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Title: Observation
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Published: Jan 16, 2010
Author: F.A. Hayek Fan
Post Date: 2010-01-16 10:24:56 by F.A. Hayek Fan
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Views: 367
Comments: 31

As many of you know, a couple of years ago I sold my chain of medical equipment and supply stores and returned to college. While I attend a university, this semester I decided to do some tutoring at a local community college.

I've been tutoring there for a week now and I am shocked by the number of young men and women I am seeing in wheelchairs. I have counted twenty so far. Most of them appear to be casualties from the Iraq/Afghanistan wars. I say this because almost all of them use their military rucksacks as their book bags.

Now that I think about it, there are quite a few young people in wheelchairs at the university as well. I guess it didn't stand out as much though because there are 25000 students at the university compared with the one or two thousand at the community college.

What a sad waste.

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Eric Stratton  posted on  2010-01-16   10:40:50 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#12. To: Eric Stratton, F.A. Hayek Fan (#1)

Yet, they all voluntarily sign-up initially and go seemingly willingly.

That is because they are young, idealistic, and sold a buttload of crap. I know because I was one of them. It is natural for the young to be adventurous and military service is marketed as adventurous and as a duty. To the cynical bastards who create the marketing programs, and the wars they don't fight in, it is a game and they think of those who care enough to join as suckers when all they are is young, naive, and desiring to do what is right. It is a filthy game they play on these young kids. So, is someone really willing if they join under that context? I don't think so - they are willing only in that they think they are signing up to do the right thing when in reality the purpose to which their energy is directed is something totally different. So, how willing is someone induced by fraud to act against their own best interests?

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#26. To: Eric Stratton (#19)

I went in strictly for the educational benefits and almost never got there.

I joined because it was expected. I come from a long line of career military men on both sides of my family - my dad, both grandfathers, all of my great-grandfathers - the list goes on for a long time.

It was quite the family scandal when I left before retiring at 30+ years. Everyone in my family has stayed in at least thirty years. One of my my little brothers is still in. He's been in the AF 22 years now and shows no sign of retiring. He'll be another 30+ year man. My other little brother has physical problems which kept him from joining or he would have been a lifer as well. As for me, after Panama, Desert Storm, Somalia, Haiti, and Bosnia, I finally woke up to the fact that I wasn't protecting the country. I was being used as an electioneering device by men in a far off city that I despised and who despised me. What more, the American people were not only allowing me to be used, they didn't give a shit one way or the other. It was a eye opening epiphany. So instead of reenlisting, I left with my middle finger held high to both the two party fraud and the American people.

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What more, the American people were not only allowing me to be used, they didn't give a shit one way or the other. It was a eye opening epiphany. So instead of reenlisting, I left with my middle finger held high to both the two party fraud and the American people.

It took me a long time to overcome the bitterness, but I finally did. I think I am better for the experience, but not in the way the recruiting posters and ads sell. By the time I got out I was awake to what the system really was and the lesson stuck. And yes the Brass and Politicos are cynical bastards (bastards is really too mild as is Sons of Bitches but it will have to do) who foully use brave, loyal, young men and women to an end they do not yet understand when first enlisting. Smedley Butler didn't get it until after he retired: "War is a Racket".

As for the American Sheeple they are largely deluded, and believe falsehoods true as well, and in the end I feel sympathy for them. To be so lost in a fog of untruth cannot be pleasant. I once saw a T-shirt in a window of a shop near the University of Washington that read: "Ignorance Ought to Be Painful". In reality it is.

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#28. To: F.A. Hayek Fan, Eric Stratton, Cynicom (#27)

As a footnote the other vitally important lesson I learned is what it would be like to live under a socialist police state, and want nothing to do with it. The deluded morons who push socialism really do not, in their gut, understand what such a system feels like to the inmate.

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