[Peace-discuss] dying for the lie

[E. Wayne Johnson]

Laurence Vance writes: http://lewrockwell.com/vance/vance289.html

155,754 Americans joined the military in fiscal year 2011 (Oct. 1, 
2010--Sept. 30, 2011). Does anyone...actually believe that even a 
majority of those who joined the military did so because they loved 
liberty...? Could it rather have something to do with being talked into 
it by lying military recruiters, the billions the military spends on 
advertising, the No Child Left Behind Act, the promise of free money for 
college, the desire to get away from home, the chance to kill foreigners 
for real instead of just in video games, revenge for 9/11, the 
adventure, the world travel, family tradition, or the generous 
retirement benefits?

I suspect the main reason is the economy; i.e., the poverty draft.

Sorry, Joe, you -- like many other veterans in America -- didn't serve 
your country. You served the state. You helped maintain a global empire 
of troops and bases. You helped carry out an evil interventionist 
foreign policy. You didn't defend anyone's freedoms. You didn't preserve 
the American way of life. You didn't uphold the Constitution. You didn't 
protect the nation. You didn't "uphold the freedoms of life, liberty and 
the pursuit of happiness for future generations" like the lying Marine 
Corps recruiting postcard 
<http://www.lewrockwell.com/vance/vance197.html> says that was sent to 
high school students. Your death wouldn't have secured anything. Your 
death would have been in vain.

...

Oh, U.S. troops have been busy for over two centuries, but they have 
been busy doing more intervening in foreign countries than defending 
Americans' freedoms. Things like disaster relief, humanitarian aid, 
nation building, regime change, assassinations, forcibly opening 
markets, bombing, invading, occupying, maiming, torturing, killing, 
peacekeeping, enforcing UN resolutions, preemptive strikes, spreading 
democracy at the point of a gun, garrisoning the planet with troops and 
bases, training foreign armies, rebuilding infrastructure, reviving 
public services, unleashing civil unrest, policing the world, 
intervening in other countries, and fighting foreign wars.

Americans today face the triple threat of the warfare/national 
security/police state, largely due to conservatives in Congress (fully 
supported by conservative Christians outside of Congress) during the 
Bush years not overturning all the evils of the federal government that 
were already in place and adding much more evil of their own.


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