Reply #3: I think it comes down to the sneer [View All]

[sweetheart]

I've been on railing about the criminal acts of the military, and
i had a lucid dream that really helped pinpoint, IMO, the issue that
we must address.

I visited a military base, and chatted with all sorts of different
military people who were experts in all sorts of weapons systems.
Then the "big general" came out of his office. He was a skinny
white man who was there to "do the dirty" and show this damned
liberal why I must respect the military.

Following was a blistering rant from him, something best captured in
the film with jack nickolson, "jessop". I am not threatened, by a
man who sneers, but it was his presumption of the rightwing to be so
condescending that i see is what the "right" thinks is a corker.

Simply yelling at this "damned liberal communist pinko son of a bitch"
din't phase, as i've lived in new york too long, and insulting people
in to passivity just makes me smile. Then out came the big sneer.

"You people don't know what it means to defend the country, and what
you are saying during wartime is treasonous." The right wing always
attempts to win an argument by threat, and embedded in the threat is
a percieved position of moral superiority, that of being a defender
of the nation, of my having insulted the men who saved us from
the germans and from the koreans and the vietnamese.

And they say a lesson learned from world war 1, was not to ever keep
a career military, as the institutional groupthink of the organization
will start and wage war as a training exercise, totally subverting
civilian control of government. So in that sneer is the criminal
act, from a welfare queen (as what is a career tax-paid desk jockey,
but a welfare queen)... and geez, how this welfare queen thinks that
sneering at liberals works... hmmm.

I think the only way to clean up the mess is to sack the entire top
brass of the military, everyone above the rank of major should be
retired, and banned from setting foot in a government office or
department or taking any job with any company contracting government
business. Then these career jokers, can come to learn about
civilian life they've been defending all these years.. good for them.

And we can get rid of the sneer. THe military works to serve the
constitution, and the civilian president, an all the people of the
nation, humbly. THe line is crossed when these military jokers
think they have some divine political rights to bully civilians
in to accepting complicity in their criminal acts...

;the temptations of the serpent; and it all comes out in a sneer.