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 tour of Vietnam I uncovered many dark secrets of the
American-Vietnam war and 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 history and the weakness of mankind!
Growing up a realist I soon learned that my head was more than a hat rack and a
television translator. I pride myself as being thoughtful, and may I add,
sensitive to the suffrage of others and 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 Myramar) and
Cambodia.
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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 is 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. The resources could definitely be put to better uses. America
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 and will 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 fund 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? The USA could fund space exploration at a much faster rate, cure
diseases, and even fund free universities? It could even spend a few billion on
building adequate and faster rail service across it's vast expanse. And they
could help eliminate global poverty.
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, then proceeding
to destroy the economy and livelihood of entire regions, not to detail the poor
and mostly helpless victims of these third world nations. 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, sanity
and most definitely... where is the love? America was once a nation of envy, of
respect, but now it's a nation to fear and loathe. Are Americans proud of their
self-serving achievements? A two party political system is ludicrous. 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.
With all the fiber of my existence and worldly experience I
have learned never to 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, 3 months
in Hong Kong, throughout China, Singapore, Malaysia, Indochina and especially
throughout SE Asia and the 10 weeks spent in Vietnam, I was justified in my long
suspicions about the Vietnam War. Roaming, chatting, listening, collecting
information and shooting hundreds of photos of left war machines...visiting the
war museums, but the most heart saddening of all was seeing the remaining
victims left crippled and scarred forever. After touring through out the country
I settled for 7 weeks in the main city of America's occupation,
Saigon, I didn't just see and read the effects of
the long and costly war...I felt it in the marrow of my bones and witnessed it
in the land and the people. I walked the barren land laid wasted by America's
use of Agent Orange, phosphorus, napalm and constant bombing. I sat down and
chatted with many older men and women crippled from the atrocities of the war.
Some had no arms to wipe away their shed tears as they poured out their hearts
to me. Others no legs...no feet and most definitely a horrific past and a shady
future at best. I saw the deep scars of their frayed infra-structure, slowly,
but tenaciously being rebuilt. Yes, I didn't just read about the effects...I
tasted them...smelled them and felt them 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 many 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 mostly a full
blooded Piute Indian, while my Father being of Irish and Norwegian decent, I am
quite an odd combination of Viking and native American. My Norwegian blood
drives me, while my Indian blood directs me. Reading these words 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.
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. They fed us their 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 truly lied and conspired 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,
spend...spend...don't worry...you can always go to Disney Land to play when
you're over stressed. And when it suited them the Whitehouse criminals bellowed
their cries for war. Loud mind boggling echo's of rhetoric driving the people
into a frenzy 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 constant mind dulling audible and
visual sound bites. They remain comfortable in the knowledge that we, the
people, are at their beck and call continuing 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. Me...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.
Just more global division...patriotism... religion, wealth and poverty,
global commercialism in general and sadly...even sports! My question...how long
do the people of the world remain puppets?
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
their citizens, making them feel 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 its resources. And that with their military might they can just
take what they want...whenever... where-ever. Believing that no nation can stop
them leads to increased weapon proliferation as other nations seek to defend
themselves. Their self given rights to police the world provide golden
opportunities to meddle in the affairs of others and they are masters of deceit
and manipulation. When that fails they use bribery, threats and when
necessary...war, naval blockades and even total annihilation. With these tools
they continue to dominate the world.
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 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 natives lives, their right
to exist...their future and their beliefs, but did not they 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 you
down this terrible path, as even today you attack and occupy Afghanistan and
wage a bloody war against the people of Iraq seeking to control their
resources. And that's not enough to quench your 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 to allow 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 always
believed...just children afraid of the dark? Are you just unimportant livestock
that can easily be led into self-induced chaos? Take a moment out of your busy,
but fruitless lives, and ponder the good we could do with the trillions of
dollars, 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's home to us all.
In the war with Vietnam we spent
our resources, 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 then 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 does what you're told, while continuing 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 Republican 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 in the entire world. In spite that you used weapons of
mass destruction, such as Dioxin (agent orange) napalm, gas, high explosive
ordinances, phosphorus bombs, mines and countless other weapons of destruction,
in which most killed non combatants... innocent people just trying to survive
another day. Your little tin soldiers imprisoned, tortured, beheaded, and raped,
as well as often gutting and actually skinning children. Your soldiers maimed,
killed and literally murdered not thousands, but millions of Vietnamese people.
American records vary from 1 million to about 4 million, but the consensus in
Vietnam and the rest of the world state the number to be much higher; possibly
6+ million killed, 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 1000's of
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. In Laos, Cambodia, Myramar and Vietnam there are
still, as of today, endless stretches of once fertile land laid absolutely
barren and the countries are laden with dangerous landmines...millions!.
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 are united in every aspect of their existence; in their work,
their social status and in the total tenacity for everything they do. They have
unyielding pride and love for their country and each other, and this was and
remains true for each and every Vietnamese from the smallest child to the oldest
man and woman. They live, work, as well as communicate and function in total
sync with one another. They respect and adore each other and go out of their way
to help each other. They never bicker, argue or fight and have true compassion.
They employ a work ethnic that would kill any westerner within a week. Things
that western civilizations could never exhibit. 2. These people can live for
months on a hand full of rice a day and suckle water from plants. They can march
barefoot in total darkness for weeks, dig tunnels hundreds of kilometers long by
hand, carry excessive loads, endure enormous discomfort and severe pain without
whining. 3. But mostly for the very simple reason that they were invaded and
were fighting for their lives, their
culture,
their heritage and everything they believed in. Americans were fighting because
they were ordered to do so by their superiors... because they were drafted into
a war and a region of the world they knew nothing about. 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 smaller the size of the state of
Florida? Why? I'll tell you why! It was to boost your economy by revving up the
war industry and it generated big bucks for the players. It was for world
dominance and extended influence. It was to bully this little SE Asian country,
and eventually it's neighbors, into forfeiting their land and wealth to their
industrial carpet-baggers. Their goal was to make them submit to your way of
thinking and to mimic your culture, to extend your markets for your
products...and their simple orders were to do it or die! America continuously
struggles to set a precedence for other nations; to make them and keep them in
awe of Americas power and in making them accept that America has the right and
the might to do any damn thing it wants, whatever...whenever and where ever!
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.
Lose of respect around the globe. Major health and mental issues for
generations and the beginning of a new era of gun rights, murder and jammed
prisons; millions of drug addicts and organized drug trafficking. Most sadly of
all was that 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 seeking
to save lives of both Americans and Vietnamese. The movement fought to stop the
slaughter in Laos, Burma, (now Myramar), and the murder of tens of thousand
bombed in Cambodia. Your leaders and their dogs of war turned their guns on the
American people that dared demand peace. 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 they were
right.
Vietnam loses:
Approximately 6+ million, close to 4 million civilians deaths. 14+ million
wounded, millions displaced and homeless. Decades of poverty, disease and
utter starvation. Generations of birth defects and contaminated land are 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 even
little girls. The suffered the torture and total humiliation of their people and
were left with nothing more than memories of how American soldiers enslaved the
people, turned their young women into whores...how they raped their children and
often killed them afterwards. Memories of watching American soldiers pour gas
and set their friends and families ablaze for no other reason than that they
could. They answered to no one and no American cared. Memories of watching their
villages being napalmed, the people gutted, beheaded and drug behind jeeps and
tanks. Of watching soldiers tie hand-grenades to their people to laugh in
hysteria when they blew up. 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.
Am I angry? You god damn right I'm
angry and you should be too! Why? Because it's all happening again in
Iraq. Does the USA need the mega bucks from their war and weapon industry to
prosper? No they don't, even though their government has sold them out, having
taken away their citizens right to work, to prosper logistically, and have
allowed and even encouraged our largest industries to move to 3rd world nations with
no health or safety benefits in order to increase their profits. American
inventors continuously sell out their country's interest and growth potential by
selling their ingenuity, products and patents to other nations for a quick
profit. The American government and their corporate partners orchestrate laws
and ridiculous restrictions making it nearly impossible for the production of
American cars, stereos, computers, steel, glass, textile and electronic products
to be sold competitively on global market. They refuse to demand the big auto
companies to produce efficient and quality vehicles...and the list 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! Your nation is and has for the last 9 years under this
disgusting greedy and corrupt Republican regime become a debtor nation with
minuses in every aspect of it's economy, locally and globally. The current
collapse of the housing industry, major banks, credit institutions and large
broker companies the country is now in a full blown recession. The USA has billions in
trade deficits with Japan, China, Europe, and other countries and even borrows
billions annually from Japan and China to finance it's Iraqi and Afghanistan wars.
The
debt of the USA grows by leaps and bounds each day.
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 comical, just listen to president
Bush make a retarded attempt at speaking. 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 new and even more dangerous enemies
daily and doing so while depleting the nations resources. To continue along this
path America will remain living in constant fear, just as scripted by your large
American companies, as they sell their souls and yours, for profits...very large
profits. They support the politicians and are in return supported, but the
people pay the bills. Endless in their attempts to keep it's citizens in fearful
panic they bankrupt your nation by implementing so-called security at the
airports, putting metal detectors in your schools, banks, etc., but then
wouldn't dare go against the gun associations by passing stricter gun laws.
The EPA & the FDA are encouraged and allowed to raise the limits on
chemicals and contaminates allowable in their
water, their air and in the food. And amidst the turmoil and stress the citizens
follow along in blind obedience; foolish enough to believe that by giving up
your shampoo and fingernail clippers at the airport you are doing your part.
Does it make you safer when the airport security makes old women and young kids
remove their shoes? Facts are that billions of tons of cargo pour through your
open ports in unchecked containers each month. Are you safe even without the
so-called threat from global activists, when your streets. cities and towns are
the most dangerous in the world? You have much greater odds of dying 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 all nations combined. You
have more people in jails and prisons than all of the world and even more behind
bars than you do in Universities or working behind desks. Your educational
system is horrific. The value and merit you have for yourself and your peers are
all in dollar signs...$$$. Having a luxury car and a large home is much more
important to you than stopping the actions of your out of control politicians or
helping to aid your fellow humans starving and dying as a direct result of your
actions. Your kids killing each other over cell phones and sneakers! Their egos
more important than anyone or anything else.
Homeland security...what a play
on words...like other words paraphrased in Bush's 3rd grade speeches
about...freedom...terrorist...and his constant referral to God and other, mostly
mispronounced. words repetitively used in his brain-dead speeches...portraying
his sheer and utter contempt for your intelligence. Then there's always the
constant news bites and their apparently successful attempts at influencing your
self indulging brains. I guess it's true what Hitler 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 their guise in keeping you blind
to the deep secrets of just where the true 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 overthrow world
leaders, bribe, bomb and steal resources and obliterate entire heritages. The
CIA, British's MI6, also known as SIS and Israel's Mossad all have their dirty
hands in everyone's business and they run more drugs and weapons than all of the
world's so-called cartels. Haven't you noticed 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. America
bribes, coerces and/or threatens every nation in the world in allowing the
building of their bases.
America boasts of its charitable provisions to Africa in
their fight against Aids, which is thought to have most likely been created by
Americans, as they give the African governments and organizations large sums of
credit. But what they don't mention is that these credits 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. Then of
course these bullied and impoverished nations receive their generous share of
munitions and war machines, but at a very high price...again...America profits
and everyone else loses. And consider that America can't even make a decent car,
but yet are great in designing and building excellent war machines. That alone
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 for
further validation, as God fearing people, it has their best
buddy...Israel...which, by self degree are God's chosen people. It is sad that
Americans actually believe they are blessed by some all powerful God and have
inherited his blessings and permission to do whatever they damn well please.
My question is simple; If America is 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 waving their flags long enough to get off their asses and stand up to
their government and their profit driven corporations. It's our country...when
are we going to reclaim it? Haven't we been pawns and sheep long enough? How
long do our citizens intend to pray and wait for their mystical God to save
them?
Western civilizations begin conditioning their kids to grow
up to be competitive which later results in their being excellent candidates for
the US military. We buy them what ever they want...not what they need. War toys,
violent video games and allowing them to watch countless murder and mayhem
movies. The American youth are encouraged to believe it's ok to hunt and murder
animals, to be aggressive, get in fights and to do onto others before they do
onto them. They're allowed to lie and cheat and are then defended by their
parents with sheer mordacity, even if their sons are accused of date-raping a
young girl. They turn a blind eye when their kids consume large qualities of
alcohol, take designer drugs, shop and spend enormous sums on clothes, etc and
then blame the society they created for their kids failures. The young boys are
encouraged to join the military, but then the parents rant and blubber like
babies when their kids are killed in some fucked war they themselves supported.
But never say a word and 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.
The 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 laws,
hooked on drugs, as well as alcohol and some get pregnant. And the few kids, mostly poor, that do get jobs end up
spending every earned dollar trying to be something their 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 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 to busy to
be involved parents. The same parents that aren't even aware that they're
terrible at being friends, neighbors, parents, teachers, employees and employers
and even worst at 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. After all they are all caught up in the so-called
American dream. It's truly shameful!
Our governments have sold us out to their corporate brothers,
while we blindly chase the fucking American dream...existing in a self contained
maze of work, debt and stress, but then we can always turn to a long line of
pharmaceuticals and loads of booze to make it all easier to bear. Still hanging
onto their pride of having a heavily mortgaged house, that will never be paid
off; their foreign car and numerous playthings, like a giant plasma TV, remote
controlled lawn mower, golf clubs, boat, a motorcycle they seldom have the time
to use. They just don't realize that their American dream lifestyle comes at a
high price, not only in stress, but with undrinkable tap water, chemically
polluted air, jammed highways, a junk food joint on every corner, out of control
government, increasing taxes, more freedom depriving regulations. Not to mention
a few million lunatics with guns, slum areas they're afraid to drive through
even in daylight.
Then there's always the constant bullshit bombardment from
news-bites from the puppet casters of CNN, Nightly News and all the rest of the
brain dead morons blaring out the pre-approved rhetoric of strictly regulated
information, 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...are consistently too stressed to enjoy a
little romance with our spouses...constantly living in fear that our out of
control kids might kill us if we don't succumb to their daily demands for
unrestricted freedoms. Yes, we should all be proud of our robotic lives in our
glass, plastic and concrete environment. But then again, you survive knowing
that God will reward your worthless lives with everlasting peace in some
floating spiritual heaven. And you're ignorant enough to continually live in
fear 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...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 female, which at times is a cop dressed as a hooker, but
its ok to browse the web in search of even more extreme and disgusting porn.
To
live 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.
A land where in every poor neighborhood there's a liquor and a 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 dignity
their existence by going to church on Sunday, but masturbate to images of young
girls on their favorite porn sites. These same men group
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. They have no concept that they are responsible for raising
their children, while 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??? Don't forget to stock
up on plastic sheeting and duct tape your house for the next Anthrax alert....if
not... your patriotism will be in doubt!!!
Personally I was raised and educated in nature, hiking,
fishing, exploring, playing with my friends and dogs, swimming in the 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, violent shootouts where
guns and murder are glorified. Mothers feeding them junk food and watching daily soaps
that go on for generations. And let's not forget their music; disgusting black
rap and hip-hop 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 the sick societies of America and
western style societies "just what the hell do you expect from the people, especially
the kids? Living 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 with the ability to fight the war
at a distant. A country where traffic laws are enforced, but robbery, murder and
mayhem are common...even more than 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 are 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 freedom.
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 necessary. As that traffic
citations generate a hell of a lot of money for our screwed up judicial system
we don't have the right to break an unrealistic traffic law without severe
reprimand? 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"...and then there's our bumper stickers proclaiming "God bless our troops
over there in Iraq." Now if we only knew where the fuck Iraq was located. Shouldn't we at least be obligated in learning how to spell the name of the
country 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 and the world in general, along with our
malcontent, greed, cruelty, and our 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 you dog at
3:Am without fear of getting mugged or shot by a 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's bathed in
dictators, starvation, filth, pollution, war, murder, torture, global insanity
and just total 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 and what harm we have done to them and the
rest of the world. Having traveled the globe, and having lived in and throughout Vietnam,
as well as SE Asia, I
can say positively that they 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 that 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 have 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.
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 US 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 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 home to the most welcoming people.
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.
One more comment...please remember that when traveling the
world; it can be very rewarding, but 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!
