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journal-march 17/03

canadian_vegetariancanadian_vegetarian Posts: 7
edited March 2004 in Poetry, Prose, Music & Art
What is it that drives peopel to kill for power? i mean, how much power can you really have if you are only standing over a bunch of bodies in a wasteland you have created? how much satisfaction can possibly be derived from it? i dont know. i will never understand war. and i will never understand how a nation that runs anti bullying campaigns and teaches children to solve their problems with words and not actions can turn around and do the exact opposite. not only does that show children that their government cant be trusted, it shows them that adults do not live by the rules they make. and how can children be expected to live by any rules if the adults who create those rules do not live by them? it is so sad to me, this world we have presented to our children. they are so innocent and beautiful, yet we continue to corrupt them by showing them the double standard of humanity called adulthood.
...10 000 civiilains will die on the first day. the war is supposed to be for the benefit of the civilians themselves, but apparently 10 000 or more will have to die for a cause they did not ask to join. for these people, maybe the dead ones are the ones who will be free....
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  • Medicated-GeniusMedicated-Genius Posts: 359
    The way I see it, children learn by example. The do as I say dont do as I do thing just never works. Generation after generation after generation of children are led by the example of what acceptable within thier own society. Alter the examples, and things might change a little.
  • EvilToasterElfEvilToasterElf Posts: 1,119
    Kindergarten classes aren't run by people starving and poisoning their class
  • Medicated-GeniusMedicated-Genius Posts: 359
    Kid's see images of war every day. They see the class system, they see shoddy politicians lining thier own pockets. They're immersed in it, we all are.
  • FinsburyParkCarrotsFinsburyParkCarrots Posts: 12,223
    Originally posted by canadian_vegetarian:

    The war is supposed to be for the benefit of the civilians themselves, but apparently 10 000 or more will have to die for a cause they did not ask to join.

    Yes, in order to see how governments decide the best interests of the people in spite of their dissent, one only needs to look at how in strike situations such as the UK Coal Mining dispute of 1984, the army and police defended the bourgeois classes with the ownership of the means of material production, over the workforce; or, in 2003, how a couple of days before two million people marched peacefully through London one Saturday afternoon, tanks and armed soldiers were placed around Heathrow airport in some "terror" ruse to scare off demonstrators. In the UK, the military aren't employed to defend free speech at home, they're employed to discourage it: the historical facts support my argument.

    Some soldiers I speak to conscientiously reserve doubts about the war; others just obey their oaths.
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