School of Assassins: The Case for Closing the School of the Americas and for Fundamentally Changing U.S. Foreign Policy
by Jack Nelson-Pallmeyer
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Author: Jack Nelson-PallmeyerEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1997-07
ISBN: 157075134X
Number of pages: 112
Publisher: Orbis Books
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Book Review: THIS BOOK REALLY SERVES TO CONNECT THE DOTS AND FILL IN THE BLANKS
Summary: 5 Stars
Like Carmichael said so long ago: Violence is as American as Apple Pie.
There is nothing new in our going around the world torturing our hostages, and killing them. Read this book. You need to. Abu Grabh was no aberration. People just don't go around with their cell phones cameras anymore. Our generals are bemused to discover that torture is considered off the table, and the rules of the Geneva Convention apply. Since when?
The great Catholic Publishing House Orbis Books courageously and consistently speaks for human rights and democracy in our hemisphere and world wide, and at home, as the Publishing House connected to the American Society of Foreign Missions known as Maryknoll.
Several Maryknollers have been martyred by graduates of this so-called School of the Americas, including Father Bill Woods and Sister Ita Ford and Sister Maura Clarke, etc., their assassinations never finding judgment and justice in this present world. This military brainwashing institute for torture and death has also been implicated in the martyrdom of Archbishop Romero who shortly before his own assassination peladed with President Carter to close it down. Instead Carter's successors only increased it.
General Noriega, whose Panama once hosted this institute while still under US direct and open colonialist control, is one noted graduate among the several in powr in the worst days of genocide and military oppression in El Salavador, Guatemala, the Southern Cone, etc., and when George Bush the First, who once vacationed with Noriega, found him no longer so malleable, he did away with him with the death and destruction of thousands of poor Panamanians, a foretaste of Bagdhad.
Maryknoll Father Roy Bourgeois has worked very hard for decades to do away with this immoral and evil institute which has brought suffering and death and torture to thousands of millions of our fellow Americans of this Hemisphere, mainly in the interest of preserving and expanding US business interests (again, think Iraq).
During Bob Dole's campaign stunt of going to Managua to "debate" President Daniel Ortega (recently re-elected to another term now twenty years later), President Ortega responded to DOle's accusation of religious repression in Nicaragua by pulling out a large photo of Father Roy being arrested at the School of the Americas, then and now based at Fort Benning, Georogia. This is the true religious repression, that we cannot speak for truth, justice and peace with the prophetic, revolutionary and compassionate love commanded and modelled by Jesus Christ.
This book is written by Jack Nelson-Pallmeyer, a master of Divinity from Union Theological Seminary and author of Harvest of Cain and The Politics of Compassion as well as Saving Christianity from Empire and War Against the Poor: Low-Intensity Conflict and Christian Faith. See also his Families Valued: Parenting and Politics for the Good of All Children and other publications, please, as he is proloific a prophet of peace and of Christ as our own Father John Dear SJ.
Here in this book he updates his earlier publication School of Assassins: The Case for Closing the School of the Americas and for Fundamentally Changing U.S. Foreign Policy. This is the best resource for discovering the true history of this colonialist and prespressive military institute which has brought such misery to millions and the genocide of, for example, several Mayan linguistic groups as attested by Maryknoll herself. In this update Pallmeyer refocuses us to the continung war upon the poor and the effects of globalization.
Heroically the people of Bolivia now break free from this instrument of their own oppression and work towards their ultimate liberation. Let us read this book carefully, and pray, and understand in compassion how and why, and pray for their forgiveness,and that of so many millions of people in the Americas. Let us form a School of the Americas based upon peace and development as we are called to do in Pope John XXIII's Pacem in Terris: Encyclical Letter of His Holiness Pope John XXIII and in Pope Paul VI's ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF PEOPLES: POPULORUM PROGRESSIO. as well as in the closing chapters of the present Supreme Pontiff, His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI's Sacramentum Caritatis: el Sacramento de la Caridad: una Exhortacion Apostolica Postsinodal, in which he quite clear and unequivocally recalls to us that our participation in the Eucharist compels us to alter the unjust structures which leaves the majority of the world's people in desperate poverty, in which our consciences must cry to find so much wasted on the military, a portion of which would ease the suffering of the starving. Jesus calls us still to feed the hungry, not to slaughter them for resources, and for greed.
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