I am really sick and tired of hearing people in the military described as “Warriors and Heroes”.
It is such a pile of Nazi like Militaristic Bullshit and hearing it repeated over and over again makes me want to puke.
It is a joke.
When Tina and I hear it we wind up mocking it in the whiny voice of a character in a trashy 1970s movie “Warriors.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwwY9y6O3hw
We glorify the military and talk about how we “Owe our Freedom to them.”
Which is really a ton of bullshit.
Freedom is free. We are born free and people start taking away freedom from us.
We are propagandized to worship a military that has been engaged in wars of conquest since the founding of this country.
In our entire history we have only fought three wars for what might be considered noble purposes. The Revolution, The Civil War and World War II. All the other wars have been to expand out territory or to open markets to exploitation by our corporations.
We have this horrendously huge war budget while millions of people go without health care. Our schools are starved, people are homeless in the streets and our infrastructure is falling to pieces yet we are buying war planes that cost well over a billion dollars a pop.
For all our blather about expanding freedom and democracy we have a serious love of some of the worst dictators around. From Marcos, Chang, Pinochet, Franco and the Shah on down to South and Central American genocidal maniacs.
In the 1980s we supported both Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein. Gave them money and weapons to fight the Russians and Iranian respectively.
Oh yes we are wonderful defenders of freedom and democracy.
We’ve fought wars all over the globe to protect the freedom of the rich corporate bosses to steal resources and enslave people. We love freedom loving countries where the rich are free to enslave the hard working people that create the wealth.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3_EXqJ8f-0
Our brave Commander in Chief orders the murder of people on the other side of the globe to be carried out by warriors pushing a joystick around in a safe comfy office in a building some where in the crumbling infrastructure of Fortress Amerika
“Eternal War for Eternal Peace.” Sound familiar or don’t they teach Orwell’s 1984 in high school any more?
I know they hate Howard Zinn and James Lowen for telling the truth about America’s warlike imperialistic nature.
Ever notice how we don’t speak in regard to the noble warriors of Hitler’s Blitzkrieg? Hell we don’t speak in awed tones of the Russians who heroically sacrificed their lives to stop Hitler. You see they were communists and losing some 20 million people to war. You see we just don’t value their lives the way we value American lives. Not even when they were every bit as much our ally as Great Britain.
Bradley Manning is a real hero, Julian Assange is a real hero, Daniel Ellsberg is a real hero. Real heroes expose the war crimes of warriors who murder civilians and engage in torture.
There are no noble wars.
There are no noble warriors.
There are only good Germans who obey banal orders to murder strangers for the profits of the rich.
It has always been a rich man’s war and a poor man’s fight.
All the so called warriors are nothing more than stupid pawns turned into murderers for questionable causes.
Instead of calling them warriors we should tell the truth, they are pawns, professional killers hired to protect the interests of the rich.
War will end when the universal soldiers refuse to murder strangers for the profits of the rich and powerful.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0jF2H7etTc
