On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 10:01:38AM -0400, Tyler Durden wrote:
Peter Thonen wrote..
"On that same note, any weekend warrior who complains about being activated has no sympathy from me. Take the devils coin, be prepared to do his work also."
Well, what if the Devil stole that $ from you in the first place? What level of subversion is appropriate in order to re-appropriate those $$$? This case is clearly different from the true blue career war criminal, ehr I mean career soldier. Here, these people have likely been paying taxes for a while! So I don't mind too much if they're trying to dodge their commitment in this context.
I think also a great many of the young guys joined the National Guard in a patriotic fervor right after 9/11, but by the time the crusade against Iraq got started, quite a few had become well aware that Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11, that the invasion was all about oil, etc, and weren't willing to go. It seems that the military is claiming that we are in a "national emergency" and they can do whatever they want, despite laws to the contrary. -- Harmon Seaver CyberShamanix http://www.cybershamanix.com