From: "Jessica McEachern" 

I fail to see what this has to do with Monty Python.

Therefore, I feel I must do the honorable:

PLONK


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> 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?
>
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