Veterans Day

This is the weekend when we're commemorating the deaths of soldiers who fought in past and present wars, which to me is the equivalent of Mass Murderers Day. I know how controversial it is to make such a statement and I make it with the understanding that it will provoke rage among the less evolved because it challenges their belief system. When people feel the constructs of their reality threatened the immediate reaction is to start spitting, clawing and hissing; until the dust settles and their mindset shifts slightly to allow new knowledge to be introduced and then they re-write the script indicating they believed all along that it was morally deplorable to celebrate professional killers.
I am neither the first nor the originator of expressing disgust at military establishments and the people who fill their ranks; organized systems of superior killing and mass slaughter is the most offensive contribution man can make to humanity. When governments of death invade the power structure like Nixon and Reagan and Bush Junior have in recent history, they reduce the entire world into a place for America to dominate and subjugate and rob of its resources. The military serves to feed individual thirst for power and quench the greed of war profiteers while cloaking their death march in patriotism, religious and political ideology or false threats that there are imminent and catastrophic in nature. In order to manipulate average citizens into joining the military and/or supporting wars the government and the military must lie.
The American government and military lied to invade Iraq, lied to cover up the killing of Pat Tillman by fellow American soldiers, fabricated a mammoth lie about Jessica Lynch to increase support for a war becoming more unpopular by the day and lies to protect its Blackwater Christian militia in Iraq that is killing citizens on the streets with impunity. The prisoners at Abu Graib and Guantanamo are tortured and humiliated by soldiers, that little girl that was raped, killed and then her entire family killed was done by soldiers, countless mass slaughters and massacres and war crimes are being committed by soldiers and we're supposed to celebrate them?
No. I think not.
There is a virulent element of racism that runs through all these wars in the Middle East that I am not comfortable with, white Christians attacking brown Muslims and then labelling them the terrorists? This is not a Freedom March making Iraq and Afghanistan safe for democracy, this is Imperialism based in racism and xenophobia and hate, oppression and control and this is all done at the hands of soldiers.
The baby boomers are obsessed with their own lie and propaganda that soldiers died for us to be free and they are furiously clinging to this belief, they turn on anyone who would challenge such a faulty narrative. This is a generation that is going to have to be forcibly removed from power if we are going to evolve into active, fair and peaceful members of this global community we live within.
There is no draft, the soldiers willingly signed up to kill for country and corporation and they are not to be celebrated they are to be condemned and rightfully labelled as killers and war criminals. The Nuremburg trials in Europe sent a very clear message: soldiers can no longer claim they were following orders when committing atrocities.
Today I memorialize and commemorate the victims of the soldiers: innocent men, women and children.