{"id":5044,"date":"2014-06-24T15:58:19","date_gmt":"2014-06-24T13:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newparadigm.schillerinstitute.com\/?p=5044"},"modified":"2019-01-03T00:07:12","modified_gmt":"2019-01-02T23:07:12","slug":"schiller-institute-30th-anniversary-conference-brigadier-general-john-johns-ret","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/el\/blog\/2014\/06\/24\/schiller-institute-30th-anniversary-conference-brigadier-general-john-johns-ret\/","title":{"rendered":"Schiller Institute 30th Anniversary Conference: Brigadier General John Johns (ret.)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>EIR senior editor Jeffrey Steinberg read the following message to the 30th Anniversary conference of the Schiller Institute, from Brigadier General John Johns (ret.).<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>In introduction, Steinberg said:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe&#8217;s been an outspoken critic of all the recent wars. He and General Robert Garde wrote a major piece in the <em>New York Times<\/em> several years back when it looked like we were about to go to war with Iran, and just simply said, do not do it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGeneral Johns sent a paper, a lecture that he gave down in Virginia, and he asked that I just read a very brief quote from it, which is very much in line with the Schiller Institute&#8217;s tradition and spirit, and also with the presentations you&#8217;ve heard today. It&#8217;s actually from a former U.S. Senator named Carl Schurz, who was the first German-born American citizen later, to be elected to the United States Senate. He was a general in the Union army during the Civil War; later in the Senate; later he was the Interior Secretary; and at the time of the Spanish-American War, he delivered the following brief statement:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe man who in times of popular excitement boldly and unflinchingly resists hot-tempered clamor for an unnecessary war, and thus exposes himself to the opprobrious imputation of a lack of patriotism, or of courage, to the end of saving his country from a great calamity, is, as to lovingly and faithfully serving his country, at least as good a patriot as the hero of the most daring feat of arms, and a far better one, than those who, with the ostentatious pretense of superior patriotism, cry for war before it is needed, especially if they let others do the fighting.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EIR senior editor Jeffrey Steinberg read the following message to the 30th Anniversary conference of the Schiller Institute, from Brigadier General John Johns (ret.). In introduction, Steinberg said: \u201cHe&#8217;s been an outspoken critic of all the recent wars. He and General Robert Garde wrote a major piece in the New York Times several years back [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[501,510],"tags":[842],"class_list":["post-5044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-location-nyc","category-activity-conference","tag-lang-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5044"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50957,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5044\/revisions\/50957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}