RetiredGySgt
Diamond Member
Sarge--
We disagree on this topic of imperialism--passionately. I respect you and appreciate our differences.
"What has happened to our Constitution? I live in a country that uses secret prisons and torture chambers, a country run by a government that never stops lying, spies on its citizens, and spits not only on the Geneva convention accords, but on our Constitution a country with five percent of the worlds population and twenty-two percent of the worlds incarcerated population. What happened to habeas corpus? What is the definition of tyranny? What is the definition of fascism? The Corporate State. This president tells Congress and the American people that he is doing away with secrets prisons and torture while at the very same time planning new secret prisons and more advanced torture. He invaded and destroyed a country that had done nothing to us, a country run by a tyrant we armed and encouraged to wage war against Iran, Saddam being our ally in the Eighties; and now, in the midst of a tribal civil war, we contribute, day after monstrous bloody day, to the slaughter of innocent people.
When I was in Marine Corps boot camp, the first thing I learned was that my paramount duty was to become a killing machine. When we send killing machines into other countries, it would serve us well to understand that these men and women are not only killing machines, but young, often naïve people who return home with deep psychic as well as physical wounds, each agony in its own way unique. Mercenaries, on the other hand, represent a Republican ideal privatization of war. They are paid five or ten times what our service men and women are paid and are regulated (as far as anyone can tell) by no one other than corporate bosses. These are the twenty-first century incarnation of the mine-owners thugs who beat up union organizers a hundred years agoin Virginia and in Brazil and in Peru and "
Poets Against War Newsletter Autumn 2007
Absolute hogwash, but then to be expected from you. Go ahead name someone denied their rights. I keep hearing who our rights have been taken from us yet no one can actually provide any evidence of it. Meanwhile people like Editec want to let the Government ignore the law and the Constitution for something he likes.