Morality issues, facts, and the grim results of War.
In addition; What's wrong with America &
Commercialism?
Written by: Michael Smith Sept. 2007 and
Updated June 2012
(Part
1)
*Below quotes are
copyrighted and were written by Michael Smith.
04-30-08
"Never forgive our tyrants, whether they be Gods or Man.
Nor should we forget our ignorance for ever believing in them."
(MS)
"Religion is the epitome of mans inability to accept responsibility
for itself"
(MS)
Patriotism is believing that your country is
the best
simply because you were born there.
After the French were defeated
in 1954, Vietnam was split in two - the north was Communist, led by Ho
Chi Minh, and the south was Capitalist under Ngo Dinh Diem. Diem's
regime in S. Vietnam received billions of dollars from the US but
remained deeply unpopular with most Vietnamese people.
The US prevented the elections
that were promised under the Geneva conference because it knew that
the Communists would win. Vietnamese Buddhist monks
protested against American involvement by self-immolation.
Operation Phoenix was organized
by the CIA. This led to the arrest and murder of thousands of
Communists in the south. First the US sent in military advisers, then
President Johnson sent in troops in huge numbers.
Photos of The Men You Die For When
Joining The US Military
Watch the below Video of "American
Imperialism"
Vietnam, the CIA's Illegal Drug Trafficking, and JFK's Assassination:
The Golden Triangle
So much for the fairy tale of
American honor! The 30 year war and CIA Vietnam involvement was for
control of the Golden Triangle drug trade. The Golden Triangle is one
of Asia's two main illicit opium-producing areas. It is an area of
around 350,000 square kilometres that overlaps the mountains of four
countries of Southeast Asia: Myanmar (Burma), Vietnam, Laos, and
Thailand. (Other interpretations of the Golden Triangle also include a
section of Yunnan Province, China.) Along with Afghanistan in the
Golden Crescent and Pakistan, it has been one of the most extensive
opium-producing areas of Asia and of the world since the 1950s. The
Golden Triangle also designates the confluence of the Ruak River and
the Mekong river, since the term has been appropriated by the Thai
tourist industry to describe the nearby junction of Thailand, Laos,
and Burma.
An Overview of
Michael Collins Piper's "Final Judgment"
by Victor Thorn
*Perhaps the biggest secret of
the Vietnam War is that our Central Intelligence Agency seized control
of the infamous Golden Triangle during that time period, then, along
with assistance from various elements of Organized Crime, shipped huge
amounts of heroin out of that area into our country. Because piles of
money were being made from this practice, and many others, those who
stood to profit from this horrendous war – the armament manufacturers,
bankers, military men, and drug dealers – were met by any suggestion
to withdraw from Vietnam with immediate consternation. But that’s
exactly what John F. Kennedy intended to do upon re-election. In fact,
he had already planned on telling the American people that their
troops would be back home by 1965. Think about this momentous decision
for a moment. If we had exited Vietnam by 1965, EIGHT years of
bloodshed in the jungles and civil unrest on America’s streets and
campuses could have been alleviated...not to mention the drugging of
our society...the extensive drug networks, the rise in violence, as
well as the lost of all possible control of our government's band of
contemptuous war mongering criminals...
“Kennedy’s intended
change in Vietnam policy – his plan to unilaterally withdraw from the
imbroglio – infuriated not only the CIA but elements in the Pentagon
and their allies in the military-industrial-complex. By this time, of
course, the Lansky Syndicate had already set-up international heroin
running from Southeast Asia through the CIA-linked Corsican Mafia in
the Mediterranean. The joint Lansky-CIA operations in the
international drug racket were a lucrative venture that thrived as a
consequence of deep U.S. involvement in Southeast Asia as a cover for
drug smuggling activities.”
In his masterfully
detailed book, Piper’s simple one-paragraph explanation may be the
most concise overview of the Vietnam War ever written. The military
men and defense contractors were making out like bandits from the War
Machine, while the CIA crooks and Lansky-led Mobsters (via Santo
Traficante as the major wheeler-dealer) were likewise padding their
pockets. Author Peter Dale Scott, in Deep Politics and the Death of
JFK, said of this phenomenon, “The flood of drugs into this country
since WWII was one of the major ‘unspeakable’ secrets leading to the
ongoing cover-up of the Kennedy assassination.”
To provide a broader
perspective on this situation, Professor Alfred McCoy stated in The
Politics of Heroin, “Since the prohibition of narcotics in 1920,
alliances between drug brokers and intelligence agencies have
protected the global narcotics traffic. Given the frequency of such
alliances, there seems a natural attraction between intelligence
agencies and criminal syndicates. Both are practitioners of what one
retired CIA operative has called the ‘clandestine arts’ – the basic
skill of operating outside the normal channels of civil society. Among
all the institutions of modern society, intelligence agencies and
crime syndicates alone maintain large organizations capable of
carrying out covert operations without fear of detection.”
On the government
side, the two main Golden Triangle runners were Ted Schackley and
Thomas Clines – the same two men who ran Operation Mongoose (the plot
to take out Fidel Castro). Thus, from 1960-1975, the CIA deployed a
secret force of 30,000 Hmong tribesmen to fight the Laotian
Communists. They also created heroin labs in this area; then brought
it out via their own private airline – Air America.
Alfred McCoy, in The
Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade, describes
how the CIA first gave smack to our own American soldiers in Vietnam
before shipping it into the United States, where Lansky mobsters dealt
it on the streets.
Sam Giancana’s
biographers reinforced this point by stating that while organized
crime did its thing, “The CIA looked the other way – allowing over
$100 million a year in illicit drugs to flow through Havana into the
U.S. It was an arrangement similar to all the rest they’d made. The
CIA received 10% of the take on the side of narcotics, which they
utilized for their undercover slush fund.”
After the Mob and the
CIA generated this dirty money, they laundered it into secret bank
accounts controlled by the international bankers. That way, the
government couldn’t get their hands on it and the funds could be
invested in the stock market, loaned out to other businesses on the
take, or channeled into the Secret Services’ black budgets.
So, even though the
above information is only the tip of the iceberg, now do you see why
it was so important to the CIA/Mobster/international banker cabal that
JFK didn’t pull America out of Vietnam? The money (via illegal drug
trafficking and for the War Machine) was incredible, while CONTROL of
another area of the globe (the Golden Triangle) was secured.
As a final note, only
FOUR DAYS after John Kennedy was assassinated, Lyndon Baines Johnson,
his successor, put his name on NSAM 273, which secured our increased
involvement in Southeast Asia. These guys weren’t wasting any time!
Within a few short months, our involvement in Vietnam went from 20,000
troops to a quarter of a million! The CIA had won, and ten years later
58,229 American soldiers were dead - truly shocking and abysmal
behavior – an embarrassment and blight on the American consciousness.
My Lai Officer Apologizes For
Vietnam Massacre
August 21, 2009
William
L. Calley, the only person to be convicted in the Vietnam, My Lai,
massacre of 500 men, women and children, speaks to a Kiwanis Club in
Columbus, Ga., about the My Lai massacre in Vietnam in 1968.
"There is not a day that goes by that I do not feel remorse for what
happened that day in My Lai," William L. Calley told members of a local
Kiwanis Club, the Columbus Ledger-Enquirer reported Friday. "I feel
remorse for the Vietnamese who were killed, for their families, for the
American soldiers involved and their families. I am very sorry."
William L. Calley, 66, was a young Army lieutenant when a court-martial
at nearby Fort Benning convicted him of murder in 1971 for killing 22
civilians during the infamous massacre of 500 men, women and children in
Vietnam.
Though sentenced to life in prison, Calley ended up serving only three
years under house arrest after President Richard Nixon later reduced his
sentence.
"It's hard to apologize for murdering so many people," said Eckhardt,
now a law professor at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. "But at
least there's an acknowledgment of responsibility."
There is not a day that goes by that I do not feel remorse for what
happened that day in My Lai. I feel remorse for the Vietnamese who were
killed, for their families, for the American soldiers involved and their
families. I am very sorry.
Calley didn't deny taking part in the slayings on March 16, 1968, but
insisted he was following orders from his superior, Capt. Ernest Medina
— a notion Eckhardt, the former prosecutor, rejects.
Medina was also tried by a court-martial in 1971, and was acquitted of
all charges.
When asked if he broke the law by obeying an unlawful order, the
newspaper reported, Calley replied: "I believe that is true."
"If you are asking why I did not stand up to them when I was given the
orders, I will have to say that I was a second lieutenant getting orders
from my commander and I followed them — foolishly, I guess," Calley
said. (Receiving 3 years of house arrest is such
an injustice. The bastard and everyone involved should have been shot.
They massacred 5oo men, women and children, all non combatants, in a
small Vietnam village for no reason whatsoever. MS)
American-Vietnam War; Remembered
(part 1)
My name is Mike Smith. My job and my goal is to
travel the globe unearthing it's beauty and hidden mysteries and
regretfully it's horrors. During my extensive tours of Vietnam I
uncovered many dark secrets of the American-Vietnam War, the CIA deep
involvement with seizing the Golden Triangle drug region and so much
more. It wasn't what Americans were led to believe for all these
years; nor was it what they would want to believe today. It was,
however, as I had always believed, knowing our imperialism history and
the weakness of mankind in general. Growing up a rebel and a realist I
soon realized that my head was more than a hat rack and a television
translator. I have always prided myself as being thoughtful, and may I
add, sensitive to the suffrage of others and to our environment.
Having lived a full life of adventure in exploring this planet I
consciously mold myself into each and every experienced culture.
My long and arduous, but enlightening, journeys
throughout SE Asia and especially Vietnam opened my eyes to truths
that most will never dare to accept. During our long and wasteful
Vietnam war...America was the enemy, just as we are now in Iraq. With
our contempt for pretty much everything living we did our utter best
to destroy this beautiful country, the region in general, and it's
gracious, but naive people. This atrocity should never be forgotten by
the world, nor accepted by Americans and must cease being justified by
the dogs of war. I will never forgive my country and it's contemptuous
leaders that caused the deaths of so many, 57,000+ Americans, numerous
thousands of puppet allies and the demise, not to elaborate on the
total chaos, of over 5 million Vietnamese people; the majority being
non-combatants. As well as countless victims befalling the USA
onslaught into Laos, Burma, (now Miramar) and Cambodia.
Thailand,
in being afraid of getting dragged into the rage, allowed America to
build and operate bases in their country. They have still not been
fully forgiven by their neighbors.
Is it not time for the world and especially Americans to grind their
industries of war to a halt and once and for all realize that the
billions of hard working citizen's tax dollars sucked into the vacuum
of profit generated companies selling weapons of war to every corner
of the globe are the causes for the global conflicts, as well as our
immense deficits. The resources could definitely be put to better
uses. (photo Vietnam Coat of Arms)
The USA is definitely not biased or selective in
whom they sell their weapons. They sell them pretty much to anyone and
everyone, dictators, corrupt regimes, neighboring tribes to large
countries. They supply all sides in the conflicts, such as in
the Iraq-Iranian war of the late 80's. The American tax payers have
given free reign to the war dogs and their development of new and even
more deadlier weapons in a never ending cycle of insanity. And for
what...so some fat cat good ole boys can smoke Cuban
cigars...buy more beach homes and spend more time leisurely traveling
the globe demeaning women in poor countries? Isn't it time to fund
alternate energy, build more and better hospitals, provide affordable
health care for your citizens and perhaps pay down own our global
debt. As of Oct. 2008, The USA is 53 trillion dollars in debit? With
just a fraction of this enormous amount the USA could fund space
exploration at a much faster rate, more experimental research on
diseases, build hundreds of high tech hospitals and even fund free
universities? It could even spend a few billion on building adequate
and faster rail service across it's vast expanse to aid in preserving
our air and resources. With just 2 trillion dollars a year the USA
alone could practically eliminate global poverty.
(Photo
Map of US-Vietnam War) Now is the time to acknowledge that the
cost for fear mongering is extremely too high? Where's the sanity?
Where is the global peace promised at the end of each war? The western
countries consistently pretend to be under threat and attack, but in
reality they're the ones behind the terror. Giving them the self
empowerment to pre-empty vicious attacks, but most often only on
countries with vast amounts of resources or statistical importance.
Loudly, but fallaciously crying out in fear for their security, the
west proceeds to destroy the economy and livelihood of entire regions,
leaving chaos for the poor and mostly helpless victims of their
aggression. Blindfolding their citizens with panic the western
governments pursue what they believe to be their right to accumulate
excessive wealth and global dominance. They vainly declare their
belief in absolute redemption from their God, making it easier to
accept their vile deeds of self-gratuity. They cry and moan the death
of a pet, but turn their backs to the cries of millions of people
suffering from war, as well as natural and other man-made calamities.
Where is compassion...logic...rationale and most definitely... where
is the love? America was once a nation of envy, of respect, but now
it's a nation of fearing and loathing. Are Americans proud of their
self-serving achievements? A two party political system is ludicrous;
as which of these malignant law school good ole boys do you vote
for...asshole A or asshole B? Either and you still end up in the
outhouse. It's always about lying through the bleached teeth and whom
can raise the most money...which, of course, mostly comes from
corporate degenerates.
With all the fiber of my existence and worldly
experience I have learned to never accept the words of rhetoric
spewing from the mouths of those with the most to gain; and when I
hear the words "Trust Me...Vote for Me" I get chills up and down my
spine.
While touring in Asia,
I spent 3 months in Hong Kong, months throughout China, onto
Singapore, Malaysia, Indochina, East Timor, and spent a considerable
time exploring every area of SE Asia, Thailand, Cambodia, Myanmar,
Laos and so forth. But the months spent in Vietnam was the eye opening
experience that I believed it would be. Beginning my journey in the
far northern hills and slowing making my way to Hanoi, the capital of
the red central government, once called the Viet Cong...home to the
infamous prisoner of war facility called The Hanoi Hilton. I actually
stayed a week in the now remodeled luxury hotel while touring the
capital.
Hanoi was home to the Vietnam War archive museum
and I must say it well documented the atrocities of the American
forces and thousands of un-doctored photos laid the foundation for my
story. I eventually left the mega city and rode a $50 USD taxi across
the northern area of Vietnam to the limestone islands of Hai Long Bay.
The city was nothing to really brag about, but the bay, known as the
Gulf of Tongan, where the war actually began, was indescribably breath
taking. Taking several boat cruises through the alien seascape of
limestone islands left me with images far beyond what one would expect
to see anywhere. After a week I hopped a train south to my next stop;
Hoi An City and after a couple of weeks I pushed on, stopping in every
town, city and village until I reached the center of the American -
Vietnam war...Saigon.
Tired, but still anxious I wandered the streets of
Saigon. Finding a decent centralized hotel I settled in for a long
stay in the main city of America's occupation.
There I could really get a feel for how it was when the city was
occupied by thousands of armed, angry, scared, drunk and horny
American GIs. The conjured image made me tremble.
"Hill 484
Vietnam War"At 1000
hours on October 5, 1966, The US Marines Company M advanced toward the
NVA (North Vietnamese Army) atop Hill 484. Believing that artillery
fire would be ineffectual due to the steepness of the slope, the
company commander ordered direct tank fire against enemy positions on
Hill 484. Five rounds were ordered. Two came at the target; both
missed the enemy troops and instead hit Marines positioned on Hill
400.
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As I interviewed survivors and chatted with
hundreds of war vets my personal involvement and long held beliefs about the Vietnam War
were soon justified. Roaming, chatting, listening, collecting
information and shooting hundreds of photos of leftover American war
machines; visiting numerous war museums, and none of it effected me as
did the children's cemeteries and seeing the surviving victims left
crippled and forever impoverished on burnt out land.
I felt rage and sadness in my bones, as I witnessed
the lingering despair in the land and the people. I walked the barren
land laid wasted by America's use of agent orange, phosphorus, napalm
and never ending bombing. I sat and chatted with men and women
crippled from the atrocities of the war. Some had no arms to wipe away
their tears as they poured out their hearts to me. Others no legs...no
feet and all with a horrific past and a shady future at best. I saw
the region's deep scars of frayed infra-structure, slowly, but
tenaciously being rebuilt by these tenacious people and felt pride in
just being amongst them.
Day after day and late into the night, in the
streets, stores, in the fields, pubs and taverns filled with locals
and ex-pat Americans, Germans and more I absorbed the war as it was 35
years prior. I did more than fill my head with the war...I tasted it,
I dreamt of it...smelled it and felt the horror in each beat of my
heart. The truth, as they say, is a hard and bitter pill to swallow
and I know that I, personally, can only ask that Americans learn from
this horrid war and that they be forgiven by the strong and inspiring
people of Vietnam, as well as it's neighboring countries.
On March the 24th, 2007, on a hot and rainy
afternoon, I walked out of the war museum in the central of Saigon and
felt small...very small. At that very moment I lost the remaining
ounce of my naiveties and the last clinging hope of belief that we, as
Americans, had actually been fighting, dying and murdering in Vietnam
for a cause...any cause.
By birth I am an American, my Mother being 7/8 Piute Indian, while my Father was of
Scottish and Norwegian
decent. I am quite an odd combination of Viking and native American in
which my Norwegian blood drives me and my Indian blood directs me.
A few of my descendents were King Henry, Henry VII,
Henry VIII, Edward IV, Charles Brandon Of Suffolk, James IV of
Scotland, William Howard Taft, Howard Hughes, Jesse James, JP Morgan,
Elizabeth Truman, William Wallace and Robert III. But where ever and
from whomever I came from one thing I do know is that we are a
war mongering nation and we need a drastic change of ideologies and
policies.
Reading this story you might assume that I am no longer a proud
American. You would be correct in your assumption. As a child in
America we were taught to feel pride in our country, regardless. We were coached
to say our morning pledge of allegiance at school, to salute the flag
and to always be thankful of being born in this God fearing nation.
Yes, I, like millions of other Americans believed, wanted to believe,
in the fervor of the patriotic hype, but we were fed this mind dulling
hype and deceit as if it
were chocolate candy. The patriotism political and religious system
created by our so called perfect forefathers and forever manipulated
by every preceding leader, teacher and preacher continually lie
and conspire in making Americans believe that they and only they
could lead us, direct us, and keep us safe. Their directional
conditioning would forever keep their citizens under mass control like
mindless children. They passed thousand of freedom diminishing laws,
ridiculous regulations...forever driving their people to work harder,
buy a bigger house, go further and further in
debt...spend...spend...and don't worry...everything will be alright.
Well it isn't...millions have and are losing their homes, their jobs
and the savings and going to Church or if you can afford...Disney Land
isn't going to help.
"Concrete and steel buildings
don't collapse from Jet Fuel" And 911 was like the Gulf of Tonkin,
Vietnam incident in 1964...just another self induced excuse for war"
During our brief history as a nation we have led
the world in bloodshed. Wars are initiated not on the battlefield, but
in the halls of governments from a log list of malignant reasons that
suit the politicians and industry. In the war rooms appointed and elected criminals
obtain support of their wars by stirring the citizens with cries of
patriotism. Loud mind boggling echo's of rhetoric driving the people
into a frenzied mass of hysterical robots. War is necessary...war
drives our economy, protects our God given rights...assures us of our
global policies and goals. On and on the words pour out of their
manipulative mouths. Loudly and repetitive the sounds echo through the
streets, into the schools and into our homes via our federally
controlled medias with their constant mind dulling audible and visual
sound bites. The above words are not meant for the USA alone, they are
the words and actions of all global leaders, whether they be elected
or dictatorial.
Repeal the Patriot
Act and give us back our freedom and dignity.
The government and its endless line of agencies
remain comfortable in the knowledge that we, the people, are at their
beck and call and will continue to tremble in fear when they warn us
over and over that only they can rid our closets of bogymen...that
only they can protect us from the endless dark shadows...shadows of
imaginary enemies created like wall puppets by the power mongrels and
politicians; those with the most to gain from our childish fears. As
for myself...I never fell for any of it...not as child and definitely
not as a free thinking man. And I damn sure don't like to be taken for
granted nor treated like a brain dead patriot. Patriotism
is believing that your country is the best simply because you were
born there. Global division...patriotism...religion, social
and economic status, etc. keep us all in the dark of ever reaching our
potential. Another of the failures of our society is, of course,
commercialism and sadly...even sports play a major factor in our daily
manipulation! My question...how long do the people of the world remain
subservient?
The pulpits of religion and politics continue their
mind controlling rituals of preparing the next generation of obedient
tax payers and little tin soldiers. The psychotic misdeeds of these
powerful bloodsucking mongrels cry out to our patriotism with catchy
mottos like: "You have but one life to give" and "Its your duty to die
with honor for your country" and "Your country needs you" and even
more insane, "Onward Christian Soldiers Marching off to War." Boy,
that one really perturbs me. Illogical fervor swells rampantly in the
citizens, making them obligated to be obedient servants. Our
institutions instill in their young military recruits that they are
nothing more than government property, 'GI, means, Government Issue.'
I'm not sure, and I doubt that anyone can clarify
absolutely, the many reasons America remains a warring and barbaric
nation; a nation of takers, of people convinced that the world belongs
to them and no matter what the needs of others that they have the
right to claim it. Working, exploring, creating is a good thing, but
not when the efforts of so many are directed to proliferation of
military might in order to take dominant
others...whenever...where-ever. This just instills other nations to do
the same in seeking defense and in order to get their piece of the
pie.
Western societies self given rights to police the
world provide golden opportunities to meddle in the affairs of others
and with centuries of perfecting their warring capabilities they in
their own mind claim to be masters, but in actuality...are but pawns
of their own deceit and manipulation. Tools of their arsenal are
bribery, threats, coups, naval blockades, monetary & economic warfare
and when necessary...war and even annihilation. We have been bred in
deceit and live in fear and when called...we will die for a cause.
When asked the cause...the leaders simply reply..."Cause they say so!"
Why does the empowerment of 11th century doctrines
of church and state still exist? Why? Because we, the people, allow it
to remain and continue to support the institutions that keep it in
power. As that the USA was founded in war; fighting bloody battles
with our English brethren and then continuing to wage one-sided
campaigns of murder against the rightful owners of our newly claimed
land...the indigenous Indians...and then against our neighbors; and so
began a long history of warring for self proclamation. "Might over
Right."
Doesn't it bother Americans that every inch of
their soil was wretched from the dead and dying tribes of free
natives? Is not America built on the graves of hundreds of thousands
of these people? Did not our admired and worshipped leaders of the
past destroy not only the native's lives, their right to exist...their
future and their beliefs, but did they not seek to end their very way
of life? Not even allowing them to speak their native language! The
obviously inherited callousness in justifying their demise continue to
lead us down this terrible path, as even today we attack and occupy
Afghanistan and wage a bloody war against the people of Iraq seeking
to control their region & resources. And that's not enough to
quench their thirst for blood and oil, as even now you further
threaten to escalate your violence into the neighboring countries of
Syria and Iran. Are you naive enough to believe that you can secure
your peace by waging war? Are you allowing yourselves to be led down
this same path again and again...marching blindly off to war when the
rich blow their horn of patriotism and wave their cloaks of frenzy?
Are you not emotional and thinking human beings or are you nothing
more than what your leaders believe...just children afraid of the
dark? Are you just unimportant livestock that can easily be led into
self-induced chaos and slaughter? Take a moment out of your busy, but
fruitless lives, and ponder the good we could do with the trillions of
dollars, the wasted ingenuity and livelihoods of so many people now
laying dead and forgotten in yet another war cemetery? It's time to
stop the madness! Get involved. Put your own live on hold and do
something to better the lives of the world's people and do you part to
stop the destruction of our living planet...it is after all...your
home too.
In the war with Vietnam
we spent our resources and our young in a ceaseless rampage of murder,
bloodshed, torture and unfathomable chaos. America brought to Vietnam
the full power of it's industrial might, it's overwhelming war
machines, the entire wealth and resources of it's country, along with
the manpower and resources of numerous allies, but in the end you and
everything you sought to accomplish were defeated, humiliated and
scorned by the unrelenting will power and simple ingenuity of the
Vietnamese people. It wasn't their military that won the war...it was
the unwavering strength and devotion of their people...every man,
woman and child. When the peoples army of Vietnam marched into Saigon
in April 1975 the beleaguered Americans were scrambling to get the
hell out of the country; abandoning it's allies, the S. Vietnamese,
billions in surplus goods and enough weapons to fight yet another war.
The American youth died, your country lost it's respect in the world
and you...the American tax payer footed the bill. Aren't you proud?
Instead of sticking out your chest in pride you should be ashamed for
being led by manipulative morons not giving a damn about you, your
family or your very existence...you're just a pawn...a hard working
slob that like an obedient dog that does what it's told. You, the
people of the so-called free industrial nations continue to pay your
taxes for yet another war and more private jets, yachts and beach
homes for the rich and not so famous.
The
Vietnam war divided your nation, and the world, and ended the American
dynasty. So much sacrificed for so little! The loss was in spite of
the fact that American forces dropped more bombs than in the entirety
of all previous wars ever fought on the globe. In spite of using
weapons of mass destruction, such as Dioxin (agent orange) napalm, gel
gas, high explosive ordinances, phosphorus bombs, mines and countless
other weapons of destruction that succeeded in killing mostly non
combatants... innocent people just trying to survive another day.
America's little tin soldiers imprisoned, tortured, beheaded, burned, raped and
often gutted and actually skinned children. Your soldiers maimed,
killed and literally murdered not thousands, but millions of
Vietnamese people, as well as poisoned the soil for generations,
leaving people even now unable to grow food...and for what? American war stats vary from 1 million
to about 4 million Vietnamese killed, but the consensus in Vietnam and
the rest of the world state the number to be much higher; possibly
up to 6+ million killed with approximately 14 million wounded and
countless more left destitute and homeless. These figures do not
reflect the additional millions that are still suffering from the
countless negative effects of the uncountable tons of chemicals used
by the American forces. It also does not include the causalities in
neighboring countries; Laos is recorded as the most heavily bombed
country in the world. These small countries, including Laos, Cambodia,
Miramar as well as Vietnam are still, as of today, suffering from
endless stretches of once fertile land laid absolutely barren and
poisoned. They also remain laden with millions of dangerous landmines
and other unexploded ordinances and psychological scars that will last
for even more decades...
Could America have defeated
Vietnam? My answer is no; not without entirely destroying every
inch of the country and killing every man, woman and child. Why? There
are numerous reasons. For 1: the
Vietnamese people were united in every aspect of their existence; in
their work, their social status and in fevered tenacity for everything
they did. 2. They retained unyielding
pride and love for their country and each other. This was and remains
true for each and every Vietnamese from the smallest child to the
oldest man and woman. They live, work, communicate and function in
total sync with one another. They respect and adore each other and go
out of their way to help one another. They seldom ever bicker, argue
or fight and have true compassion for their heritage. They employ a
work ethnic that would kill any westerner within a week. They have
values that western civilizations could never exhibit.
3. These people can live for months on a
hand full of rice a day and quench their thirst by suckling water from
plants. They can march barefoot in total darkness for weeks, dig
tunnels kilometers long by hand, carry excessive loads, endure
enormous discomfort and severe pain without whining.
4. But mostly for the very simple reason
that they were invaded and were fighting for their lives, their culture,
their heritage and everything else they believed. Americans were
fighting because they were ordered to do so by their superiors...
because they were drafted into a war in a region of the world they
knew nothing about and each just waited to go home.
The Americans were stuck, afraid, disorganized and
as for the grunts on the ground...they were simply counting the days
when they could go back home to safety, apple pie, their friends and
families. Back to a land that wasn't suffering in torture and death.
Why was America in the war? Why did the industrial might of a super
power invade a country of poor, backward people in a nation only
slighter larger than the state of Florida? Why? I'll tell you why! It
was a distraction to their problems at home and to boost it's economy
by revving up the war industry to distribute the American taxpayers
revenue to the players. It was to seize control of Vietnam's
resources, like tin, numerous minerals, as well as the opium trade. It was to instill fear and secure world dominance
and extended influence. In reality it did neither. The war broke the
back of America when it was finally realized by it's people as nothing
more than a slaughter, a chance to try out all their new war toys on a
small country. The war grew and grew, spinning eventually into
Vietnams neighbors.
America sacrificed its own and slaughtered millions
trying to break the spirit of the region, in getting them to forfeit
their land and wealth to their superior industrial carpet-bagging. In
victory their goal was to submit them to their way of thinking and to
establish a replica of their own cultural misery of total
commercialism and opening new markets for their industries. The
soldiers role was to accomplish this by whatever means possible...to
do it or die trying!
Even today in 2012 America continuously
struggles to set a precedence for other nations; by keeping them in
awe of their power and in pushing their iron will in loud statements
and blood that America has the right and the might to do any damn
thing it wants, whatever...whenever and to whomever! America...the
nuclear bully in the playground!
American gains &
loses from the war: Over crowded memorial cemeteries and a very
long wall bearing the names of dead boys. With
57,000+ dead, close to a million wounded and decades of suffrage by
the surviving vets and their families. Hundreds of Billions of tax
dollars wasted. Their nation ripped apart. Lost of respect around the
globe. Major health and mental issues for generations and the
beginning of a new era of drug use, streets flooded with guns, drop
outs, misfits, violence unprecedented and escalating murder and
overflowing prisons; The war opened the path for billions in smuggled
drugs and created millions of addicts and countless organizations of
traffickers. And with all the suffrage and spent billions the loss of the
war was blamed on the peace movement... the very people trying to save
some dignity for the American people. The movement that sought to save
lives of both Americans and Vietnamese. A movement of local people
that marched, were beaten, even shot and jailed while they screamed
and cried to stop the slaughter in Vietnam, Laos, Burma, (now
Miramar), and the murder of tens of thousand bombed in Cambodia. Our
military and leaders backed the Cambodian Khmer Rouge, which
slaughtered a third or more of it's own people, whose was eventually
overthrown by the Vietnamese people.
During the anti war protests in American their
leaders and their dogs of war turned their guns on their own people
for daring to demand peace. I remember the shooting deaths of the
students of Kent State by the armed National Guard. I remember the
jailing of thousands, the beatings, the terrorist branding of those
daring to stand up to President Johnston and Nixon...Yes, I remember.
The terrible conclusion is that America has never and probably will
never accept their actions in Vietnam; nor have they made reparations
to Vietnam and it's neighbors. America still believe their actions
were right and retain anger that they failed to win. Did they learn
anything? Obviously not...as their flex their might again for oil and
minerals in
the mostly defenseless countries of Afghanistan and Iraq. More
billions spent...more millions killed!
Vietnam loses:
Millions killed, mostly non combatants civilians. 14+ million wounded and
, even more displaced and homeless. Decades of poverty, disease and
utter starvation. Generations of birth defects and contaminated land
still evident today. Trillions of dollars in damage to every aspect of
their lives; depredation to their culture and countless future
generations; destruction of their cities, villages and towns, their
infra structure, their farmland, wildlife & livestock and so much
more. These gracious, but tenacious people endured the raping of their
women and little girls. They suffered the torture and total
humiliation of their people and were left with nothing more than
memories of how American soldiers enslaved their people, turning them
against each other, traded their cut off ears for beer, they watched
their young women being forced into prostitution...They watched and
endured the raping of their children and often killed
afterwards. Memories of watching American soldiers pouring gas and
setting ablaze their friends and families for no other reason than
that they could. The invaders answered to no man or God. The
Vietnamese still endure the nightmarish memories of watching their
villages napalmed, their people shelled, and shot, even gutted,
beheaded, thrown out of helicopters and dragged behind jeeps and
tanks. Of watching US soldiers tie hand-grenades to their people and
laugh in hysteria watching their bodies blow apart. The soldiers of
America were taught and encouraged to believe that the Vietnamese
people were less than animals, subhuman, nothing but gooks. It made it
easier for these young, numb boys to carry out their competitive sport
of acquiring more kills and body counts than other squadrons. It
wasn't war...it was sport killing...blind and obedient slaughter. The
US soldiers were told it to kill anyone older then 10 years of
age. Sadly that policy is still in effect today.
Vietnam gains;
Perseverance, self government and global maturity...nothing more!
Am I angry? You god damn
right I'm angry and you should be too! Why? Because it's all
happening again. Does the USA need to subdue and steal the resources
of other nations! Do they need the mega bucks from their weapon
industry to prosper? Our government has sold the people out,
having taken away their citizens right to work and prosper
logistically. The Gov. not only allows, but encourages the country's
largest industries to move to 3rd world nations offering no health or
safety benefits in order to benefit their partnered and supportive
banks and industries. They create slave labor conditions for already
impoverished workers in under developed countries just to increase
profits. American inventors continuously show impunity to their
country's interest and growth potential by selling their ingenuity,
products and patents to other nations for quick profits. The American
government and their corporate partners push for less regulations of
quality control and allowing unsupervised and uncontrolled business
and banking practices. Allowing and even encouraging industries to
flood their markets with poor quality products. Such lack of
management makes it nearly impossible for the production of a decent
American car, etc. The US doesn't even produce stereos, computers,
electronic, steel, glass, textile or thousands of other needed
products which could boost their own economy by once again being a
supplier on the global market. The list of deficiencies goes on and on
and on. It's obvious to anyone with a brain that America itself is its
greatest enemy.
Is America still a rich
nation? Not 'no...but hell no! The nation is and has been for
the last 30 years sold out to foreign interest. It suffers from both
political parties, which take turns destroying their country for
profits and special interest. America is a debtor nation with minuses
in every aspect of it's economy and has pretty much bankrupted
the entire world. The current collapse of the housing and auto
industries, the corrupt and profit driven Wall Street, brokerage
companies and major banks being controlled by your Federal Reserve,
failures of credit and insurance institutions and definitely the
uncontrolled printing of valueless currencies have dropped your country
into a full blown recession. The USA has hundreds of billions in trade deficits
with Japan, China, Europe, and other countries and borrows billions
monthly from Japan and China to finance it's Iraqi and Afghanistan
wars. The debt of the USA grows by leaps and bounds each day. It's
debt with all it's standing obligations is now at 59 Trillion
dollars...not including inflation and interest.
Should America still pretend
to be a proud nation? What the hell do they have to be proud
of? As of now America's the most hated and feared nation on Earth, as
well as the most comical. Remember your last president, Bush's mockery
of Iraqi's accused weapons of mass destruction. Remember his lame and
idiotic statements. Hell' the man's an idiot and a joke...a
sick joke and a dangerous one at that! Is America a secured nation?
Not in the slightest. Why? Well, when you wage wars and police actions
on a global scale you generate new threats and create even more
dangerous enemies daily and do so while depleting the nations resources. To
continue along this path America will remain living in constant fear,
as scripted by your large American companies, while they sell their
souls and yours, for profits...large profits. Highly motivated special
interests support the politicians and are in return supported. The
people need to put down their beer, turn off their sports and realize
that you are paying the true costs...both in cash, in blood and the
future of your children. Wake up...read between the lines, stop
believing the rhetoric from your industry owned medias. They are
driven in their attempts to keep citizens in fearful panic as they
bankrupt the nation. Do you actually believe that Sept. 11th was
carried out by a handful of uneducated Muslims? Do you really believe
you are safe by implementing ridiculous and retentive security
measures at airports, by installing metal detectors in your schools,
banks, etc., but yet not even consider upsetting two of your most
powerful lobbyists...The Jewish League and The American Gun Association.
Our young are mostly uneducated, hooked on drugs and have complete
access of guns. That is a very dangerous scenario.
Are you healthier, when the EPA & the FDA are
bought off by your industries in allowing higher and higher levels of
toxins dumped in your air and water supply? The permissive limits on
chemicals and contaminates in the country's drinking water, the
air and in the food have steadily risen for decades. Incorrigible
amidst the turmoil and stress you follow along in blind obedience,
foolish enough to believe that by giving up your bottled water,
shampoo and fingernail clippers at the airport that you are doing your
part in keeping the world safe? Does it make you safer when the
airport security demands old women and young kids to remove their
shoes? Facts are that millions of tons of cargo pour through your open
ports in unchecked containers each month. Do you really feel safe even
without the so-called threat from global activists, when the streets
of your cities and towns are the most dangerous in the world? You have
much greater odds of dying as a victim of crime or from a common cold,
food poison or a car accident than you would ever have from being
killed by an extremist.
America has more violence than most nations
combined. It has more people in jails and prisons than the rest of the
world. America even has more people behind bars than they do in
Universities. Even odder is that most of those
jailed were poor, black and minor drug offenders. The health and
educational systems are horrific and of course, profit driven.
America's value and morality are all in dollar signs...$$$. Having a
luxury car and a large home is much more important than getting
involved, befriending your neighbors or standing up to out of control politicians. We all have to realize that
the world needs it's people to care, be supportive of each other in
aiding fellow humans that are starving and dying as a direct result of our
callous actions and cowardly inactions. Our kids are killing each
other over cell phones and sneakers! They have fallen into the
bottomless pit of consumerism and now believe that their individual
gains are more important than anyone or anything else. Americans wait
in line for days to buy a new Ipod or a pair of limited sneakers.
Homeland security...what
a play on words...like other words paraphrased in George W. Bush's 3rd
grade rants about freedom, terrorism...and his constant referral to
God and other, mostly mispronounced. words repetitively used in his
brain-dead speeches. He and all the lying crooked politicians portray
their sheer and utter contempt for our lives, our money or our
intelligence. Stop listening to constant news bites of repetitive
shallowness. I guess it's true what Hitler's subordinate, Himmler,
once declared during WW 11; "Scream it loud and long enough and the
people will believe anything."
Home land security is a staged and well rehearsed
play in a clever guise of keeping you blind to the truths of where the
real danger lies! So much effort and wasted funds spent in fooling the
American people in believing that they're under attack and that their
way of live is in jeopardy. The madness makes me sick and it's not
that the government's doing it...that's expected, but it's that the
American people actually believe the bullshit. "Oh, and by the
way...the sky's falling."
The truth is that America, as well as their ass
kissing allies, England, Europe in general and especially Israel, are
the real terrorist nations. Think about it...they're
bombing...invading, killing, occupying, imprisoning and torturing
people all over the world. They literally control the globe
militarily, economically and economically with their manipulation of
global markets. They are the countries carrying out coups,
over-throwing world leaders, and of course bribing and cheating
nations out of their resources. With callousness they go about their
normal business of obliterating global economies and at times even
entire heritages, such as the Palestinians. The CIA, British's MI6,
also known as SIS and Israel's Mossad all have their dirty hands in
every nations business. They run more drugs and weapons than all of
the world's so-called illegal cartels. Are you aware that the poppy
fields in Afghanistan are now being cultivated with new American
supplied tractors? The American CIA and special forces are everywhere,
undermining the world's governments and economies, as well as
ambushing and disposing anyone in their way. Our war ships cruise
around the world intimidating entire regions, bribing, intimidating
and coercing every nation in allowing the building of US bases.
The US and friends support every dictator, degenerate King and ruler
on the planet. We care less for the actual peoples of the world.
America boasts of its charitable provisions of
pharmaceuticals to Africa in their fight against Aids, which most
likely was created by America and distributed by WHO, the World Health
Organization during inoculation drives. While the US boast quite often
of their donations to African governments and organizations, what they
don't clarify is their so-called donations are mostly large sums of
credit. Credits that can only be used in the purchase of over priced
American drugs. The word charity in their interpretation is
simple...America's interest...first and foremost. In addition to food
aid and drugs, these impoverished and bullied nations receive their
generous share of munitions and war machines and again at a very high
price. America profits and everyone else loses.
America's industries are continuing to decline in
stature and considering the country can't even make a decent car they
are great in designing and building superb war machines, but only
after years and wasted billions spent. This should tell you something
at their policies, but as Americans see it they shouldn't be too
concerned, after all they live in the land blessed by their Jewish
God. The land where the home of the free and the brave live and are
further validated as God fearing people, while at the cost of billions
and countless lives we continually stand by Israel. They are by self
degree God's chosen people. From one ignorant and biased book of
Israel's compilation it remains sad that Christians, especially
Americans, continue believing they are blessed by some all powerful
God with his inherited blessings and permission to do whatever they
damn well please.
My military question is simple; America screams
self defense..."fight them over there so we don't have to fight them
over here." So if under attack, as proclaimed, then why do they build
arsenals of offensive weapons instead of defensive ones? I am an
American and do I hate my country? Absolutely not. Why am I so harsh
on America? Simply because I want the people of America to wake up and
stop quoting the Jewish bible and waving their flags of self righteous
patriotism long enough to get off their asses and stand up to their
government and their profit driven corporations. America is the
peoples country...so when are we going to reclaim it? Haven't we been
pawns and sheep long enough? How long do our people intend to pray and
wait for their Jewish God to save them?
American, and most western civilizations begin
conditioning their kids to be competitive and self centered in which
results in conditioning them to be good candidates for the military.
Parents buy them what ever they want...not what they need. War toys,
violent video games, allowing to watch murder and mayhem movies for
entertainment. American youth are encouraged to believe it's ok to
hunt and slaughter animals, to be aggressive, get in fights and to do
onto others before they do onto them. The young have few boundaries,
as they are allowed to lie and cheat knowing they will be defended by
their parents whom do whatever necessary to protect their spoiled
brats, even when at 16 years of age their daughters get pregnant; or
when their sons are accused of date-raping a young girl. They
turn a blind eye when their kids hang with degenerates, or consume
large qualities of alcohol, take designer drugs or when they spend
enormous sums on clothes, etc. They blame society, a society they
created, for their kids failures. Their young men are encouraged to
join the military and fight and kill for their country, but then rant
and blubber like babies when their kids are killed in some fucked war
they themselves supported. But are actually proud when their sons and
daughters return alive and brag on them like some kind of hero, when
in reality they are nothing more than obedient and government
justified murderers. We live the lies that make our lives fruitlessly
fulfilling, but totally wasteful.
People are totally out of touch with themselves,
the world around them and everything in between. Hell, they solve
their parenting deficiencies by giving their kids credit cards at 13,
birth control pills at 14 and a new car at 16. Thousands of children
end up in trouble with the law, hooked on drugs and/or alcohol, run
rampant, have unprotected sex and get or get someone pregnant. And the
few kids that do get jobs end up spending every earned dollar trying
to be something they're not. Splurging their money on designer
jeans, latest cell phones, consistent boozing to impress other
degenerates, they call friends. With the rest of their time being
spent on idle chit chat on their $200 cell phones or messaging each
other on computers, browsing porn sites, playing video games and all
of the other endless and readily available assortment of nonsensical
items of sheer vanity? The really sad issue is they aren't
responsible...they're just products of their society and their much
too busy to be involved parents. The same parents that aren't even
aware that they're terrible at being friends, neighbors, parents,
teachers, employees/employers and even worst at just being human. They
live and die in a small cubicle of work, stress, traffic, junk food
and occasional self indulged leisure and actually believe they have a
life. They are all caught up in the commercial hell. It's truly
shameful!
In America our governments have sold us out to
their corporate and financial supporters, while we blindly chase the
fucking American dream...existing in a self contained maze of debt and
stress. The Jewish lords run the Federal Reserve, the Treasury, our
banks and financial institutions and about every 7 to 10 years steal
trillions to only be bailed out by our screwed government. Our only
outlet seem to be our guns, porn, sports, TV, a long line of
pharmaceuticals and loads of booze to make it all bearable. Hanging
onto the pride of having a heavily mortgaged house that will never be
paid off; a gas drinking SUV or car and numerous playthings, like a
giant plasma TV, remote controlled lawn mower, golf clubs, boat, a
motorcycle, etc. and actually believing day after day they are living
the American dream. Remaining in a nightmarish realm of debt and an
early death. Seldom having the time to enjoy their life or
spending time with their children we march to an unfathomable beat of
sheer madness. We just don't realize that the American lifestyle comes
at a high price, not only in constant and overwhelming burdens, but
with chemically treated and genetically modified crops, undrinkable
tap water, cancer causing air pollutants, jammed highways, junk food
diets, out of control government, increasing taxes, freedom depriving
regulations, horrific health care and morbid schools. Not to mention a
few million lunatics with guns and slum areas we're afraid to drive
through even in daylight. Then lets not forget the several thousand
drunk drivers behind the wheels. Isn't the fact that your child can't
even go outside to play without the high probability that they may be
kidnapped and/or killed enough to make you aware of the status of your
country.
At the end of the day Americans can pop open a beer
and flip on the nightly bombardment of news-bites from the puppet
casters of Fox, CNN and countless other nightly news and be bombarded
with even more brain dead coercion from these strictly regulated, in
accordance to their FCC masters, (FCC. Federally
Controlled Communications.) We live and die up to our eyeballs
in debt, but still can't afford to take a decent vacation and are
consistently too stressed to enjoy a little romance with our spouses,
remain living in fear that our out of control kids might kill us if we
don't succumb to their daily demands for more money and unrestricted
freedoms. Yes, we should all be proud of our robotic lives in our
glass, plastic and concrete environment. In consolation we manage to
survive knowing that God will reward our worthless lives with
everlasting peace in some floating heavenly palace. And even knowing
your life sucks you remain ignorant enough to continually live in fear
of actually believing that some terrorists jealous of your
lifestyle wants to destroy your screwed up way of live? Now that's
hysterical!!!
In this so called modern society neighbors and
co-workers don't even know each others names, much less get to know
one another. Living in societies where it's more critical to correctly
roll up your water hose than it is to be polite to others. Living in
countries that can put you in jail for smoking a cigarette, much less
a joint...or for throwing down a piece of paper...while it's perfectly
ok to dispose of millions of tons of daily waste in the ocean or
buried in some virgin landfill. Living where they ban smoking but its
perfectly permissible to pollute the very atmosphere of the planet
with million of vehicles and factories spewing trillions of cubic
meters of poison gases endangering our very existence. What...smoking
a fucking cigarette is so bad, as to warrant so many restrictions? A
land where degenerate woman wanting a baby may one day simply decide
to invade a pregnant woman's home, kill her, cut out the fetus and
take it home with her. A country that bans prostitution, but spends
billions retaining their ludicrous gun laws, producing violent shows,
movies and video games. Where men can be arrested for talking to a
female, which at times is a cop dressed as a hooker, but its ok to
browse the web in search of ever more extreme and disgusting porn.
Living in a country where you can be arrested for a
friendly game of poker with your friends in your own home, but can
legally walk into a billion dollar casino and lose everything you own
in a matter of minutes. A country where you can go to prison for
smoking marijuana, but can legally overdose on prescription drugs and
cheap alcohol. A land where in every poor neighborhood there's a
liquor and gun store on every other corner and of course...a church at
the end of the block for immediate and convenient redemption.
Societies where self righteous men masturbate to images of young girls
on their favorite porn sites and dignity their existence by going to
church on Sunday. Still believing they're good men, husbands and
Fathers. These same men grouping together with the same-minded
drinking buddies at their local bars to get plastered and scream like
childish morons while watching a fucking football game and yet have no
time to get involved with the issues destroying their world...nor the
time to devote to their wives and kids. So caught up in self
gratification that they never realize they are totally responsible for
raising their children and in teaching them things of some value.
Yeah...great examples of the American lifestyle, which unfortunately
is spreading around the globe. Is such a cultureless society worth
preserving??? And don't forget to stock up on plastic sheeting and
duct tape for safe guarding your house for the next Anthrax
alert....if not...your patriotism will be in doubt!!! So say the
republicans.
Personally I was raised and educated in nature,
hiking, fishing, exploring, playing with my friends and dogs, swimming
in rivers, lakes and creeks, star gazing and just being a kid. When we
did watch TV we tuned in to bloodless TV shows like Lost in Space,
Gilligan's Island, Bewitched, the Andy Griffin show and so on. Today
the kids cut their teeth on computer porn, sexual videos from MTV,
violent shows of cops, forensics, murder, mayhem, and movies of
constant shootouts where guns and murder are glorified. Fathers with
no time. Mothers feeding their children junk food and lounging around
in sweats watching daily soaps that go on for generations, while their
kids are left unattended. And let's not forget their music; disgusting
black gangster and hip-hop rap about whores, guns, murder and easy
money and other ghetto crap blasting from stereos, Ipods, TV's and
countless other gadgets.
Think about it for a minute...being raised and
living in America and other western style societies "just what the
hell do you expect from the people, especially the kids? Living in
countries where honking the horn at someone can get you killed is
definitely not where I want to live and especially not where I would
want to raise my kids. America...the land of the free and the home of
the brave, yeah, but only if their overwhelmingly armed to the teeth
and have the ability to fight their wars at a distant. A country where
traffic laws are enforced, but robbery, murder and mayhem are as
common as a family going out for dinner together. Then there's the
macho cops hiding behind every bush waiting to pull you over for going
5 miles over some ridiculously low speed limit. They're empowered to
not only give you a $100+ dollar ticket for speeding, but a couple of
hundred dollar fine for not properly wearing your seatbelt, etc. but
the loaded gun on your seat goes unmentioned. Just one of thousands of
our American warped concept of selective freedoms.
Our western society is cancerous and it's simply
because we, as good ole Americans, have the right to shoot and kill
another human being for whatever reason we believe is warranted. To
live in a society where traffic citations generate billions for our
screwed up judicial system, while murders and violent offenders are
often never caught or are set free early from our over crowded
prisons. And as for being brave...even after getting the damn ticket
we're so intimidated by the Gestapo looking cop that we whine feeble
apologies for breaking some petty traffic law. "Sorry for speeding and
please excuse me officer for not wearing my seat beat and thank you
for being concerned for my safety" Then there's our bumper stickers
proclaiming "God bless our troops in Iraq." Now if we only knew where
the fuck Iraq and Afghanistan were located. Shouldn't we at least be
obligated in learning how to spell the name of the countries we're
destroying? Hey people...we've fallaciously declared war on those poor
people...please...give a damn!
And is this, our American lifestyle, what we're
fighting and dying for? What we're pushing down the throats of others
around the world? Our fucked up culture of bigotry, racial despise,
hated, impatience, intolerable treatment of others, as well as animals
along with the world in general. That and our malcontent, greed,
cruelty, and philosophy of "God loves me because I'm a white
Christian" bullshit. Add your self-righteous asshole attitude
that gives you the absolute right to kill someone for stealing some
over-priced clothes at a boutique or walking on your yard. This is
what you're protecting? A right to carry concealed guns and the
absolute right to shoot someone for pissing you off? That is not
freedom...it's mayhem. Freedom is having the right and obligation to
keep your government in check...having the right to not roll up your
fucking water hose, the right to sit on your porch or in the park and
drink a beer or smoke a cigarette. Freedom is the right to walk your
dog at 3:AM without fear of getting mugged or shot by a punk or
paranoid cop. Freedom is having the right to be gay or an Atheist
without persecution. If I remember my history correctly...isn't
escaping religious bigotry and micro-control of our everyday lives by
self appointed masters just some of the reasons we left Europe so long
ago?
Am I angry about our actions
in Vietnam and now in Afghanistan and Iraq? You god damn right! I
remain mad and totally pissed off at the cowardly people of this
world. The planet is sinking in debt, bathed in dictators,
imprisoning, starvation,
filth and pollution, endless diseases, war, murder, torture, global
insanity and over all chaos. These issues should have a tendency to
really piss everyone off...after all it's also your world being
destroyed.
What does the American people owe to Vietnam and to
the rest of the world? We owe our respect, our tolerance and a share
of our wealth...after all most of it was stolen from other lands and
people. Americans can never replace the things destroyed in the
Vietnam war, but they can put down their beer, flip off their TVs,
park their SUVs, and if they can not visit this amazingly beautiful
country and befriend these gracious, welcoming and loving people, at
least learn the truths of who we are as Americans and what harm we
have done to them and the rest of the world. Having traveled the globe
and living in and throughout Vietnam, as well as all of Asia, I can
say positively that these people do not hate us...they have forgiven
us! In all my years in Vietnam I did not came across one person that
mistreated me or was rude or mentioned anything about the past
war...not once! Everyone from 'small children to old ladies' welcomed
and greeted me with honest friendliness. People just walking by while
going on with their busy lives were always quick with a smile.
If you can visit Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, and
Laos, as well as Malaysia and China, I promise you will learn to open
your eyes and your hearts, as well as having the time of your life.
Spend some time and a little money in letting the world know that
we're not all monsters. In all of Asia, especially SE Asia, you'll
never visit a more phenomenal region where "culture and ancient
civilizations inspire, mesmerize and instill genuine tranquility and
true peace of spirit. Where good-times, divine dining, bargain
shopping and unimaginable experiences are an everyday occurrence.
Vietnam and Thailand are framed with white sand beaches, hundreds of
islands, superb diving, deep sea fishing, jungle trekking on elephants
and endless adventures are abound in the entire region. Beauty and
adventure await at every turn...from the cities to the serene
lifestyles of hidden villages and ancient heritages.
Enjoy their museums, culture centers, temples,
theaters and endless dining experiences on every corner, as well as
great nightlife, cheap accommodations & transportation, along with an
unimaginative foray of unforgettable people. Vietnam, where you can
ride a train from Hanoi in the far north to Saigon in the far
south for approximately $60 US dollars, or ride an air-conditioned
taxi entirely across Saigon for 3 dollars. Or you can pump up your
adrenalin with a one dollar thrilling ride on the back of a scooter
taxi...hanging on for life as the experienced driver swaggers through
packed traffic as effortlessly as a bird through air. In addition to
all the above; SE Asia and especially Vietnam have the most stunningly
beautiful women and welcoming people on the planet. From the south
beaches of Thailand to the mountains of Laos, to the ancient ruins of
Cambodia's Angkor Wat, they are all
unforgettable. Everywhere I wandered I was relaxed, entertained,
amazed and welcomed as family. They live their life's as free people
and are in harmony with each other, their land, and unlike most of the
so called civilized world...their beaches and oceans are for everyone.
And no...I'm not paid to write this editorial or to promote SE Asia or
Vietnam or anywhere else...these are my words, my opinions and my
feelings.
You may ask why I am so down on the USA...it's simple...I am not deaf,
dumb or blind!
One more comment...please remember that when
traveling the world; while very rewarding it is not your playground,
nor your backyard, so show respect where ever you wander! And keep in
mind that if you're not part of the solution in saving our
world...then you are definitely a part of the problem!
The below video is narrated
to teach the young about 'The Truth about The Vietnam War" 40
mins.
Visas: Obtaining a visa
is easy and quick, but must be done before arrival. Extensions are
also quite easy and can be purchased at most tourism agencies.
Health risks: Dengue fever, hepatitis, malaria, rabies,
typhoid, tuberculosis and a minor threat (especially to pregnant
women) of dioxins found in the remnants of America's use of defoliant
Agent Orange. Vietnam, while not as bad as most of Asia, suffers from
water and air pollution. We also advise against renting or operating
any vehicle while anywhere in Asia, especially in Vietnam. The traffic
is maddening and extreme and no one gives right away to anyone or
anything.
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William
L. Calley, the only person to be convicted in the Vietnam, My Lai,
massacre of 500 men, women and children, speaks to a Kiwanis Club in
Columbus, Ga., about the My Lai massacre in Vietnam in 1968.![[Viet Nam Coat of Arms]](vietnam-coat-of-arms.png)
Thailand,
in being afraid of getting dragged into the rage, allowed America to
build and operate bases in their country. They have still not been
fully forgiven by their neighbors.
(Photo
Map of US-Vietnam War) Now is the time to acknowledge that the
cost for fear mongering is extremely too high? Where's the sanity?
Where is the global peace promised at the end of each war? The western
countries consistently pretend to be under threat and attack, but in
reality they're the ones behind the terror. Giving them the self
empowerment to pre-empty vicious attacks, but most often only on
countries with vast amounts of resources or statistical importance.
Loudly, but fallaciously crying out in fear for their security, the
west proceeds to destroy the economy and livelihood of entire regions,
leaving chaos for the poor and mostly helpless victims of their
aggression. Blindfolding their citizens with panic the western
governments pursue what they believe to be their right to accumulate
excessive wealth and global dominance. They vainly declare their
belief in absolute redemption from their God, making it easier to
accept their vile deeds of self-gratuity. They cry and moan the death
of a pet, but turn their backs to the cries of millions of people
suffering from war, as well as natural and other man-made calamities.
Where is compassion...logic...rationale and most definitely... where
is the love? America was once a nation of envy, of respect, but now
it's a nation of fearing and loathing. Are Americans proud of their
self-serving achievements? A two party political system is ludicrous;
as which of these malignant law school good ole boys do you vote
for...asshole A or asshole B? Either and you still end up in the
outhouse. It's always about lying through the bleached teeth and whom
can raise the most money...which, of course, mostly comes from
corporate degenerates.
The
Vietnam war divided your nation, and the world, and ended the American
dynasty. So much sacrificed for so little! The loss was in spite of
the fact that American forces dropped more bombs than in the entirety
of all previous wars ever fought on the globe. In spite of using
weapons of mass destruction, such as Dioxin (agent orange) napalm, gel
gas, high explosive ordinances, phosphorus bombs, mines and countless
other weapons of destruction that succeeded in killing mostly non
combatants... innocent people just trying to survive another day.
America's little tin soldiers imprisoned, tortured, beheaded, burned, raped and
often gutted and actually skinned children. Your soldiers maimed,
killed and literally murdered not thousands, but millions of
Vietnamese people, as well as poisoned the soil for generations,
leaving people even now unable to grow food...and for what? American war stats vary from 1 million
to about 4 million Vietnamese killed, but the consensus in Vietnam and
the rest of the world state the number to be much higher; possibly
up to 6+ million killed with approximately 14 million wounded and
countless more left destitute and homeless. These figures do not
reflect the additional millions that are still suffering from the
countless negative effects of the uncountable tons of chemicals used
by the American forces. It also does not include the causalities in
neighboring countries; Laos is recorded as the most heavily bombed
country in the world. These small countries, including Laos, Cambodia,
Miramar as well as Vietnam are still, as of today, suffering from
endless stretches of once fertile land laid absolutely barren and
poisoned. They also remain laden with millions of dangerous landmines
and other unexploded ordinances and psychological scars that will last
for even more decades...
