Re: Do Not Participate in the Ill Considered "Peace" Rally

["Douglas Whitney" <dwhitney@moscow.com>]

Good for you Duncan. If  these people were really for peace, why were'nt
they demostrating against the terrorists on Sept 12? They seem to be
hypocrites to me, along with a couple of other things.

Doug
----- Original Message -----
From: "Duncan Palmatier" <dpalm@earthlink.net>
To: <Vision2020@moscow.com>
Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2001 7:29 PM
Subject: Do Not Participate in the Ill Considered "Peace" Rally


> Margaret Howe wrote:
>
>
> >... we hope to
> >promote unity in the peace process as well as to further eludicate the
> >United States' impact in Global Politics and the ways in which we too
> are
> >also terrorists...
> >
>
> (Emphasis mine)
>
> Dear Vision2020 and artists and citizens of Moscow:
>
> For my part, especially at this time when we rally our support for our
> country and all the people of the world, I write in this forum to
> encourage you NOT to participate in such an ill considered display. We
> Americans are not terrorists. We are good people, and reticent, and
> restrained, and generous, and, by contrast with our enemies, we are
> tolerant, and forgiving to the point of fault.
>
> We sought no war.
>
> But, we now have enemies we must face, lest all our ideals of equality
> and justice be foresworn.
>
> Those enemies killed our friends and relatives and countrymen and
> strangers as they started an ordinary day of work.
>
> Despicable and loathsome and cruel and stupid and unjust and idiotic and
>
> lunatic and intolerable.
>
> They killed our peace; so, must they also see us put aside our peace and
>
> reticence and tranquility, and they must see us go to war against them.
>
> Do not participate in this silly rally.
>
> Instead, rally for the equality and justice and peace that we Americans
> will now defend.
>
> Duncan Palmatier
>
>
>