Subj : Re: dear alt.fan.monty-python readers To : tomstdenis From : Jessica McEachern Date : Thu Sep 08 2005 08:03 pm From: "Jessica McEachern" I fail to see what this has to do with Monty Python. Therefore, I feel I must do the honorable: PLONK wrote in message news:744709e3.fe5163f0.tomstdenis@gmail.com... > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > It's getting a bit tiresome seeing one misguided American after another > with > their cutsie little yellow or red-white-blue ribbons on their outsized > SUVs. > Yeah, I guess it's the thing to do; maybe part of that whole soccer-mom > culture. Unfortunately, the only thing they demonstrate is that the person > behind the wheel is a clueless, gullible, misguided, nitwit. > > If foreign invaders landed on our soil, as we have done in Iraq, I would > be > the first one to take up arms and repel them. (I suppose that would make > me > an 'insurgent' by OUR logic.) This, and other aggressive governments have > always done their utmost to make it APPEAR as if committing yourself to > kill > in feuds on distant shores that have nothing to do with the welfare of the > citizenry is somehow patriotic. > > It is not. > > Enlisting in the armed forces, in the absence of a real and impending > foreign threat, is no different that hiring yourself as a paid assassin . > . > the only difference is, you're not getting paid enough. But let's take a > realistic look at exactly WHO joins up in an all-volunteer army. > > The first group are those who join (during peacetime) for the benefits: to > get an education, or because it seems a reasonable career path. Consider > carefully! Realize that you are gambling with your humanity. Once you sign > that form, you sign away your right to say: "No, that is an atrocity." You > put your abilities, including the ability to kill, at the disposal of > proven > liars, psychopaths . . . enemies of humanity. Do you think that every > German > soldier in World War II who helped load Jews into cattle cars was a > cold-blooded killer? Most were poor kids, just like you, who got caught up > in the patriotic frenzy. Once you're in, you're IN. You lose the ability > to > stop killing until they tell you so. This not only makes you less than > human, it makes you less than an animal, for even the animals retain their > freedom of self determination. > > The second group are the simple minded, who fall for patriotic entreaties > about defending democracy, Mom, apple pie; in other words, all the > traditional government propaganda. Do you think Soviet lads subjugated > their > neighbors throughout the world because they thought the Soviet Union was > an > EVIL empire? No, they were fighting for MOM, and whatever passes for apple > pie in Russia. Step back and examine the lies your government is handing > you, and ask yourself if they have the ring of truth. Do you want to be > one > of the murderers in uniform who opened up on their fellow citizens at Kent > State? When you put on that uniform, you give up all autonomy, and become > nothing more than a weapon, to be used for whatever evil purposes the > scoundrels in government demand (and, if you look carefully, you will > discover that the only interests THEY serve are those of the big > businesses > that own them.) > > Finally, you have the hard-core psychopaths. These are the people who WANT > to kill. Murder, torture, rape; THESE are the American values upon which > THIS group is focused. The cause doesn't matter, they're after the thrill > that only warfare can provide. > > Just remember: killing for George W. Bush, or for George H.W. Bush, or for > Lyndon B. Johnson, or for Richard M. Nixon is not the same as defending > yourself, your family, your friends, or your country. Don't be a dupe. > Don't > Enlist! > > Remember -- supporting the troops means supporting Bush aggression, > profiteering, and war crimes. Here's an idea: why not take those ribbons, > dip them in blood, and mail them to the White House? > > - -- > Tom St.Denis > > 111 Banning Rd > Kanata, Ontario > K2L 1C3 > Canada > > Home: (613)836-3160 > Cell: (613)796-8220 > > tomstdenis@gmail.com > KeyID: 0x40B640D5 > Fingerprint: 53F9 307F F83E D52A 9E63 > C2A5 B43F D952 40B6 40D5 > > http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x40B640D5 > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: PGP 8.0.3 > > iQA/AwUBQxLVO7Q/2VJAtkDVEQJnnQCg1mRyNVgZ6Po6Xf7csn62Ph9rkC8AoMxZ > Zo8jLvfr6bDGWZb/PhEpz3c8 > =2NAY > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > --- BBBS/NT v4.01 Flag-5 * Origin: FidoNet MONTE <--> alt.fan.monty-python (1:379/45) .