by: Stephen\r\nDeVoy<\/i><\/p>\r\n
If no one else is going to say, I will say it. I would like to extend\r\nmy thanks and praise to those Oregon anarchists that burned\r\nthe flag and a soldier in effigy. If anything, this act exposes the\r\nmoral shallowness of Americans coast to coast who find no limit to the mud they\r\ncan cast on this handful of brave voices while remaining silent about the\r\nAmerican bloodbath of Iraqi and Afghani blood. Americans will denounce\r\nthose who do nothing more than burn cloth while pretended not to notice their\r\nown troops murdering the innocent thousands of miles away. Even\r\nguttersnipe and liar O'Reilly showed your protest on his quasi-governmental news show\r\ntoday. If only his shock would have brought him to cardiac arrest!<\/p>\r\n
To those of you that denounce this brave act by anarchists claiming that we\r\nshould honor these soldiers, I have this to ask. What freedom did these\r\nsoldiers fighting in Iraq today preserved for us? Did Iraqis invade the\r\nUnited States and threaten to subjugate us to Saddam's rule? Did these\r\nsoldiers lift a finger to defend our freedoms as the American Government stole\r\nthem away, passing one unconstitutional law after another, and denying detainees\r\ntheir rights? Did these soldiers live up to their oath to \"protect\r\nand defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign\r\nand domestic?\" The answer to these questions is a resounding\r\n\"No!\"<\/p>\r\n
Were these soldiers serving today in Iraq conscripted into service against\r\ntheir will? Do they have no choice when they aim their guns, pull the\r\ntrigger, and kill their fellow man and woman? Are they compelled by some\r\nexternal force to rape detainees, humiliate them, and pose for pictures over\r\ntheir corpses after murdering them? Are they compelled by others to rape\r\nyoung women in Iraq and then murder their families? No, they are not, but\r\nthey do so none the less.<\/p>\r\n
These soldiers volunteer to be part of the military service. Yes, some\r\ndo this because they are economically oppressed, but even these do make a\r\nchoice. They agree, when they join, to murder other human beings upon\r\norders for nothing more than an economic break, a chance to \"move up\"\r\nin the capitalist shitocracy. Even if they believe that they will never be\r\ncalled to murder, they still join knowing that they may be wrong. So long\r\nas they commit crimes against humanity, so long as they choose to wage an\r\nillegal war rather than be imprisoned for disobeying, so long as they butcher\r\nand humiliate their fellow men and women, why should we support them?<\/p>\r\n
Finally, under this regime, the\r\nUS Military has been spying on Americans for no reason other than their\r\npeaceful exercise of the right to dissent. American soldiers have been\r\nwaging COINTELPRO like operations against Americans on their own soil. In\r\ndoing this, they show themselves as enemies of the American people. Why we\r\nshould be surprised? After all, is it not the National Guard that is\r\ncalled into cities to put down civil unrest when the conditions of American life\r\nreach a boiling point and signs of rebellion emerge? Is it not the\r\nAmerican soldier who will oppose the next American revolution should one\r\ncome? If Americans took to arms to reclaim their rights, wouldn't these\r\nsoldiers shoot us down in the streets?<\/p>\r\n
So long as the above is true, I see nothing wrong with what our anarchist\r\nbrothers in Portland have done.<\/p>\r\n
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