{"id":56459,"date":"2014-11-15T11:45:18","date_gmt":"2014-11-15T16:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=56459"},"modified":"2014-11-15T09:43:21","modified_gmt":"2014-11-15T14:43:21","slug":"dont-worry-rob-howard-we-wont","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=56459","title":{"rendered":"Don’t worry, Rob Howard, we won’t"},"content":{"rendered":"

For some reason, Rob Howard<\/a>, a former Navy nuke, according to him from 1982 to 1996, doesn’t want us to thank him for his service. No prob, Rob, we won’t. If he’d left it there I’d be fine with it, but of course, being a blow-hard Leftist, he couldn’t;<\/p>\n

Another opportunity for the blind, gullible, obedient people of the Empire to spew forth their patriotic slogans and go up to veterans and say, in a robotic manner, \u201cThank you for your service to our country\u201d. These are the same people that will then go home and numb themselves with beer, sports and reality television so they don\u2019t have to face the fact that they are slaves in a corrupt system.<\/p>\n

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I have a confession. I have failed this nation. So have my fellow veterans, and all of those currently serving in the military. When I enlisted, I took the standard oath, swearing to protect and defend the Constitution from all enemies, foreign and domestic. Instead, I not only allowed the billionaires and corporations that wish to pervert the Constitution for their own ends, or to eliminate it completely, to march in and take control, I helped them do it. I blindly believed what I was told. I parroted the patriotic slogans I was taught. I obediently voted in the way that the political machine instructed me to vote, helping to perpetuate the lie of the two party system. I assisted the domestic enemies of truth and justice to insinuate themselves into the highest levels of government.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Wait a second, dingus, don’t bring me into your little diatribe against common sense. Now, Rob, here, claims to be disabled from his service, so I’m guessing that he takes a disability check every month from the “Empire” and I’m also guessing that you couldn’t pry a nickle from that check out of Rob’s grubby paws with a crowbar.<\/p>\n

You want to do something on Veterans Day for me and my millions of fellow veterans? Join me in waking up and taking action to end the insanity before another generation is sacrificed on the wheels of the war machine. Let\u2019s turn off the mainstream media political propaganda channels and open our eyes to see what is really going on. Let\u2019s stop supporting the two party political system, and instead seek alternative candidates who will actually act as representatives of We, the People. Let\u2019s speak up and speak out when we see injustice, and actively work to end suffering. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If you want to do something on Veterans’ Day, Rob, how about you pretend to speak for yourself and keep the rest of us out your stupid rants. Go overthrow the government all by yourself. I wouldn’t join you in line at Starbucks, let alone in a revolution. I’ve never expected anyone to thank me for my service, and I’m pretty sure that Rob, here, expects you to thank him for his service so he can pretend like he doesn’t appreciate your well-wishes.<\/p>\n

Thanks to DefendUSA for the link. She responded to his little missive, but it got deleted, but not before she saved it;<\/p>\n

I call you a coward, Mr. Howard. I served in the same era you did. I did it because I wanted to. Sure I had fringe benefits-traveling, money for college, training in a great job. Did FTX’s suck? Sure. Were some of the rules shitty?You betcha. Could I have gone to war?Yes. I signed on the dotted line knowing there were no guarantees in life. Medical and dental care? Yep. How about a nice place to sleep? uh-huh.<\/p>\n

And you served 14 years before you got out of such a shitty job, or maybe it took you that long to figure out what to be when you grew up? Wow. And now the rest of us are failures because you say so? Put your money where your mouth is, Mr. Howard. Send back that disability check and pay for yourself. Stand behind your convictions and don’t take the evil, imperious military industrial complex’s money.<\/p>\n

Oh, I know. You’re going to tell me you “earned” it, you deserve it. You don’t speak for me and probably not for the veterans I served with. I’d like to be in your shoes for 15 minutes so that I can blame all the ills of the world on the M.I.C. and the evil USA.<\/p>\n

Have you been to a communist country? Go, try to get in. Have you been to a socialist country? Go there and stay. You. don’t. speak. for. me. ***And it just occurred to me, that had you not had a physical disability, you would have retired because you were first and foremost a coward. You don’t understand what freedom is as you shit on veterans past and present. Denigrate yourself. leave the rest of us out. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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