Monday, July 25, 2016

The Resistance Doesn't Wobble

We have resisted the Military / Industrial Complex since we first saw it in the sixties and have even more reason to resist it today.  One thing we know for sure is this election would not have collapsed into the current cesspool of fetid stinks if the draft still existed.

Hardly anyone in America actually serves in the military in modern times.  Many shave their heads and pretend but, by the percentages, most have never been near a military post.  They're hell on the parades, tho.

If the draft still existed, Millennials would have been standing on each other's shoulders to fight it but they have no particular reason even to be much interested now.  Consider the rage of Pokemon Go and that should give a fair idea of the interest in the electoral debacle.


America was so desperate for troops during the Vietnam Era they even drafted me and I wasn't a citizen nor did I have any intention of becoming one.

Note:  citizenship means nothing more than a passport to me.  When you can't get out if you feel like it, you're not free no matter how many red, white, and blue parades you attend.

It's the Hotel California and you can never leave ... but you can if you have a passport.


The FBI checked me out for a SECRET security clearance ... and passed me even though I was stonin' and trippin' long before I was drafted.  Even then the FBI had no idea what it was doing.


Any idea American citizenship is better is laughable as the government doesn't help with anything unless it can get its name in the paper.  I couldn't get back into the country for months after the GOP, primarily Ted Cruz, shut down the government.  Yah, so helpful.  It may not surprise you I hardly ever use a US passport overseas but I do use this one.

You can tell the wear on the UK passport but there's hardly any on the US passport.  My accent helps overseas as people usually placed me as Canadian and they're not reviled in the way of Americans.  You won't ever hear what people really think so long as you travel under a US passport.


Note:  the draft has come up previously and nothing has changed or wobbled in the specification for it.  The draft needs to be universal for service but not for combat.  The draftee needs to be able to freely elect to opt out of combat in favor of some other type of mandatory service.  Given that truth, the Resistance will back it.

(Ed:  what if there's a war and nobody comes?)

Well, that would show clearly the Will of the People, wouldn't it.


Today it's kind of funny with the Brit passport as I know some over there who maintain the highly-genteel pose but they disappeared after BREXIT and England was revealed to be as much of a sordid, racist shithole as America.  Lofty from them doesn't quite work anymore (larfs).

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