I've written on a similar topic before, and it is a little against the
grain of popular commentary, but the quote along the lines of
"don't attribute to malice that which can be explained by stupidity"
comes to mind.
I had an interesting week, which brought this into focus for me. I wrote
before on this blog about the fact that I still serve in the US Army
Reserves, which means that I have to be careful
about political comments; the best example being the political office of
President also being one and the same with Commander in Chief, thus
leaving me open to disciplinary action under UCMJ if I was to be too
disparaging about the current incumbent.
When I wrote before, it was about my experiences in the US Military and
never really coming across anyone or anything in my unit
that would suggest we were suddenly about to become bad guys and go and
fight the American public That does not mean that I don't believe such a
thing could happen, witness my book 'Patriot Dawn: The Resistance Rises'
for an example of what I think about that. How about the guy this last
weekend, who had an Obama-Biden sticker on his laptop, and happened
to be black. Does he really know what this means and where we
are potentially going as a country, or is he just an ignorant sheep
voting along emotive lines for what he feels is best?
One of the things I want to say is don't just make assumptions
that because someone works for the government or the military, or an
agency, that they are the bad guy. We are obviously going in bad
directions at top policy levels and there are many who are, or have
the potential to be, stooges But not all, and life is too complicated
to make broad assumptions.
So here are a few things that happened to me recently, that made me question assumptions a little:
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