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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Krowbar who wrote (29278)	1/29/1999 6:22:00 AM
From: nihil	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Ah, but the Serbs are Orthodox (for the most part) not Roman Catholic (like their Croat enemies). But I won't condemn the Pope for not doing more than that he did. He is a truthful man of peace who does what he can, I think. I admire any one who acts to save life however guilty. I think a state can afford to avoid killing its criminals, and even more its innocent. For myself, I'd gladly go and interpose myself between the Serbs and Muslims if it might help. Were I Pope, even though neither Serb nor Muslim belonged to my flock, I would try to be their shepherd and their sacrificial lamb. I remember long ago marching between a town of African-Americans -- with vacant sullen almost wondering looks that said "what are you white and black folks doing here in our town?' and lines of troops with naked bayonets whose looks said "we'll kill you if we get the chance." I remember the instructions -- fall to the ground, cover up, put your arms over your head so your hands and arms will be broken by the clubs and not your head, pull up your legs to protect your genitals, and don't fight back but lie there on the ground and bleed unresisting. One wag asked if we should try to love our enemies while they beat us, and the youth explained it was not necessary while the beating was actually going on. The whole idea of lying unresisting infuriated me who had been gut-trained to strike to kill when attacked, but I said just this once -- I am a guest, this ain't my party. Long, long lines of marchers, led by Martin Luther King, Jr. who always put himself in harm's way for truth whenever called, and the State Capitol of Alabama hung with the wrong flags, and standing maybe 50 feet from King while he spoke of how poor white southerners and poor black people had the same needs and were being forced at each other's throats. I'd loved a few black people a lifetime before, but watching him and hearing him, I knew he was my beloved brother, my elder brother, and that he would gladly die for me, for us, for mankind if he could but help bring us peace. Strange, through my tears, I saw him already on a cross.