06-03-2014, 07:03 AM
(This post was last modified: 06-03-2014, 07:37 AM by Peter Lemkin.)
Oh my.....bad news indeed! I know JJ personally and we have been in contact for about 30 years. This is the first I heard of it. He has almost singlehandedly run COPA and its predecessor, has been a great and fearless anti-fascist researcher long before I got going. He cut his teeth working with Mae Brussell - and even before when his parents used to leave him in the Pentagon library while they worked there [as he didn't have the clearances to enter their offices]. Yes Magda, the American 'unhealthy uncareing system' is appalling - we pay taxes, but they only go for death, wars, police, spying on us and others [for evil]; good is generally NOT funded, and little to nothing is returned to the citizens from their taxes that is positive.
I certainly wish JJ well and a quick recovery!! We need him and he needs his health! To the plus, he has a large group locally and around the World who care about him! Sad news! Please, those setting up a way to raise funds for JJ, also consider [if he's up to it] a way to send emails to him. I know he has a smart phone, but don't know if he has it with him at the hospital - or can yet use it. Anyway, the messages will be there for when he can. I think his knowing others are thinking of him will be good medicine. So, if JJ is not yet up to getting messages, if someone has the time to read them to him and set up an email address to send them to, I think this would do as much as the care the doctors and nurses are doing. Please also think of setting up an electronic means of contributions. I live in a European country from which it is impossible to send checks [in this country they do NOT exist], or any means of a contribution except electronically. JJ has friends around the World.
I certainly wish JJ well and a quick recovery!! We need him and he needs his health! To the plus, he has a large group locally and around the World who care about him! Sad news! Please, those setting up a way to raise funds for JJ, also consider [if he's up to it] a way to send emails to him. I know he has a smart phone, but don't know if he has it with him at the hospital - or can yet use it. Anyway, the messages will be there for when he can. I think his knowing others are thinking of him will be good medicine. So, if JJ is not yet up to getting messages, if someone has the time to read them to him and set up an email address to send them to, I think this would do as much as the care the doctors and nurses are doing. Please also think of setting up an electronic means of contributions. I live in a European country from which it is impossible to send checks [in this country they do NOT exist], or any means of a contribution except electronically. JJ has friends around the World.
"Let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who writes the laws. - Mayer Rothschild
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass