In times of war - the law falls silent... - Dick Cheney In this time of Republican Wars and Rumors of War, the law falls silent by design... We are not the Greatest Generation - and in many way, We have failed them. In Ikes era, We stood firm together in the fight against fascism. In the current NeoCon era, we hide our shame in how weve been duped and divided by the new fascism with false patriotism. The law falls silent, as our peoples rising voices have pled for, and now demand, justice... The law falls silent. Dick Cheney didnt state those words above, but by his actions, he might as well have. In times of war - the law falls silent. was stated by Cicero in Ancient Rome. He was referring to fascist gangs that took control of the streets of Rome - and in turn, their leaders being elected to high office. Its not true of course, the law doesnt fall silent. Rather, its ignored to legitimize crimes against humanity... When the law falls silent - expect war. >sigh< --- The most biting satirical novel to come from the Iraq-Afghanistan era, Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk, by Ben Fountain, is a takedown of our empty modern “thank you for your service” rituals. It is the story of an Army squad that is badly shot up in Iraq; is brought back to be honored at halftime during a nationally televised Dallas Cowboys Thanksgiving Day game; while there, is slapped on the back and toasted by owner’s-box moguls and flirted with by cheerleaders, “passed around like everyone’s favorite bong,” as platoon member Billy Lynn thinks of it; and is then shipped right back to the front. The people at the stadium feel good about what they’ve done to show their support for the troops. From the troops’ point of view, the spectacle looks different. “There’s something harsh in his fellow Americans, avid, ecstatic, a burning that comes of the deepest need,” the narrator says of Billy Lynn’s thoughts. “That’s his sense of it, they all need something from him, this pack of half-rich lawyers, dentists, soccer moms, and corporate VPs, they’re all gnashing for a piece of a barely grown grunt making $14,800 a year.” Fountain’s novel won the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction in 2012, but it did not dent mainstream awareness enough to make anyone self-conscious about continuing the “salute to the heroes” gestures that do more for the civilian public’s self-esteem than for the troops’.... theatlantic/features/archive/2014/12/the-tragedy-of-the-american-military/383516/?google_editors_picks=true
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