THE ANTIWAR FRONT—Criminals for Peace: determined opposition to imperial violence
Criminals for Peace
By William T. Hathaway
How do we defuse an aggressive culture? How do we end an endless war?
ABOVE: Opposition to imperial wars continues to grow, including among the ranks of the Western military. Veteran groups have tried to focus critical attention to these conflicts with the kind of firsthand testimony that only ex-servicemen can offer but their efforts have met for the most part with the ideological blockade of the corporate media. Now, a new group, Criminals for Peace, represents yet a new approach to the old question..
American Communist Party, and he edited the iconic counter-culture/antiwar Ramparts magazine in the 1960s and wrote a terrific anti-imperialist book, The Free World Colossus. Since his official conversion to the capitalist faith (Horowitz “came out” in 1985 with a splashy piece for the Washington Post in which he rejected Marxism and informed readers he had decided to vote for Ronald Reagan), Horowitz has been amply funded by the usual murky channels of the ultraright. As president of the David Horowitz Freedom Center, Horowitz edits the scurrilous FrontPage Magazine, and also writes for Christopher Ruddy‘s NewsMax.[2] Horowitz also founded the organization Students for Academic Freedom, whose stated goal is combatting “leftist indoctrination” in academia, but which is in effect a latter-day witch-hunting cum intimidation operation. This is how FrontPage sounds the alarm about Hathaway (the piece was authored by Ryan Mauro, founder of WorldThreats.com, the national security adviser for the Christian Action Network, an analyst with Wikistrat and a frequent contributor to Fox News. He can be contacted at TDCAnalyst@aol.com).:
If the claims of former Green Beret William T. Hathaway are true, then a new group of “peace” activists are trying to disable the U.S. military through sabotage. The agenda of this group isn’t limited to opposing war, though, as they ultimately want a revolution against the government and capitalism. And to make matters worse, Hathaway’s preaching isn’t limited to the far-left extremist fringe, as he is an adjunct professor of American Studies at the University of Oldenburg in Germany.
“Being peaceful doesn’t mean obeying a violent government, they say. They are helping soldiers to desert, destroying computer systems, trashing recruiting offices, burning military equipment, and sabotaging defense contractors,” Hathaway says of this new group of activists. These are not spontaneous acts of dissidence but a coordinated effort that involves “working underground in secret cells to undermine the U.S. military empire.”
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Special Forces combat veteran I’m used to being under attack.
A similar betrayal of democracy occurred in 2006 when the Democrats gained control of Congress by pledging to end the war. Instead those same politicians then voted a huge increase in military spending and supported US troop surges.
Since changing the system from within has failed, our program has become sedition, subversion, sabotage: direct action to bring the system down. We’re helping soldiers to desert, destroying computer systems, trashing recruiting offices, burning military equipment, and sabotaging defense contractors.
Some of the members of our group:
An Iraqi student whose family was brutalized by American soldiers. She tells how this turned her into a pacifist and her brother into a resistance fighter.
A high school teacher who was fired and blacklisted for teaching her students how US foreign policy has provoked terrorism. The experience changed her from a Republican into a radical activist.
A gay Afghan refugee who describes the similarities between the Taliban and the US Army.
A Granny for Peace who found young allies in her struggle against military recruiting.
A janitor who destroys computers at defense contractors with electrical surges.
A seminary student who was assaulted by soldiers at a peace demonstration. She decided to learn to love her enemies by becoming a military chaplain and subverting from within.
A woman soldier who deserted after being sexually harassed by both male and female colleagues.
A sailor who went on weekend pass to a Buddhist retreat and came back a pacifist.
A wounded soldier who escaped from military detention and deserted rather than being sent back to combat.
http://media.trineday.com/radicalpeace.
William T. Hathaway is an adjunct professor of American studies at the University of Oldenburg in Germany. His other books include A WORLD OF HURT (Rinehart Foundation Award), CD-RING, and SUMMER SNOW. A selection of his writing is available at www.peacewriter.org.
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