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A Citizen Speaks Their Mind....
...This wingnut is writing in the Casper, WY Star Tribune. One of the locals gave a reply that is far better than anything I could ever come up with, and I'll post it at the end... Jingoism rots nation from within Monday, February 05, 2007 Editor: Hearing those sappy panegyrics about "our men and women in uniform" every 10 minutes always reminds me of Ludmilla Boriskova, heroine of the Soviet union, wrestling with fighter bomber propellers in a titanic struggle for the Motherland. Where are you now, O babushka? I lived among Marines for nearly a quarter century in the botched coat-hanger abortion of a military town called Oceanside, home to the World War II white elephant Camp Pendleton, where the disgraced killer stooges of innocent Iraqi civilians now stand trial. Every other car in Oceanslime boasts a Department of Offense sticker, and these no-larger-than-life military families sup greedily at the tacky base's federal hog trough without producing a thing of value. There's a bootlicking miasma of death cultism about this blighted community, with macho Jarboy McFitzroy wife-beaters and drunken military jerks mowing someone down on the way home from a bacchanalian spree in Tijuana or Sandy Eggo. I've encountered countless mediocre opportunists, groupers and communards among these militarists, and they don't wage war in my name, and they don't impress me. They serve the almighty Amurrican king Tex Shrub in a fascistic empire that knows next to nothing about rational restraint, checks and balances, or the consent of the governed. The more U.S. soldiers get killed, the more it hopefully hastens the humiliating defeat and inevitable breakup of this fraudulent, hypocritical and rotten-to-the-core nation-state, following the moribund trajectory of the Spanish, Dutch and British empires of yesteryear. Many of these uniformitarian clowns in the service think I and others owe them for ever-dwindling freedom or daily abridged rights. The military's a woolly infantile cocoon for authoritarian punks and bimbos, from the doublespeak sociopath generals on down the barnyard pecking order and brain-dead chain of command, blaming politicians as usual for their failures and shortcomings. Why don't y'all kneel down with the Christian fascist chaplain and pray for a swift kick in the butt to hell and gone, soldier boys and girls? Down with the United States and its vaunted holy of holies armed services, and may the ever-growing list of global enemies eventually combine forces to kick its back teeth to Timbuktu. KELLY HENNESSY, Cody The best response: "Funny, in the old west where nearly all had an 1873 colt or a No. 3 Schoelfield on their belt, people monitored what spew from their mouths as they knew that it was likely that they would be held accountable for their remarks. Posted by: Mike Kozlowski 2007-02-19 |
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