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, 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.
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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 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.
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 actual war vets my 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 a full
blooded Piute Indian, while my Father was of Irish 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. 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. 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
that continually 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, go further and further in
debt...spend...spend...and don't worry...you can always go to Church
or if you can afford...Disney Land...to revive your imagination.
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 their purposes. 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.
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 status, etc.
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 the succeeded in killing mostly non combatants... innocent
people just trying to survive another day. American little tin soldiers
imprisoned, tortured, beheaded, raped and often gutted
and actually skinned children. Your soldiers maimed, killed and
literally murdered not thousands, but millions of Vietnamese people
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 from 4 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...
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 do. 2. They retain 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 each other. 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.
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. 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 2009 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 with
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, escalating murder and
overflowed prisons;
The war open the path for billions in smuggled drugs and created millions of addicts and
countless organizations of traffickers. And with all the suffrage
and awareness 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.
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 angry that they failed to win.
Did they learn anything? Obviously not...as their flex their might
again for oil in the mostly defenseless countries of Afghanistan and Iraq.
More billions spent...more millions killed!
Vietnam loses:
Millions of mostly killed 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
being whores...They watched and endured the raping of their children,
which were often killed afterwards. Memories of
watching American soldiers pouring gas and setting a blaze their friends and
families for no other reason than that they could. The invaders
answered to no one or no 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 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.
Vietnam gains;
Perseverance 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? Their
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 and all 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 monies have dropped your
country into a full blown recession. The USA has 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 54
Trillion dollars...not including inflation or 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 comical, just remember your last 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
even more dangerous enemies daily and 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 one
of your most powerful lobbyists...The American Gun
Association, by demanding the passage of stricter gun laws.
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 or working behind desks. Even odder is that most of
those jailed were poor, black and minor drug offenders. The health and educational
system 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, being friendly to your
neighbors and especially in stopping the actions of out of control
politicians. We all have to realize that the world need it's people
to care, be supportive of each other in aiding fellow humans 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.
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 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 and
watching murder and mayhem movies for entertainment.
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. The young have few boundaries when allowed to lie and cheat and
know they will always be defended by their parents. The parents 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. 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 are 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 they march to an unfathomable beat of sheer
madness. They just don't realize that the American
lifestyle comes at a high price, not only in constant and
overwhelming burdens, but with undrinkable tap water, chemically
polluted air, 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, slum areas they're afraid to drive
through even in daylight, and 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. But then
manage to survive knowing that God will reward your
worthless lives with everlasting peace in some floating spiritual
heaven. 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 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.
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 them
junk food and 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
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'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 you 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, 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.
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.
