Two punk kids commit cowardly crimes and entire cities are turned into prisons, martial law enacted, all Constitutional rights for innocents IMMEDIATELY abandoned.
Simpletons cheer the militarization of the streets….
YAY! LOOK AT OUR MILITARY/POLICE WORKING FOR US!
The simpletons were in fact cheering out in the streets, waving flags and proclaiming all that is great about America. But what was on display is not what America was about.
We should all be considering the long-term implications of our national obsession with war making, violence and blood lust. We feed it to our kids from birth. We treat our children to graphic images of slaughter and blood splattering combat from their earliest age. We send soldiers into combat, then show those soldiers going door to door destroying whole cities…whole countries. Our brave and victorious Commander in Chief returns home in a blaze of glory….
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!
America was a noble warrior at some point in time….wasn’t she? She fought bravely for higher values. That was what World War II was about. But what happened after that? The Gulf of Tonkin? Certainly Baby Bush’s fraudulent insistence on war with Iraq…and the millions tortured, killed, maimed as a direct result of blatant, bald-faced lies. Colin Powell obviously feels remorse now, but his confession is entirely incomplete. He has made no penance…and neither have the American people.
The latest chapter of Blood on our Flag occurred in Boston and the reaction to Boston shows that this nation is led by sociopaths…..from the New York Times:
Mr. Graham said 30 days of confinement and interrogation as an enemy combatant would be an appropriate amount of time to allow the government to look for evidence that would justify his continued detention under the law of war. He also said he believed that federal judges would grant the government that amount of leeway.
NEW YORK TIMES
