{"id":793,"date":"2008-03-14T15:40:45","date_gmt":"2008-03-14T15:40:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=228"},"modified":"2008-03-14T15:40:45","modified_gmt":"2008-03-14T15:40:45","slug":"31408","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=793","title":{"rendered":"3\/14\/08"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have spent \u00a0a considerable amount of \u00a0time the last few weeks interviewing people who are activists for nonviolence. \u00a0 Bill Corrigan, who is a deacon at St. Colman’s Church in Cleveland, saw the horror of war first-hand in World War II’s Battle of the Bulge<\/em>, among other front line fights. \u00a0 He is now involved with Pax Christi USA (National Catholic Peace Movement). \u00a0 “Our country has probably killed more people than any other organized group in the history of the world,” Corrigan said to me. \u00a0 This has included both military and civilians, like, for instance, \u00a0one little boy… \u00a0 In an article published by the Center for Christian Nonviolence<\/em>, Fr. George Zabelka, the Catholic military chaplain for the World War II Atomic Bomb Group, said one haunted pilot told him that he had been doing low-level bombing down a street in Japan when a little boy appeared looking up in “child-like wonder” at the plane. \u00a0 The pilot said he knew in a few seconds the child would be burned to death by the napalm he had already released…<\/em> \u00a0 Bill Corrigan suggested \u00a0that the infra-structure of the U.S. military — with it’s personnel, it’s equipment (all terrain vehicles, cargo planes…) — would be perfect to deliver a whole lot more<\/em> humanitarian aid all over the planet. \u00a0 And in this, \u00a0many of the ‘hot spots’ (where countries are fighting over food and other resources) would ‘cool’ in kind. \u00a0 The problem is we can’t fill \u00a0a whole<\/em> lot more <\/em>cargo planes, \u00a0until many of us Americans start to house share, take the bus, lose the comfortable furniture, the TVs, the vacations in Florida… and stand at least in some<\/em> — and this would still be \u00a0just a little<\/em> — solidarity with the poor of the world. \u00a0 Question:<\/strong> If we knew our sacrifices as Americans could stop some of these wars \u00a0through the paradigm Bill Corrigan presents, yet we obstinately continue on in our lifestyles, aren’t we tangibly contributing to the deaths of some<\/em> of these other people in some<\/em> of these war zones worldwide? \u00a0 Answer:<\/strong> Well, sure. \u00a0Ps…<\/strong> And you can save all the rationalizations against what’s proposed here for someone else. \u00a0 Like, oh I don’t know, maybe a little \u00a0boy looking up at a plane (tank, missile…) \u00a0in Pakistan, or Palestine, or the Sudan, or…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have spent \u00a0a considerable amount of \u00a0time the last few weeks interviewing people who are activists for nonviolence. \u00a0 Bill Corrigan, who is a deacon at St. Colman’s Church in Cleveland, saw the horror of war first-hand in World …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}