Support Our Peacemakers

This is about the four Christian Peacemakers who are still held hostage in Iraq. They are the real peacemakers. Two of which are Canadian who have been abandoned by the government to their fate. Outside of a blundered statement made by Foreign Minister MacKay; "MacKay apologizes for raising hopes of hostages' families," Their plight has been kept in the news by their families.Loney's family makes another appeal for his release. Is it because they are pacifists, witnesses for the oppressed or because they are anarchists? The Christian Peacekeepers Movement is non-demoninational, but is supported in Canada by the Mennonite church and the Mennonite movement. The Mennonites are Anabaptists, like the Amish, Hutterites and Dukuhebours. The Anabaptists were perescuted in Europe from the late 19th Century through WWI because of their refusal to fight in the internecine imperialist wars of that time. Again the anarchist Peter Kropotkin is linked to these movements in that he promoted their immigration to Canada and the United States to avoid further persecution. He reccomened the Canadian prairies for the Slavic Anabaptists and Russian Duhkbours. The Catholic Workers and CPM practice of non-violent Direct Action are rooted in Anarchism. Ghandi and Tolstoy both promoted the idea of non-violent civil disobedience and direct action. Today Direct Action is mistaken by many to be the idea of dressing in black clothing and smashing windows during demonstrations. This is far from the truth and is a media distortion embraced by some wannabe anarchists. Read the rest here: http://plawiuk.blogspot.com/2006/03/support-our-peacemakers.html [Proofreader's note: this article was edited for spelling and typos on March 6, 2006]

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