Time for some anti-war rants.....are there any left?

Last Saturday Daniel Ellsberg got arrested at an anti-war rally in Washington D.C. The story said there were hundreds at the rally with approximately 30 being arrested.

Mr. Ellsberg says he is the Bradley Manning of a bygone era in America history.

Ok....I added the bygone era in American history line but what else could I say when hundreds show up to an anti-war rally in front of the White House.

Back in the bygone era.....hundreds were handing the coffee and doughnuts to the thousands who were speaking up against war.

THOUSANDS of people at a rally is an indicator that millions of people were against the war.

Hundreds of people is an indicator that the Anti-War movement is simply a nice memory.

How many people at the rallies are against ALL WAR?

Back in the bygone era.....MOST OF THE PROTESTERS were against WAR....PERIOD!


The essence of Anti-War protest in the late 60's and early 70's.....was fairly simple.

Any WAR
anywhere
with anyone.......... was no longer an acceptable method of solving problems.

OMG that was REALLY A LONG, LONG TIME AGO.........sometimes it seems like it wasn't even real. Like maybe it was a movie and we just got carried away with the stars of the film. Jane Fonda was smoking hot and one of the main stars and we loved her. And then she hooked up with one of the leading protesters in America to enhance the love story. What a movie! The musical score was beyond excellent. The music in the anti-war movement was simply put......."unearthly."

So many words and so much music about loving each other and so many words and so much music about stopping the violence and so many words and so much music about getting along with each other.

How many anti-war protesters from that bygone era, don't even blink when we bomb Libya?

How many simply say....."oh Kadafi is a nut and he deserves what he gets." Is there just a small part left in the peace side of your beautiful brain that thinks this action seems excessive.

Iraq and Afghanistan aren't enough to satisfy our War appetite? We now need Northern Africa on our table?

The United States Government has been able to silence the very core of a generation that thought war was obsolete 40 years ago.

Forty Years ago!

I love the arguments from the other side.........basically saying.... "anti-war sentiments belong to the fairy tale worlds of children's books and nursery rhymes. Idealistic bleeding heart liberals who have no idea what the real world is like........need to grow up."

We have no idea what the real world is like?

The problem is....WE HAVE A PERFECT IDEA!

We, who think war is an obsolete method of solving human problems, believe that the next level of human evolution, which some of us are experiencing at this very moment, basically does not recognize WAR as a solution.

WAR IS A LAST RESORT.

IS THAT WHERE WE ARE IN THE PROCESS OF PROBLEM SOLVING?

We, who believe that violence is obscene on any level, do not appear to be present in large quantities.

We are most definitely in a minority and we might not even be a minority....we might be obsolete.

Hundreds at a anti-war rally in 2011?
There were more people climbing Mt. Everest last week.

Love was the answer in 1970 and love is still the answer in 2011.

NEO-ILLUMINATION #22

You have the ability to be loving......
if not
then you need to start practicing

And that applies to every Christian, every Jew, every Muslim, every Hindu, every Buddhists, every atheists, every egotist, every member of the military, every visitor from outer space.......and basically every man woman and child living on the planet Earth.

No one said it would be easy to be a loving person. As an example.....it took me years to get over my homophobia....and while I'm still not that relaxed around gay men I realize that it was my wiring, not theirs, that was crossed. Even last week on Glee when Kurt got his first kiss, I kinda cringed. It wasn't as big a cringe as might have appeared years ago, but it was still a cringe.

A cringe is a cringe is a cringe.

I'm still a work in progress and those of you who seem to think that War is the only method of problem solving, might want to get started on the road to peace.

It's a nice road.......and it doesn't appear to have much traffic at the moment.

Good time to jump on board.

No toll required except for a little bit of
love

Michael Timothy McAlevey