Earl J. Prignitz
I am a retired Friends pastor - 93 years of age and a dedicated peace lover. I have been a pacifist for well over 70 years. I spent 39 years of my life in one form of ministry or another in 4 different states. I am now living in Friends Fellowship Community and have been for over 9 years after suffering from two strokes just prior to that. I am married for the second time to a lovely woman named Rosalie. My first wife died in 1996 after we were married for over 61 years.
Articles by Earl J. Prignitz
December 26, 2009
A short meditation on the value of good, clean, positive thought.
October 09, 2009
This is an article urging our Attorney General, Eric Holder, to do his job against those who while in office condoned torture.
October 01, 2009
Another brief article favoring the "Public option."
September 21, 2009
A very brief article advocating that America should extricate itself from Afghanistan as soon as possible.
September 17, 2009
An article in support of the public option
August 29, 2009
A brief article on dreaming, or having a vision of where you want to go with your life.
January 12, 2009
This is an article that tells some of the chsnges I have witnessed in my 93 years on this old earth.
September 23, 2008
One simple alternative to Washington's bailout proposal.
September 08, 2008
The opinion of one 93 year old man about this years election!
June 20, 2008
A concern for the millions of Iraqi citizens who are displaced
because of the American invasion of their country.
April 30, 2008
The question of the hour is whether Hillaries whining and the Reverend Wright's eruption been disruptive enough to stop the Obama momentum?
March 29, 2008
Terrorists, terrorists everywhere and why wouldn't there be after we have methodically trained them for years?
February 12, 2008
A few of the monumental problems confronting whoever gets to be our next President!
October 18, 2007
What in the world is our President thinking about. The absurdity of talking openly about a third World War just suggestion blows my mind.
At Wednesday morning's White House press conference, President George Bush laid out the administration’s pretext for military action against Iran. Th...
October 12, 2007
There are many people whose only exposure to history is from tiny soundbytes they might hear. Many of them are familiar with the phrase "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself," and they know that these words were spoken by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. They probably think FDR origi...
September 25, 2007
Only yesterday, Newsweek reported that our cunningly sly Vice President had recently made overtures to Israel to get them to launch an attack against Iran, to try to provoke an all out conflagration. Can you believe it? It seems every day there is a new story leaked out about their aggressive...
August 09, 2007
Living in an information age, it is easy to become overwhelmed by the constant influx of scientific studies, breaking news, and even spiritual revelations that fill our bookshelves, radio waves, and in-boxes. No sooner have we decided what to eat or how to think about the universe than a new st...
August 03, 2007
Starting yesterday it was past time that the American people got behind every effort to impeach the Bush Administration and remove it from office. Failure to do so just encourages the next administration to be just as bad if not worse.
I would encourage each of us to call all of our relat...
July 21, 2007
Yes dear friends unless Congress takes the bull by the horns and initiates immediate action to impeach Bush and Cheney, a year from now may be too late and we could have a dictatorial police state on our hands and in addition to that be at war with Iran.
All you need to remember is that our...
July 15, 2007
Well my friends I am going to bare my soul today and explain as best I can why I believe as I do. I am sure there will be many of you who will thoroughly disagree with me, but so be it. I trust there may be at least a few of you who will see my point of view.
To begin with let us set the rec...
July 10, 2007
In Lebanon's Daily Star the other day we saw the Headlines, "Yes, Bush has failed in Iraq - but why did he invade in the first place?” That’s a good question!
American soldiers have been fighting and dying in Iraq since 2003. Information Clearing House tells us that, to date, the number Of Ir...
June 26, 2007
What the world needs now is….YOU!
That is what the Philosopher of Science, Ervin Laszlo says. He says, “Science won’t change the world, people will.” Laszlo is a philosopher, author and systems theorist who gave up a career as a concert pianist and devoted his life to study science in order t...
June 18, 2007
Saddam Hussein was undoubtedly one of the most evil men in history. Under his regime many hundreds of thousands of people have died as a result of his actions. No one would deny those facts. There are no reliable figures available for the number of Iraqi dissidents and Shia Muslims killed du...
June 10, 2007
For several hundred years following the death of Christ, there is absolutely no question that his followers were certain that he had forbidden war. As a result of many Christians refusal to participate in war they suffered the consequences of imprisonment and/or death. These facts are indisputa...
June 01, 2007
Well, what do you know my friends? The White House press secretary announced this week that President Bush wants to establish a permanent U.S. military presence in Iraq similar to the half-century long U.S. military role in South Korea. This public acknowledgement confirms what I predicted month...
May 29, 2007
Be it resolved, that Richard B. Cheney, vice president of the United States, should be impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors and that these articles of impeachment be submitted to the American people
Why, you ask? Because Vice President Dick Cheney has been pulling the wool over our eyes n...
May 24, 2007
Just when I thought I had heard everything, the news that came out in the Guardian yesterday blew my mind. What do you think dear reader?
The news item stated that, "The Bush administration is developing plans to "internationalize" the Iraq crisis, including an expanded role for the United Na...
May 17, 2007
I intend to remind you about how the plans for an American empire were made long before the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon took place and instead of just citing where you can find the information I'm including it in my article. Please take note of the date these plans we...
May 04, 2007
The saddest day in May was when President Bush vetoed legislation that would have started bringing our troops home this year. And the most distressing aspect of this decision is that he doesn’t have any plans of ever bringing the troops home, period.
Why would he be building permanent bases in ...
April 25, 2007
The time is ripe for the impeachment of both President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney. Every error in judgement in the past five years is traceable back to these two men.
It all began with their insistance on a premptive war with Iraq without cause. All of the reasons that...
April 20, 2007
Immediately following the news of the massacre at Virginia Tech, a White House spokesman said President George W. Bush was horrified by the rampage and offered his prayers to the victims and the people of Virginia. How touching! Thirty-two people killed by one mentally disturbed young man who jus...
April 18, 2007
I am writing to express my personal indignation over the use of Cluster bombs by my government. If you don’t know about them. Cluster bombs (or cluster munitions) are weapons that work by dispersing several, in some cases hundreds, of smaller submunitions, often referred to as bomblets or grenad...
April 15, 2007
A highly regarded Iraqi epidemiologist who wanted to tell Americans about the alarming rise in cancer levels among Iraqi children is scheduled to come to Canada instead because he couldn't get a visa to the United States.
After he was unable to travel to the University of Washington, Riyadh...
April 09, 2007
Have you ever really given any thought about who you are?
Let's explore that idea for a bit today!
I think my identity consists of many different layers. I am a human being, and as a human being,I am a citizen of the world, and hence have a very small responsibility for the entire pl...
March 31, 2007
The Resurrection is the most important event in the life of the Christian Church! Not the birth of Jesus, nor his ministry, nor his crucifixion are as critical as his Resurrection from the grave. Obviously the Resurrection could not have happened without the previous phenomenons occuring. Bu...
March 06, 2007
A home is a place where a person or a family lives, perhaps spends much of their time, or where a person is comfortable being. While a house (or other residential dwelling) is often referred to as a home, the concept of "home" is broader than a physical dwelling. Home is often a place of refuge ...
February 09, 2007
Martin Luther King, Jr. once said, "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."
Well, there are a lot of things that matter to me, but the one that really concerns me the most right now is all the rumors of war with Iran that keep surfacing. We are hearing the same...
January 19, 2007
With all the lament over the number of our troops who have lost their lives, plus the many thousands of additional men and women who have lost limbs and otherwise become incapacitated, plus the billions of dollars of debt that we have piled up for our grandchildren, we take our minds off of another ...
January 16, 2007
Well, what do you know President Bush announced the details of his new strategy the other day and it was so familiar wasn't it? Like we had never heard it before. When will this President get the message that the voters sent to him loud and clear in the last election that it is time to give up ...
January 16, 2007
If you witnessed the interview that Scott Pelley had with our President on 60 minutes you should be alarmed my friends. What in the world is happening to America?
He actually told Pelley that he doesn't care that he is not popular. That's O.K. if that is the way he feels about it!
But he a...
January 10, 2007
Did you ever pause and think that every waking moment of every day, you are thinking. There are some thoughts that stick with you for many years, perhaps even for your entire life.
Some thoughts come and go and never stay with you at all. But there are other thoughts which come and go, and ...
January 01, 2007
With the execution of Saddam Hussein dominating the news these days let us not forget that this cycle of revenge, fighting vengeance with vengeance is only going to lead to more of our American soldiers dying on foreign soil. As the media focuses on Saddam's death the death toll of our American ...
December 19, 2006
Last week I raised the question of the American people not speaking loudly enough on November 7th, soundly repudiating the current Bush policy, with the Iraq war/occupation at the top of the list? I stated that obviously the Bush administration didn't get the message. Then the Iraq Study Group deli...
December 14, 2006
I would like to know if the American people didn't speak loud enough on November 7, soundly repudiating the current Bush policy, with ENDING the Iraq war/occupation at the top of their list? Obviously the Bush administration didn't get the message. Then the Iraq Study Group delivered its report, ...
December 07, 2006
As a pacifist I must confess first of all that I am not very knowledgable in the field of war. But I have read enough to realize that the first thing you must know is "Know your enemy."
When George W. Bush and his war council decided to invade Iraq they obviously didn't know the first thing abo...
December 02, 2006
I was deeply impressed by an article I read by Douglas Soderstrom, called, "A Prescription For Peace -- Teaching Tommy In An Era Of Fascism." In it he proposes that we teach our children the necessary character, even the wisdom, to realize these 21 points:
1. Every human being is sacred, that...
November 30, 2006
The history of the last four years has proven that the Bush administration used ill-advised intelligence and then lied to obtain the original Authorization for Use of Military Force ("AUMF"), which was then immediately abused to launch an unprovoked and unwarranted invasion and indefinite occu...
November 30, 2006
The case of Khaled El-Masri is one that every American citizen should be watching carefully. Yesterday, he stood up in a courtroom and challenged the Bush administration's use of "extraordinary rendition," abduction, detention and interrogation in secret overseas prisons.
It is assuredly ...
November 07, 2006
Well dear friends let me impress upon you that history will be determined in a matter of hours-will George W. Bush get a rubber-stamp Congress for the final two years of his presidency or not? Only you can help decide that issue.
Have you heard of "MoveOn.org's Call for Change?" This organiza...
October 17, 2006
I am deeply troubled about the burgeoning debt that our government has been so generously giving to our grand children. I hope you realize that next year, the Pentagon will take $463 billion (yes that's billion) of our tax money -- more than will be appropriated for the environment, education, e...
September 23, 2006
I wonder if you see what I see dear friends as you view our world? As we look back over the past five years, what exactly has been achieved, will you tell me? Is the world a safer place now than it was before 9/11? And what about the freedom and democracy that President Bush still claims to espo...
September 15, 2006
When George W. Bush spoke to the American people on 9/11/2006 and said, "America did not ask for this war, and every American wishes it were over. So do I. But the war is not over — and it will not be over until either we or the extremists emerge victorious. If we do not defeat these enemie...
September 09, 2006
For the life of me I can't understand why the American people can't see how we have been miss-lead into believing all the nonsense that the Bush Adminstration has been feeding us these many years. The false connection between Al Quida and Saddam Hussein with 9/11, the lack of finding the WMD's,...
May 10, 2006
I've been writing about all the lies that members of the current Administration have bee guilty of for many months now, but the most telling episode took place just the other day and I want all America to witness it.
MSNBC?s Keith Olbermann on ?Countdown 5?: ?Good evening. There have been many exp...
April 20, 2006
On Tuesday, April 18th, 2006, President Bush once again came out and declared Donald Rumsfeld will stay on as Secretary of Defense. He did so in the eloquent style that he is accustomed to.
I say, I listen to all voices, but mine is the final decision. And Don Rumsfeld is doing a fine job. He's n...
April 15, 2006
It seems that we have a monumental problem in our White House these days. The incendiary rhetoric just continues to flow from the mouths of our leaders. You know it simply sounds like 2002-3 all over again. All you need to do is insert Iran for Iraq --but fortunately this time around Bush has ...
April 07, 2006
While it is true the U.S. is still committed to hunting down al-Queda operatives, it is also taking the battle to new fronts. Deep within the Pentagon, technologies are being deployed to wage the so-called "war on terror" on the internet, in newspapers and even through mobile phones.
This rev...
March 17, 2006
I recently forwarded the following urgent Email to all of my lists because it seems to me that there is indeed real cause to be alarmed and I will explain after I tell you what one of my readers sent in response.
Stop the war on Iran before it starts! Email statement to Bush, Cheney, and Congress
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March 07, 2006
The plot really thickens with every disclosure that comes to the light of day. What with Rep. Curt Weldon's (R-Pa.) open hearing about the existence of an intellegence cell that may have identified the ringleaders of the Sept. 11th attacks a full year before they happened. I have heard rumors abou...
March 05, 2006
It is really quite alarming when a teacher is taken out of his classroom because he made a statement about the similarities between George W. Bush and Adolph Hitler, just to get his students to think. It seems to me that our beloved country is becoming more and more like the police state that exis...
February 08, 2006
Everyone who knows me recognizes that I am, and have always been, totally opposed to the Bush administration's plans to take out Saddam Hussein under the guise of fighting terrorism. It is so evident, given the PNAC records and the Downing Street memos that the response to 9/11 was simply an excuse...
January 20, 2006
Yes, dear friends, in the familiar words of Martin Luther King Jr. "I have a dream." My dream is that somewhere out there someone will emerge with the vision of a world living in harmony rather than always being at war. I have a dream that some young man or woman will come out of the woodwork wh...
January 17, 2006
I must admit that I was deeply troubled when our president thumbed his nose at our international treaty obligations under the United Nations Charter and the Geneva Conventions. And then the torture scandals and the violations of U.S. criminal laws at the highest levels of our government were even ...
January 12, 2006
Isn't it amazing how soon we forget the events that happened just thirty-five years ago. Yes my friends just thirty-five years ago a president by the name of Richard M. Nixon with the cooperation of J. Edgar Hoover decided that there were some Americans that had unacceptable political opinions. L...
January 10, 2006
Isn't it amazing the way the press turns one good turn into such a spectacular feature story? I would never complain about the concern that Lt. Jeff Morgan had for Baby Noor. Not for one second, but what about the thousands of the Iraqi children that have been left with birth defects as a result o...
January 02, 2006
I heard our President excusing himself this morning for his illegal wire tapping because we are at war. How interesting, since we are in that war because members of his Administration planned it years before he became President. I want everyone to know and realize what the Project for the New Americ...
December 27, 2005
Well my friends, the moment of truth has finally come for America. It is high time that Americans, regardless of political affiliation, ask a few hard questions. Is the president, who we elect to execute our laws, allowed to pick and choose which laws he wants to obey? Does the president have un...
December 22, 2005
It's quite obvious that our so-called free press isn't all that free anymore. If you don't believe that, just recall how the White House fed us all of the propaganda concerning why we needed to go to war with Iraq. With the help of a compliant media, truth became the first casualty in their campaig...
November 29, 2005
In a secret blueprint (that is no longer secret) you can discover how President Bush was planning an attack on Iraq before he took office in 2001. The blueprint is titled, “Rebuilding America's Defenses: Strategies, Forces And Resources For A New Century.” This document was specifically drawn up for...
November 16, 2005
What do you know? The Bush administration has launched a “counter offensive” against the charges that it deliberately lied to the American people and the world about an alleged attack from Iraq with their “weapons of mass destruction”, stated over and over again to justify the war of aggress...
November 11, 2005
The fact that the CIA has been holding terror suspects in secret prisons all over the world is alarming enough, but now we learn that there is even a debate going on within the agency about the legality and morality of the overseas system that was set up after 9/11. If you have lived during t...
November 10, 2005
More and more Americans are becoming deeply concerned about this Administration's war with Iraq, what with the death toll of U.S. troops going well over 2000, plus the thousands of wounded -- and it is high time that they are, for this war is fast becoming another debacle very much like Vietnam.
W...
October 29, 2005
I feel that I must write immediately following the indictment of Vice President Dick Cheney’s Chief of Staff, Lewis "Scooter" Libby yesterday, being charged with obstructing an investigation into the White House cover up of all the lies that led our nation into the worst illegal war with Iraq in his...
October 28, 2005
To start at the beginning it was a war without any real reason. It was a trumped up reason from day one. Even the CIA has finally admitted that there were no WMD’s and that was the main reason given for sending our young men and women half way around the world in the first place, and spending bi...
October 27, 2005
On October 25, 2005, the toll of United States fatalities in Iraq reached the significant number of 2000. Stop and think about it dear friends, we have been involved in this illegal, immoral war well over 2 years now and we have lost 2000 of our best young men and women. Two thousand individuals...
October 19, 2005
IMPEACH PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH NOW.
NO MATTER WHAT THEY SAY, WHAT MATTERS IS WHAT WE SAY!
By now it is clear to anyone not locked in the basement of Fox News that President Bush and his entire administration lied us into a disastrous, unnecessary, illegal and immoral war in Iraq. Not only did...
September 29, 2005
There was once a television show that always concluded its program with the stand up comic stating just as seriously as he possibly could, “Just remember folks ... there’s one thing that money can’t buy ... and that’s poverty.” It always brought a roar of laughter.
But it’s not funny anymore becaus...
September 22, 2005
The following comes from a woman who is a licensed psychologist. She donated her time and her talent working with Katrina refuges at, first, Reunion Arena, and then the Civic Center. This is her first hand account and reaction to what she had to deal with. If you blog, please put this out there. We ...
September 06, 2005
I have a very serious question to ask the media and I hope that my question will not be treated lightly. I would like to know why the media hasn't published polls asking whether the American people believe George W. Bush should be impeached for lying to the United States Congress and the American p...
August 18, 2005
Ever since Cindy Sheehan has been camping out near President Bush’s ranch near Crawford, Texas she has been in the news. And she tells everyone repeatedly that she will not leave until the President meets with her and explains to her why her son and the sons and daughters of some 1,800 plus o...
July 26, 2005
When will the President come clean with the American people? Is anyone else bothered by that question? It haunts me night and day! It seems very clear that in the case of Karl Rove he is putting his personal and political loyalties above his Presidential obligations to America. We all hea...
July 14, 2005
One would think that it would become obvious, even to President Bush and his cohorts, that the war on terror is failing. This is not to suggest that the terrorists are winning! It just becomes a stalemate. Certainly there is no way for those who would hope to reconstruct an Islamic caliphat...
July 09, 2005
My dear friends on the Internet, when will we come to realize that the tragic deaths like those in London – innocent people killed by immoral killers whose only recourse is this kind of violence and destruction – will not only continue but will undoubtedly increase as long as President Bush and P...
July 09, 2005
Dear Senator Bayh:
I am haunted day and night by the fact the the Downing Street memos have proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that President Bush and Prime Minister Blair had planned their preemptive war long before the 9/11 attacks and just used that as an excuse for their WAR. The inexcusible ...
July 01, 2005
Wow! Did you hear George W. Bush peddle his bundle of lies again the other night. And he did it with a straight face. However, these days fewer and fewer people in the United States believe him. Most of the rest of the world never did believe him.
It was only one day after Donald Rums...
June 25, 2005
I am very concerned about the letter that John Conyers, Jr. wrote and that was signed by 93 other representatives and presented to President George W. Bush has been hidden from the public view and nothing written in the press or covered by the News Networks John Conyers, Jr. is a senior statesman in...
June 23, 2005
The United States Constitution states in Article II, Section 4: "The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors."
Up until now there have be...