Still other work I need to do, still reading...
"I have meditated on that profession of love several days ago from a grown man wielding a bat to threaten us. It called to mind a conversation with my theology students at Fordham about Henry David Thoreau’s essay 'On the Duty of Civil Disobedience,' in which he argues that 'all machines have their friction,' but that 'when the friction comes to have its machine, and oppression and robbery are organized, I say, let us not have such a machine any longer.' He had in mind the evils of slavery and the American government’s theft of half of Mexico in the Mexican-American War, but it spoke fittingly to this older form of oppression and robbery the Lakota people still suffer, in which even those who love them will still oppose them with a weapon and disrupt their sacred grounds."
~ http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/25/opinion/at-standing-rock-and-beyond-what-is-to-be-done.html?_r=0
Now I must stop.
Goodnight.
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