What's Missing in the Mourning for Tom Fox
by Richard Oxman

RIP, of course. Now let's get to work. Past The Generics.

-In response to Tom's passing, we ask that everyone set aside inclinations to vilify or demonize others, no matter what they have done. In Tom's own words: ‘We reject violence to punish anyone’.-

I got the above from the Christian Peacemaker Teams' -We Mourn the Loss of Tom Fox- ( http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=15&ItemID=9891 ). I'm all for not demonizing others too, BUT-what about the notion of IDENTIFYING the stock others?

-We hope that in loving both friends and enemies and by intervening nonviolently to aid those who are systematically oppressed, we can contribute in some small way to transforming this volatile situation.-

Who exactly are the -enemies- the CPT speaks of here? Would it add to the impact they desire to have for them to specify the vast majority of American citizens who are aiding and abetting the U.S. Abomination in Iraq? To make it crystal clear that it's not the so-called insurgents who are on the opposite side of the fence. To pinpoint Joe and Jane of these here shores as the whores who put CPT members in the position of having to go abroad and submit their beings to torture, etc.

Why is it that when the dust clears from that blood-stained road in Baghdad it's not absolutely clarified that CPT is horrified at what the American Public has wrought?

Surely the voicing of such sentiments would fall within the proper parameters as per:

-Jesus' prophetic call to live out a nonviolent alternative to the cycle of violence and revenge.-

Yes? No?

I'd love to hear from Harmeet Sooden, Jim Loney and Norman Kember on this one.

From any brothers (or sisters) who care to go beyond “brothers” identifying generic others and sacrificing their precious bodies.

Let's consider planting some new seeds, yes?

Richard Oxman, info@parisgraves.com, is on his knees in Los Gatos awaiting responses. His current, most updated writing is at www.oxtogrind.org -where http://oxtogrind.org/archive/147 might serve as an excellent complementary article here.