Friend Ron Marshall 's published letter recalls " the brutal slaying of four nuns in El Salvador

 

Nothing resolved in slaying

January 3, 1982 | Providence Journal (RI)

Author/Byline: Letters | Page: B-15 | Section: NEWS

193 Words | Readability: Lexile: 1600, grade level(s): >12

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More than a year has passed since the brutal slaying of four American nuns in El Salvador. Yet, in the case of those accused of having murdered our Christian sisters, nothing has been resolved to the satisfaction of the families of the victims and those of us who share in their anguish.

The reasons are obvious. While engaged in a desperate attempt to drown in blood a just movement for bread and freedom, the ruling military junta in condemning as murderers members of its own "security forces" would, in effect, be forced to condemn itself.

For those of us who expressed our outrage and anguish over the slaughter of our sisters and the thousands of men, women and children thus far, the Reagan administration countered with cruel lies designed to cast a shadow of doubt over the innocence and character of the victims.

If we are to be individuals of conscience, then we must not compromise ourselves to politics and prejudice or to the interests of this or that government or ideology. Then it may be possible someday to live in a sane world in which the innocent are no longer tortured.

Ronald F. Marshall

Providence

Friend Ron Marshall's letter-to-the editor June 23, 1984

 

Former allies in the struggle against Nazism

June 23, 1984 | Providence Journal (RI)

Page: A-23 | Section: EDITORIAL

248 Words | Readability: Lexile: 1690, grade level(s): >12

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On the 40th anniversary of the Allied invasion of Nazi-occupied Europe, it is important to remember that the United States and the Soviet Union were once allies in the bloody struggle against Nazism. Cold War propaganda and anti-Soviet hysteria have caused many people to forget this once existing friendship. Under the Reagan administration, relations between the U.S. and the Soviet Union have been strained to the point of threatening the world with nuclear annihilation.

Mr. Reagan's deployment in Europe of first-strike nuclear weapons - Cruise and Pershing 2 missiles - has not "made the world a safer place in which to live," as the President boasted recently, but has escalated the arms race, thereby making it a far more dangerous place.

As Sen. Claiborne Pell said recently, "How can we feel more safe and secure when we know the likelihood of our being incinerated has increased, not decreased?"

Mr. Reagan's simple-minded "Evil Empire" drivel, whereby all popular upheavals and any crises in the world are attributed to the Soviet machinations, is used only to justify an insane arms build-up and further U.S. military involvement in Central America, or wherever else the "sacred" profits of the multi-national corporations are jeopardized by an enraged mass of cheap labor.

It is perhaps true that two opposite and antagonistic social systems, such as exist in the U.S. and the USSR, can never really be "friends," but we must try to maintain a rational dialogue that may prevent our causing our mutual destruction.

Ronald F. Marshall

Providence

Famous quote from Thornton Wilder's play " Our Town "

 [“We all know that something is eternal. And it ain’t houses and it ain’t names, and it ain’t earth, and it ain’t even the stars . . . everybody knows in their bones that something is eternal, and that something has to do with human beings. All the greatest people ever lived have been telling us that for five thousand years and yet you’d be surprised how people are always losing hold of it. There’s something way down deep that’s eternal about every human being.”]

― Thornton Wilder, Our Town

The inevitable , inexorable LIFE CYCLE

 

["Generations of children, and more than a few adults, cried along with Kirk when his character Travis Coates tearfully pulled the trigger to end his beloved dog's life in Old Yeller in 1957."]

One of the great themes of human life for centuries is the inevitable, inexorable LIFE CYCLE. The baby becomes the toddler, becomes the child, becomes the adolescent , becomes the adult , become the mother, the father, the grandmother, the grandfather, the beloved but LIFELESS person in the casket , in the ground of the cemetery. Now hear " Amazing Grace " .

The same for our beloved pets. Every single creature on earth is doomed from the moment of birth. More often than not LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL . Thornton Wilder's play ends with a question : Do only saints UNDERSTAND life ?

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STOP INFLATION -JUNK THE MILITARY !

 

Most ordinary Americans -not connected to the PRIVILEGED CLASS - will agree that everything that " smacks of socialism " to right wing fanatics - and the Ayn Rand Fan Club - makes life better for them .

Way back in 1935 FDR Social Security " smacked of socialism ".

We can make life better for the millions -and without ruinous inflation - by JUNKING THE MILITARY and shutting down the infamous " military-industrial complex " in the USA .

What orthodox Marxists call " social surplus value " can be invested in more SANE government projects - like more funds for CULTURE , for the ARTS and for SCIENCE.

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Randi Weingarten - more embarrassing " Jews-In-The News " !

 

More embarrassing " Jews -In-The News : Randi Weingarten is also - a supporter of Zionist APARTHEID Israel - a pillar of teaching CRITICAL RACE THEORY in the public schools .

FROM the WORLD SOCIALIST WEB SITE .

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While parents and rank-and-file workers throughout the world will engage

These " Jews-In-The News " are an embarrassment to the better ones -the ones once more attached to socialism than to Zionism

 

[Couric will] never get a job at any television network or cable channel ever again because she attacks everyone,” an anonymous critic told the Daily Mail. “She’ll be stuck with her newsletter and Instagram Stories for the rest of her working life even though the book oozes of her desperation to be back on network television hosting her own show.” Another denouncer suggested the tome “should be called ‘Burning Bridges’ by Catty Couric,” according to the publication.]

Just WHO decides that talented people " will never get a job " again ? Since 1848 we democratic socialists have been calling them THE RULING CLASS.. And ruling class males have always thought it their PRIVILEGE to have access to all the pretty females who arouse the lust in their hearts. Old anti-religious, Zionist Jew males play a prominent role here. These " Jews -in-the News " are an embarrassment to the better ones -once more attached to socialism than to Zionism.

Best wishes

to Katie Couric !

Find SANE young people eager to defend " OUR democracy " where it is loathed

 

It does seem that the sun is setting on American imperialism. It has not won a serious war since 1945 ! The Korean War was a " strategic failure " . The Vietnam War was a " strategic failure ". The invasion and occupation of Iraq was a " strategic failure ". And now " The Afghanistan War " was a " strategic failure ".

Find any SANE young person in the USA eager to defend " OUR democracy " where it is, in fact , loathed ? Recruiting time ?

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Does not Brown President ,Christina Paxson, intimidate anti-Zionist students and professors ?

 

How can this woman not intimidate anti-Zionist students and professors ?

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