Editor,
I compliment Muhammad Ali for refusing to be a U.S. soldier. I highly compliment him for refusing to go murder people Vietnam. If anyone could have told Muhammad Ali, as a strong, confident young boxer, that he would later suffer for 32 years because of blows to his head — able only to move and speak slowly, how would he have it? Sadly millions cheered as he and other men, often black men, bloodied and injured each other for fame and fortune. I condemn all boxing for adults or kids, for men or women. Repeated blows to the head can damage the brain permanently — even if the person is not knocked out. A dear friend here, a new dad, was “punch drunk” from boxing. He told me he did not want his children to be boxers. Did anyone at the recent Kirtland Air Show think of the terror thousands of parents in Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan felt as they saw these U.S. war planes fly over knowing that soon their families might be massacred? Did anyone at the air show of war planes think how man grieving survivors abroad fear and hate this government for its massive atrocities? As Martin Luther King Jr. said decades ago, “the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today is my own government.” The U.S. Empire is the world’s worst terrorist gang! Concerning the May 24 Trump event here, I am glad, very glad, I participated in the early evening protest against Trump. I condemn the violence and riot late that evening.
Don Schrader
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