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Peace & Life Connections #148
February 22, 2013
Getting Out of the Field of Abortions
Abby Johnson is a former Planned Parenthood director who’s now an active pro-lifer. Last week we found this plug for us on her Facebook Page:
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Getting Out of the Field of Executions
The Washington Post is reporting another participant in executions who’s now turned against the death penalty, both on moral grounds and because he found it traumatic. Jerry Givens has published an autobiographical book on his journey, Another Day is Not Promised. (For quotations from other executioners-turned-abolitionist, see issues 107 and 110).
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Getting Out of the Field of Weaponized Drones
Being traumatized by doing acts of violence is one of the major experiences that tie together the issues. Last December’s issue of Der Speigel explains how this works in one of the more recent methods of targeted killing, killing of those pronounced guilty without trial and stray children who get in the way, in an article entitled: “Dreams in Infrared: The Woes of an American Drone Operator.” The kinds of dreams and unwanted intrusive thoughts in the aftermath of killing that are described in this article are among the symptoms of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder.
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Quotation of the Week
Ashoka, 261 B.C. Statement of emperor in India surveyinghis recent war; he turned into a major promoter of Buddhist nonviolence and vegetarianism.
“What have I done? If this is a victory, what is a defeat then? Is this a victory or a defeat? Is this justice or injustice? Is it gallantry or a rout? Is it valor to kill innocent children and women? Do I do it to widen the empire and for prosperity or to destroy the other's kingdom and splendor? One has lost her husband, someone else a father, someone a child, someone an unborn infant . . .