SUMMONS here delivered to all politicians/religious leaders
"In our tenure on this planet we've accumulated dangerous evolutionary baggage — propensities for aggression and ritual, submission to leaders, hostility to outsiders — all of which puts our survival in some doubt." -Carl Sagan, Cosmos (1980), p. 318.
"We designate by the term "State" institutions that embody absolutism in its extreme form and institutions that temper it with more or less liberality. We apply the word alike to institutions that do nothing but aggress and to institutions that, besides aggressing, to some extent protect and defend. But which is the State's essential function, aggression or defence, few seem to know or care. -Benjamin Tucker, Address to Unitarian Ministers (1890).
"Anarchists, whose mission in the world is the abolition of aggression and all the evils that result therefrom, perceived that, to be understood, they must attach some definite and avowed significance to the terms which they are obliged to employ, and especially to the words "State" and "government." Seeking, then, the elements common to all the institutions to which the name "State" has been applied, they have found them two in number: first, aggression; second, the assumption of sole authority over a given area and all within it, exercised generally for the double purpose of more complete oppression of its subjects and extension of its boundaries." -Benjamin Tucker, Address to Unitarian Ministers (1890).
"Aggression is simply another name for government. Aggression, invasion, government, are interconvertible terms. The essence of government is control, or the attempt to control. He who attempts to control another is a governor, an aggressor, an invader; and the nature of such invasion is not changed, whether it is made by one man upon another man, after the manner of the ordinary criminal, or by one man upon all other men, after the manner of an absolute monarch, or by all other men upon one man, after the manner of a modern democracy. -Benjamin Tucker, Address to Unitarian Ministers (1890).
i pray to you St. Francis, in the communion of all saints, and you as brother to Jesus, please hear my prayer: I have reverted to a practice begun long ago: reading the Bible at first hour of light and this is my Prayer now: << Psalm 7 >> Let it be for us our truth, We the People of God, all children, knowing God variously and by many names; to be all tolerant ending all war. Amen.
121002 08:18 Summons
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