Comments for Author Mary Pipher Returns Award to American Psychological Association to Protest Torture Stance at http://atlanticfreepress.com , comment 1 to 1 out of 1 comments http://atlanticfreepress.com Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:11:35 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://atlanticfreepress.com/news/1/2255-author-mary-pipher-returns-award-to-american-psychological-association-to-protest-torture-stance.html#comment-2832 [quote]“[My] remarks have certainly been harsh and moralistic. We are none of us saints, and ordinarily I would be ashamed to use such a tone. But you are the manufacturers of napalm, fragmentation bombs, the planes that destroy rice. Your weapons have killed hundreds of thousands in Vietnam and you will kill hundreds of thousands in other Vietnams. I am sure that most of you would concede that much of what you do is ugly and harmful, at home and abroad. But you would say that it is necessary for the American way of life, at home and abroad, and therefore you cannot do otherwise. Since we [- I and those people outside - ] believe that Your way of life is unnecessary, ugly and un-American - we cannot condone your present operations; they should be wiped off the slate.” [/quote] ~ [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Goodman_(writer)[/url], Founder of Gestalt Therapy, Excerpted from “A Causerie at the military-industrial Complex,” October 1967 - a guest Sat, 25 Aug 2007 23:56:33 +0100