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Thanks to @HeidiSchlumpf and @NCRonline for sharing this story--with the 50th anniversary of the copying of the Pentagon Papers (Oct 1969 @DanielEllsberg) coming just as we are being reminded of the power of truth-telling and the power of one person.
Whistleblowing is about truth-telling, says @RobertEllsberg. And he should know, since he helped his father, @DanielEllsberg, one of our country's most significant whistleblowers so far. My story:
ncronline.org/news/justice/r…
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There are those who give the orders. There are those who wield the bone saws. And there are those who say, "What does that have to do with me?" All play their part. History judges. First anniversary of #KhashoggiMurder
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I highly recommend @SteveSheinkin's book about my dad and the Pentagon Papers. Though billed for YA readers, it is really a must-read for anyone interested in lies and truth-telling. So topical! I enjoyed sharing a stage with Steve last year. Audio here: bit.ly/2nOjqOl
Judge a book by its cover? Yes, please do! I love this new paperback design for MOST DANGEROUS. (Fellow authors will understand, I had nothing do with it, except to say I wanted "something cool and thrillery.") @MacKidsBooks
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Oct 2 marks the 150th anniversary of the birth of Mohandas Gandhi, the “Great Soul” of the Indian freedom movement, and the world’s great teacher of nonviolence. But his lessons are even more far-ranging.
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He taught that the search for God was inseparable from service to the poor and oppressed and that true worship was inseparable from active love. He challenged an industrial civilization that dwarfed the human spirit and threatened the planet.
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He always posed a special challenge to Christians—politely rejecting the dogmatic claims of Christianity (the behavior of Christians seemed to offer no special claim on the Truth), while embracing the teachings of Christ, particularly the Sermon on the Mount.
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There are nevertheless many Christians who have become better Christians because of Gandhi, who have rediscovered different emphases in the gospel, and have been led to view the suffering figure of Christ through new eyes.
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A propos of our times: On May 11 1973 Nixon learned that a judge in LA had dismissed charges vs my father. The White House tapes record his reaction: “They’re trying to get at us with thieves. What in the name of God have we come to?”
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My father comments: “What we had come back to was a democratic republic—not an elected monarchy—a government under law, with Congress, the courts and the press functioning to curtail executive abuses as our Constitution envisioned.” @DanielEllsberg
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50 years ago today my father @DanielEllsberg began taking volumes of the Top Secret history of the Vietnam War (the Pentagon Papers) from his safe at the RAND Corporation to photocopy on a friend’s xerox machine.
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He acted in the hope that revealing this history of lies might help end the war. He was particularly inspired by his reading of Gandhi about the power of Truth. He described his motivations for me, and shared the books he had been reading by Gandhi, Thoreau, M.L. King.
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Later that week, at the Brentwood Country Mart, he asked me if I would help. Not that he needed my help (I was 13)—but he wanted me to see that there were times when one might be called to pay a price for the cause of peace. And this might be his legacy for me and my sister.
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Two years later the Papers appeared in the press. He was arrested and faced a possible 115 years in prison. To a reporter who asked if he wasn’t afraid of going to prison, he said, “Wouldn’t you go to prison if it would help end this war?”
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The royal fete got off to a bad start when the Grand Duchess mistook him for one of the stewards. Before the mistake was rectified he had spent most of the evening in the cloakroom touting the amenities at his hunting lodge.—#TolstoysTalesofTrump
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There are different kinds of Attorneys General. There are those like Elliot Richardson, who resigned rather than fire the Watergate Special Prosecutor, and then those more like John Mitchell, who oversaw a criminal conspiracy to spy on and harass the president's foes.
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Love this cover from the forthcoming Nov (month of all Saints) issue of @GiveUsThisDayLP. So grateful to have written the daily “Blessed Among Us” column for every issue since the first one in 2011. Makes me realize I need to write about John Coltrane!
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