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Greg,
I applaud your commitment to non-violence and your
ability to stick to it in the face of happy Arabs. I really do.
I too advocate non-violence... and I am now dealing
with an internal conflict because my response to this atrocity is "track 'em
down and kill em." I am so torn. Growing up I learned the track-em-down method
of dealing with problems. I don't have much facility with the non-violence
method I guess.
Time will heal.
Dave
----- Original Message -----
From: Greg
Romero
Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 10:17 PM
Subject: Re: RAT terrorizm Amidst all of this wreckage I'm sure we've all come to some of our own private epiphanies. One I experienced, which I'll share, came when I saw footage of some of the citizens on the West Bank cheering the news. I was deeply saddened by this shameful display of schadenfruede. People cheering the death of thousands of innocent citizens and the destruction of American emblems. I'm not indicting those people specifically. For the past week I've been reading the autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. I've been thinking alot about civil, non-violent action and disobedience and how wonderful King, Ghandi (and Thoreau do an extent) would react to this situation. News coverage has stressed much of the togetherness this disaster has created. People finally working together on a cause big enough to make us all forget our petty concerns. However, will we allow this togetherness to continue or are we damned to create further carnage and thus expressing the same joy as those West Bankers who anger us in this disatrous time? America (Bush and cronies) seems bent on retalitaing a "punishing" blow to the "faceless cowards" responsible for this. This hypocrisy would deeply trouble me. My question: do we live in a world where military retaliation and violence is necessary? Greg Romero dramaturg rm 120 theatre PO Box 300165 Austin TX 78703 (512) 481-8366
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