From: OOTSONATI-AT-aol.com
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 19:25:04 EDT
Subject: Re: You SUK!!!


In a message dated 6/15/99 9:06:55 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
atc25-AT-student.canterbury.ac.nz writes:

<< > BARRY ODUM wrote:
 > > 
 > >   What bit you?  You been choked by a maniac weilding
 > > a flag?  Next time you want to show us how smart you
 > > are, try nocking something that alienates you from the
 > > rest of us like not ever brushing your teeth again
 > > because you are mad at the world.  You need to be more
 > > open minded about life.  I am not saying that I even
 > > remotely believe in what is going on in the Balkans,
 > > yet I am serving there at present.  I might not love
 > > my government but I love my people.  Just because the
 > > government is not so straight doesn't mean that the
 > > people back it.  If you take notice of the oppinion
 > > poles, you will see that the American people do not
 > > agree with the president's actions.  I proudly salute
 > > the US Flag!  For the people!
 > > 
 > > Odie
 > 
 > 
 > Fuck you and everyone else who slovenly sits still while big daddy
 > hypocrits do your bidding for you!!!
 > 
> I love my people too: The human race.  The government seems to have 
>had it's humanity surgically removed.
> Have a think about how much blood your flag is stained with before 
>you salute it next time.
>Lorax >>

Every time I go to a Pow Wow, a dance is always held for the Warriors/Vets of 
the tribe. I have mixed feelings about this. I am grateful to the ones who 
have went to war for people like me ( I know that the wars in this century 
have been for politicians and rich peoples interests, but the vets I know 
usually dont understand that), but I also wonder why they fought under the 
same flag used as an excuse to massacre us. 

As far as it goes, I hate everything the US flag stands for, but as long as I 
live, on Veterans Day and Memorial Day I will continue putting flags on the 
graves of relatives who went to war. They had good intentions for going, even 
if it was lies they fought for. 

Im not trying to say that killing Vietnamese, or Korean, or anyone the US has 
been at war with was right, just dont blame the ones who were brainwashed or 
forced into going. Blame the ones who started the wars. Blame the ones who 
profiteered from the deaths and wounds of working class and the imagined 
enemy of the day. 

The only way to ever stop all this senseless violence is for common people to 
ban together and refuse to fight. Instead of having the UN prosecute war 
criminals, Common people should declare offensive war itself a crime and 
treat all leaders who propose starting shit with other nations as war 
criminals.