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Marin Hero, Daniel Ellsberg - Remember to Remember, from Clayton Smith
https://www.lewrockwell.com/political-theatre/daniel-ellsberg-rip/
Marin Freedom Friend Clayton Smith:
Daniel Ellsberg, RIP
Like most, I first heard of Daniel Ellsberg in the early 1970s, when most young people of my generation were focused on the dangers, injustice, and failures of the war in Vietnam.
For us, the War had become a feature that colored our lives with the draft, the choices to avoid conscription, the heavy weight it placed on the less affluent and immune of our cohort. Freedom had been annulled in the pursuit of power and profit. The underlying contradictions in the American system had been laid bare. But most importantly, there was the generational divide. The thoughtless, faithfully blind supporters of the status quo in the “older” generations, who conflated the war in Vietnam with the so-called Great Crusade of the Second World War, abandoned us to the brutality of a blatantly ill conceived and executed power play in the jungles of Southeast Asia. The consequences of that generational divide curse us to this day.
Ellsberg stood as a standout exception to that experience. A hero, a man who had not lost his conscience to the corrupting complaisance of conformity and put his life on the line in his rejection of his own generation, which had turned its back so callously on ours. What he did was an act of redemption. He restored much of the societal rupture we were enduring. Like Mort Sahl and others who put it all on the line, he used the measure of his maturity and success to press the truth against the machine. By providing the turning point in the national conversation, he broke the spell the official narrative had over his generation. The Pentagon Papers refuted all the justifications for the misguided policies of the deep state. They accelerated the end of the hostilities, and led to a reappraisal of the paradigm of governance, which had caused the country’s government to wander down this self-destructive path.
I first personally met Ellsberg much later in my life, during a luncheon at the Unitarian Church in San Rafael, California held by the Marin Philosophical Society. Quite fortunately, we ended up at the same table. Sitting there, I kept thinking of just how many actual lives this man had saved. The next time I had the opportunity to meet him was at the Book Passages in Corte Madera, California, at the end of 2017, when he was promoting his work on the dangers of nuclear war, “The Doomsday Machine.” He was the eternal crusader.
Sadly, he lived to see much of his life’s dedication to peaceful coexistence thwarted by the war mongering Neo-Cons. His work to advocate for a rational regard of the potentially negative consequences our current technology found increasingly few enthusiasts in the political party he held such loyalty for.
Ellsberg’s passing follows the deaths of Stephen Cohen and Mort Sahl. They were the elders, whom we could look to for guidance and sobriety in judgment. Another star has gone out in the night sky. Henry Miller, during his sojourn across America in the 1930s, reminded us to “Remember to Remember.” That title has stuck with me for the last 60 years. There is something in remembrance that adds meaning and dignity to the cold and empty space that lies in the time standing before us.
If ever there was an occasion to bring Old Glory down to half mast to honor the passing of a national hero, it is today. Not just for the man, but for the highest calling: Truth, Peace and Freedom. May he rest in God’s glory.
~ Clayton Smith
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