Kristof, Power, Fowler... exploit student Inactivists and Darfur

[originally posted 4/12/07]

"Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing." Albert Schweitzer (from Eva Fogelman's, "Conscience & Courage: Rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust.")

OPEN LETTER TO KRISTOF, POWER AND FOWLER (RESPONSE TO "COMMENTS" INVITED - WILL BE DISPLAYED).

[SEE: A Hunger For Justice : Darfur Becomes One Man's Cause for Deprivation Delphine Schrank, C01 (Post) Washington Post, April 14, 2007]

Dear Samantha, Nicholas, and Jerry,

Glance around this site - Peace and Nonviolence - The Berrigans, Gandhi, King, Hanh, Wm. Lloyd Garrison.... Remind yourselves of what responsible people that saw truth as you have have done with their lives, not just their pens or mouths. For more examples see excerpts from "Conscience & Courage: Rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust."

When have three people done so much good and been responsible for so much atrocity? Why am I targeting you? You still are in a position to more good than anyone for Darfur; and you are still in a position to do much more murder. Why target you? With great knowledge comes great responsibility.

It is not enough you put the word out. In doing so you took on the mantel of Darfur Rescue Leader, and you cannot remove it - impossible.

Here is it in a nutshell. Let's say I am Dr. Joseph Lister and in the 2nd half of the 1800's I discover that bacterium on scalpels is killing huge number of patients. GREAT! He writes a paper and gets it in the newspaper! GREAT! Now Dr. Lister goes on about his normal routine, no one get's it, and Dr. Lister does not bother sterilizing his tools. Murder right? In fact, Lister darn near killed himself for 20 years to get the word out. He saved a lot of lives. Success is 1% inspiration 99% perspiration.

Samantha, you of all people discovered what it takes to stop genocide - YOU have the greatest knowledge and hence the greatest responsibility to ACT. You discovered that stopping genocide takes people laying down their lives - in great number!!! One Lemkin is not enough! 100 Lemkins may be!!!! You saw this Samantha and you cannot escape the moral responsibility that places on you. Your behavior is the "evidence" the world relies on. Your behavior says "Darfur is not that bad... surely not worth laying down MY life for!"

Nicholas, your words totally redirected my life starting three years ago. But most people have less imagination than I. With what you know personally, that you are living normally in the face of genocide - speaks much louder than your Columns. Nick Kristof's behavior says, "Nothing worth laying down MY life for is going on."

Jerry, either you don't believe Genocide is worth laying down one's life for, OR you don't believe Darfur Genocide is laying down your life for.

If the three of you don't start laying down your lives, it is game over Darfur. If you do start laying down your lives - chain yourselves to the UN doors, sit at the White House gate demanding a meeting with Bush, blockade the Chinese embassy... you will do justice to your earlier words and stop Genocide for the first time.

Samantha, your book was so right on. Your ending was perfect: "George Bernard Shaw once wrote, "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." After a century of doing so little to prevent, suppress, and punish genocide, Americans must join and thereby legitimate the ranks of the unreasonable." BUT YOU THREE HAVE VIOLATED EVERYTHING - YOU'VE BEEN AND ENCOURAGED OTHERS TO BE PERFECTLY REASONABLE. ENOUGH!

If you do less than lay down your lives you've done nothing more than exploit Darfur for your personal advantage - that is the physics of it. And for God's sake quit filling these student InActivist's heads that they have done other than abandon Darfur and exploit it for some self-pleasuring themselves. You are in the company of Gandhi, King, the Berrigans and above all real Holocaust Rescuers. Watch yourselves.

Start Loving

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