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Swords into Ploughshares

 

"They shall beat their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more."

Isaiah 2:4

Palestine Action are doing just this: beating swords into ploughshares i.e. putting weapons out of use. In doing so they are fulfilling this biblical mandate. They are expressing God's peace as expressed in the Jewish tradition and the Christian tradition.
God desires that our swords shall be beaten into ploughshares, that we should unlearn war.
That the government wants to make this action illegal has to be confronted in the strongest terms.
To rush to condemn attacks on weapons but not attacks on children is perverse.
To call attacks on weapons terrorism but not attacks on children is perverse.
When government comes to such an extreme position - legislating that peace is war, that weapons need more protection than children - then they have fundamentally gone wrong.
This is the definition of fascism. When the government tells you that black is white, that up is down, that war is peace, that lies are truth. It's an affront not only to morality, but to truth and logic. We are being told not to believe our own eyes. If they can call Palestine Action terrorists then they can call anyone a terrorist because words don't mean anything any more.
This has to be called what it is. When government acts so perversely against any normal moral standard then the government is acting sinfully, satanically. This is evil and must be called it.
I believe we each have conscience and have the ability to know right from wrong. Right now we all must listen to that conscience and not to a government that has lost all sense of truth and right.

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