Reply #43: offended are we

[sweetheart]

You accept a premise that the military is honourable. I don't
accept that. Each individual has a choice not to be there.

When you get old, you will no longer be in the military, and it will
no longer be personal for you, and you will not need to get in such
a huff.

I'm composing a meme, not an individual indictment. Individuals can pick it to use in indicting the military for gross negligence in protecting
a constitution they are sworn to protect. Rather than protect it, they
have stood by whilst it has been gutted, all the while collecting a
pay cheque.

That is what service has become, institutional deriliction where no
single individual is responsible. Then when we indict the
institution, we are "bigots" for indictng the indivdiauls, who are not responsible
by the very outset. No president is responsible, no defense
secreteary is responsible, no commanders are responsible, and not
a single line soldier is responsible eaither.... totall plausible
deniability and war crimes on 6 continents. Crimes happen, nobody
is responsible, and all accusers are bigots because they did not
select out the baddies... but the war crimes are institutional.

The american military will committ war crimes next year, and the
year after that. It is what a good many are trained to do, under
the auspices of defending the nation. It is deplorable, and for all
who think its honouralbe, thanks for defending the constitution,
its been so useful having so useless a defense.

The democrats and the republicans have sold out america, along with
the miltiary industrial complex, and it is not the least bit bigotry
to point this out. It is an accusation of impropriety and
deriliction of duty that needs to be levied at a good portion of the
miltiary command that has let this tragic state of affairs come to
fruition to start with. The same goes for the democrats, the republicans
and the civilians that we let this state of affairs come about to
start with.

So the straw man is a success. You are angry because you "KNOW"
that there is some truth to the accusation, that you ARE responsible
for the choices you made, that the military has not defended the
country for decades, and has instead been used for corporate
thuggery... the gap between 20 years of propaganda and the truth:
that it really has been mostly war crimes and that is "shameful".

Granted, those crimes were by a very few, and most of the rest were
just complicit gas chamber attendents, who, like most of the nazi
army took orders with their paycheques and thought it was honourable.

I know you're offended, and i'm not sorry. It is your
choice to be attached to your professional identity on an
anonymous chat board. It does not make me an elitist. IT
makes me a propagandist. Rove does bigotry to destroy democrats.
I do it to destroy evil institutions. The military propaganists
themselves have fucked up, and its no wonder recruitment is at a
terrible low these days.

People who are not slaves, are deciding not to vote "militarism"
with their own blood feet. They might not say "shameful" but the
results are the same. For all those jedi knights out there,
darth vader and his death star have shot up the constitution you're
defending so badly, that the presumption that a military force
defends it is laughable.