Memorial Day is a Fraud: The True Meaning is Worse

[BADecker]

Memorial Day is a Fraud: The True Meaning is Worse

In this day in 1937, ten innocents Americans were gunned down in cold blood by badged and costumed Orcs in Chicago. Same as it ever was.

Since 1775, there have been approximately 1.35 million deaths and total US casualties of approximately 2.8 million. The deaths could fill a lake with about 1.7 million gallons of blood which could fill a city swimming pool that was 30 feet deep and 275 feet at each side. The deaths on the other side in the belligerent camp are exponentially larger by any standard when once examines the history.

In essence not only are we asked to memorialize conflicts that always manages to strengthen the government's power on the other side, we are exposed to a constant drumbeat of protecting "our" freedom yet no existential threat to the USSA has existed since the cessation of hostilities with the UK in 1814.

Read more at http://zerogov.com/?p=4738.

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Something funny:

The USA was founded 239 years ago and since then had 222 years of war.

Amazing.

I doubt that most of us citiziens are realizing what that actually means.

[Fortify]

Something funny:

The USA was founded 239 years ago and since then had 222 years of war.

Amazing.

I doubt that most of us citiziens are realizing what that actually means.

The more depressing thought is most of the wars in that time were fought to a stalemate or quagmire. All too often the US seems to go after what they think are easy targets, which infact backfire in their face - but the juggernaut of companies behind the military still made a lot of money off the perpetually overcharged contracts in between.