A Young Marine Speaks Out

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• 9 December 2006, 22:52

  An American Child’s Primer on Ending War

  by Violet Flemme
  GalaxyGarden.org

  War is another way of saying we’re going to kill you now or else.

  War has become America’s heart disease, and we are dying from it.

  America holds the hopes, dreams and nightmares of the world in our privileged hands. Also most of the atomic weapons.

  C.I.A. was created by a group od corporate police and military agents to make the war machine work for the economy. "Central Intelligence Agency" headquarters were named after George Bush the C.I.A. president and father of the notorious "W."

  CIA has set up convenient "wars" using secret networks of killers to threaten or "neutralize" those forces standing in America’s way, or the "American Way."

  Since World War II, this has happened in (please mark your maps for extra credit):
  Iran, Guatemala, Vietnam, Cambodia, Korea, Chile, Indonesia, Zaire, Angola, the Congo, Laos, Peru, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Afghanistan, Israel, Palestine, Iraq and various other African, Asian, South Pacific, European and former Soviet states. Also Mexico, Canada, Australia, Cuba and the United Staes ("of America").

  History is mostly a long list of wars, or periods of nations killing each other using various more deadlt technologies to kill more people. Now we are in the 21st century epoch of killing, where entire communities and cities are threatened with mass death.

  Our social conditioning in America is to support the killing, and say "yes" to wiping out the enemies of America. Now we have laser-guided, satellite-tracking, robot death-missiles, and we trust the CIA knows who to kill? (Extra credit: Draw a Predator drone with Hellfire missiles in action!)

  We probably will never know who all were killed, and why, but we are supposed to support it, because we are told we are being "freed from terrorism." In fact "our" War is now officially against another more desperate form of war("terrorism")— the "War against war" which will last until all of America’s enemies are wiped out or agree to the demands of our president ("W," the least intelligent son of Bush 41).

  Invasion and war against "insurgency" in Iraq, modelled after Bush 41’s popularity-boosting invasion of Panama and arrest of the CIA drug-ally Noriega (see "The Panama Deception"), is a classic CIA covert-type war , far from America’s borders to secure essential resources and kill enemies.

  Whoops! CIA’s wars aren’t covert anymore! And what happens when they control the White House, the Pentagon and most of Congress? Alot of their friends get very, very rich in the War, because it’s set up as a win-win game, secret-like.

  American child, the connected version, global networked, 21st century model X-unit, sees that the "war" in Iraq and Afghanistan is not a "winnable" operation for the "American Way." In fact, we have lost our way a long time ago, when we allowed the CIA’s secret war machines and killers like those who are slicing off our brothers’ heads to operate in our name— America, America, allegedly "the home of the brave."

  We see the secret wars have led out leaders to this wicked end— against those in the world who have the means and madness to blow themselves up (think about it, grandpa!). Our 21st century scan of the failed CIA machine shows the global glitch is 1) Political 2) Economic and 3) Ethical (ie: criminals in control— oh my!)— but above all these is a failure of 4) Cultural diplomacy and understanding.

  America’s child sees a 21st century solution to the failed CIA machine now drowning the world in death and debt, and out interconnectivity offers a hyperadaptive simple solution set:

  Creation of a new Cultural Corps independent of the other American agencies, funded by private/cultural contributions. We see the underlying failure in Iraq, for example, is language and religious translation ("W’s" cowboy references never translate well).

  Our Cultural Corps would have delegations of translators, artists, religious leaders, musicians, sports stars (even magicians!) make educational/diplomatic tours with our accompanying connected media coverage. We would distribute pre-loaded laptops with translation and DVD libraries everywhere we go. We would allow American and Iraqi women and children to interact on live media broadcasts.

  21st century American child sees an end to "war" but it will require utmost honesty and historic justice— exposing our secret CIA war machine to the world for review.

  It’s like any other corrupted machine— the operating system must be purged of opportunistic parasites and malicious-ware sucking our bandwidth into oblivion. Or you toss the old machine entirely ("recycle" the hardware!) and boot up a shiny-fresh one with an improved, less corruptable operating system. Like a completely new system of diplomacy, for example.

  Finally, America’s funny way of saying "secret" when it comes to war is: "above my pay-grade." This tells so much about the "American Way," but it causes us to question: who is at the highest pay-grade, if the president is heard saying this? Is it even possible to find out?

  We will ask our operating sytem executive in chief Bill Gates.

  "Reboot!" cry the X-units, from the bleeding edges of the network...

  Homework: Please diagram the career of Condoleezza Rice (Ref: "NSA," "oil.")

  Violet Flemme, http://GalaxyGarden.org
  01-01-2007

  A Young Marine Speaks Out

  By Philip Martin
  December 08, 2006

  I’m sick and tired of this patriotic, nationalistic and fascist crap. I stood through a memorial service today for a young Marine that was killed in Iraq back in April. During this memorial a number of people spoke about the guy and about his sacrifice for the country. How do you justify ’sacrificing’ your life for a war which is not only illegal, but is being prosecuted to the extent where the only thing keeping us there is one man’s power, and his ego. A recent Marine Corps intelligence report that was leaked said that the war in the al-Anbar province is unwinnable. It said that there was nothing we could do to win the hearts and minds, or the military operations in that area. So I wonder, why are we still there? Democracy is not forced upon people at gunpoint. It’s the result of forward thinking individuals who take the initiative and risks to give their fellow countrymen a better way of life.

  When I joined I took an oath. In that oath I swore to protect the Constitution of the United States. I didn’t swear to build democracies in countries on the other side of the world under the guise of "national security." I didn’t join the military to be part of an Orwellian ("1984") war machine that is in an obligatory war against whoever the state deems the enemy to be so that the populace can be controlled and riled up in a pro-nationalistic frenzy to support any new and oppressive law that will be the key to destroying the enemy. Example given - the Patriot Act. So aptly named, and totally against all that the constitution stands for. President Bush used the reactionary nature of our society to bring our country together and to infuse into the national psyche a need to give up their little-used rights in the hope to make our nation a little safer. The same scare tactics he used to win elections. He drones on and on about how America and the world would be a less safe place if we weren’t killing Iraqis, and that we’d have to fight the terrorists at home if we weren’t abroad. In our modern day emotive society this strategy (or strategery?) works, or had worked, up until last month’s elections.

  My point in this; to show that America was never nationalistic. If anything they were Statalistic (giving their allegiance to the state of their residence). This is shown in the fact that the founders created states with fully capable and independent governments and not provinces that were just a division of the federal government. These men believed that America was a place where imperialistic values would be non-existent. Where the people trying to make their lives better by working hard, thinking, inventing and using the free market would tie up so much of normal life that imperialistic colonization and the fighting of wars thousands of miles away for interests that are not our own would be avoided. They believed this expansion of power could be left to the European nations, the England, France and Spain of their time. However this recent, and current influx of nationalistic feeling has created an environment where giving up your rights, going to a foreign country to fight a people who did not ask for us to be there, nor did their leader do anything to warrant us being there, and dying would be considered honorable and heroic. I don’t believe it anymore. I don’t believe it’s right for any American to go along with it anymore. Yes I know that we in the military are bound by the UCMJ and somehow don’t fall under the Constitution (the very thing we’re suppose to be defending) but sooner or later there is a decision that every American soldier, marine, airmen and seamen makes to allow themselves to be sent to a war that is against every fiber this country was founded on. I know that when April rolls around I will be thinking long and hard on that decision. Even though we in the military are just doing as we’re told we still have the moral and ethical obligation to choose to do as we’re told, or to say, "No, that isn’t right." I believe that if more troopers like me and the professional military, the officers and commanders, start standing up and saying that they won’t let themselves or their troops go to this illegal war people will start standing up and realizing what the heck is going on over there.

  The sad fact of the matter is that we are not fighting terrorists in Iraq. We are fighting the Iraqi people who feel like a conquered and occupied people. Personally I have a hard time believing that if I was an Iraqi that I wouldn’t be doing everything in my power to kill and maim as many Americans as possible. I know that the vast majority of Americans would not be happy with the Canadian government, or any other foreign government, liberating us from the clutches of George W. Bush, even though a large number of us would like that, and forcing us to accept their system of government. Would not millions of Americans rise up and fight back? Would you not rise up to protect and defend your house and your neighborhood if someone invaded your country? But we send thousands of troops to a foreign country to do just that. How is it moral to fight a people who are just trying to defend their homes and families? I think next time I go to Iraq perhaps I should wear a bright red coat and carry a Brown Bess instead of my digitalized utilities and M16.

  Notice I never once used the word homeland in any of this. I have a secondary point I want to bring up now. Never once was the term homeland ever used to describe the country of America until Mr. Bush began the department of homeland security after the 9/11 attacks. Taking a 20th century history class will teach us that the most notable countries in the last century that referred to their country in this way were Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia. Hitler used the term fatherland to drum up support, nationalistic support, for his growing war machine. He used the nationalism he created in the minds of the Germans to justify the sacrifice of their livelihood to build the war machine to get back their power from the oppressive restrictions the English and French had put on them at Versailles. This is the same feeling that has been virulently infecting the American psyche in the last hundred years. This is the same feeling that consoles a mother after her son is killed in an attempt to prosecute an aggressor’s war 10,000 miles away. It’s also known as Patriotism these days, but I say, "No more." No more nationalistic inanity, no more passing it off as patriotism. Patriotism is learning, and educating oneself to understand what their country really stands for.

  I heard a lot during the memorial service about how the dead Marine did so much good for others and how his helping others was like a little microcosm of America helping because we have the power to do so. Well if we have the power to help people why aren’t we helping in Darfur where hundreds of thousands of people have died in the last 10 years. Saddam was convicted and sentenced to death for killing 143 Shiites who conspired to assassinate him. (I know all you "patriotic" Americans would be calling for the heads of anyone who conspired to assassinate supreme leader Bush). And yet we spend upwards of 1 trillion dollars and nearing 3,000 lives to help these Iraqis when they don’t even want us there. Not to mention we don’t have the legal justification to be there. I guess we should wait around for the omnipotent W Bush to decide who we should use our superpowerdom to help next. It’s about time to throw him and the rest of the fascists out. Moreover it’s about time to start educating Americans about their past and history, and letting them know that imperialistic leaders are not what the founders of this great country wanted.

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  Philip Martin [send him an email at: grimmythedog@netscape.net] has been a Marine for 2 years. He is in the infantry (a "grunt"), and spent 7 months in the al-Anbar province of Iraq. He went on more than 180 combat patrols in and outside of the city of Fallujah, where he was hit with 2 IEDs (luckily never injured) and was involved in a number of firefights. He is currently stationed in Twentynine Palms, CA, and due to return to Iraq for a second deployment in April 2007. He is 21-years-old.

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  ’Truthiness’ is the word of the year

  POSTED: 10:48 a.m. EST, December 9, 2006
  Story Highlights• Truthiness is "truth that comes from the gut, not books"

  SPRINGFIELD, Massachusetts (AP) — After 12 months of naked partisanship on Capitol Hill, on cable TV and in the blogosphere, the word of the year for 2006 is ... "truthiness."

  The word — if one can call it that — best summed up 2006, according to an online survey by dictionary publisher Merriam-Webster.

  "Truthiness" was credited to Comedy Central satirist Stephen Colbert, who defined it as "truth that comes from the gut, not books."

  "We’re at a point where what constitutes truth is a question on a lot of people’s minds, and truth has become up for grabs," said Merriam-Webster president John Morse. "’Truthiness’ is a playful way for us to think about a very important issue."

  Other Top 10 finishers included "war," "insurgent," "sectarian" and "corruption." But "truthiness" won 5-to-1, Morse said.

  Colbert — who once derided the folks at Springfield-based Merriam-Webster as the "word police" and a bunch of "wordinistas" — was pleased.

  "Though I’m no fan of reference books and their fact-based agendas, I am a fan of anyone who chooses to honor me," he said in an e-mail to The Associated Press.

  "And what an honor," he said. "Truthiness now joins the lexicographical pantheon with words like ’squash,’ ’merry,’ ’crumpet,’ ’the,’ ’xylophone,’ ’circuitous,’ ’others’ and others."

  Colbert first uttered "truthiness" during an October 2005 broadcast of "The Colbert Report," his parody of combative, conservative talk shows.

  "The two most common things in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity."
  — Harlan Ellison

  Idiot Empire

  Embrace the lost cause my insane children
  in our Roman wasteland of wickedness and excess
  would we really want to be triumphant and claim the spoils
  which hold the crimes of a century and bloody secrets
  drowning in radioactive waste and oily economics?
  Let the murderous pretenders of war hang themselves
  choked with barbed-wire corruption deception disease
  we will allow inevitabilities to boil beneath their facades
  Silver slivers of truth justice humanity will work wonders
  as the world cries an ocean of suffering beneath them
  it reflects sun stars and moon onto their ancient evils

  As always the victors claim morality in their murder
  principle as a cloak for piracy plunder and predation
  a messianic madness with mushroom clouded methods
  Rejoice my kindred without a country for Rome gasps
  the fouled and feebleminded fourth reich will be the last
  think about it as we pull down their imperial icons
  no more hails for the chief no longer pledging
  or bending over for one man and his devils
  Now they are surrounded behind barricades
  trapped by their own arrogance and elitism
  as we wring the warmongers with our truth
  a storm of silver tears spills from heaven

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  "As the caterpillar chooses the fairest leaves to lay eggs on, so the priest lays his curse on the fairest joys."
  — William Blake

  "Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of virtues."
  — George Bernard Shaw

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• 10 December 2006, 15:37

  And so is the rest of the world sick and tired of this American patriotic, nationalistic and fascist crap too.