Friday, April 23, 2004

Tolstoy's Tactic of Love FEATURED ARTICLES - Woman loses her job over coffin photo, Seattle Times, - U.S. admits to shooting Iraqi reporters, AP - Judge wants papers on reporter's death, AP - Giving a voice to 'silenced majority', Newsday - Be There, By Molly Ivins QUOTE OF THE DAY "I don't think either one of them would have recognized the Bill of Rights if they met it on the street in broad daylight under a cloudless sky." - - Senator Sam Ervin   (On the convictions of former attorney general John Mitchell & former White House aide John Ehrlichman for their roles in the Watergate scandal) KNOW YOUR HISTORY - APRIL 23rd 1985 -- "Senator Sam" Ervin (D-NC), chairman of The 1973 Watergate Hearings, dies. 1993 -- Cesar Chavez, nonviolent civil rights activist & founder of the United Farm Workers, dies. 1996 -- Ukraine: 19 anti-nuclear demonstrators arrested in Kiev, on the 10th anniversary of Chernobyl. RHINO HERE: A few follow-ups to Wednesday's Rhino's Blog.  Remember the outlawed photo of the flag draped caskets? The military contractor that transports American dead has fired the employee who took the picture. That's just how bad the shrub gang doesn't want The American people to ponder the real costs of their war mongering. Woman loses her job over coffin photo, Seattle Times, 4/22/04 A military contractor has fired Tami Silicio, a Kuwait-based cargo worker whose photograph of flag-draped coffins of fallen U.S. soldiers was published in Sunday's edition of The Seattle Times. Silicio was let go Wednesday for violating U.S. government and company regulations... MORE: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2001909527_coffin22m.html Several Rhino's Blog readers questioned if Wednesday's Quote Of The Day was really by Leo Tolstoy. I originally heard it cited years ago by spiritual activist, Stephen Gaskin.  Check this out: Introduction To Tolstoy's Writings   by Ernest J Simmons As one contemporary revolutionist put it to Tolstoy in his Marxian phraseology: "You use the tactic of love and we use that of violence...." But it was just this violence which creates violence, the evil-begetting power of evil, that Tolstoy could not tolerate as a substitute for his eternal law - the "tactic of love." He once coarsely explained to an eager antagonist, who insisted on the moral difference between the killing that a revolutionist does for the sake of the masses and that which a policeman does: "There is as much difference as between cat shit and dog shit. But I don't like the smell of either one or the other." POSTED AT: http://www.ourcivilisation.com/smartboard/shop/smmnsej/tolstoy/chap13.htm   Another reader responded to my question about the blog, "Empire Notes" (www.empirenotes.org) saying, "Why would you even bring up a question about Rahul Mahajan's credibility? Is it because what he reports is not reflected in the reporting from the embedded? Of course, most of the information (propaganda) from Iraq is relayed by pentagon officials to reporters in the multi-million dollar press center in Kuwait...  It is precisely people like Rahul Mahajan who are to be trusted, and it is the embedded journalists working for the NYTimes, ABCNews, CNN, and FOX (gag) whose veracity should be questioned. " I explained that of the 25,000 plus Rhino's Blog readers, many are not easily inclined to believe their government would lie to them or to the media.  More & more are coming round to realize just how far the neo- robber barons are willing to go to get what they want, but to win in November, we need to convince lots of Republicans that the current coup are not true Republicans at all. The same reader offered links to several other informative blogs being written from Iraq: Dahr Jamail, in Bagdad http://blog.newstandardnews.net/iraqdispatches/ Juan Cole, Professor of Middle East History http://www.juancole.com Jo Wilding, British woman in Iraq http://www.wildfirejo.org.uk/feature/index.php Riverbend, Iraqi woman in Bagdad http://riverbendblog.blogspot.com Those willing to be in Iraq, to report the truth as best they can are a tough lot, & apparently a dying breed: U.S. admits to shooting Iraqi reporters, Associated Press, via Washington Post The U.S. military acknowledged Tuesday that American soldiers killed two employees of a U.S.-funded Iraqi television station, saying the men may have failed to heed warning shots. However, a wounded cameraman said troops opened fire on their vehicle without warning... MORE: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28538-2004Apr20.html Judge wants papers on reporter's death, Associated Press, via New York Times, 4/20/04 SPAIN - A judge on Tuesday requested documents from Spain, the United States and Greece about a Spanish TV journalist who died while covering the Iraq war last year. In the letter, investigative magistrate Baltasar Garzon asked the U.S. departments of state, defense and justice to confirm whether they are investigating the death of Jose Couso. Couso, who worked for the Spanish television network Telecinco, died April 8, 2003, after a U.S. army tank crew fired a shell at Hotel Palestine in Baghdad... MORE: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/international/AP-Spain-Journalist-Killed.html But to be an effective anti shrub gang journalist, one doesn't necessarily need to go to Iraq.  Likely the most effective anti war reporter in the age of the neo-cons is Amy Goodman of the radio program, "Democracy Now" who's currently on tour promoting her new book, "The Exception to the Rulers; Exposing Oily Politicians, War Profiteers, and the Media That Love Them." Here's a bit of coverage on her tour. Giving a voice to 'silenced majority' BY FRED BRUNING, NEWSDAY,  April 21, 2004 http://www.newsday.com/entertainment/news/ny-etlede3764997apr21,0,737162.story Today's RHINO'S BOTTOM LINE is by the woman who, longer than probably any other journalist, has been watching & reporting on the dumb & destructive actions of the man who she originally called, "shrub."  Here Texan Molly Ivins explains why this Sunday's "March for Women's Lives" is so important not just to American women, but to people the world over.  If you make it to D.C. for the march this weekend, keep in mind that the Rhino's personal representative will be there; the one & only Mrs. Rhino. 7:24:09 AM    comment

RHINO'S BOTTOM LINE - Be There "SEND THIS ARTICLE TO A REPUBLICAN!" Be There By Molly Ivins, Creators Syndicate, Tuesday 20 April 2004 AUSTIN -- Women of America. This Sunday, April 25. Washington, D.C. The March for Women's Lives. Be there. This is it. It's all on the line now. Everyone who thinks she's too old, too tired and has done this too many times before, be there. Everyone who has never been to a women's march, who thought all the rights had long since been secured, who thinks feminism is old hat and has nothing to do with your life, be there. Bring your daughters, mothers, nieces, friends, husbands, sons and significant others. If you can't be there, get in touch with a local women's organization and help raise money for a "scholarship" to send someone else to represent you. Minority women, be there. The NAACP, National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health, Black Women's Health Imperative and many other minority groups are co-sponsoring the march. You know better than anyone how the lives of working mothers are being stressed and deformed by the lack of institutional response to the need for child care and health care. The March for Women's Lives is not just about choice on abortion, but literally about life or death for women all over the globe... READ IT ALL AT: http://www.creators.com/opinion_show.cfm?columnsName=miv "RHINO'S BLOG" is the responsibility of Gary Rhine. (rhino@kifaru.com) Feedback, and requests to be added or deleted from the list are encouraged. SEARCH BLOG ARCHIVES / SURF RHINO'S LINKS, AT: http://www.rhinosblog.info RHINO'S OTHER WEB SITES: http://www.dreamcatchers.org (INDIGENOUS ASSISTANCE & INTERCULTURAL DIALOG) http://www.kifaru.com (NATIVE AMERICAN RELATIONS VIDEO DOCUMENTARIES) Articles are reprinted under Fair Use Doctrine of international copyright law. http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.html All copyrights belong to original publisher. Tell a friend about Rhino's Blog 6:12:21 AM    comment

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