Re: DISCUSSION/Iraq and domestic protest

[thansen@moscow.com]

Greetings Visionaires -

I agree with Ms. Huskey 100%.

Depriving people of their right to speak, merely shows your fear of what they 
have to say.

Tom Hansen
Moscow

> Dear Community,
> 
> I, too, have a personal request:  let more people speak, rather than 
> fewer--about the impending war, about our community, about what we value, 
> about ourselves and our experiences.
> 
> This list exists precisely because we agree that other people *do* have 
> ideas and points of view worth listening to, no matter how distant they are 
> from our own.
> 
> Or am I making an unwarranted assumption?  Do we have that common 
> understanding?
> 
> Melynda Huskey
> 
> 
> "Generally speaking, the first nonviolent act is not fasting, but dialogue. 
> The other side, the adversary,is recognized as a person, he is taken out of 
> his anonymity and exists in his own right, for what he really is, a person. 
> To engage someone in dialogue is to recognize him, have faith in him. At 
> every step in the nonviolent struggle, at every level we try tirelessly to 
> establish a dialogue, or reestablish it if it has broken down. When I say 
> 'the other side,' that could be a group of persons or a government."  
> Hildegard Goos Mayer, International Fellowship of Reconciliation.
> 
> "The things that make us happy make us wise."  John Crowley
> 
> 
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