I come from poor people, the kind the government likes to use for cannon fodder. Viet Nam was a problem for me and my friends. No one I knew my age wanted anything to do with the military. My family doctor wouldn't give me a deferment, the little bastard said the military would be good for me. After he did that to me, I went out with his daughter for a while. Heh heh heh heh.
It was only a matter of time before I was kicked out of high school so it didn't look good. I might have had to turn Canadian or Swedish or Mexican or something. Anything other than Viet Nam or Prison bound. I wasn't going. I wasn't going to co-operate either and I never have.
You may think poorly of me for my rebellious attitude, but I'm a patriotic motherfucker,you better believe it. None of this chickenshit "my country right or wrong" whooey on my side. We know that co-operating in bullshit being foisted on our trusting people by big bloviating motherfucking killers is not required. Read our constitution and our bill of rights if you don't believe me, it says it right in there. "Fuck Richard Nixon and all his kind."
You may have to hunt for it and practice thinking for yourself a bit so if you don't see it the first time through its alright, maybe read it again. Don't forget to read the amendments too. That's the instruction manual for all the people who want to work for us Americans as "government officials". All of them.
They stopped trying to draft people two months after I turned 18. Close motherfuckers, but no ice cream for you. I didn't have to lam it and I kept my rebellious attitude. Maybe it's my best feature. I have a few friends that went to Viet Nam. They all wish they hadn't. They were just kids. They didn't know any better then. They wouldn't do it again. Not one of them.
It really sucks to have to admit it but the wrong people have been in charge here for a long time. A long time.
Yep.
ReplyDeleteThey stopped drafting people two numbers before mine in the lottery. I had decided that I would go but I would not be a good cooperative soldier. I probably would have spent some time in a military prison or something equally fucked. I'm glad I wasn't given that character building opportunity.
ReplyDeleteI was afraid of all that crap happening again during the Reagan years. Turned out the only war going then was America against itself. No draft required for wars like that.
ReplyDeleteActually Beer, America was at war with "the greatest threat facing America", Nicaragua. Those were Reagan's words. Nicaragua was a country with one escalator but it commanded the attention of Reagan's military, intelligence and economic warfare people. That was no fucking proxy war either. I knew a former mohawked punk who ended up as a LRRP in the US Army. He told me he did plenty of border crossing between Honduras and Nicaragua. A lot of those "Miskito Indians" fighting the Sandinistas were from places like Novato, California.
ReplyDeleteRight now I'd love it if they brought back the draft with no exemptions for rich kids and Senator's sons. That would end these bullshit wars real quick.
They won't, Jon. You guys forgot about our big victorious motherfucking Falklands and Panama victories, plus Ecuador and El Salvador. We had the entire Southern Cone under economic warfare. We showed them all how free market economies work though, so theres that. They're really pissed at the Americanos down there. Me too.
ReplyDeleteI remember those great victories against the domino commies too. Don't forget Grenada, the sickest of them all. Jello Biafra wrote a song with DOA about them - ignore human rights in the rest of the world, you just might lose your own. All in the name of Freedom and Liberty, of course.
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