Tuesday, August 28, 2007
ANOTHER CLOSET CASE REPUBLIKKKAN CAUGHT WITH HIS PANTS DOWN!!!
Well it dosn*t surprise me much. Hypocrisy seem to be the order of the day with these sexually repressed RepubliKKKans! They get married, have a mess of kids and vote against Gay Marriage then get caught stealing a piece of Gay cookie in the toilet or back of the White House! Oh I forgot. A TOILET and The WHITEHOUSE are the same thing these days! THE PARTY OF GOD AND ITS REPRESSED HOMOSEXUALS!!! I*ll take a fun lovin, honest DRAG QUEEN anyday, to these shameful, self loathing, repressed Gays called RepubliKKKans! Log Cabin RepubliKKKan anyone? You mean Uncle Toms Cabin full of repressed butch homosexuals? Excuse me while I VOMIT ON A JUDY GARLAND RECORD!!! That is worse than Jews supporting the Nazi Party!!! Sickening!!! And they all claim to be Christians! Christ said himself that he would rather sit at the table with PROSTITUTES than at the table with the Pharisees! And the RepubliKKKans today are the modern day Pharisees! HYPOCRITES IN THE SINAGAGMEWITHAPANCAKEFLIPPERMOGANDMAGOG, OF SATAN! Hey assholes, if you are Gay then COME OUT and be proud of it instead of dragging your sexuality thru the sewer! And no wonder you are a RepubliKKKan! Your entire life is based on LIES! Supporting a party that wants to do you harm is self loathing and down right DISGUSTING! SEIG HEIL!!! All RepubliKKKans, both repressed self loathing Gays OR , hate mongering hypocritical Christian hets, are a disgrace to thier country, their sexuality, and the entire human race! MAY YOU ALL BURN IN HELL!!! (If there is one, which I doubt.) But in this case I hope there is so you all can burn together in your own cess pool of lies, deceit, war, and murder!!! Have a nice day! x Jayne County
Wednesday, August 22, 2007
SCARY AMERIKA!!! The country goes even further into becoming a POLICE STATE!
We here at the RRARL, have withdrawn our support of the DemocratSS because of their support of King George and his shameful FASCIST spying program. Although the Dems running for Presedent voted against it, they did not fight it and that is hypocritical and cowardly! We now support the Socialist Party. So here is a short blurb from the paper *Revolution.* Read on>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> And the Democrats?
Many Democrats in the Congress backed Bush's new law. Others--including all the Democratic presidential candidates—voted against it. But the leaders of the Democratic Party knew the law had the votes to pass and made no extraordinary parliamentary moves (like a filibuster) to stop it, even though House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said the law "does violence to the Constitution."
Many people in the social base of the Democratic Party are bitter and feel betrayed. There was a flood of angry posts on pro-Democratic blogs, and Pelosi got more than 200,000 protest emails.
Breaking Out of the Road to Horror
The logic that the government needs more power to massively snoop into and spy on every detail of people’s lives to provide for their "safety" is a logic that leads to a police state. And it feeds into the logic that the way for Americans to live in “security” is more torture chambers. It leads to more banning of dissent—the same AT&T that is routing your phone calls to the government last week censored the words “George Bush, leave the world alone” out of the internet broadcast of a Pearl Jam concert. And this “security” through repression is connected to the logic that Americans’ “safety” depends on a more aggressive “war on terror” inside and outside the U.S.
Endless war and fascist repression do not make you safe. And the wars, torture, and other crimes of the U.S. rulers bring terrible suffering to the people of the world. Craig Murray, who got fired as British ambassador to Uzbekistan after speaking out against brutal torture used there by the U.S.’s “Coalition of the Willing”—declared, “I’d rather die than have someone tortured to save my life.”
As the Call from World Can't Wait (worldcantwait.org) says, "That which you do not resist and mobilize to stop, you will learn—or be forced—to accept."
Many Democrats in the Congress backed Bush's new law. Others--including all the Democratic presidential candidates—voted against it. But the leaders of the Democratic Party knew the law had the votes to pass and made no extraordinary parliamentary moves (like a filibuster) to stop it, even though House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said the law "does violence to the Constitution."
Many people in the social base of the Democratic Party are bitter and feel betrayed. There was a flood of angry posts on pro-Democratic blogs, and Pelosi got more than 200,000 protest emails.
Breaking Out of the Road to Horror
The logic that the government needs more power to massively snoop into and spy on every detail of people’s lives to provide for their "safety" is a logic that leads to a police state. And it feeds into the logic that the way for Americans to live in “security” is more torture chambers. It leads to more banning of dissent—the same AT&T that is routing your phone calls to the government last week censored the words “George Bush, leave the world alone” out of the internet broadcast of a Pearl Jam concert. And this “security” through repression is connected to the logic that Americans’ “safety” depends on a more aggressive “war on terror” inside and outside the U.S.
Endless war and fascist repression do not make you safe. And the wars, torture, and other crimes of the U.S. rulers bring terrible suffering to the people of the world. Craig Murray, who got fired as British ambassador to Uzbekistan after speaking out against brutal torture used there by the U.S.’s “Coalition of the Willing”—declared, “I’d rather die than have someone tortured to save my life.”
As the Call from World Can't Wait (worldcantwait.org) says, "That which you do not resist and mobilize to stop, you will learn—or be forced—to accept."
Saturday, August 18, 2007
Anarchist Black Cross Network: Resistance is Global
THIS IS GOOD TO READ IF YOU ARE ANTI ESTABLISHMENT OR ANTI GOV!!! READ IT IF: You are a PUNK, SOCIALIST, COMMUNIST, ANARCHIST, HIPPIE, YIPPIE, LIBERTARIAN, OR LEFT WING IN ANY WAY, OR JUST WANT TO PROTECT YOURSELF FROM OUR RIGHT WING, FASCIST LEADERS!!! J. C. Anarchist Black Cross Network: Resistance is Global
Wednesday, August 15, 2007
Monday, August 13, 2007
Monday, August 6, 2007
IS MARLYN MANSON A RACIST AND FASCIST???
Comment from Jayne County. (This is a news item I re posted. And I already know that Alice Cooper is a right wing RepubliKKKan born again Christian asshole, who thinks anyone dissagreeing with our pathetic government, should be hung!!! Mayby next time he does his phony HANG THE FREAK show, using a gallows, he will really hang himself!!! At least it*s good to know what side these old capitalist warmongerers are on!!!) When the next AmeriKan Civil War comes, I wonder which phony freak for a night will be looking down the barrell of my trusty, rusty, musket??? Here is the aritcle on heterosexual pretend to be the Anti Christ on stage but I am really just a normal guy, Marlyn Manson. ....................... Former Marilyn Manson keyboardist Stephen Gregory Bier Jr. (aka Madonna Wayne Gacy) claims that the musician has spent a huge amount of the band's money on nazi artifacts (SS typewriters, swastika wall tiles, Nazi government coat hangers owned by Adolf Hitler, a handbag that belonged to Eva Braun for Dita Von Teese), drugs (cocaine and Vicodin) and the production of the film "Phantasmagoria: The Visions of Lewis Carroll". Next to this Manson collected taxidermy models of animals, including a California grizzly and two baboons, as well as the full skeleton of a 17th-century male in a wheelchair. Manson would also have used money from the band to purchase African masks made of human skin and the full skeleton of a 4-year-old Chinese girl. Stephen Bier is seeking a compensatory of more than $20 million. Bier also says that in 2000, Manson forced the band to spend a substantial sum of money to pay a video production company to keep certain video footage out of an upcoming DVD about the band as this video footage showed Manson making racist statements and jokes about African-Americans while feeding his pet snake. And Bier is also pretty sure that Manson used band money to buy Von Teese's $150,000 engagement ring and to pay for the couple's 2005 wedding.Apparently at the time of the band's formation, when the group was still known as 'Marilyn Manson and the Spooky Kids', the founding members entered into a partnership agreement whereby all profits (and losses) from the group's album releases, tours and merch sales were shared in various proportions, with Manson getting the biggest chunk. Manson would have systematically forced the original bandmembers out, just to replace them with new musicians who did get another agreement. Fred Streithorst, Jr. (aka Sara Lee Lucas) was pestered out the band in 1995 after Manson doused his drum kit with butane during a concert, setting it on fire while Streithorst was still playing.Marilyn Manson CDs
SHAME ON THE DemocratSS!! I withdraw ALL support!
Well, that is fucking it!! I am soooooo fucking upset and angry that I could shit a guided missle straight at the White House! The fucking Democrats have stabbed us in the back! They voted to support King George Bush in his crusade to spy on Americans. They even had the nerve to give him more than he even asked for. The Dems sat there on their shitty asses and allowed themselves to be strongarmed into supporting one of the worst laws to ever be made in AmeriKKKa! I am removing all my pro Dem. pr off of ALL my blogs and My Spaces! I am WITHDRAWING from the Democratic Party and NEVER VOTING FOR THEM AGAIN! From now on I will not pussy foot around like they shamefully do! I AM VOTING SOCIALIST! Both the RepubliKKKans AND the DemocratSS CAN GO TO HELL!!! I hope the RepubliKKKans do get in again so we can have a fucking REVOLUTION in this country and send then all to the GALLOWS! HANG THEM ALL!!! We need another CIVIL WAR, and I am willing to lead the charge!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Change will come to this country one way or another!!! And WITHOUT the fucking RepubliKKKans OR the lousy, shameful, cowardly DemocratSS!! Sincerely, Jayne County (Rock and Roll Revolutionary and fucking PROUD of it!!! DemocratSS you backstabbing BASTARDS!!!!!!!
Friday, August 3, 2007
BUSH ADMINISTRATION TO SLAUGHTER WOLVES!!!
JAYNE COUNTY*S COMMENT ON THIS SICKENING ACT OF TERROR!!! King George Bush in not content to destroy the planet, murder people in Iraq and lie his way thru the GATES OF HELL, he now wants to murder innocent animals!!! What a low life PIG!!! This tyrant has to be STOPPED!!! Read on and see what this sorry excuse for a sub human has in mind for some of our most precious wildlife! Jayne County
Dear Renee,The airplanes and helicopters stand ready. The guns are loaded. And if the Bush Administration gets its way, an airborne assault on hundreds of wolves in the northern Rockies could begin as early as October. Make no mistake: we can still come to the wolf's rescue. But in this last critical week, we need to immediately ramp up our Internet campaign even further to get more Americans to submit online Citizen Comments -- while the Bush Administration is still required to take public input on its cruel plan for slaughtering wolves. With your support that's exactly what we're going to do. Please make an online contribution right now so the NRDC Action Fund can rally hundreds of thousands of Americans against wolf extermination before the crucial August 6 deadline. Donate now We are arming the media with the damning facts of the Bush Administration's cold-blooded plan... organizing key opposition in both Houses of Congress...and reaching out to millions of Americans who haven't yet heard that wolves will soon be caught in a deadly crossfire.Let's face it: most Americans would be outraged to discover that our own government plans to gun down the greatest living symbol of endangered wildlife. And they would be horrified to learn that airplanes and helicopters have already been purchased to do the job of mowing down packs of wolves in a matter of minutes. But most Americans won't know any of this unless we get them the facts...and empower them with an easy way to register their opposition on the Internet in a matter of seconds. Your gift will help us build a tidal wave of protest against the Bush Administration's wolf-killing plan -- and greatly increase the odds that the "Open Fire" order will NOT be given come this October. Please help give wolves a reprieve by making an online contribution right now. With one final week left, we need to harness the immediacy and power of the Internet to mobilize America in defense of wolves. It's their last, best hope for survival. Sincerely,Frances Beinecke PresidentNRDC Action Fund
Dear Renee,The airplanes and helicopters stand ready. The guns are loaded. And if the Bush Administration gets its way, an airborne assault on hundreds of wolves in the northern Rockies could begin as early as October. Make no mistake: we can still come to the wolf's rescue. But in this last critical week, we need to immediately ramp up our Internet campaign even further to get more Americans to submit online Citizen Comments -- while the Bush Administration is still required to take public input on its cruel plan for slaughtering wolves. With your support that's exactly what we're going to do. Please make an online contribution right now so the NRDC Action Fund can rally hundreds of thousands of Americans against wolf extermination before the crucial August 6 deadline. Donate now We are arming the media with the damning facts of the Bush Administration's cold-blooded plan... organizing key opposition in both Houses of Congress...and reaching out to millions of Americans who haven't yet heard that wolves will soon be caught in a deadly crossfire.Let's face it: most Americans would be outraged to discover that our own government plans to gun down the greatest living symbol of endangered wildlife. And they would be horrified to learn that airplanes and helicopters have already been purchased to do the job of mowing down packs of wolves in a matter of minutes. But most Americans won't know any of this unless we get them the facts...and empower them with an easy way to register their opposition on the Internet in a matter of seconds. Your gift will help us build a tidal wave of protest against the Bush Administration's wolf-killing plan -- and greatly increase the odds that the "Open Fire" order will NOT be given come this October. Please help give wolves a reprieve by making an online contribution right now. With one final week left, we need to harness the immediacy and power of the Internet to mobilize America in defense of wolves. It's their last, best hope for survival. Sincerely,Frances Beinecke PresidentNRDC Action Fund
He*s The Universal Soldier And He Really Is To Blame, His Orders Come From Far Away Nomore!!!
YOU CANNOT SUPPORT THE TROOPS FIGHTING AN UNJUST WAR. By Bob Avakian.
Whose War? Whose Troops?You Can't Support Troops Waging An Unjust War! There's a lot of talk about who does, and who doesn't, support the troops these days. It's one thing for George Bush and the leaders of the Republicans and Democrats to say they support the troops. Particularly those Democrats who say they oppose the war but support the troops are trying to corral the antiwar sentiment of people—to prevent people from confronting what is really going on over there, and beyond that the real role and character of the army and the troops who fight in it. There are also people who genuinely oppose the war, but who also say I support the troops. Many of these people approach this from a personal point of view. They have relatives, friends, or people they know in the military. Some people feel these troops should be supported because many of them were drawn into joining the military because there is so little opportunity for employment or education for so many people in U.S. society today. But that isn't the heart of the matter. To determine whether you should or shouldn't support the troops, you have to look at what these troops are doing and decide whether that deserves your support. These soldiers are part of the U.S. military. The war they are fighting in Iraq is aimed at maintaining and extending U.S. domination in the Middle East and around the world. This is an unjust and immoral war. Look at what it comes down to for the people of Iraq. From the very beginning, the U.S. military has rained death and destruction on the Iraqi people. They've killed many, many people and created conditions in which many, many more have been slaughtered in violence pitting Sunnis, Shiites and Kurds against each other. U.S. troops flattened the city of Falluja, driving virtually the entire population out in order to take the city back from the those resisting the U.S. occupation. They routinely call in air strikes on Iraqi villages and urban areas, killing innocent Iraqis. U.S. troops set up checkpoints and raid people's homes, subjecting people to harassment and brutality on a regular basis. While carrying out this occupation, some U.S. troops have raped Iraqi women and just outright murdered people. What about any of this deserves the support of anybody who opposes this unjust war? Some who oppose the war try to deal with the contradiction involved here by saying, "I support the warrior, not the war." But how can you separate the troops from what they are doing? Bob Avakian has raised the point that if you came upon a woman who was being attacked and raped by a gang of men, would you say, 'I support the rapists, not the rape?' Or if you encountered a mob of racists lynching a Black person, would you say, 'I support the lynchers, not the lynching?' Of course not. You'd say these people are doing something heinous, and I can't support them. Well the war that U.S. troops are waging in Iraq is also heinous, and it, and the troops who are carrying it out don't deserve the support of anybody who cares about justice! I know that these GIs are largely drawn from the working class and oppressed people. But that doesn't matter—it doesn't mean that we should support them. Nor does it matter if they think that what they're doing is defending their country. What matters is that they ARE a part of inflicting untold suffering on the Iraqi people in order to enforce U.S. imperialist domination. If you're in the U.S. military, you have to take responsibility for what it's doing, and troops who are responsible for the kinds of things the U.S. military is doing in Iraq and elsewhere don't deserve the support of anybody who is concerned about what's just and right. The fact that their fundamental interests aren't served by the plundering and raping of Iraq and other countries the U.S. rulers have them carrying out makes it doubly painful and all the more necessary to struggle with them over where their real interests lie. When I talk about this, I'm dealing with something that I've been through. I was in the U.S. military back during the Vietnam war. The U.S. rulers put a gun in my hands, trained me how to use it and ordered me to go to Vietnam—to kill Vietnamese people and maybe be killed myself. I didn't know what the Vietnam war was about when I got drafted into the army, or when I got the orders to go to Vietnam. But I had to quickly find out what it was about because I had to decide whether it was something I should or could be a part of. There was a huge movement against the war in Vietnam back then, and many involved in it were saying this was an imperialist war that was aimed at drowning the liberation struggle of the Vietnamese people in blood. Groups like the Black Panther Party were saying that Black people had no business fighting for the U.S. in Vietnam while Black people were having dogs sicked on them here in the U.S. while fighting for their rights. I became convinced that this was true off of talking to a lot of GIs who had been in Vietnam fighting. They told me about atrocities committed against Vietnamese people that they had seen and some of them had even been a part of. About how they were trained to look at the Vietnamese people as a whole—men, women, and even children—as the enemy. I learned that things like the My Lai massacre, where U.S. troops destroyed a village and murdered many of its inhabitants—most of whom were women, children, and old men—because they suspected they supported the Vietnamese liberation fighters, was a routine occurrence. That the U.S. military frequently "destroyed the village in order to save the village." That U.S. troops called in air strikes on villages if they THOUGHT they were being fired at from the direction of that village. That they killed Vietnamese people indiscriminately and raped women. I recalled that back in basic training our drill sergeants had fed us stories about the horrible things Vietnamese liberation fighters would do. They said they'd put a grenade in a baby carriage and blow up the baby to kill U.S. GIs. The drill sergeants would call Vietnamese people gooks, dinks and slopes non-stop. They were getting us ready to be part of the U.S. imperialist killing machine that could rain death and destruction indiscriminately on Vietnamese people in order to keep U.S. global domination in effect back then. I also learned that there were U.S. GIs who were resisting this war from inside the military. Some units marched off in the opposite direction from where they thought the Vietnamese rebels were. Other units just flat out refused to fight, and some GIs even fragged officers who tried to make them fight. This helped me to learn that the war in Vietnam was a war to suppress the struggle of an oppressed people to free their country from imperialist domination. And that it was a war that anyone who believed in justice shouldn't support and shouldn't be a part of fighting. Off of this, I was able to develop the strength to refuse to go to Vietnam. I did two years in Leavenworth Military Penitentiary for taking this stand. Faced with this situation all over again, I'd take the same stand. What was really criminal was the war, and refusing to fight in it was the right thing to do. The war in Iraq isn't a rerun of the war in Vietnam, but just like that war, this one is a war for empire. It's an unjust, immoral war. People shouldn't want to be a part of such a war, and people shouldn't be supporting the troops who are fighting this war. What are these troops doing that deserves the support of anybody who believes in justice? Nothing—not a damn thing! There are U.S. soldiers who deserve the support of everyone who opposes injustice. Those who have spoken out against the war, those who have refused to go to Iraq and those who have resisted the war in other ways. They are doing the right thing, and they deserve our support. And what do all the troops really need from those of us who know this war is wrong? Again let me draw from my experience. I didn't get the understanding and inspiration to refuse to go to Vietnam because people expressed support for the troops. I was able to do that because people told the truth about the war in Vietnam. And because the people protesting the war and the GIs who rebelled against it from inside the military challenged me through their actions to do the right thing. Today's troops need the same thing that I needed back then. They need to hear the truth about the war they're being sent off to be a part of in Iraq—that it's an unjust war, a war for empire. They need to be challenged to take off their blinders and look straight at the atrocities the U.S. is inflicting on the Iraqi people and that they are being ordered to be a part of. And they need to be challenged to do the right thing today, just like I was challenged to do the right thing back during the Vietnam War.
Whose War? Whose Troops?You Can't Support Troops Waging An Unjust War! There's a lot of talk about who does, and who doesn't, support the troops these days. It's one thing for George Bush and the leaders of the Republicans and Democrats to say they support the troops. Particularly those Democrats who say they oppose the war but support the troops are trying to corral the antiwar sentiment of people—to prevent people from confronting what is really going on over there, and beyond that the real role and character of the army and the troops who fight in it. There are also people who genuinely oppose the war, but who also say I support the troops. Many of these people approach this from a personal point of view. They have relatives, friends, or people they know in the military. Some people feel these troops should be supported because many of them were drawn into joining the military because there is so little opportunity for employment or education for so many people in U.S. society today. But that isn't the heart of the matter. To determine whether you should or shouldn't support the troops, you have to look at what these troops are doing and decide whether that deserves your support. These soldiers are part of the U.S. military. The war they are fighting in Iraq is aimed at maintaining and extending U.S. domination in the Middle East and around the world. This is an unjust and immoral war. Look at what it comes down to for the people of Iraq. From the very beginning, the U.S. military has rained death and destruction on the Iraqi people. They've killed many, many people and created conditions in which many, many more have been slaughtered in violence pitting Sunnis, Shiites and Kurds against each other. U.S. troops flattened the city of Falluja, driving virtually the entire population out in order to take the city back from the those resisting the U.S. occupation. They routinely call in air strikes on Iraqi villages and urban areas, killing innocent Iraqis. U.S. troops set up checkpoints and raid people's homes, subjecting people to harassment and brutality on a regular basis. While carrying out this occupation, some U.S. troops have raped Iraqi women and just outright murdered people. What about any of this deserves the support of anybody who opposes this unjust war? Some who oppose the war try to deal with the contradiction involved here by saying, "I support the warrior, not the war." But how can you separate the troops from what they are doing? Bob Avakian has raised the point that if you came upon a woman who was being attacked and raped by a gang of men, would you say, 'I support the rapists, not the rape?' Or if you encountered a mob of racists lynching a Black person, would you say, 'I support the lynchers, not the lynching?' Of course not. You'd say these people are doing something heinous, and I can't support them. Well the war that U.S. troops are waging in Iraq is also heinous, and it, and the troops who are carrying it out don't deserve the support of anybody who cares about justice! I know that these GIs are largely drawn from the working class and oppressed people. But that doesn't matter—it doesn't mean that we should support them. Nor does it matter if they think that what they're doing is defending their country. What matters is that they ARE a part of inflicting untold suffering on the Iraqi people in order to enforce U.S. imperialist domination. If you're in the U.S. military, you have to take responsibility for what it's doing, and troops who are responsible for the kinds of things the U.S. military is doing in Iraq and elsewhere don't deserve the support of anybody who is concerned about what's just and right. The fact that their fundamental interests aren't served by the plundering and raping of Iraq and other countries the U.S. rulers have them carrying out makes it doubly painful and all the more necessary to struggle with them over where their real interests lie. When I talk about this, I'm dealing with something that I've been through. I was in the U.S. military back during the Vietnam war. The U.S. rulers put a gun in my hands, trained me how to use it and ordered me to go to Vietnam—to kill Vietnamese people and maybe be killed myself. I didn't know what the Vietnam war was about when I got drafted into the army, or when I got the orders to go to Vietnam. But I had to quickly find out what it was about because I had to decide whether it was something I should or could be a part of. There was a huge movement against the war in Vietnam back then, and many involved in it were saying this was an imperialist war that was aimed at drowning the liberation struggle of the Vietnamese people in blood. Groups like the Black Panther Party were saying that Black people had no business fighting for the U.S. in Vietnam while Black people were having dogs sicked on them here in the U.S. while fighting for their rights. I became convinced that this was true off of talking to a lot of GIs who had been in Vietnam fighting. They told me about atrocities committed against Vietnamese people that they had seen and some of them had even been a part of. About how they were trained to look at the Vietnamese people as a whole—men, women, and even children—as the enemy. I learned that things like the My Lai massacre, where U.S. troops destroyed a village and murdered many of its inhabitants—most of whom were women, children, and old men—because they suspected they supported the Vietnamese liberation fighters, was a routine occurrence. That the U.S. military frequently "destroyed the village in order to save the village." That U.S. troops called in air strikes on villages if they THOUGHT they were being fired at from the direction of that village. That they killed Vietnamese people indiscriminately and raped women. I recalled that back in basic training our drill sergeants had fed us stories about the horrible things Vietnamese liberation fighters would do. They said they'd put a grenade in a baby carriage and blow up the baby to kill U.S. GIs. The drill sergeants would call Vietnamese people gooks, dinks and slopes non-stop. They were getting us ready to be part of the U.S. imperialist killing machine that could rain death and destruction indiscriminately on Vietnamese people in order to keep U.S. global domination in effect back then. I also learned that there were U.S. GIs who were resisting this war from inside the military. Some units marched off in the opposite direction from where they thought the Vietnamese rebels were. Other units just flat out refused to fight, and some GIs even fragged officers who tried to make them fight. This helped me to learn that the war in Vietnam was a war to suppress the struggle of an oppressed people to free their country from imperialist domination. And that it was a war that anyone who believed in justice shouldn't support and shouldn't be a part of fighting. Off of this, I was able to develop the strength to refuse to go to Vietnam. I did two years in Leavenworth Military Penitentiary for taking this stand. Faced with this situation all over again, I'd take the same stand. What was really criminal was the war, and refusing to fight in it was the right thing to do. The war in Iraq isn't a rerun of the war in Vietnam, but just like that war, this one is a war for empire. It's an unjust, immoral war. People shouldn't want to be a part of such a war, and people shouldn't be supporting the troops who are fighting this war. What are these troops doing that deserves the support of anybody who believes in justice? Nothing—not a damn thing! There are U.S. soldiers who deserve the support of everyone who opposes injustice. Those who have spoken out against the war, those who have refused to go to Iraq and those who have resisted the war in other ways. They are doing the right thing, and they deserve our support. And what do all the troops really need from those of us who know this war is wrong? Again let me draw from my experience. I didn't get the understanding and inspiration to refuse to go to Vietnam because people expressed support for the troops. I was able to do that because people told the truth about the war in Vietnam. And because the people protesting the war and the GIs who rebelled against it from inside the military challenged me through their actions to do the right thing. Today's troops need the same thing that I needed back then. They need to hear the truth about the war they're being sent off to be a part of in Iraq—that it's an unjust war, a war for empire. They need to be challenged to take off their blinders and look straight at the atrocities the U.S. is inflicting on the Iraqi people and that they are being ordered to be a part of. And they need to be challenged to do the right thing today, just like I was challenged to do the right thing back during the Vietnam War.
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