War

[Moostache]

26. WAS the threat....war's over man, and THEY won.

The military now is nothing more than an modern reincarnation of the Knight's Templar at their utter worst. A gang sent out to do the bidding and die by men who care nothing of them, the suffering of others or the rest of humanity.

I am haunted by a conversation I had in September 2001 shortly after 9/11. I was discussing the events with a group of people and they ALL were saying this meant "war", but when I pressed them on that idea, when I asked "War against who?", all I got in return was a lot of anger and thirst for vengeance but nothing more than the emerging company line "war on terror". These were educated, rational people and I could not reach them through their fear. They were scared to death of more terrorism and when I pressed further with the root of this anger towards America things got to a pitch that was terribly uncomfortable and led to some lost friendships.

I knew then, going on 14 years ago already, that we were in deep shit. I've seen nothing to date to make me think otherwise, only reinforcement that we are under the boot of the corporations and their interests outweigh EVERYTHING else - people, communities, families, justice, peace...you name it. If it is not in service of greater profits, it is not defended.

That war is over and we all lost massively. We now live under occupation until critical mass is reached and the push for change can no longer be suppressed. Occupy was crushed and now marginalized. It will take something orders of magnitude more than Occupy to end this reign of the corporate greed and stop their war machine.