Re: Who enlists? Psychos and losers!
- From: "Pramod Subramanyan" <pramod.sub@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 28 Sep 2005 03:56:05 -0700
Holliston Perni wrote:
> With the sinister psychopaths from our so-called government and armed forces
> desperate for warm bodies to turn into cold corpses it's crucial that our
> impressionable youth take a long, hard look at what such a commitment
> entails. This is particularly important for the poor and underprivileged,
> for whom a military engagement might seem like a viable alternative to an
> otherwise bleak future.
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> It is not!
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> If foreign invaders landed on our soil, as we have done in Iraq, I would be
> the first one to take up arms and repel them. (I suppose that would make me
> an 'insurgent' by OUR logic.) Ours, and other aggressive, self-serving, and
> imperialistic governments have always done their utmost to make it appear as
> if committing yourself to kill in feuds on distant shores that have nothing
> to do with the welfare of the citizenry, is somehow patriotic.
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> It is not.
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> Enlisting in the armed forces, in the absence of a real and impending
> foreign threat, is no different that hiring yourself as a paid assassin . .
> . the only difference is, you're not getting paid enough.
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> But let's take a realistic look at exactly WHO joins up in an all-volunteer
> army.
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> The first group are those who join (during peacetime) for the benefits: to
> get an education, or because it seems a reasonable career path. Consider
> carefully! Realize that you are gambling with your humanity. Once you sign
> that form, you sign away your right to say: "No, that is an atrocity." You
> put your abilities, including the ability to kill, at the disposal of proven
> liars, psychopaths . . . enemies of humanity. Do you think that every German
> soldier in World War II who helped load Jews into cattle cars was a
> cold-blooded killer? Most were poor kids, just like you, who got caught up
> in the patriotic frenzy. Once you're in, you're in. You lose the ability to
> stop killing until they tell you so. This not only makes you less than
> human, it makes you less than an animal, for even the animals retain their
> freedom of self determination.
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> The second group are the simple minded, who fall for pathetic "patriotic"
> entreaties about defending democracy, mom, apple pie; in other words, all
> the traditional government propaganda. Do you think Soviet lads subjugated
> their neighbors throughout the world because they thought the Soviet Union
> was an EVIL empire? No, they were fighting for MOM, and whatever passes for
> apple pie in Russia. Step back and examine the lies your government is
> handing you, and has ALWAYS handed its citizens, and ask yourself if they
> have the ring of truth.
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> Finally, you have the hard-core psychopaths. These are the people who WANT
> to kill. Murder, torture, rape; these are the American values upon which
> THIS group is focused. The cause doesn't matter, they're after the thrill
> that only warfare can provide.
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> Just remember: killing for George W. Bush, or for George H.W. Bush, or for
> Lyndon B. Johnson, is not the same as defending yourself, your family, your
> friends, or your country. Don't be a dupe. Don't Enlist.
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> I for one am getting a bit tired of seeing one misguided American after
> another with those cutsie little yellow or red-white-blue ribbons on their
> outsized SUVs. Yeah, I guess it's the thing to do; maybe part of that whole
> soccer-mom culture. Unfortunately, the only thing they demonstrate is that
> the person behind the wheel is a clueless, easily misguided, nitwit.
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> I LAUGH when I hear about each new casualty in Iraq! One less
> clueless psychopath serving the interests of American big business - good
> riddance!
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> Hollis,
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You're being unfair by calling ALL those who enlist "Psychos and
losers". Quite a few of them are decent chaps who're brainwashed into
thinking what they're doing is right - being ingenuous is not being
pyschotic.
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