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March 12, 2008 at 20:49:48
After Vietnam, We Never Thought We Would Do This Again by okcitykid (Posted by okcitykid) Page 1 of 1 page(s) |
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After Vietnam we thought there was a victory. No one in their wildest dreams would ever believe that we would be that stupid again. Under our noses, silently, work was taking place. Not only were we that stupid again. We actually started a war, trumpeted by the media, openly commit torture and detain non military civilians without a fair due process by just labeling them a terrorist.
I believe we did this once before. We almost wiped out the native Americans. I think the third time is a charm; we don't get a fourth chance.
Obama will be president who is better than Clinton. He will have to initiate the draft. I only hope that under his leadership, as commander in chief, he will be more humane than Bush and not ask our soldiers to be evil. Under the table we will officially become the world police for OPEC who will help us with our debts in return for protection and China will forgive some of our debt for food and we the people will be poor working to serve the world to pay off our debt. You watch, and we deserve it, plain and simple.
In board rooms around the nation a new constitution will be ironed out promoted by the media, one that protects the people, the media will promote it and the people will buy it. This constitution may cover us, Canada and Mexico complete with a new monetary system that secretly writes off billions in debt. Like I said, I can only wonder what the new flag will look like.
Me, I'm just going to have a garden, raise chickens, fruits and nuts and hope that the internet is still free so I can voice my opinion. No more protests, sending hundreds of dollars to a candidate who will just give up, no, no more of that. No more heart ache about a nation going under because it's already gone.
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What do you recognize about your country?
Bush, claiming close association with the religious right and the concept of personal accoutibility and taking responsibility for your conduct, the nitwit dolt, reached the whitehouse solely on name recognition, bringing unprecedented disgrace to the office of the US presidency, responsible for the biggest disaster in US history, (a matter of choice, mind you), based on a conspiracy of lies followed by massive and continued ineptitude, the circumvention of a variety of democratic processes, conducting the public's business in private, pandering to the super-rich while abandoning the entire US middle class, turning the US into a debtor nation for the first time in history, the US dollar at an all time low, with over a million homeowners facing foreclosure, an economy teetering on disaster, the largest number of Americans ever without access to health care, education failing as never before, one in four US children live in poverty, constitutional protections all but removed, torture is business as usual, and distrust, disdain and anti-Americanism rampant worldwide. What a shame for two-term limits, because either the opinion makers would find a way to persude just enough Americans to spin the man-child Bush into a third term or the right wingers running the expert election theft machine would pull it off again like they did in 2000. Does Bush have to have a sex scandal to be impeached? by Michael McCoy (7 articles, 1 quicklinks, 2 diaries, 488 comments [28 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Wednesday, Mar 12, 2008 at 11:56:18 PM  (0+)
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I Feel Your Pain
OKCityKid...You and I have been out there fighting, but no one is paying attention. It would be easy to give up and just say people deserve the government they get if all they care about is American Idol and what they can buy at the mall. But where does that leave the rest of us? I don't know the answers, but I will continue my protesting, writing letters, petitioning Congress, etc.,etc., until they throw me in one of those detention camps... by Judy Ramsey (4 articles, 0 quicklinks, 2 diaries, 93 comments [3 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Thursday, Mar 13, 2008 at 10:55:12 AM (0+)
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After Vietnam We Never Thought
In the Vietnam Era my Army Reserve Battalion Commander railed at me. “You have to be here once a week anyway. Why don’t you try to make a go of it?” My unit had been trained to control angry [American] mobs. On the day they ordered us to quell the mob, I had been in it demonstrating with my fellow leftists. The penalty for this was 333 days in Vietnam. I thought this punishment was counter-productive to the war effort. Who would want me in the same foxhole? Well, they couldn’t find a slot for me. They transferred me to a unit already listed to go overseas. Fate intervened. My new battalion was not combat ready and stayed at home. To my utter delight, my old unit shipped out for a year’s tour. Waving a small flag, I saw them off. Always reluctant to pistol-whip a demonstrator, on that day I became a non-interventionist. Lacking my experience, most Americans remained as dead leaves blown from gutter to gutter. They rode with the wind from war to war. They learned nothing. The three branches of government were so corrupt they didn’t notice the Constitution fluttering to the ground for the mulching machine. The Sons of Liberty became orphans. The Patriot and Military Commissions Acts were obscene obituaries for the fallen founding fathers. by Jason Paz (68 articles, 88 quicklinks, 112 diaries, 1387 comments [97 recommended, 1 rejected]) on Saturday, Mar 15, 2008 at 4:27:25 AM (0+)
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