On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 10:01:38AM -0400, Tyler Durden wrote: > Peter Thonen wrote.. > > "On that same note, any weekend warrior who complains about being activated > has > no sympathy from me. > Take the devils coin, be prepared to do his work also." > > Well, what if the Devil stole that $ from you in the first place? What > level of subversion is appropriate in order to re-appropriate those $$$? > This case is clearly different from the true blue career war criminal, ehr > I mean career soldier. Here, these people have likely been paying taxes for > a while! So I don't mind too much if they're trying to dodge their > commitment in this context. >
I think also a great many of the young guys joined the National Guard in a patriotic fervor right after 9/11, but by the time the crusade against Iraq got started, quite a few had become well aware that Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11, that the invasion was all about oil, etc, and weren't willing to go. It seems that the military is claiming that we are in a "national emergency" and they can do whatever they want, despite laws to the contrary. -- Harmon Seaver CyberShamanix http://www.cybershamanix.com