Monday, August 25, 2003
And now, after pretending to have a life of my own, it's back to posting links to stuff I've seen elsewhere...
There's a petition here on behalf of Stephen Funk, a soldier in the US Marine Corps who is being charged with desertion when in fact he'd applied to be a conscientious objector. However, reading his latest statement you get the feeling that this situation is as much a result of his own stupidity as anything else. He says that he was born and brought up in Seattle, in an environment where he campaigned for the rights of the poor and siasvantaged of the world. Yet he believed the recruiter telling him he would learn teamwork and leadership skills in the Army. That's the army, the rabid dogs of the overpriveledged elite as they're sometimes known. It's like protesting outside Starbucks and then going in and getting a job because you'll learn good business skills. Not surprisingly, once in the poor diddums discovers that it's all a lie and wants out.
He also doesn't support gay inclusion in the military because he doesn't believe there should be a military. Supporting prejudice purely because you agree with the end result is not a valid philosophy. Stephen Funk says he is gay, so unless this is an additional ploy to get out of the army he lied to get in in the first place, why should someone who wants to die pointlessly serving the political ends of the political elite- sorry, serve their country in the fight for liberty and justice for all, have to lie to do it?
There's a petition here on behalf of Stephen Funk, a soldier in the US Marine Corps who is being charged with desertion when in fact he'd applied to be a conscientious objector. However, reading his latest statement you get the feeling that this situation is as much a result of his own stupidity as anything else. He says that he was born and brought up in Seattle, in an environment where he campaigned for the rights of the poor and siasvantaged of the world. Yet he believed the recruiter telling him he would learn teamwork and leadership skills in the Army. That's the army, the rabid dogs of the overpriveledged elite as they're sometimes known. It's like protesting outside Starbucks and then going in and getting a job because you'll learn good business skills. Not surprisingly, once in the poor diddums discovers that it's all a lie and wants out.
He also doesn't support gay inclusion in the military because he doesn't believe there should be a military. Supporting prejudice purely because you agree with the end result is not a valid philosophy. Stephen Funk says he is gay, so unless this is an additional ploy to get out of the army he lied to get in in the first place, why should someone who wants to die pointlessly serving the political ends of the political elite- sorry, serve their country in the fight for liberty and justice for all, have to lie to do it?
