By Ray McGovern (channeling Dan Berrigan)
February 4, 2023 (14 minutes)
Asked to include in a recent talk some personal examples of nonviolent “intervention”, I dug out a couple of photos in which I “Stand There” in witness and am “taken to ground” (as the Capitol police put it). Then came a 2-minute video showing me asking former House Intelligence Committee Chair Adam Schiff for proof that Russia “hacked” the DNC.
(Spoiler: he said he could not share it with me. Those of us paying attention know that this was NOT because it was classified, but rather because it was “non-existent” – just as “non-existent” as the evidence of WMD in Iraq before the U.S./UK attack 20 years ago.)
There was not enough time to show my favorite “intervention” – the mini-debate I had with Donald Rumsfeld in Atlanta on May 4, 2006.
To inject humanity into why we are called to Stand There, I recited a short poem by Fr. Dan Berrigan:
SOME
Some stood and stood and stood.
They were taken for fools
They were taken for being taken in.
Some walked and walked and walked
They walked the earth
They walked the waters
They walked the air.
Why do you stand they were asked and
Why do you walk?
Because of the children, they said, and
Because of the heart, and
Because of the bread,
Because
The cause
Is the heart’s beat
And the children born
And the risen Bread.
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Because of the children
The conference addressed “How Nuclear War Can Be Avoided” and was organized by the Schiller Institute. It can be viewed in its entirety at https://schillerinstitute.com/blog/2023/02/03/conference-the-age-of-reason-or-the-annihilation-of-humanity/ My segment comes between minutes 56 and 74.