{"id":22731,"date":"2011-03-28T08:31:48","date_gmt":"2011-03-28T12:31:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=22731"},"modified":"2011-03-28T08:31:48","modified_gmt":"2011-03-28T12:31:48","slug":"the-people-talking-to-your-kids-about-the-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=22731","title":{"rendered":"The people talking to your kids about the war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I&#8217;ve written a few times, Ethan McCord, who was one of the soldiers on the scene during the now-famous &#8220;Collateral Murder&#8221; video (which was filmed four years ago). Now he&#8217;s a man on a mission to &#8220;explain&#8221; the video to your kids and school children like them with the help of the rocket surgeons at World Can&#8217;t Wait. Here&#8217;s a screen shot of WCW&#8217;s Facebook page where Ethan rejoices at his new-found occupation &#8211; teaching your kids;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/McCord-and-kids.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-22732 aligncenter\" title=\"McCord and kids\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/McCord-and-kids-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If any of you have ever tried to interview a private about what he saw in combat, you&#8217;d know that 15 privates will give you 17 stories about the same event. Not that they lie, but everyone remembers traumatic events the way they want to remember it. Of course, Ethan is a mild improvement over the guys that used to tour schools who weren&#8217;t even at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of whom, Matthis has published a wonderfully laborious bit of literature, too tortuous to read in it&#8217;s entirety. it&#8217;s about evil &#8211; of course it has to do with him being evil during his time in the military because the Army made him evil. We all knew it wasn&#8217;t his fault, right?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Evil was all around me. It engulfed my every action, concealed itself behind my every motivation, but perceive it I could not. It wrapped our violent fists when we hit the town for drink. It cradled the balls hung from our erections as we forced them inside the natives. It sat in our throats when out flowed the lies that cued our mothers to be proud. It whispered promises of glory to us as we slept and dreamed of conquest.<\/p>\n<p>We abide by it still, in every aspect of our lives. Even the wise among us abide by evil to proliferate their constructions of a better life; their stomachs bloated by a loaf of its own oven. I&#8217;ve said before, \u201clife in the United States is as a tube affixed to your anus through which you inhale the bulk of your existence.\u201d Even the best of us consume the poison of ourselves within this system. How can we not taste it?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I like how he writes &#8220;our&#8221; and &#8220;We&#8221;, but he actually means &#8220;You&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>So, I suppose Matthis should just move out of the United States, since we all have tubes in our anuses &#8211; what a childish analogy&#8230;almost as bad as his oral sex analogy in the previous paragraph. It looks like that VA-paid college education is wasted. He writes like a pseudo-intellectual high school freshman.<\/p>\n<p>Ya know what&#8217;s funny? Here he is talking about how evil it is to be in the military, to be an American, yet here he is attending college free-of-charge on a benefit paid for by the American tax payer. Yeah, that&#8217;s pretty fucking evil. And, oh, by the way, he&#8217;s stealing the benefit, too, because his downgraded discharge should have precluded any further college tuition benefits. So when they finally catch up with him (and they will, if I have any say whatsoever), he&#8217;ll say he&#8217;s being harassed because he spoke out against the war.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A day is coming when every American will know the evil in himself. That day we will burn the temples and cast out the false gods. We will finally be free of ourselves.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;d prefer to just be free of your blather, Matthis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I&#8217;ve written a few times, Ethan McCord, who was one of the soldiers on the &hellip; <a title=\"The people talking to your kids about the war\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=22731\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The people talking to your kids about the war<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,131,37,30,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antiwar-crowd","category-i-hate-hippies","category-ivaw","category-phony-soldiers","category-usual-suspects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22731\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}