Good morning!
We have a good cool Sunday morning after sittings and service, fortunately without the predicted snow. I forwarded to our listserv Ronnie Dugger’s article “Sole Control of the Use of our Nuclear Weapons” in the Reader Supported News. Giving many odd cases of the president’s nuclear code handling and fearing the president’s quality, he advises changing the president’s sole control to that of a special group composed of the president, congress leaders, supreme court judges, et al, following O’Hanlon’s advice.
Elaine Scarry contended that this sole control over weapons of mass murder abolishes congress, thus American democracy. She concludes that the constitution (declaration of war by congress) and its second amendment (people’s right to abolish the legislature) require abolishing such weapons (president’s notice of its action to the congress within 60 days makes no sense in the case of nuclear war and winter). The situation is similar to that of other nuclear armed nations. The new weapons abolish the old governing systems.
All living beings with four-billion year genes are equally valuable, obliged to all life systems, responsible to continue such systems. No one has the right to kill or annihilate. Under nuclear power, no one is free, equal, or peaceful. Seeking life and destroying it is due to wrong ideologies and institutions, coming from karma. There is no other way than stilling karma in nirvana and awakening and starting an ultimate universal way from karma to dharma, from ego to eco, from money to life, from pyramidal civilization to Indra-net culture.
Even if one man is replaced by a team of several people, a nuclear war and war wagers are beyond our imagination. Only abolishing nukes is the wholly wholesome way. The less realistic alternative is to avoid wars (action to oppose or stop), and abolish military forces, and eventually abolish the war institution itself. Nukes and wars have been produced by our fiction and delusion of states, societies, and selves. Sitting, stilling karma is the solution.
12/4/16
