Young People of America...Rise Up and Rebel!

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cont'd: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13610.htm

Young People of America…… Rise Up and Rebel!

By Doug Soderstrom, Ph.D.

06/13/06 "Information Clearing House" -- -- Just over 50 years ago it was No Gun Ri. Then My Lai. And now Haditha…. and, as (headlines declare), even more mass murders, most recently in the Iraqi villages of Ishaqi, Hamdaniya, Latifiyah, and Yusifiyah; young men fresh out of high school, frustrated by life, with nothing better to do than to sign up as mercenaries ready and willing to kill for their country, yet, as always, afraid to die and angry as hell as a result of buddies (comrades-in-arms) having been killed, everyone of them having been thrown into a world of cultural confusion and death wanting nothing more than an opportunity to return home, body and mind unimpaired. You see, for each of these young men and women, there will be two wars; the first a physical battle to stay alive, the second a psycho-spiritual effort, a struggle to live with what they “had to do” in order to stay alive. In war there are no winners….. only those who lose least!

Isn’t it ironic that just this week the commanders in charge of forces in Iraq, after having suffered the painful blowback, the natural consequences, of having so punctiliously trained our children to kill, having trained them to reflexively disregard the rather inconvenient intrusion of an always present voice reminding one of the value of human life, have found it necessary to reverse the harm they have done, that they tighten the slack in their leash on the troops, that it might be better if soldiers did begin to think, did in fact begin to use their minds, before choosing to take the life of another human being. The new training program, technically referred to as “Core Warrior Values,” an effort to enable soldiers to discriminate between who they should as opposed to who they should not be willing to kill; that is…… that it is proper for them to be chomping at the bits to kill the “bad guys,” those armed with guns eager to kill them, but better for them to hold back a bit when it comes to the “good guys,” women, children, the blind, and old men (especially those found to be sitting in wheel chairs). Something like training an American Pit Bull to viciously rip apart, that is, to devour, its prey, and then in midstream, amidst the chaos of an enraged battle, ensuring that the avenger will gently back off choosing to show mercy for those disinclined to fight back.

So many of our children, the vast majority of them Black, Hispanic, and poor, having been cajoled into joining the ranks of the military, all in order to support a country out to “right a world of wrongs.” However, what these young folks are never told is that their primary job will be that of killing people, most often that of the enemy, but sometimes even those of their own buddies (during the first Gulf War nearly one out of four soldiers were shot and killed as a result of “friendly fire”).

[stepnw1f]

1. Hell Yeah... It's Time! (nt)

[Democrats_win]

2. McCarthyism, Nixonism, & Bushism: rebel & ban the Repukes!

[Bertrand]

3. The best way to rebel

Is to organize "egalitarian clubs" within the democratic party to help establish a bigger coalition that gives the left wing a better say.

Great Link by Sociologist G. William Domhoff, who subscribes to the 4 network theory of power by Micheal Mann.

http://sociology.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/change/science_freshstart.html

[wizdum]

4. The Net neutrality issue just may do it... because if internet access is

...restricted in any way by the gov't, the youth of America WILL wake up and rebel, since the internet is the entertainment and communication medium of choice for many of them. For that reason, maybe a loss on the issue of net neutrality is just what the doctor ordered. Time will tell.