This post here is related so much to what I have been going over and over. I have read the constitution in regards to the use of the military and it has bothered me for years what has been done with the use of our military as a security/mercenary force for corporate and elite greed. As far as I can tell it was only meant as a defence in protecting the country itself! How and who got away with changing this I do not know. I do know if we gain control back of our military this whole shit show goes down the toilet! This is a must that has to be done. I have stated on democrats sites that our military is being used by the rich to get richer using the blood of the poor and they give a smug response "that's a new spin on it" etc. There is a large percentage of people in this country who are too embedded in the system to ever wake up. I fear that the use of the enemy to fight your enemies has done its work completely with those people. They would send their own children to die.
When Eisenhower gave his MIC address shortly before he left office, the military was already a tool of corporate prerogatives. Are you familiar with Smedley Butler? His biography is the story of the illegitimate deployment of soldiers for corporate interests. He wrote, “... I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism.” His story is real history that doesn’t appear in HS textbooks.
I followed this link and I actually remembered seeing some reference to him some time back. I see the "New York Times" was a rag clear back then! They dismissed his claim that he was approached by the elite to do a coup as "a laughable hoax". I see that clear back that far our military was being used for corporate security! Well the time for this shit to stop is now! We need to put the control of our children's and family members lives back in our control not some greedy psychopaths! We need to put together a demand letter and order these politicians to make it happen on their way out because they will not do shit unless We The People force them!
This post here is related so much to what I have been going over and over. I have read the constitution in regards to the use of the military and it has bothered me for years what has been done with the use of our military as a security/mercenary force for corporate and elite greed. As far as I can tell it was only meant as a defence in protecting the country itself! How and who got away with changing this I do not know. I do know if we gain control back of our military this whole shit show goes down the toilet! This is a must that has to be done. I have stated on democrats sites that our military is being used by the rich to get richer using the blood of the poor and they give a smug response "that's a new spin on it" etc. There is a large percentage of people in this country who are too embedded in the system to ever wake up. I fear that the use of the enemy to fight your enemies has done its work completely with those people. They would send their own children to die.
When Eisenhower gave his MIC address shortly before he left office, the military was already a tool of corporate prerogatives. Are you familiar with Smedley Butler? His biography is the story of the illegitimate deployment of soldiers for corporate interests. He wrote, “... I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism.” His story is real history that doesn’t appear in HS textbooks.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smedley_Butler
Smedley Butler's "War Is a Racket" is an important read.
To be followed up with Randolph Bourne's "The State" essay, 1918. 'War is the health of the State'.
I followed this link and I actually remembered seeing some reference to him some time back. I see the "New York Times" was a rag clear back then! They dismissed his claim that he was approached by the elite to do a coup as "a laughable hoax". I see that clear back that far our military was being used for corporate security! Well the time for this shit to stop is now! We need to put the control of our children's and family members lives back in our control not some greedy psychopaths! We need to put together a demand letter and order these politicians to make it happen on their way out because they will not do shit unless We The People force them!