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...
Full story in The Bulletin >>>
posted by The Editor at
12:04 AM
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.
6 Comments:
The machinery, the exact, crazy fucking way our policy and institution of warmaking go about doing the kind of damage this article reports, that machinery as viewed from the soldier's perspective is the content "the ground truth".
Get a copy, get it shown whereever you can.
Yes, I'd like to get a copy of this. But DVD Region Encoding for us here in Australia needs to be considered. I'll check around.
I can't, of course, describe in detail the full impact of what happens to a boy child as the result of losing a father in military conflict. My only comfort is in the fact that my father died in 1945, a conflict where there was a CLEAR and PRESENT danger.
I cannot imagine what it might be like for those children to grow up in circumstances, and the aftermath, where the conflict has been created by cynical political myth.
There is no end to what I might say regarding how real and persisting the losses to the fighters whether the causes of the fight were fiction or not. I was thinking the prospective version of your retrospective thought on and off today, Davo. There are causes to fight for, even to kill for but they are few and rare and not present in any form to benefit those now dieing in Iraq.
its late, I'll come back to this.
o bugger, fergot t copy and paste a longish reply..drat
Powerful article Gerry. Makes me angry that so much largesse is extended to so-called aspirationals (e.g. private health insurance rebate, un-means-tested baby / first home buyer's bonus, negative gearing tax brakes) while precious little is directed to people like Glenise Maher who are in REAL crisis.
Post a Comment
Subscribe to Post Comments [Atom]
==========
<<<<< Home
==========