yeki:
based on reading your previous posts i have a feeling that if it ever did go south, and we were in the same area when it happened, we'd both be shooting in the same direction, not in opposition.
alpine & neph: you guys forget though, that sean penn got there in less than a day, after saying on ET or some place like that that he was gonna do just that. i remember the video, he was carrying a baseball bat or something, right?
also please don't compare this to katrina, that was so inept that its bound to make ppl fall asleep in the most comfortable way, and as funny as the notion is, i'm actually serious bout this one.
ewk: i'll be as polite to you as you were to me; back off.
I took the oath too, to protect this country, against ALL enemies, both foreign AND domestic, tyvm. My MOS was 31 Nov. I did my basic at Ft. Jackson, and my ait at Ft. Gordon, the rest is my business. now as to your points.
so, it is alright for the finest young men &women, & their leaders to be deployed thousnands of miles from home & their loved ones, & to fight with courage & bravery for your butt, some at the ultimate cost of their lives, others being horribly wounded for the rest of their lives, & others battling psychological trauma from the horrors of war, but yet you cry foul , when they may assist here at home in your safety, how dare you.
yes, how dare i actually expect the constituition be upheld by my government. this kind of thing is SUPPOSSED to be handled by the states, not the feds. and last time i checked, the guard and the cops are here to "protect and serve" last time i checked the milatary's function is still to kill ppl and break things. difference? yeah.
may i remind you, that the military never acts apart from YOUR electd civilain leaders. the military is not an independent , self governing force, nor are they some radical group oppsed to the united states constitution, they never declare war, they never go to war, NEVER, except by the command of a civilian .
my civilian leaders are held in the lowest contempt in the HISTORY of this country! congress has what, a 13% approval rating? that's lower than bush! and don't even start me on that whole "not oppossed to the constituition" trip. we haven't declared war LEGALLY since ww2, but that didn't stop them from going now did it? our armed forces are governed by MEN, more importantly, men in a sinful state, which, last time i checked MY bible, makes them under the control of whom? thats right, the god of this world.
i was a state law enforcement officer for years, & there were many times that having an agency as large as the military, with the resources & the skilled personnel , would have been a tremendous aide. you, have watched one to many goofy hollywood films, get a grip.
i see the patriot act, i see the suspension of habeus corpus, i see the president have the legal authority to declare anyone an "enemy combatant, and dissapear without a trial. i see illegal wiretaping, with no warrant, i see TSA agents making 80 year old women take off their shoes, cause "they might be terrorists", yet not have the common sense (due to political correctness) not to do any profiling. i see us citizens being put on a "watch list". i saw the way the police handled protestors at the RNC & DNC this summer. (yes there were some protestors, but i also saw a number of ppl from the press get arrested. you don't suppress the press! and you're telling me that i need to get a grip? PFFFFFFFFFTTTTTT.
i now work for the united states army, working with the unit that trains the 187th. military police corps, & these young men & women bring tears to my eyes, & make my heart swell with pride at the steady resolve they have in being willing to lay down their life for you, you owe them an apology for your post.
no, actually you owe me an apology for your post, because i have nothing against my country's soldiers, save one thing: the government doesn't let them do their job properly, they (feds) always tie their hands. we could've been out of iraq in 2 weeks had they let them take the gloves off. (if anyone doubts me, look what Gen. Blackjack Pershing did in the philipines with islamic terrorists in the 1880's, and see what happened.) we could, and should have done that.
but more importantly, i find it very insidious, that instead of "helping" it's citizens, this force may very well be ordered to fire upon its own citizens. don't you question the timing of all this? they come over here amidst a recession, the story itself was BURIED, because of hillary and obama, and you think they're over here to help WHY? because that's what the press release said?!
do you often believe everything you read?
the next time, & there have many so far during this engagement, when the streets here at ft. leanord wood are lined with soldiers as they salute the flag draped casket of a fallen hero as they are slowly driven past us, i will thank them for you, & ask them to forgive you, as you obviously don't know what your doing.
i have already done that, MANY times. My grandfather was shot down in korea, behind enemy lines, and my old man was a ranger. and unlike you, i don't believe everything my government tells me.
one last thing, it would do you well to remember exactly how this country was founded. it wasn't done by sheeple being good lil boys and girls, obeying everything their government told them to do now was it? funny how the definition for the word "patriot" has changed in 200 years now huh?
good day.
