[Mb-civic] NYTimes.com: From 'Gook' to 'Raghead'

[richard haase]

as a " wog " i can relate
being often mistakenly taken for a rag head
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Subject: [Mb-civic] NYTimes.com: From 'Gook' to 'Raghead'


> NYTimes.com: From 'Gook' to 'Raghead'
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>
>
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/02/opinion/02herbert.html?ex=1115697600&en=145c406a42c43a77&ei=5070
>
> *snip*
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>
> Good article.  Makes me wanna just talk and talk and talk but I haven't
the
> time.  If they hadn't have used the word "Iraq" in that piece, I would
have
> almost sworn they were talking about the USA.  I remember when the
headlines
> came through here that a couple of good old boys had strung up a black man
> by his neck or something and dragged him to his death behind a pickup
truck
> here in Texas.  I thought "who are these people" "I thought we got rid of
> these people" "I didn't realize this mind set was still in fully
operational
> status in America" etc.
>
> And then our Military hires them, trains them, enhances such mind sets, in
> fact such mind sets are relished, lauded, and admired.  After all it is
that
> kind of mind set of "If it moves, kill it, ask questions later" which
keeps
> a lot of our G.I.'s alive in a war zone, whether they "want to be there or
> not".
>
> But then it becomes a way of life.
>
> Just like our Military here in America has become a completely different
Way
> Of Life other than the rest of us Regular Non-Military Citizens.
>
> I wonder what we are called behind our backs when we are not looking.
>
> Surely they must have a name for those of us who are not fortunate enough
to
> be in an Organization which while being sworn to protect our nation has
> degenerated into a cult which condones shooting 6 year olds 10,000 miles
> away in the head and laughing about it, has a completely separate Justice
> System completely adrift from that of the rest of America, and once in if
> you don't want to be there and squawk up too much about it you just might
> wind up dead in your bunk or shot in the back by Friendly Fire.
>
> I have known and know a lot of Military personnel.  Many of them appear to
> be just "regular people" like "the rest of us".  Yet there is this
pervasive
> mind set that runs throughout the core of the entire institution that, for
> one reason or another, the civilians of America just "don't get it", nor
or
> they accepted nor recognized as being equal in status as someone in our
> Military.
>
> This bothers me.
>
> It reminds me of a little skit from an old Red Skelton show, the rich well
> to do are sitting in a nice expensive restaurant eating a sumptious meal
> warm from the snow and the cold laughing and drinking while the poor
hungry
> in rags are staggering half frozen outside with their faces pressed up
> against the window wishing.
>
> I can't really believe that we give our Military such an enormous amount
of
> our Taxes each year here in this country, and then they wind up in wars
that
> should never even happen, with not enough body armor to even protect
> themselves, then kneel down say a little prayer and then shoot an unarmed
> man with a rock behind barbed wire in a detainment camp in the head.
>
> And then go have lunch with their buddies.
>
> And then when they get out, we pay for their college educations with our
> Taxes.
>
> While the poor hungry in rags regular old Americans down the street drop
out
> of high school to support their families, pitch watermelons, clean
toilets,
> and fill up military alumni BMW's at the gas station inbetween classes of
> Philosophy and Literature 101.
>
> I'll be the first one to state "yeah, of course, it's great to have
> something between our country and The Wolves, whoever they might be at the
> time, and to pay them well and support them in their efforts, duties and
> jobs", but then I look at people like Rumsfeld etc on television and I
> realize "Hey, wait a minute, he's talking about Bad People, but he's one
of
> the Bad People himself to begin with".
>
> And then the reports begin and never stop coming in about our troops
> committing atrocities in wars that never should have happened, praying
then
> shooting then doing lunch and catching a few winks before they watch a
> football game on a widescreen tv in the middle of the desert.
>
> And I pause.  And reflect.  Between that, all the abuse, all the Little
Guys
> at the bottom of the Military pecking order taking all the blame for
> Military Policy and Mind Set endlessly trickling down from the Top, a
> completely separate Justice System within American society and disparaging
> of "all things Civilian including their Justice System because they Just
> Don't Understand Us", investigating themselves endlessly and stating "that
> should be enough for anyone" as they whitewash their own crimes, dedact
> information from documents, withhold information from Congress itself,
> classify and stamp Military or Top Secret everything that should be
> America's Business to begin with since we pay for every g*ddamn paperclip
> they use, and their delvings into every kind of Warfare Technology known
and
> not known to Mankind including devices that boil the water under your
skin,
> can burst internal organs, or put thoughts into your cranium, surely
someone
> else other than myself is going to wake up one day and go "Hey, wait a
> minute, we've completely lost All Control over our Military here in The
> United States of America.  Weren't they supposed to be our Servants rather
> than our Masters...?"
>
> Sorry folks, if you're even mildly thinking something even relatively
> similar to that, you're just a dollar short and many many years too late
to
> even do anything about it anymore.
>
> Just keep paying your Taxes into the kitty and don't worry, we have
> everything Under Control.  Even though you, your predecessors and your
> childrens' childrens' children have paid and will continue to pay for
every
> last paperclip we use to do what we do, it's actually none of your
business,
> so you'll just have to Trust us.
>
> All those unarmed dead men women and children...?  Ignore them.  It's just
> the cost of keeping all of you Civvies free over here in the land of Oz.
>
> Oh well, another day, another speech, nobody cares.  I'm simply waiting
for
> them to finally have some real guts and get around to changing that slogan
> of "Be all that you can be" to "Kneel down, pray, stand up, pull the
> trigger".
>
> Let's at least be realistic about who we are and what we condone.
>
> After all, we're paying for Every Damn Ounce Of It All.
>
> Just like we always have.
>
> Just like we always will.
>
> Maybe our Military is right.
>
> With Civilians who are actually that stupid to pay for such slop and
accept
> it as The Normal Way Of American Life, they don't really deserve the time
of
> day from anyone.
>
> Do they.......?
>
> "CivvyDumb".....   Kind of has a nice ring to it now that I think about
> it.......
>
> Keep up the good work, boys, bring me back some more Haji ears I can hang
on
> my necklace, these Gook ones are starting to dry out.
>
> p.s.:  Shove it up your *ss, Rumsfeld etc.
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Cheeseburger
>
> .
>
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