You Can't Bank On The Outcome.

Most Americans Would Agree That Plowshares Is A Theatre Of The Absurd.

We Have One Of Our Priests In Prison Right Now For His Antiwar Actions, And Three Of Us In The Community Are Forbidden To Visit Him Because We're All Convicted Felons.

One Is Called To Live Nonviolently, Even If The Change One Works For Seems Impossible.

Our Apologies, Good Friends, For The Fracture Of Good Order, The Burning Of Paper Instead Of Children. How Many Must Die Before Our Voices Are Heard, How Many Must Be Tortured, Dislocated, Starved, Maddened? When, At What Point, Will You Say No To This War?

Every Nation-state Tends Towards The Imperial - That Is The Point. Through Banks, Armies, Secret Police, Propaganda, Courts And Jails, Treaties, Taxes, Laws And Orders, Myths Of Civil Obedience, Assumptions Of Civic Virtue At The Top.