A personal account of the Ft Benning protest

September 11, 2001, was a horror visited on America, but it should not have been a total surprise. After all, most Americans are worldly enough to understand that there is a price to pay when a country uses it power and influence to prop up corrupt governments which oppress and kill their own people.

I believe that the law of karma -- or what my Grandma used to call "what goes around, comes around" -- is immutable and applicable to countries as well as individuals.

Shortly after 9-11, President George W. Bush said that one of our primary goals in the war on terror was to find the terrorist training camps and destroy them.

We say yes, Mr. Bush, let's do that -- and let's start with the SOA/WHISC.

They've only produced a few dictators and murderers. So, they torture, kidnap, murder and disappear a few thousand here and a few thousand there a year. Even General Clark approves of the school. He spoke at their 1996 graduation, full of praise.

So say some people on this very board.

I was dumbstruck when I heard clark supporters defend the school. Despite link after link of information on the history of SOA, they still condoned it.

Do Democrats actually believe a school, on our soil, that has training manuals that give instructions in kidnapping, torture and execution, is a good thing?

In over thirty years as a Democratic Party member I have never been aware of such Democrats. It must be a new breed of Democrats. A breed I want no part of.

:kick:

(snip) Did the SOA-trained soldiers responsible for that and other atrocities realized that they too were victims, pawns in an international game too complex for them to comprehend?

Did they or their instructors wonder whether an inquiry by the United States Congress into SOA training manuals would expose instruction in kidnapping, torture and execution, as it did?

Was there concern that the public would find out that all of this training was being paid for by U.S. tax dollars, in essence making taxpaying citizens accomplices in kidnapping, torture and murder?

Do the soldiers now receiving training here worry that the world will know that this training and these activities continue? Do they care? (snip/)

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

It's very telling when people are more than willing to look the other way while SOA graduates decimate villages, torture innocent citizens, even in fiendish, grotesque ways, and walk away unscathed to do it whenever, wherever again.

NO CAUSE justifies savagery.

are supposed Dems that find nothing wrong w/SOA.

;)

Peace

:hi:

the "s" word.



P.S. Strange that none of the "s" worders have posted to this thread, eh?