This political “peace symbol” from 1960’s on Dawes Ave. Elementary School in Somers Point, NJ is no longer cute.??As enemies plot and prepare every day to kill us, we need to prepare young people to defend themselves–and our country. As George Orwell explained in 1942:
“Pacifism today is objectively pro-Fascist. . . If you hamper the war effort of one side you automatically help that of the other. Pacifist activities are not permitted in Nazi Germany or Imperial Japan. In both, the penalty is beheading. Meanwhile, both the Germans and Japanese do all they can to encourage the spread of pacifism in British and American territories.
?Pacifist propaganda can only be effective against those countries where a certain amount of freedom of speech is still permitted. It is helpful to totalitarianism.?
“I object to the intellectual cowardice of people who are objectively and emotionally pro-Fascist, but who don?t care to say so and take refuge behind the formula ?I am just as anti-fascist as anyone, but…” Let’s talk about this over breakfast?any Saturday 9:30 am to 10:30 am at Shore Diner, Tilton & Fire Roads, by Parkway Exit 36, Northfield/Egg Harbor Twp.?www.libertyandprosperity.org
Full text of George Orwell’s 1942 essay at http://orwell.ru/library/articles/pacifism/english/e_patw