Anti-war activist Philip Berrigan dies with 'conviction'

Atlanta Journal-Constitution ^ | December 7, 2002 | The Associated Press

[LurkedLongEnough]

Another one bites the dust.

[AppyPappy]

Another unilateral disarmicist bites the dust.

[I_Love_My_Husband]

More of the hippie generation dying off. I don't see this as a problem.

[SMEDLEYBUTLER]

ping

[uncbob]

Where do these people get the $$ to live and travel etc

[Semper Paratus]

Look for a lot of eulogies in the media Sunday about his "Courage".

[TopQuark]

"We confront the Catholic Church, other Christian bodies and the synagogues of America with their silence and cowardice in the face of our country's crimes," he said at the time.

Fine, suppose it's true. If he was not anti-American but stood for principle instead, he must have had a similar problem with other governments. Just name one confrontation of this man with the Russian government, or North-Korean, or Chinese...

I wish these people simply said, "I hate America." Istead, they hide under, "As a Cristian, I must..." or "As a Jew, I must..."

Garbage: neither Christianity nor Judaism teaches one to hate one's own country.

[JZoback]

I don't hold it against him for the protests he held. They were based on convictions.Wrong convictions, but they were his.

What is sad is he never grow up to see why he was wrong.

To die at 79 still a sixties useful idiot is a waste of life

[Chi-townChief]

"Anti-war activist Philip Berrigan dies with 'conviction'"

I had to check that this was the real title. Almost reminds of "Move Zig for Great Justice." Berrigan, God rest his soul, was a first class A-hole from wayyyyyyyyyy back.

[winin2000]

More of the hippie generation dying off. I don't see this as a problem.

Amen! He will not be missed.

Let's be sure and reserve the plots around him for Tom Hayden, the Smothers Brothers, Jane Fonda, Bobby Seale, and every other treasonous fossil you can think of when their time comes.

[Republic If You Can Keep It]

"We're killing ourselves, and some of us are not making a murmur about it."

What are you talking about, Father Berrigan? Abortion?

[LadyDoc]

I wonder if he ever protested the one million vietnamese placed into "re education camps"?

Or helped the 250 thousand boat people?

Or protested the two million Cambodians killed by the communist government there?

Ah, but if you are a pacifist, you feel so self righteous.

Reminds me of the pacifists who aided the marxist guerillas in Africa. They look the other way when missionaries are killed, and when their beloved marxist leaders starve millions...

[VMI70]

The Berrigan brothers were victims of their own propaganda.

Their downfall occurred when they held a protest against our POWs at the very time that they were being repatriated. The Berrigans were reviled for that, even by most of the peaceniks. Subsquently, they floundered in ignominy.
A fitting end to the influence of those A..holes.

[battlegearboat]

The bum was nothing more than a terrorist.
Destined for History's dustbin.
Just hearing his name gives me a "my brain headache".

[facedown]

ping

[rabidralph]

How come liberals die with conviction, rather than being convicted, and conservatives die with detractors and critics?

[IronJack]

Maybe they could shoot his body into space beside Timothy Leary's ashes. No sense further polluting the planet by burying him.

[cloud8]

Where do these people get the $$ to live and travel etc

Back in the 60s and 70s when the Berrigans were active, from the Red Chinese.

Phil Berrigan died deluded in the conviction that his traitrous activities did good for this world, and it is unfortunate that he never saw how terribly wrong he was. Because those people whom the Berrigans were fighting against were the ones who put the Evil Empire onto the scrapheap of history, gave us peace through strength, and greatly reduced the chances of nuclear war.

[IronJack]

Notice they don't mention when or why Berrigan became a "former" priest. This guy was as bad as Abbie Hoffman or Tom Hayden.

[Burn24]

Funny how people equate the "hippie generation" with those in their 40s at the time. Most "hippies" - those in their teens and twenties - were just mindless followers of their elders.