by Homeless Halo » Tue Oct 11, 2005 12:18 am
There a lot of issues to address here, and probably not enough room for all of them.<br><br>I don't think the american military are "the most brutal thugs in human history". Most efficient thugs, perhaps, but most of them didn't actually shoot anyone, as is true of all soldiers in all wars. Most of the soldiers I know joined, not to shoot civilians, but to be able to afford to go to college in a country with a backward schooling system. I have a number of close friends in Iraq and Afghanistan currently, none of them chose to be there, nor is it likely they would have, if given a free choice. I find the demonization of soldiery to be hypocritical at best (if not for said soldiery, we'd already be officially fascist, and so would everyone else), and at worst, a huge sleight-of-hand distraction from the more important issue. What more important issue? That would be that Americans are so tired and uneducated that they supported this series of wars without better explanations as to why. Soldiers are supposed to do what they're told to do. We the People, in America, are responsible to see that they are told to do what is right, not vice versa. It is the American civillian population you should be at odds with, not its soldiery. Not to mention, for example, the British civil society which opposed the wars, but allowed its government to fight them anyway.<br><br>The "natural home" of Fascism, you say, is the United States. I disagree. All of america's elitism/racism was imported along with all the other "values" we co-opted from Europe. Racism has existed in man since his roots, and it has no "home" other than the hearts of ignorant men and their allies. We didn't elect Hitler. Germany did. We weren't responsible for his actions, despite any amount of funding (which came from all over the world, not just USA, although we had more opportunity). <br><br>As regards the quarantine, Bush has already been told by nearly all of the State level leaders, that it isn't going to happen. They don't like him. No one likes him. No one trusts him, and no one is going to give him powers over martial law. He can talk all he wants, but it won't happen. One of the advantages the Religious Right in America gives us, is that they are inherently distrustful of this manuever by any government. His comments are already backfiring throughout his support base of Evangelical Christians (who've been preaching about state control for centuries). And he lost the popular vote here. Twice. He isn't on solid enough ground to do this sort of thing. 9/11 didn't work as well as they thought it would, and people are beginning to catch on. <br><br>But, of course, you can believe that world war 3 is around the corner, and you might be right, but I doubt it. I don't think these people are nearly as powerful as they or you think they are.<br><br><br><br><br><br> <p></p><i></i>