Publisher’s Note: I published this last November and it certainly rings true for the second holiday during the year when we celebrate the use of war and violence to advance the agenda of the American Federal government around the globe. We are asked to bow our heads in honor of the dead and wounded who gave their service for freedom.
Call me a skeptic. Individual citizens have never been in graver danger of being fined, kidnapped, caged, maimed and killed by their own government for the most banal of violations or infractions against the imperial power that has wrapped its tentacles around every living soul in the land of the free. The export of extraterritorial violence does not make a country free, it puts every inhabitant in the hazard as the entire planet has factions enraged, women and children savaged and murdered and entire religious sects chosen for special military attention.
The celebration of Memorial Day should not be about the soldiery, it should be a mass wake and reflection on the untold millions of innocents detained, kidnapped, injured, napalmed, fire-bombed, incinerated, shot, mutilated, tortured and murdered by the barbaric and naked grasping of the American central government for ever-increasing power and control at home and abroad. -BB
“Happy Veterans Day and thank you for your service” or “thanks for protecting our freedom.”
What! I hear this familiar refrain again and again every November. I am appalled whenever this unthinking salutation is proffered.
I am a retired career Army officer and like USMC General Smedley Butler before me, I find these sentiments to be hogwash.
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Biscari Massacre in WWII by U.S. of German/Italian POWs
Interesting perspective.
ReplyDeleteHard to fault General Butler.
ReplyDeleteNo way that photo is of the "Biscari Massacre." There were a couple of separate incidents according to Wiki, and there were about 70 POWs murdered in total.
ReplyDeletehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biscari_Massacre
That picture above shows a helluva lot more than 70 bodies, and they look like they are emaciated and wearing Nazi concentration camp garb.
I'm not saying the Biscari Massacre didn't happen, or that it wasn't wrong, but the accompanying photo and caption is disingenuous, misleading, and most likely flat-out wrong.
I'm calling BS.
Nice propagandizing on Zero's part.
That picture above shows a helluva lot more than 70 bodies
ReplyDeleteGood point. I had wondered about the same thing. I just tried searching for a picture and so far have come up short.
Checking Wiki and wonder why he used the picture when there is one of another incident?
ReplyDeletehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_crimes_committed_by_the_United_States
The "Dachau massacre" involved the killing of German prisoners of war and surrendering SS soldiers at the Dachau concentration camp.[13]
Large picture
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7e/Dachau_execution_coalyard_1945-04-29.jpg/1280px-Dachau_execution_coalyard_1945-04-29.jpg
The victors write the history... and whitewash their own atrocities. Propaganda 101: Always make sure you come out squeaky clean and demonize your enemies.
ReplyDeleteHell, every "patriot" ought to know that!
Stop being a bunch of towel-heads! You know THEY all want to kill you.
Gentlemen,
ReplyDeletePhoto error corrected and I have simply placed a nicely burned out photo of Tokyo after the firebombing of civilians. It goes to show that I have to be more careful because I saw the same imbalance in the photo for numbers on the Biscari massacre but simply forgot about it. I loved the way Patton gave the same admonition we hear today to make it look like something it wasn't.
Bill Buppert