Sickening

The militarizing of empathy is repeatedly employed by mainstream media in their airing of heartstring-pulling stories of soldiers’ surprise homecomings. There are the soldiers dressed in disguises: like the father, after a year in Afghanistan, arriving home in a fire truck, decked out in firefighting gear and gas mask.  Kneeling before his two daughters, he took off his gas mask, and the surprised daughters cried out, “Daddy!,” and hugged him, “with tears of joy,” much to the delight of a gathered crowd.--Rev. WA.

All too true.

You can't even watch a damn sporting event these days without the militarization angle.  The over sized flag on the floor, the fatigues and medals flashing under the lights. The insistence on our "heroes" protecting us from some menace drawn up by Wall Street and the Pentagon. The bullshit piling up like the bodies of all the innocent in the foreign countries the U.S. thinks it is wise to invade and annihilate.

All in all, it's a sickening scene.


TS