U.S. Armed services recruiting for holy war!!!!!

[spice]

I was watching the network news this morning and saw a story on there that made me sick to my stomach....it was about a young man who is an atheist, who just happens to be in the Army....he says that when he and some fellow atheists and self-described 'free thinkers' had attended a meeting of their informal group, they were threatened with retaliation and formal charges...there are further allegations from other cadets that they were bullied and pressured by a sect within the military that are basically evangelists with machine guns....

On the tv news he said one afficer referred to themselves as 'Army Missionaries of God".....this was his immediate superior ranking officer...? WTF?

Read the horrifying details yourself;

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/26/us/26atheist.html

 

[ThaUnreal]

are you kidding me? Wow, im glad im not in the armed forces. I wonder how bad they'd pester an agnostic?

seriously tho, i have to agree with wtf?

 

[spice]

I think that the entire IDEA of abandoning thinking for oneself in order to be sent to die in a foriegn land......REPULSIVE.....what kind of misguided, lost soul would even enlist in the service considering the lack of trust and faith America has in the people that make the decision to go to war....

....the last time *I* checked, the constitution didn't grant oversight powers to HALLIBURTON, that power was vested in the Legislative body of government...

Mindless zombies, killing civilians, women and children, are not what the founding fathers had in mind when they wrote the constitution. I guarantee you Thomas Jefferson is spinning in his grave.

Hiding behind a BIBLE, while being told what to think, and who to kill, makes you WORSE than a coward in my book....it makes you the spawn of satan....a coward is a NOBLE creature compared to the massdeath perpetraitors who enforce the neo-con policies of domination.....


John McCain has already said that one of his FIRST priorities will be to , and I quote...." figure out a way to get more people in the service" unquote.

When they re-instate the draft, I go on record here and now as saying


I WILL SET UP A MODERN UNDERGROUND RAILROAD AND HELP ANYONE THAT NEEDS IT ESCAPE TO CANADA OR MEXICO.

I've been to both, multiple times, and I know how to get in covertly.


Capiche' uncle W ?

 

[Guest]

I knew it was bad, but this is rediculous!
Religious rednecks with guns and power.

I think Mark Renton's quote applies to the whole world at the moment:
"We're being ruled by effete arseholes! It's a shite state of affairs to be in Tommy and all the fresh air in the whole world won't make any fucking difference."

 

[phalaris]

Eventually the shit dries out, and forms a crust we can walk over.

 

[spice]

...maybe even fertilize a few flowerd, too....but shee-it, it seems so far away.

 

[Guest]

Eventually the shit dries out...

I'd say we smoke it! :weedman:


But i do feel the same as Spice, it seems so far away... :?