesh, these people need a life.
In the liberal mindset, this is considered rape.
Remember THIS anytime you hear Ted Kennedy or the rest of those nuts telling us how we won WWII in only 4 years x days.
Ask them if we can use the same methods that ENDED WWII swiftly?
Same as when the left boasts of how Saddam kept terrorism down while he was in power. Can we use his methods?
I am alive today because Harry S. Truman, sent 2 bombs over to Japan instead of the Marines....my father being one of them (a Marine, not a nuke).
THANK YOU DEMOCRAT PRESIDENT TRUMAN.
Ah, but to honor murdered POW's might honor the devil of so many liberal peace groups like Global Call for Action: the evil, Western White Man. Maybe Call for Action would be more comfortable honoring the victims of the Japanese Imperial Army massacre in the Chinese city of Nanking. This little incident is rumored to have killed more people than the bombing of Nagasaki and Hiroshima combined.
But they can't pin this atrocity on America, so it's likely of no interest.
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