john,
for what its worth, i value your input. While you and i have butted
heads before, it was never over a lack of respect for you.
Please keep up challenging my point of view, and i will return the
favor
tony
--- 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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