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The Exploitation of the American
Soldier, Part II The by Manuel Valenzuela First Published in Axis of Logic |
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"What ["Bring 'em on"] showed the world was that the Commander in Chief has
not an ounce of compassion for the men and women that he sent into harm's
way." "I spent 33 years in the Marines. Most
of my time being a high-classed muscle man for Big business, for Wall Street
and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer for capitalism. I helped purify "This country, with its institutions,
belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the
existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending
it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it." "No government power can be abused
long. Mankind will not bear it."
To
fully understand the epidemic that is the exploitation of the American Soldier
one need look no further than the 250,000 to 500,000 homeless veterans that
on any given day wonder the streets of the War
is hell, and soldiers do not easily escape from these flames of enveloping
terror when returned home. The repulsion of what they were forced to both see
and perpetrate in the name of freedom, liberty, democracy and the American
way left many as psychologically fragile as fine china. For years veterans
have had to deal with knowing they were part of war, that most evil of human
endeavors, that brings out the worst in the human condition. Many returned
impregnated with the horrible demons of what they witnessed on the
battlefield, perpetually unable to exorcise the wretched memories of their
testosterone-stressed-filled adventure in death and destruction. Millions
returned home after a bitter defeat, with 58,000 of their comrades devoid of
their once beaming energy, packed in body bags, their bullet or shrapnel
ridden corpses testament to the ultimate sacrifice that to this day has lost
all purpose and whose pain still lingers in the minds of millions of young
boys now turned middle-aged veterans who fought a war without meaning, in a
land lost in time for an ideology that could not evolve with reality. Today
the scars, both mental and physical, remain entrenched, making up to half a
million once young and brave soldiers homeless indigents of unjustified
hopelessness, unable to escape the awfulness of what was forced upon them by
a system and a cabal of elites whose only purpose was defending their ideology,
increasing and maintaining their power and enriching their pockets. Vietnam
is perhaps the best but by no means the only example of what happens when
those in power are left to their own devices and unleash the torture called war
onto young conscripts, confident, brave and unafraid, mostly low and working
class, sent to destroy, kill and expand the power and wealth of a few
exploiters of human flesh. We
only need to see how the biggest, and perhaps only winner of the Vietnam War,
the military-industrial complex (MIC), enriched itself tremendously through
years of warfare, death and destruction, using soldiers to carry out its
assembly-line, profit-making scheme of immoral business ventures born out of
the misery of millions that fattened up shareholder wealth and ingrained into
government the growing and unfettered power of the MIC. Through the millions
of tons of bombs dropped, instruments of war produced (helicopters, tanks,
munitions, etc..) and the perpetual stream of profit from waging such a
prolonged war the MIC’s power grew. Today the MIC and government are one and
the same, and wars are but part of the business of making profit. This is a
reality we have been made blind to. Unfortunately,
our soldiers are the mechanisms by which the MIC, the Leviathan and the
government elites unleash and spread their evil wrath onto the world.
Soldiers have become pawns, the instruments that pull triggers, aim weapons,
push buttons and destroy infrastructure, the human brain necessary to operate
the MIC’s collection of apparatuses of destruction and death. They are
expendable, of course, easily replaced by the next wave of caste or
government instituted drafts. War is a boom to the MIC, of huge importance to
its oligarchy. There is vast profit and power to be made in war, just ask
today’s defense contractors, and the biggest war profiteer in the These
entities survive and prosper by manufacturing an unending flood of
instruments of death, by supplying the vast resources necessary to conduct
war. And the stream of these products smeared in blood must never be allowed
to run dry which is why blood must continue to be spilled. Machines of war
must be created, used and destroyed, only to be manufactured again and again,
shipped out to be used and recycled in a vicious circle of malevolent profit
making. Think about it, who really profits and gains from war? It is today
but a business to the United Corporations of Many
of today’s forgotten homeless veterans struggle to survive frozen winters
outside and blizzards of mental anguish inside, self-medicating themselves
with drugs or alcohol, the only escapes from the permanent state of turmoil
their minds live in. The horrors of war cannot be released; the human brain
is too fragile and susceptible to the brutalities of man fighting man, of man
killing his own kind, of being witness to the shouts, screams, suffering and
death of men, women and children as they are bulldozed into the realm of
lifeless cadavers. War
is that most ignoble of human creations in which lower classes fight each
other to the death for the benefits of the few elite-greed-infected bastards
that blink not an eye at the death and maiming of those young “plebians” they sent to war in far away lands to fight those
same brothers being exploited by the powerful on the other side. In the end,
victory or defeat matters not to the dead and injured who have gained nothing
and lost everything, returning home to an easily forgetful government that
throws veterans into the bowels of indifference, tossing away the key and
washing its hands clean of the human catastrophe it created. Sacrificed
for the benefit of a few at the top, today’s Vietnam, Korean and Gulf War
Veterans, and those the war has made homeless in particular, are a perfect
example of the utter disregard and exploitation of the American Soldier by
both government and society. Those men who are forgotten, sacrificed, thrown
out into the street and left for dead, fed to the hungry wolves of misery,
slowly decimated from within are the creation of the man-mad pillager of
lives called warfare. In essence, their lives are sacrificed for the
betterment of Leviathan’s oligarchs and government cabal of miscreants. A
government that without remorse allows those veterans who fought its battles
and its wars to freeze during frigid winters and pick food out of garbage
bins in order to survive is a disgrace and a monument to ineptitude.
Sacrificing lives, body and mind for the perceived good of the nation our
soldiers return home, to a world that has been transformed, a reality that
has been altered and an indifferent government that has no more use for them.
Rather, they become but a mosquito to the Leviathan and power junta, a
nuisance aimlessly roaming the streets, surrendering their remaining pride in
order to beg for pennies. Like ghosts they live among us, invisible at night
they hide from the unkind winter temperatures in cardboard-made sleeping
boxes, appearing by day on sidewalks, palms extended, watching the world they
were once part of pass them by. To
survive the stresses of battle is not to survive the wars that follow, where
a surviving soldier must reintegrate himself or herself back to society,
family, work, finances and the life that once was. The true struggle begins,
that which is stronger than any enemy: the battle with oneself to overcome
what the mind cannot purge. Flashbacks of battles won and lost, of deaths
seen and avoided, memories of comrades maimed and killed, stresses that are
manifested from the will to survive in a state of self-preservation and the
ever recurring sounds, tastes and smells of war attack the mind, making
reintegration back into society oftentimes a futile and complex undertaking.
The clash inside commences, that violent whirlwind that morphs together
memories and stresses of war and of the life that previously existed,
creating a vortex of self-destruction that leads to a veteran’s complete loss
with self, and the new reality that has become his living hell.
Post-traumatic stress disorder may erupt in the aftermath of war or in years
subsequent, exploding out and releasing those demons that have been festering
inside waiting to envelope the veteran with their claws of memories past and
nightmares present. From
moral law-abiding citizen, young, energetic and full of hopes and dreams,
where virtue and respect for humanity is ingrained, soldiers are methodically
transformed into programmed automatons of carnage, devastators of lives and
lands and efficient killing machines without remorse for the consequences of
their actions. This creates a quagmire in the mind as one must shift and
abandon what was once believed to be sacred, namely the value of human life,
and replacing it instead with the indoctrinated duty to kill and destroy. Thus,
the soldier is torn until his first battle and first kill, after which time
the sacredness of human life morphs into one of self-preservation and thirst
for extinguishing the enemy. The military’s lethally trained soldier has now
become its cog of violence and war; the alteration from youthful dreamer to
destroyer of dreams is finalized. Many
who survived did and do return to a semblance of normalcy, able to
reintegrate and continue living seemingly fruitful lives. Their inner demons
are minor. Yet many do not, and are forced to confront their all-encompassing
mental demons without the assistance of the same government that helped
foster them in the first place. And so, the exploitation having been
completed, their purpose achieved, the veteran is discarded and abandoned,
forgotten and left to cope with the scars of the “glorious” and “freedom
fighting” war he was sent to fight. Meanwhile, those who supplied his
instruments of death and destruction reap the profits, the Leviathan enriches
itself and those at the top like Bush, born with a silver spoon up their ass
and with no understanding or empathy for those born in the lower echelons of
the caste system get to pat themselves on the back, congratulating themselves
on the newfound power and riches added to their portfolio of exploitation. That
was Vietnam, a blood infested swamp of hell that resulted in defeat and in
the collective destruction of millions of American soldiers, in life, limb
and mind, sacrificed in the jungles of south-east Asia from which the demons
of war were exhumed and returned embedded with our soldiers like a potent
pathogen bent on unleashing self-destruction from within. Forgotten once
brave and decorated soldiers have become, pariahs in society, walking
aimlessly in their own worlds of escape, once fruitful and promising lives
laid to waste, forced to loiter, beg and pick trash, fighting their inner
selves and the demons of war while their government begins implementing the
vicious cycle of decimation onto a new generation of young, brave and cocky
men and women. This is what becomes of those who fight the wars of the
oligarchy and powerful; this is the sacrifice they must make, ruining their
lives, minds and futures fighting their fellow man. This is how they are
repaid for their services. This is the reality of soldiers turned veterans,
of the devastation of war and the effects of the violence we are capable of
unleashing onto the world. The example that is In
the military it is one’s duty to never leave anyone behind. When it comes to
homeless, injured, amputated and mentally destroyed veterans, however, it
seems to be the modus operandi. It is the exploitation of the American
Soldier. Today,
many experts fear the next great wave of homeless vets and psychologically
ravaged citizens are in Through
the physical and mental loss of our loved ones our government declares
victory. Through the devastation unleashed onto humanity Bush tries to assure
re-election. Through the alteration and usurpation of our soldier’s lives and
minds Bush claims triumph over evil; through their enslavement to the
Leviathan and government oligarchy he claims to further assure our freedoms
and liberties. In the end, evil is unleashed under our name, our freedoms and
liberties are eroded more every day and we come closer to becoming the slaves
and serfs of yesteryear as the war the Leviathan has spawned against us and
our loved ones grows in intensity. Guinea Pigs Dressed in Camouflage Forced
Vaccinations and Experiments It
cannot be emphasized enough how soldier lives are destroyed or seriously
altered by the government and its war activities. Just recently, a court
order was imposed banning the forced anthrax vaccination of troops by the
military that in many soldiers was causing sickness and maladies. Brought to
the courts by a group of soldiers, the court in essence found that the
military was experimenting its unproven vaccine on troops who were being used
as guinea pigs. The Pentagon in not deterred, however, as it has gone back to
court seeking to have the ruling applied only to those who were part of the
complaint, in essence seeking to continue the vaccination plan to all other
members of the armed forces. Soldiers are being pressured and punished if
they refuse vaccination, and many have not been told by the military of the
court ruling. Throughout
the decades the military has performed such “experiments” on soldiers
through vaccinations, inoculations, experiments, poking and prodding, trying
to uncover the effects of chemical and biological warfare on humans. Under
the guise of the Cold War, from 1955 to 1975 the government used the military
to experiment on tens of thousands of soldiers, oftentimes without consent or
knowledge, exposing them to radiation, biological contaminants, blister and
nerve agents and psycho-hallucinatory drugs such as PCP. These
experiments, with our soldiers being used as guinea pigs, only serve to
damage the well-being of military men and women in an attempt to see what the
effects and damage will be if the vaccine is applied to the general
population. Our soldiers are being poked and prodded, serving as an experimental
group, studied over time to see what health effects manifest themselves and
what dangers are to be expected, and avoided. Guinea pigs dressed in
camouflage are no different than guinea pigs living in cages. Enlisted to
serve in both war and as samples of experimental exploitation, the American
Soldier is but a slave serving the dark interests of those who lack humanity.
A
definite pattern begins to emerge over decades of abuse and exploitation of
soldiers, and that is the extent by which the military will expose its own to
the evils it has created with a disregard that is nefarious and criminal in
nature. This pattern has not stopped, it gets covered up or stone-walled when
confronted, and it continues on its pervasive pattern of criminality and indifference
that like an unstoppable tank runs over the lives of so many members of the
armed forces who believed they would never be betrayed by a government they
swore to serve and defend. What follows are but a few examples of this
systemic pattern of behavior. Hydrogen
and Atomic Bomb Testing The
exploitation of the American Soldier for the benefit of the government is an
ingrained part of the system. Soldiers have been used as guinea pigs for
decades, oftentimes used as subjects sacrificed for the evils of mankind. A
perfect example is that era, beginning in the aftermath of World War II and
continuing until the early 1960’s, when our government began testing atomic
and hydrogen bombs. Soldiers would be called into these areas, such as the This
exploitation resulted in numerous cancers, diseases, perpetual health
problems and birth defects. The progeny of these soldiers have also been made
to suffer through genetic birth defects. Men from all branches of the armed
forces were subjected to these tests, many larger in power than For
years the Pentagon and government have stonewalled, withheld, suppressed and
covered up attempts at uncovering and exposing these truths. Over 300,000
military men and women and 100,000 civilians were used as guinea pigs during
the course of the tests. For soldiers, to try and decline forced
participation meant court martial, dishonorable discharges, treason and jail.
For all involved, it has meant a life of suffering at the hands of the
government. Meanwhile, the exploitation of the American Soldier continued. Agent
Orange The
Vietnam War provides us with another example of criminal exploitation of
soldiers by our government leaders with that famous herbicide chemical named
Agent Orange. Sprayed by C-123 cargo planes over the conifer jungles of
Vietnam where American troops abounded in order to defoliate and clear the
thick green cover of foliage and flora that offered protection to the Viet
Cong, the chemical was oftentimes inhaled and absorbed by soldiers, both
American and Vietnamese, penetrating their lungs and/or skin and
disseminating throughout the body. Up to 19 million gallons of Agent Orange
and other herbicides were dispersed from 1961 to 1971. Agent Orange was
poison, designed to kill plant life in order to facilitate the further
destruction of Vietnamese land and people. American troops were exposed to
this devil’s concoction and the results were disastrous. Upon
returning home, Vietnam veterans began dying of disease, most notably cancer.
To this day, those still alive suffer horrendous pain from the aftereffects
of Agent Orange, the chemical the military unleashed onto its own. Children
of soldiers exposed have been born diseased or deformed. Hundreds of
thousands were exposed over the course of a decade, never imagining that the
chemical they thought was helping them survive would later decimate and
destroy their lives, and that of their children. Agent
Orange’s effects have not been relegated to American Soldiers, however.
Vietnamese soldiers have suffered the same diseases, have died in larger
numbers, and their children continue to suffer the consequences of American indifference. Absorbed into the countryside, the
herbicide has filtered into soils and water tables, devastating farming and
large populations. Vietnamese
children have and continue being born retarded, deformed, sick and dead.
In Vietnam, Agent Orange has become a WMD, and it has ruined both lives and land to this day. Gulf Wars I & II and Depleted
Uranium (Gulf War Syndrome) More
recently, the introduction of Depleted Uranium (DU) as a key component of America’s
military arsenal has created a present wave and future catastrophe of disease
and death among US troops, most notably those that served in the first Gulf
War. DU, made of nuclear waste and used in military shells, munitions,
missiles, bullets and tank armor, has made of Iraq a nuclear dump that has
ruined the environment. Hundreds of tons of DU material has been used in both
Gulf Wars, Kosovo and Afghanistan, releasing into the environment minute
particles of vaporized uranium that linger in the environment and in the air,
penetrating into water tables, food supplies and cities. The usefulness of
DU, its inexpensive production, troop armor protecting strength and target
penetrating ability, had made this weapon a useful instrument of war – if the
aftereffects are not taken into consideration. It
is estimated that anywhere from 8,000 to 10,000 American veterans who served
in Gulf War I have died of mysterious diseases and maladies, most notably
cancers, neurological disorders and immunodeficiency illnesses and diseases.
It is estimated that 40,000 to 80,000 more will die in the next twenty to
thirty years as the effects of DU run their course. Only about 150 members of
the military died during the actual fighting in Gulf War I. Half
of the 700,000 troops used in Gulf War I have reported serious illnesses,
however, with many suffering chronic illness. Hundreds of thousands suffer
from the so-called Gulf War Syndrome. There is a strong indication, and
indeed a growing likelihood, that the use of DU by the military is the
primary culprit. Most of these veterans are in their late twenties and early
thirties, in the prime of their health, cleared as healthy before the war in
military conducted medical physicals. Added to these diseases is the growing
evidence that DU is responsible for the large number of genetic birth
defects, gross mutations of fetuses, miscarriages and stillborns arising from
veterans of Gulf War I. The
implication for veterans of Gulf War II and Afghanistan is mind boggling. The
example of Gulf War I and its health related implications is but a small
ripple compared to the coming tidal wave approaching Gulf War II veterans and
our society. Estimates say that the US and Britain used five times more DU
munitions in 2003 than used in 1991. When up to 350 tons of DU munitions was
used by the Pentagon in 1991, the ramifications for the present and future
health of American soldiers is worrisome at the least and calamitous at
worst. The
same diseases, cancers and fetal deformities and miscarriages being
discovered by our soldiers are widespread throughout the population of Iraq
and now Afghanistan as well. Coincidence? Not likely. Of course the
environmental disaster DU has unleashed will eventually disappear, in 4.5
billion years. Meanwhile, Iraq’s population has shown steep increases in
cancers and genetic birth defects, numbers never before seen in such quantities
for a sample nation, except perhaps in post WWII Japan. It is not a
far-fetched statement to say that Iraq and its citizens will be devastated
for generations to come. The government purposefully allowed the use of
uranium rich DU munitions, exposing both soldiers and civilians to one of the
worst weapons of mass destruction. Make no mistake, Iraq and Afghanistan are
now nuclear dumps, their citizens are dying in incredibly large numbers and
the US government, along with corporate media complicity, is covering up this
growing pandemic that would rightly outrage the entire planet if it was
exposed for the war crime that it is. We must stop the use of our own WMD’s on both land and man before we ask others to stop
theirs. The
government has remained quiet on the subject but a growing landslide of
evidence is pointing to the morbid conclusion that in Gulf War I and now II
the US military and government, in order to pro-rate American deaths from
“during the war,” (in essence minimizing death during the war) to a gradual
death rate in the immediate decades “after the war,” and in order to prevent
large numbers of casualties that would inevitably alienate the American
public, -- think “Vietnam Syndrome” – used DU armor and munitions, knowing
full well its dangers to troops and innocent civilians, deciding the slow and
clandestine death of troops after the war was better than thousands of
casualties that had been expected during it. This happened in 1991, and, with
more than a decade to correct its actions, the Pentagon instead relied more
heavily on DU in 2003 when mounting evidence showed the effects of DU on
humans. Can we dare bring to light and investigate this criminal exploitation
by those at the top of our loved ones? Soon,
American troops will return from Iraq, and deep within them will grow an
embedded poison, a weapon of mass destruction that will linger inside their
bodies until the day arrives that DU decides to begin its evil process of
annihilation. We must keep on eye on these veterans because many will die,
many will give birth to the most deformed babies you will ever see and the
government/military will speak not a word. The cover-up and stonewall will be
methodical, both by government and the corporate media, for the implications
of what is happening to our soldiers and Iraq’s citizens will send shockwaves
throughout the world. Payments of this criminal deceit may run into the
hundreds of billions, devastating entire industries. An objective
investigation would most likely lead to the incarceration of those at the top
and expose this nation for the evilness of its wars. Thus, the DU enigma will
never see the light of day, and veterans will be swept underneath the rug of
disregard, gathering cobwebs as more and more veterans die off. The
evils of DU are visible in Iraq, they are visible in Gulf War I veterans and
they will soon be visible in many of the men and women today serving in the
cradle of civilization. Nuclear war was unleashed on Iraq and Afghanistan by
our military. In the end, it is our own sons and daughters that must pay the
price for this most wicked of actions, this most unmoral of wars. And we have
our own government to thank for the coming decimation that will in the next
few years and decades devour our loved ones and the children they bear. Systemic Abuse of Veterans and
Soldiers As
soldiers struggle to survive in the desert sands of Iraq the Bush
administration is waging its own war at home against them and their families.
In order to help pay for the enormity that has become the Iraq quagmire, Bush
has cut or held down numerous soldier and veteran benefits and services. Bush
has cut off access to the VA’s health care system for approximately 164,000
veterans. The President is also trying to cut off $1.5 billion in military
family housing and medical facility funding in his 2004 budget, a 14 percent
reduction. The White House also opposes a proposal to give National Guard and
Reserve members access to the Pentagon’s health-insurance system. The General
Accounting Office has estimated that one of every five Guard members has no
health insurance. The
war by Bush against members of the armed forces continues as the White House
tried to roll back recent increases in monthly imminent-danger pay, from $225
to $150, and family-separation allowance, from $250 to $100, for troops being
shot at in combat zones such as Iraq and Afghanistan. Thanks to the
administration, the military’s pay raise for men and women in desperate need
of better wages was a paltry 4.1 percent hike for higher ranks and a 2
percent raise for the lower ranks, a raise that does not even cover the rise
of inflation. The White House labeled as “wasteful and unnecessary” a very
modest proposal to double from $6000 to $12,000 the gratuity given to
families of those soldiers that die on active duty, an amount that would not
cover a year of expenses and that does not even surpass the poverty line for
a small family. The
White House budget for Veterans Affairs cut $3 billion from VA hospitals even
with the large number of casualties returning from Bush’s wars in Iraq and
Afghanistan. VA spending today averages $2,800 less per patient than nine
years ago. Bush has raised VA prescription drugs co-payments for veterans
more than 200 percent even at a time when veterans of Korea and Vietnam begin
aging and see themselves in greater need of medicines. With hundreds of
thousands of Gulf War I veterans suffering various chronic illnesses and
diseases, this move further erodes the necessary mechanisms needed to live a
life with the least amount of pain. Further
proof of the war being waged against members of the armed forces is Donald Rumsfeld’s plan to shut down 19 commissaries,
military-run stores that offer discounted food and merchandise that helps
low-paid enlisted troops and their families get by, with the possibility of
closing down 19 more. Meanwhile, the Pentagon is also trying to determine
whether or not to shut down 58 military-run schools for the children of
soldiers. Listed above are but a few of the tactics used by the Bush administration
to strangulate soldiers, veterans and their families. Expected to fight and
sacrifice lives, they are now being forced to sacrifice benefits and pay,
education and healthcare. How much more can be asked of our sons and
daughters before they and the nation begin wondering what Bush is doing? They
deserve better, perhaps not Bush’s silver spoon but definitely some dignity
and appreciation. These
moves by the Bush administration have lacerated those tools members of the
military and their families need in order to live their lives with a
semblance of meaning. Bush is in essence shackling soldiers and their
families to a collective chain of apathy and exploitation. As these men and
women head into combat zones, willing to sacrifice limb, mind and life, their
benefits, pay and services are being decimated by the same man putting their
lives on the line. It is a slap in the face to at the same time send soldiers
to die abroad while slashing their benefits at home. It is a slap in the face
to all veterans who courageously served their country in battle only to have
their benefits reduced. And the person responsible is a chickenhawk
who escaped his duties and now smirks and struts while terrified, maimed and
killed soldiers return home, telling the world to “bring it on,” in essence
challenging the world to kill those men and women he sent to fight his war. The
exploitation of the American Soldier is methodical and arrogantly shameful.
It is enslavement and oppression. It is the continuation of a mercenary army
created to fight for and defend the interests of the Leviathan and the
oligarchy. The illusions of “fighting for freedom,” “our way of life,” and
our “democratic principles” is but a mirage designed to hide the real reasons
behind Bush’s wars. Through propaganda the American people are being lied to
and misled down the path of perpetual war. Through the use of fear and terror
Bush propels the Leviathan’s war agenda, scaring the populace into
acquiescing to exporting terror abroad and importing the erosion of freedoms
and liberties at home. Meanwhile,
the Leviathan’s hostile and open war against Americans continues without us
realizing what is being done to us. Blindly we believe what is shown;
ignorantly we follow what is said. We no longer question authority nor
self-educate ourselves. To many Americans Bush is the second coming of
Christ, a most trusted man of honor and integrity. Reality, however, is
altogether different. His policies are completely the opposite of Christ’s
teachings. The worst president in history is destroying this nation, and he
is bringing us all down with him. The rise of the fascist state of Amerika begun in 2000 will accelerate in 2004 and become
a possible reality in 2005 with a further degrading of our rights, democracy and
liberties, the acceleration of a police state and the complete usurpation of
government and our representatives by the Leviathan and its puppet in the
White House. All
this will be accomplished thanks to the invasive and systematic cloud of fear
the administration has released into the fabric and environment of this
country. The instilling of fear into an ever jumpy and paranoid nation by the
administration is the ultimate WMD, (weapon of mental deception) destroying
our once free and open society, scaring us into submission and making of us
fearful citizens devoid of a once vibrant energy. If we do not stop fearing
the illusion of evil Bush has indoctrinated us with, we will soon really have
something to fear, and that is the terror of living in a fascist state. In
order to continue their perpetual profit-and-power-pillaging-war fighting
ghosts and goblins the MIC, Leviathan and oligarchy will unleash a government
enacted draft after the election of George W. Bush in 2004. Large troop
numbers – at present not available through the “all volunteer” army – are
needed to quench the three-headed monster’s greed-infested appetite for power
and resources. All governmental and state action taking place today is
clandestinely leading to this most ominous circumstance, one need only open
his/her eyes. As is usually the case, those in the lower castes will become
the great majority of draftees, brought out of their reservations and turned
into mercenaries of the oligarchy. Trained
to become lethal killers of humanity, our sons and daughters will be
dehumanized, exposed to the inhuman emotions of war and battle, death and
blood. Spread to those regions our feudal lords deem strategic and necessary,
our soldiers will decimate both land and man, becoming both a plague of
locusts devouring everything in its path and a malignant virus hemorrhaging
the planet. The Evil Empire, now openly and arrogantly waging war throughout
the world, no longer acting clandestinely to determine geopolitical destinies
as it has done for decades, will need vast amounts of cannon fodder and
armies to guard the many lands, interests and resources of the Pax Amerikana and the United
Corporations of Amerika. The
exploitation of the American Soldier will increase, the draft will take from
our homes those young lives we most cherish. Conscripted to serve the
Leviathan and oligarchy, trained to kill their fellow exploited man with the
MIC’s instruments of death, our young loved ones will die and suffer. They
will become maimed, both physically and mentally, scarred for life, becoming
the disposable refuse our government throws into its landfills. The
story of the American Soldier is a story of ceaseless exploitation, of
ceaseless sacrifice to the interests of the elite oligarchs and of ceaseless
bravery in the face of ceaseless obstacles. No longer fighting for freedoms
or liberties or in defending our borders or ways of life, soldiers now fight
for the profits, resources, power and ideology of the Leviathan and
oligarchs. The poor continue to be subjugated; they continue to fight like
the serfs and slaves of old for the interests of the elite few. The
story of the American soldier is the story of human war, of the rich and
powerful using the poor in the continual cycle of exploitation. It is the story
of humanity, of civilization, and of the unrelenting and time honored
tradition which by our indifference to act we inherently decide to live in.
Through our passivity and unwillingness to force change we are condemning
ourselves to the coming future that awaits us. A future that has been both
our past and our present, and inevitably, the continuation of what has been,
and what seems to remain. The symptoms of our disease, it seems, cannot be
cured, and slowly our sickened and palpitated society chains itself to its
cold and dreary death bed awaiting the inevitability of our lives. Manuel Valenzuela
is social critic and commentator, activist, writer and author of Echoes in
the Wind, a novel to be published in 2004. His articles appear bi-weekly on axisoflogic.com. He welcomes comments
and can be reached at manuel@valenzuelas.net.
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