Oui posted this article today-Taking the Iraq War Home – LAPD Terror.
The opening sentences:
A warrior, unsettled after Iraq duty, goes on a rampage in Southern California. It’s not clear whether he suffered from PTSD or had a Narcissistic personality disorder. Either way, a combat trained Navy Seal is fully armed, dangerous and seeking revenge.
I don’t know what else to say, except:
Malcolm X warned us 50+ years ago. Eventually, the chickens always come home to roost. A nation cannot put its soldiers in harm’s way for no discernibly valid reasons without turning some of them…the too tightly wound, the ones who are living on the brink…into well-trained enemies of that system. This guy has snapped, and there is already hell to pay about it. Do we think that he is somehow alone!!!??? The only one? Please.
We have unbalanced children taking their video game/violent movie/so-called “attention inducing” drug-fueled combat fantasies right through the mirror into real life. We have thousands and thousands of poverty-stricken kids of all races with nothing whatsoever to lose, out there on the streets trying to get over. They have been driven over the edge by the realization that this society doesn’t give a flying fuck about them other than in their roles as minimum wage-indentured servants or disposable soldiers with guns fighting blood-for-oil wars.
I have been saying this and saying this for years here and elsewhere on the leftiness blogs. We cannot maintain our current economic imperialist policies abroad and we cannot maintain our utter disregard for the education of our children and the production of a truly healthy culture in which they can grow. Not if we want to survive.
Both problems are the direct result of corporate control of the country. Corporations have no long view…they are quarterly-driven success machines. If there is a profit shown during a quarter, that’s what they continue to do, no matter if that profit is the result of an unjust war waged on trumped-up charges, financial criminality of mind-boggling proportions or the destruction of a culture by bottom-line productions like that totally bullshit “Grammy Awards” thing that lumbered through the airwaves this week.
Those who support this system…for any reasons, including the fear that it will break down if real reforms are instituted…do so as creatures of that same short-term mindset that drives corporations. Win at any cost and damn the consequences.
Well…I got one of your “consequences,” right here!!!
You made him. You deal wid it.
You think Obama is going to somehow “change things?” Wake the fuck up. Look at the corporations that funded him. Look at the corporations that slanted the coverage of the latest election from the get-go to ensure that he would have no real opposition. Look at the content of the National Defense Authorization Act. He is here to preserve the status quo. Nothing more and nothing less. Does he believe that this is the best we can do at this point? Probably, but that’s no excuse.
We need real change.
When?
Before the main flock of chickens flies home to exact the justice that comes to all oppressors?
Before some other person or group of people light a fire under our ass that will completely disrupt this system?
Before we topple into military rule?
Let us pray.
Later…
AG