Mumia Abu-Jamal - Dissent in wartime!

Mark Twain was one of the most popular writers in America, and his narrative is the heart of American literature. However, he was a staunch opponent of U.S. military adventures at the dawn of the 20th Century, and pride against militarism. Of course, the disposition of his patriotism. In one of his novels, * * A U.S. court of King Arthur, Twain gave eloquent voice to his own brand of loyalty: you're my kind of loyalty was loyalty to his country, not to its institutionsand their officials. The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing to watch the thing, and utilities and to be faithful, but the institutions are extraneous, they are its mere clothing, and can wear clothes, rags, will be lifted comfortable, no more around the body to protect winter diseases and death. Leave the opposite to be loyal to rags, rags, rags to worship, to die for rags - that is faithful to irrationality, it is pure animal belongs to monarchy,invented by monarchy, we monarchy. [Fr Howard Zinn, Artists in Times of War * * (NY: 7 Stories / Open Media, '03), p. 16]