"Militarism...is fetish worship..."

 came across this old porcupine with some bullet holes in it...

so i was contemplating the societal implications of organized crime families and of course the clan of     'BROTHERS' came to mind...you know the people who have "served their country" and now they have decided to squeeze a little more out of citizens......some instances of this organized shakedown of the public come to mind....when  was working on supply boats in the oil field in the gulf of mexico we had some high seas and the waves ripped  some of the deck-boards off of the  back deck...so the captain calls a company to replace them and a fellow "brother" comes out and replaces the two boards which are pretty big and pricy at 20 feet long and 18 inches wide and 3 inches thick...when this "brother" presents the captain with the bill  and leaves the captain asks me how many boards were replaced and I say two and he says he was charged with three boards...but he is a "brother" so he don't say nuthin...once two "brothers" came on a boat I was on and are going to repair the dynamic positioning system and after a couple of days it occurs to the captain that they were milking the clock and he realizes that the problem was fixed on the first day and then they just flip the switch to off and waited...the captain threatened to call the coast guard and have them removed from the boat if they didn't get off...this sort of thing happens all the time and the "brother mafia" have decided that they want to utilize their veteran status to shake down people...I have been on public property that the "brothers" consider themselves to have extra rights to...serious mistake...this encroachment of the veterans mafia and the apparent lack of concern by the justice department will lead to a mafia state...which is well under way...In Iran there is the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps or IRGC which are the enemy of most Iranians...most Iranians hate and fear them...yet they still resist and protest despite being tortured and killed...bravery in the face of tyranny...people have to speak out against the illegitimate use of power to suppress speech and the use of intimidation...because tyranny is like a cancer and grows if left unchallenged...and I dont think the American public realize how many gangsters there are willing to snatch material goods and property from the public... 

now I know that some people will think that perhaps I have a particular dislike of the military which is not the case...I recently picked up a DVD called "The Greatest Generation" which I kind of find the title offensive...there is an interview with a fellow named Ed Wasil who is described as a P38 bomber pilot 20th fighter group out of England. He says with some glee that if they had enough fuel after a bombing run they would strafe the civilians and if they saw a woman pushing a stroller with a child they would strafe her too because "she was the enemy"...which I suppose could be called "the fog of war"...or "moral disengagement"...I think the people who have recently had to do battle with ISIS are every bit as "great" as the WW2 military and ISIS is as evil as the Nazi system...maybe more so....the Nazis were a governmental system ISIS is a religious based system...seriously dangerous...I heard an interview with the head of the joint chief of staff General Mark Milley who explained that a person working for the military takes an oath...not to the military or any government official but to the constitution of the United States...and that is where their loyalty must remain...and I think any person who knowingly violates the constitution should be refused any financial support by the government...a mr P.J. ORourke said in an essay that it is essential that "the people with the money and the people with the guns must never be the same people"...it may be too late for that...the gun goobers are proliferating...and just to put it in perspective 40% of the guns in civilian hands on this planet are in the USA which has 5% of the population...we be armed...not always a good thing...especially when you consider that there are really people who think Que and on and on and on is a legitimate  source of  accurate information...there is too much access to accurate information to for people to be so intellectually lazy as to believe poppy cock and drivel.  

"Militarism...is fetish worship. It is the prostration of men's (and women's) souls and the laceration of their bodies to appease an idol." A.W. Tawney "The Acquisitive Society"