No More Poppies: End Militarism Now (W/ Bullets!)

Bombs too, & why not? Every day the U.S. makes very clear just how little value it gives to human life; let's get the "Look! Hypocrites!!! Imagine that in America" pseudo-shocked Veterans Day shit out of the way early, before the lies, crap & death-worship flood the nation/media & our blood pressure climbs to the moon again.The Guardian has dug up an old bastard who was "there" & is sick of the shit too. Let's take a look.

I will remember friends and comrades in private next year, as the solemnity of remembrance has been twisted into a justification for conflict

Over the last 10 years the sepia tone of November has become blood-soaked with paper poppies festooning the lapels of our politicians, newsreaders and business leaders. The most fortunate in our society have turned the solemnity of remembrance for fallen soldiers in ancient wars into a justification for our most recent armed conflicts. The American civil war's General Sherman once said that "war is hell", but unfortunately today's politicians in Britain use past wars to bolster our flagging belief in national austerity or to compel us to surrender our rights as citizens, in the name of the public good.

Still, this year I shall wear the poppy as I have done for many years. I wear it because I am from that last generation who remember a war that encompassed the entire world. I wear the poppy because I can recall when Britain was actually threatened with a real invasion and how its citizens stood at the ready to defend her shores. But most importantly, I wear the poppy to commemorate those of my childhood friends and comrades who did not survive the second world war and those who came home physically and emotionally wounded from horrific battles that no poet or journalist could describe.

However, I am afraid it will be the last time that I will bear witness to those soldiers, airmen and sailors who are no more, at my local cenotaph. From now on, I will lament their passing in private because my despair is for those who live in this present world. I will no longer allow my obligation as a veteran to remember those who died in the great wars to be co-opted by current or former politicians to justify our folly in Iraq, our morally dubious war on terror and our elimination of one's right to privacy.

Eat that, you English bastards. You fucking Yankees picking up the white man's burden can eat shit too. Screw every last one of you & your conventional colonialist-imperialist wisdom.Fuck the troops too. And fuck every last murder-enabling American citizen w/ a splintered broomstick. If these United Snakes are a democracy, their hands are covered in blood & they deserve everything they get.