I know, I know...once a year is "Veterans" day and I'm supposed to thank all those "who have served" and have "fought for my/our freedom" and thank them for their patriotism.
Except, me? I'm one of those sort of one in a billion people who would rather take in all of the data and then process it and see what emerges. So with that, using my reason, logic and common sense I come to this critically thought out result.
First off, no one in my lifetime has fought for my or anyone else in this countries freedom. EVER. And I'm 70. I was born in 1954. If I had been born in the era of the "Civil" war and had lived in the south, I would have to admire those who had made the effort to fight for my freedom. ANYONE who does a bit of study will realize that conflict wasn't over white boys keeping black boys as slaves in the south. It was over who could do the taxing. And when the south succeeded from the union one of the first things they did was open the port in Freeport Louisiana to European traders and a major cut in tariffs. The north was PISSED and that is part one of the conflict. Read The South Was Right by the Kennedy Brothers.
Next we had the Korean War which I was too young to remember any of but history tells us what? WHY were "we" in Korea? Why were "we" in Viet Nam? Were we fighting for "our" freedom in either place? How about Iraq? How about Afghanistan where Chairman Xiden left all kinds of toys for those “terrorists” (I.E. MILITIA) that we were supposedly after to play with? Tell me how my freedom is being fought for with a stolen election in 2020 and more stolen elections going on right this very minute and who is "fighting" against that? Anyone who "believes" Chairman Xiden won, has to be living a life of delusion. And looking at the current charts with the same kind of spikes we saw in 2020 going on all over the country leaves me in bewilderment. And I don’t care how much effort the “fact checkers” put into “debunking” 2000 mules, because what would you EXPECT them to do? ADMIT the system is so broken that a mental midget can weasel into the office of President?
So, please, someone tell me why I should venerate men and women who join a military branch VOLUNTARILY and then go to far away distant lands and meet strange unusual people and then KILL THEM when they have NEVER done anything to any of us?
Do you know what "just war" is? It would be a war fought like in the fictional account of "Red Dawn" with Patrick Swayze. One where SOMEONE had attacked us and we DEFENDED and FOUGHT for OUR FREEDOM. PERIOD. There is no one doing that. Our freedom has been gradually and incrementally been taken away using stealth and deceit. One of the major reasons other than to protect us from tyrannical government agents for the first 13 words of the 2nd amendment!
Do you have the FREEDOM to own your own home? If you pay it off free and clear? Well don't pay the "rent" on it and you'll find out who owns it when men with guns come and take “your” home away and put someone in it who will pay that rent. Oh that's right we call that rent "property taxes" but the Communist manifesto 1st plank calls it RENT. Yeah, ABOLITION TO ALL RIGHTS TO PRIVATE PROPERTY and the application of all rent to public purpose. When you get your property tax statement, what is the ALL of that rent being used for? PUBLIC PURPOSE. Did you seen or hear of any veterans fighting and dying so we could be FREE from the 1st plank of the Communist Manifesto which pays for the 10th plank?
Which BTW says "FREE" education for all children in government schools. Were you REQUIRED by "law" to go to a PUBLIC school aka government school as a young person? Unless you were homeschooled which is very rare. So you were FORCED to give up your freedom to go to a place that indoctrinated you into the way you think today which is most likely NOT the way I think. Did you hear of anyone fighting to keep you free from that part of life? I don't. I do know that John Singer was killed by the enforcers for refusing to send his kid to school when homeschooling wasn't allowed. Did anyone fight for him?
Fact is, we are SLAVES that own guns. And many of YOU would fight to the death to keep yourselves slaves. I am going to interject some truth here that was translated from a real live prophet who lived among us for a number of years....tell me? Was he WRONG? Or are we deluding ourselves by praising and worshiping the military industrial complex that has caused so much death and suffering around the world in OUR NAME.
READ ON (as long as you can handle X rated language!):
But there’s a reason. There’s a reason. There’s a reason for this, there’s a reason education SUCKS, and it’s the same reason it will never, ever, EVER be fixed.
It’s never going to get any better, don’t look for it, be happy with what you’ve got.
Because the owners, the owners of this country don't want that. I'm talking about the real owners now, the BIG owners! The Wealthy… the REAL owners! The big wealthy business interests that control things and make all the important decisions.
Forget the politicians. They are irrelevant. The politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don't. You have no choice! You have OWNERS! They OWN YOU. They own everything. They own all the important land. They own and control the corporations. They’ve long since bought, and paid for the Senate, the Congress, the state houses, the city halls, they got the judges in their back pockets and they own all the big media companies, so they control just about all of the news and information you get to hear. They got you by the balls.
They spend billions of dollars every year lobbying, lobbying, to get what they want. Well, we know what they want. They want more for themselves and less for everybody else, but I'll tell you what they don’t want:
They don’t want a population of citizens capable of critical thinking. They don’t want well informed, well educated people capable of critical thinking. They’re not interested in that. That doesn’t help them. that's against their interests.
that's right. They don’t want people who are smart enough to sit around a kitchen table and think about how badly they’re getting fucked by a system that threw them overboard 30 fucking years ago. They don’t want that!
You know what they want? They want obedient workers. Obedient workers, people who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork. And just dumb enough to passively accept all these increasingly shitty jobs with the lower pay, the longer hours, the reduced benefits, the end of overtime and vanishing pension that disappears the minute you go to collect it, and now they’re coming for your Social Security money. They want your retirement money. They want it back so they can give it to their criminal friends on Wall Street, and you know something? They’ll get it. They’ll get it all from you sooner or later cause they own this fucking place! It's a big club, and you ain’t in it! You, and I, are not in the big club.
By the way, it's the same big club they use to beat you over the head with all day long when they tell you what to believe. All day long beating you over the head with their media telling you what to believe, what to think and what to buy. The table has tilted folks. The game is rigged and nobody seems to notice. Nobody seems to care! Good honest hard-working people; white collar, blue collar it doesn’t matter what color shirt you have on. Good honest hard-working people continue, these are people of modest means, continue to elect these rich cock suckers who don’t give a fuck about you….they don’t give a fuck about you… they don’t give a FUCK about you.
They don’t care about you at all… at all… AT ALL. And nobody seems to notice. Nobody seems to care. that's what the owners count on. The fact that Americans will probably remain willfully ignorant of the big red, white and blue dick that's being jammed up their assholes everyday, because the owners of this country know the truth.
It's called the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it.
~ George Carlin
Well done! The Carlin quote is priceless!!!
I’m 71 and a Vietnam veteran. I thought I was fighting for our freedoms, but I wasn’t. You are so correct, and so was George Carlin.