I'm sitting this one out. Hopefully, the one thing we have learned
from the Vietnam era is to give our unilateral support and help to
those who put themselves in harms way despite our personal feelings
about the particular conflict.
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "jerseyjohn99"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> It's amazing. People on here take potshots at a government I
helped
> to elect without one peep, yet I bring a healthy skepticism to a
> counter-revolutionary group, and I'm branded everything from
selfish
> to a Nazi sympathizer. (which is humorously ironic to this history
> buff, as nazism was a SOCIALIST movement.)
>
> As Lighty & Bruce alluded to, blind faith in anything will get you
> killed. Case in point. History tells us every revolutionary
> movement, absent a persuasive leader, needs a sympathetic martyr
to
> rally around. What better martyr than a good-looking All-American
> kid from the heartland? This kid, despite a desire to "blow things
> up", freely chose to join the Marine Corps rather than hone his
> desires at any of the numerous coal mines, steel mills, or
> construction sites that pepper the greater Allentown area. His
> induction in to Marines began with a 4am arrival & haircut at
Parris
> Island, followed by twelve weeks of sweeping a broom to the
cadence
> of "Marine Corps, KILL KILL KILL", jumping jacks to the cadence
> of "Marine Corps, KILL KILL KILL", and piercing his dinner with a
> fork to the cadence of "Marine Corps, KILL KILL KILL". During
these
> 12 weeks, he was exposed & desensitized to what the phrase "Marine
> Corps, KILL KILL KILL" actually means. Because he was a volunteer,
> he was given the option of withdrawing at any time. Roughly 30% of
> his fellow recruits chose to drop out under no obligation. He
chose
> to graduate from basic training & was contractually obligated to
> spend the next four years of his life as a Marine, the most
> efficient killing force the world has ever known.
>
> Sometime in the last three months of his contractual obligation
(May-
> August 2003) he saw something that bothered him. This perfectly
> natural occurrence, once known as "shell shock" is now called Post
> Traumatic Stress Disorder. It can manifest itself months or years
> after actual combat. People with untreated PTSD have been shown to
> be highly susceptible to dangerous influences & are more likely to
> have harmful side effects from PTSD.
>
> Now let's get back to the revolutionary movement again.
> Surprisingly, IVAW was founded by Corporal Hoffman, but its
> headquarters are in St. Louis, not in Pennsylvania, where he now
> lives. IVAW can either get Corporal Hoffman the treatment he needs
> to combat PTSD or they can exploit this good-looking All-American
> kid & make him relive his nightmares to further their agenda.
Since
> they take their name from VVAW, we can assume their agenda is the
> same: full scale withdrawal of US troops from all hostilities
using
> any means necessary. VVAW metastized from a non-violent protest
> group in November 1967 to a counter-revolutionary group in
November
> 1971 calling for National Strikes, open sedition, and
assassination
> of US Senators.
>
> The fact IVAW found some non-violent filmaker with a large
following
> in Asbury Park to further their agenda has proven their
exploitation
> of Corporal Hoffman was successful. God help us all if Al-Qaeda is
> able to funnel money & propaganda to IVAW the same way the KGB,
> through the World Peace Council, was able to funnel money to VVAW.
>
> Now, Jim, regarding your most recent post directed to me, I would
> appreciate it if you would refrain from the personal attacks &
> insults. We can disagree without being disagreeable. As a
> documentary filmmaker, I was under the assumption you were
> interested in discovering & presenting facts. I apologize if my
> assumptions were incorrect.
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