The keyboard is mightier than the machine gun... The political, philosophical and general outpourings of a troubled soul living in Australia and blogging his Vietnam veteran's head off.
Nothing in this blog can be believed. If you think that anything in this blog is true or factual, you'll need to verify it from another source. Do you understand? No? Then read it again, and repeat this process, until you understand that you cannot sue me for anything you read here. Also, having been sucked into taking part in the mass-murder of more than 3 million Vietnamese people on behalf of U.S. Big Business "interests", I'm as mad as a cut snake (and broke) so it might be a bit silly to try to sue me anyway...
posted by The Editor at
12:55 PM
The counter shown below displays the number of Israeli military personnel refusing to serve in the Occupied Territories. I applaud their integrity and their strength of character. To me they are heroes of peace and humanity.
12 Comments:
Oh god, Gerry, that hurts to read.
Its makin' little movies play in my head
If I'd heard a song like that in 67, I might gone to Canada like some of my friends. The Doors and Country Joe and the Fish were not as potent.
I'm thinking that.
But I'm 56 now. What would I really have thought of that when I was 18...I'm almost glad I'll never know, much as I sometimes pine for my youth.
But its always good to hear from you, old bear.
Stuff you, Gerry. i'm going to find my dead dad's four 'service' medals, pin 'em to the 'wrong' side of me chest .. and march along with all the other 'left-overs' on ANZAC day.
Davo, if it makes you feel better, go for it. No need to stuff me though... :-)
OK, forget the 'stuff' bit. How about if I just give a passing thought to all those who went, and didn't come back to annoy us. ;-)
No wuckers, Davo... I happen to think that your father died for a noble cause. He was, after all, LITERALLY defending Australia. So you have every right to to march proudly on Anzac Day.
Ah, the LITERAL defense of Australia, its ethos and history. (me dad, in real terms, got dead) Mm, thinks.
so........ how was your week...?
u sound a bit better.
i read your comment - course you're cool - why else would you get that much "fan" mail? or so many regulars in ur comments box. believe me there are a LOT of peep who dint make it on my link list.
19 is such a nice age to be... but u shud always live in the present. can't wait till i'm your age... can't imagine what my relationship with God wilil be like then. it's already so tight.
i'm gonna try n be like the Oracle in Matrix.
Now Herd have done a cover version with a fantastic video clip.
um, have to dispute a couple of things. The "herd" version of the song is laclustre, and without the simple lyrical 'bite' of Redgum. The video clip is a load of crap for those who have not "been there". Yes, I watch the images, yes, can sort of understand... but the clip is too simple in an age where young people only react to the video FX of "Lord of the Rings" and such like. Yes, I understand the simplicity of the clip..
But fail to understand the reality of it all.
Nora, my sciatica is getting a bit better so maybe that's something good. However my depression's getting worse.
I have real trouble thinking of myself as being cool.
Fan mail? I think in real terms, commenting has dropped right off around here. But given my state of mind, my grumpy nature, and my infrequenct posting of late, it's only to be expected.
Davo, I said The Herd's film clip was fantanstic, I said nothing about their "lyrics". I still think it's fantastic. If you don't "get it", perhaps it becasue you weren't there and you've never experienced PTSD or any of the other mental beauties that war leaves some people with. "Reality"? What's that?
Keep with the (supressed) anger, friend .. it's the only reality some of us have left.
Yeah, right, me old cobber, but about understanding Herd's film clip over the top of Redgum's lyric's, I strongly identified with that package. The guy with the "No War" placard could have been me.
Happy Anzac Day, Davo!
Coup, in "the West", soldiers are mostly young idealists, sucked in by government propaganda (and too young to realise this) into fighting for the hidden agendas of Big Business (Australia's interests).
It's only a few veterans of such wars, who, some decades later, and after a lot of self-education and soul searching, are forced to admit, by the overwhelming weight of evidence, that they were nothing more than hired killers doing the bidding of a government in the grip of Big Business agendas. It's then that the images of the their dead victims come back to haunt them.
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