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Corrupt Government Title: Value Life Like We Do! Or Else! I overheard a somewhat interesting if disturbing conversation this weekend. A career U.S. military man was telling these folks at a coffee shop that we need to go into the Middle East and mean business this time. As in, you know, kill them all and let Allah sort them out. Now, Ive heard all of this before so I wasnt especially astonished. This is standard-issue manure that gets doled out via government propaganda outlets we call talk radio and television talk shows. But what he said next is what I found astonishing: They dont value life like we do! What?! Excuse me, but, what?! Right, they dont value life like we do. And well teach them to value life like we do by killing every last one of them! Then theyll learn about the sanctity of human life, by jingo! I considered this point of view and wondered if this guy was a bomber pilot since that was the branch of the military he hailed from. Not to mention that is the branch of the military in control of the thermonuclear curtain-closers that the United States would use to pull off an award-winning finale to the human race if we needed to fully demonstrate how much we value life. They dont value life like we do. Pardon me, but who is they, hmmm? Oh, right, the Middle East! I agree. Look what happened when they got a hold of nuclear weapons. They no sooner got a hold of them and they nuked two cities and vaporized a couple hundred thousand human beings. Oh, wait, that was us that did that. Oops! Sorry, my bad. Didnt they kill about three million people in the Vietnam War? Oh, sorry, that was us again. Gosh, I suppose now is not the time to mention that our Civil War dwarfs the current Syrian Civil War in terms of the hundreds of thousands of dead. Were still not sure how many died. Could be 400,000 or it could be 600,000 or it could be 750,000 depending on the latest figures. That means we just shoveled them into mass graves and we still dont know where those are. Yeah, they found Saddams mass graves, but the ones from our Civil War, meh, who cares? We value life. It must have made good fertilizer for corn. We have an epidemic of murder and violence in our society because the government leads people by example. But because we value life, we dont care to admit it and blame the guns instead. As if the guns just get up all by themselves and open fire. Pardon me, but the guns that wind up in the wrong hands are usually the ones the government issues. I bet we dont even know how many people our government has killed over bizarre foreign policy objectives, incoherent ideologies, and centuries-old ideas about political institutions. The idea of democracy has already killed more people in the Middle East than the dictators we were trying to or did replace. Right, they dont value life like we do. And if we have to murder everybody in the Middle East to prove that, then so be it, sayeth the United States government. Because we value life, we lock up many lives in prisons for such horrific crimes as possessing a plant. We have more people in our prisons per capita than all of those Middle Eastern nations do per capita. That shows how much we value life. We value it so much, were willing to lock it away behind bars. Whats more, our commitment to providing greater opportunities for private prisons and private military contractors demonstrates our overwhelming resolve to value life. Im sure the price-point-per-life appears on their spreadsheets when they bill the government for jailing one or removing one from the equation. Cant all you Middle Eastern people see how much we value life over here?! If you people dont learn to value life, well carpet-bomb your countries and reduce thousand-year-old cities to rubble until you do. Well station troops in your cities and barge into your homes to cart your sons off to jail where they will be taught how to value life using electric shock, waterboarding, and vicious dogs. The CIA just announced they wont waterboard people anymore. Meaning they probably changed the name to Life Valuation Training because thats how the government rolls. When the United States runs concentration camps, they call them resettlement camps or reservations. Just change the name and it all looks snazzy. Thats why we can call state-sponsored genocide valuing life and all that crap. Gosh, I sure am glad I live in a country that values life. That must be why the cops have tanks now, too. How can you affirm life without tanks, I ask you? I mean, armored personnel carriers are nice, but nothing says I love you like a tank does, right? Just paint a happy face on the turret and its all good. Indeed, they dont value life like we do. They dont love their children, cry when their mothers die, fall in love, enjoy pizza, or smile to one another. Because if we knew that and had to admit that to ourselves, we might see that the government is lying to us about these wars. And that we, not they, are the ones who do not value life. If we knew that these are human beings who want to live as much as we do, we might be compelled to make a decision: Do we value lifeor not? We cant keep blaming them for this violence anymore. Not when were part of the world that is responsible for both world wars and will probably be part of the coalition which begins the third one. Not when the United States eggs on the violence over there like its a mixed-martial arts cage match. They dont value life like we do? Huh. Do tell. Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread |
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