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Join the US Marines

vet | 23.07.2004 05:45

The US Marines are looking for a few good morons.

The US Marine Corps is looking for a few good morons to do the rich pigs’ dirty work.

Become a Marine and:

Murder your way to college.

Travel to exotic places and contaminate the ecosystems for billions of years with radioactive substances.

Meet the indigenous people of these exotic places and murder, torture, rape, sodomize, maim, rob, degrade, ransom, extort and enslave them and their children.

Plunder museums and take priceless artifacts.

Destroy water treatment plants, grain storage facilities, homes, schools, hospitals, etc so you can brag about what a great humanitarian you are for rebuilding them.

Shoot at ambulances and people waving white flags.

Practice target shooting at real live human targets! Free ammunition!

Detonate cluster bombs in neighborhoods.

Snipe children, women, senior citizens.

Commit war crimes with impunity.

Become a non-thinker, robot.

Lose your individuality.

Call the enemy racist names like gook, rag head and hadjii without fear of being labeled a racist.

Surrender your constitutional rights.

Subject your body to injections of harmful improperly tested vaccines.

Acquire the symptoms of mysterious diseases, which the government denies exist.

Get your picture in the local newspaper obituary section for free.

Come home in flag-draped coffin for free.

Receive a free burial.

Get wounded and have the VA put you on a long waiting list for treatment.

Get injured and have the medical officer tell you you’re faking.

Receive free psychiatric treatment for telling your commander that you saw your comrades murder a POW.

Experience post traumatic stress disorder and commit suicide or kill your spouse.

Take advantage of the poverty and loose laws in foreign countries and have sex with 10 year-old prostitutes for cheap. Brag about it with your friends.

Learn how to be a lean mean killing machine so that when you get out you can become a killer cop, prison guard, wife beater, snitch, scab, Mafia hit man.




vet

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Ignorance fuels prejudice

23.07.2004 10:45

This is rather one sided and extreme. I am sure many of us are concerned about events in the middle East, including a lot of Marines and their families. There are numerous posts on indymedia by former servicemen that show their concerns. But what is the point in castigating against an entire group of people? Many of whom are concerned and perturbed about what they may ACTUALLY be dying for! To say that all Marines are thugs, murderers etc is the same as saying all Muslims are terrorists, both are prejudical attitudes fueled by ignorance. The US empire is failing as it's soldiers in increasing numbers do not want to police it and they are dissilushioned. Encorouge them to leave the military and build a better world. Not everything they have done is criminal, the grand scheme of things is what should concern us at present. Little is achieved by simply piling insults on people who may dislike Bush's middle East enterprise as much as you, after all they have been on the sharp end of it and dramatically witnessed it's failure and seen their comrades die for it. Time for regime change at home and bring the troops back. For heavens sake the Marines aren't the real criminals, Bush, Cheney etc are. Don't get side tracked.

Jarhead


this is pointless

23.07.2004 11:16

1) this is stupid and unlikely to convince anyone

2} this is THE UK so how about you criticise our army first!!

Left wing


The prupose of armed forces........

23.07.2004 13:17

......is to control places and people for someone else's profit and gain. This more often than not is done through violence - be it physical or psychological. The sooner those joining the armed forces are directed to psychiatric help rather than training in murder the better !

Paul


Not the same

23.07.2004 14:26

"To say that all Marines are thugs, murderers etc is the same as saying all Muslims are terrorists"

Not true. Marines as a group are defined by their membership of an organisation thats primary purpose is to kill for the profit of a few (the marine corps is not a defensively structured organisation, they are structured to 'project force', i.e. imperialism). By joining, marines declare they are willing to kill on the word of politicians, the least trusted profession in the western world. Thus, to say that 'marines are thugs' is fair comment - it's in their job description.

Muslims however are not defined by action but belief, in a monotheistic deity, Allah, and his prophets, Muhammed, Jesus, Moses etc. Thus to conclude that because some muslims are terrorists, all muslims are terrorists *is* quite wrong, as you correctly point out.

Anyhow, the original article is satirical, perhaps non-news but certainly current given the intense recruitment efforts being made by the marine corps and the rumours of a return to conscription after the next coup, sorry, election. This is a *UK* newswire though . . .

Tom


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