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Stopping Yesterday's Wars Today and Tomorrow ...
« on: January 30, 2025, 02:56:31 PM »
Stopping Yesterday's Wars Today and Tomorrow ...
[A.L.]'Though in 'Great' Britain [&UKo'GB&NI, OK?!] we have eleXeons only occasionally, in a trul[l]y [sp?] 'free and democratic' society, every day is a kind of 'election day' ...

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« Reply #1 on: January 30, 2025, 03:03:23 PM »
Through our collected individual choices, our collected individual belief systems, our collected individual actions, we collectively drive our societies into the future ...

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« Reply #2 on: January 30, 2025, 03:11:23 PM »
Recognizing that we are ultimately 'responsible' for the actions of our own country, anti-war groups such as Stop The War continue to promote domestic and foreign policies that place a priority on internationally-recognized principles.

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« Reply #3 on: January 30, 2025, 03:24:13 PM »
Acknowledging the dangerous shortcomings of narrow, militaristic, state 'responses' to 'terrorism', we continue to encourage a collaborative effort to bring those responsible for 'breaches of the peace' to JUSTICE ...   

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« Reply #4 on: January 30, 2025, 03:35:01 PM »
We call attention to threats to civil liberties, human rights, and other freedoms, at home and abroad, as a consequence of war, and of our government's responses to 'terrorism' - recognizing that it is a 'duty' of every 'active citizen' to defend these principles in our own lives and in our communities

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« Reply #5 on: January 30, 2025, 03:48:18 PM »
We continue to promote 'dialogue' with the public on issues of war and peace, including alternatives to war, and the underlying causes of violence [including 'terrorism'], recognizing the necessity for honest debate and the power of good faith human communication,

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« Reply #6 on: January 30, 2025, 04:06:19 PM »
We continue to support movements of people around the world who are seeking non-violent responses to all forms of 'terror-ism' - by states as well as by individuals - recognizing that mutual success will benefit future generations everywhere ...

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« Reply #7 on: January 30, 2025, 04:10:50 PM »
We continue to acknowledge our fellowship with all those people affected by violence and war.

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« Reply #8 on: January 30, 2025, 04:29:56 PM »
We continue to recognize all FellowHumanBeings ... as Brothers&Sisters ... in a human 'endeavour' [=(to) try earnestly/effort] ...
that transcends politics, nationality, religious affiliation, what{so}ever ... and is 'everywhere' & 'nowhere' ... and every 'little' bite/bit in between ... And which/witch was 'central' to war/wor co-eXistence ...

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« Reply #9 on: January 30, 2025, 04:52:51 PM »
In a free and open society we are all 'responsible' for the people we call our 'leaders'.

In a truly 'democratic' society, we lead our so-called 'leaders' - not them us.

Today, and every day, we acknowledge our individual 'responsibility' to lead our leaders towards creating a society in which the 'bulk' of Humanity seems to want to live ... a society that lives up to the possibilities of human potential ... and in which no one has to live in states of terror, fear, violence, and [literal and/or metaphorical] poverty ...


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« Reply #10 on: February 05, 2025, 10:23:02 PM »
The Stop the War movement was set up / 'born' more than 20 years ago to oppose the so-called 'war on terror' - a concept that seemed to others and myself a nonsensical 'contradiction in terms' from the start ...

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« Reply #11 on: February 05, 2025, 10:38:09 PM »
The 'war on terror' might be ['better'?] defined as:
+ a profitable racket for the arms and 'security' (sic) corporations;
+ a violent exercise in paranoid fantasy;
+ a costly episode in outmoded cultural and economic imperialism;
+ a terrible distraction from financial crises and corruption in 'high' (sic) places;
+ a horrible waste of lives, time, money ... and human potential ...

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« Reply #12 on: February 12, 2025, 02:42:15 PM »
Some present &/or former New Labour MPs have admitted they voted in favour of the attack on Iraq in 2003 knowing it to be 'illegal' [according to standard conventions of international law]. {i could 'name names' but won't, for reasons of  'decorum'] In other words: they knew it was wrong; they knew it was illegal; but they did it nevertheless.
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« Reply #13 on: February 12, 2025, 02:55:46 PM »
It is rare to hear/witness those among the 'power elite' (sic) to admit they did wrong/something illegal. When they do most of those who do know they are so low down in the 'pecking order' of 'responsibility' that they will never be called to account for their wrong-doing.

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« Reply #14 on: February 12, 2025, 03:04:43 PM »
In fact, the entire British Establishment knew the attack on Iraq in2003 was 'wrong and illegal'.

In fact, the entire legal department of the U.K. Foreign Office told, prior to events , the government in 2003 that that attack/invasion was (going to be) ILLEGAL [There was/is Conclusive evidence of this to the official 'Iraq Inquiry'].
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