Mueller Lake Park Outdoor Amphitheater
Mark Twain Warned of Government Duplicity
RECEIVED Tue., Jan. 27, 2004
Dear Editor:
Mark Twain was horrified and heartbroken at his nation's mass murder of hundreds of thousands of Filipinos and spoke up clearly. In The Mysterious Stranger, he insightfully wrote:
"The statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of gross self-deception."
No rationalizations justify this U.S. government's wave of avaricious war escalations. Let's keep in mind that we know why and for whom they are happening.
Barbarous atrocities are done daily in your name, demanding headlines and national outrage, but rating mostly buried innuendo and the mutter of Nuremberg guilt. Let's keep pressuring big media and personally let others know how we feel.
Realize that Ashcroft v. Twain, under PATRIOT Act II, would be possible, and that he could simply be disappeared. Speak up and take action now, as humane people who fairly and fiercely guard our freedoms and those of our compatriots everywhere.
Mark Twain was horrified and heartbroken at his nation's mass murder of hundreds of thousands of Filipinos and spoke up clearly. In The Mysterious Stranger, he insightfully wrote:
"The statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of gross self-deception."
No rationalizations justify this U.S. government's wave of avaricious war escalations. Let's keep in mind that we know why and for whom they are happening.
Barbarous atrocities are done daily in your name, demanding headlines and national outrage, but rating mostly buried innuendo and the mutter of Nuremberg guilt. Let's keep pressuring big media and personally let others know how we feel.
Realize that Ashcroft v. Twain, under PATRIOT Act II, would be possible, and that he could simply be disappeared. Speak up and take action now, as humane people who fairly and fiercely guard our freedoms and those of our compatriots everywhere.
Larry Piltz
Austin, Texas
Austin, Texas
