I actually think you might be wrong on this one, Curt. The present military has actually had lessons taught to them in Basic about war crimes. Not that it always works, of course, since the guys who claim to run things send the kids over to places they weren't taught about in Sunday School. I got the lessons about ten months before the sack of Saigon (and was working on C-5s and C-141s at Travis the whole time the south fell, one of our C-5s didn't make it home, it fell into a swamp with a cargo of 600 doctors, nurses and children. Black boxes were never admitted to being recovered, anybody who'd ever worked on that plane was intensely debriefed -- yeah, me too). Official story was a structural failure of a structure that doesn't exist on that plane -- that was probably the genesis of my active anarchism, and I had three and a bit years left in the USAF -- thank whatever gods there might be that _Illuminatus!_ by Bob Shea and Bob Wilson was published as a Dell trilogy a few months previous to provide fresh inspiration. [I'd already been a fan of Heinlein and Rand for let's just call it a long damed time.) (I read _Rocket Ship Galileo_ when I was six, I read _Anthem_ when I was eight). I turn 55 in two months, anybody is welcome to work out the arithmetic. And free to wonder why I wound up in the USAF. (I still wonder myself, and I was there when I did it). -- Ward Griffiths wdg...@comcast.net
The Bible says (in Palms 90:10) that "The days of our years are threescore years and ten", yet Xtians frequently defy G-d's will and continue to preach rather than commit suicide on their 70th birthday. Yeah, the Psalm says you're allowed to live to eighty, but you're going to suffer if you do that, so you might as well just kill yourself. Suicide is not a sin in the Old Testament, and I can't find the spot in the New Testament that changes the status. (This blasphemy is an original from me [wdg3rd], the sort of thing I strive for). ----- "Curt Howland" <curt.howl...@gmail.com> wrote: > From: "Curt Howland" <curt.howl...@gmail.com> > To: LibertarianEnterprise@yahoogroups.com > Sent: Monday, March 22, 2010 2:12:40 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern > Subject: Re: [LibertarianEnterprise] Vermont Secession Strategy > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Monday 22 March 2010, Wraith was heard to say: > > Thats all well and good. But unlike during the War to Prevent > > Southern Independence, this time the Imperial Feds have nukes. Do > > you really think that nest of dangerous sociopaths back in New Rome > > on the Potomac, would hesitate to use them? > > No need for nukes against people armed with, at best, rifles. > > Think Prague Spring. > > The one and only hope is that the tanks rolling into Montpelier makes > > enough people angry enough that the cascade of nullification and > secession happens in earnest. > > There is no hope what so ever of military success, because the > military will OBEY their orders, just as they did under Lincoln. > > Curt- > > - -- > Those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, > for they do so with the approval of their consciences.
