[Peace-discuss] dying for the lie

[Carl G. Estabrook]

May 1, 1942. The German chancellor speaks from the obscure Polish town  
of Oświęcim:

"Good evening from Oświęcim Air Base. This outpost is more than 300  
miles from home, but for years it’s been close to our hearts, because  
here in Poland more than half a million of our sons have sacrificed to  
protect our country. Today I signed a historic agreement between  
Germany and Poland that defines a new kind of relationship between our  
countries, a future in which Poles are responsible for the security of  
their nation and we build an equal partnership between two sovereign  
states, a future in which war ends and a new chapter begins..."


On May 2, 2012, at 7:00 PM, E. Wayne Johnson wrote:

> 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 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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