A Simple Question and the Power of Shame (great article)

[rodeodance]

http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0818-20.htm

> Published on Thursday, August 18, 2005 by CommonDreams.org
> A Simple Question and the Power of Shame
> by Steven Laffoley
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> For nearly two weeks, sitting on a roadside, in the heat of the Texas sun, amid a growing, raucous circus of supporters, detractors, and media mouthpieces, bereaved mother Cindy Sheehan has done something many thought not possible in America anymore: she has reminded us of shame.
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> She has done this by asking a simple question: why did my son have to die? And by asking that question, she has revealed something that has come as a surprise to many Americans: the president has no morally defensible answer.
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> As a consequence, many Americans who have long believed President Bush's chest thumping and bible thumping to be moral character and moral righteousness can only stare with something close to wide-eyed wonder and genuine humility at the real thing.
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> How do I know Ms. Sheehan's moral character and moral righteousness are the "real thing"?.........

[katty]

1. MLK had this to say...

excerpt:
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9849.htm

Before he was assassinated, King had this to say about the unfulfilled promise of America in his 1967 speech entitled Beyond Vietnam: a Time to Break Silence: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article2564.htm

"A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.

America, the richest and most powerful nation in the world, can well lead the way in this revolution of values. There is nothing, except a tragic death wish, to prevent us from reordering our priorities, so that the pursuit of peace will take precedence over the pursuit of war. There is nothing to keep us from molding a recalcitrant status quo with bruised hands until we have fashioned it into a brotherhood."

[AndyTiedye]

2. Bush**ler and His Gang Have No Shame

so sadly, shame has no power over them.