Irregular Times Diaries: Unfit Discussion

CBS News came out with an article yesterday proposing to shock us with the news that the American military is full of violent gangs. It quotes the mother of a soldier killed in a gang initiation as saying, “How would I have known there were gangs in the military?”

How would you have known there are gangs in the military? Ma’am, the military is a gang. It’s a bunch of young men running around doing disgraceful things like coming up with a variety of ways to kill people, controlled by a small number of older adults. The military has bizarre initiation rituals that are designed to bend the will of members to the group that involve beatings and hazings and shaving your head and getting tattoos and stripping naked in front of other members and all kinds of weird stuff. The military teaches young people to worship guns and value violence. The military teaches people to obey orders without knowing or caring why they are doing what they are doing. The military takes vulnerable young people and transforms them into killers. The military orders people to do things that would be illegal if only they didn’t have a special government exemption.

Parents, if you want your youngsters to become decent, law-abiding grownups, do not let them join the military! The military warps people until they don’t know the difference between right and wrong.

I suppose that military people will come on here and criticize what I’ve said, but that just proves my point. They’ve been made into gang members who are so brainwashed by their cult of violence that they can no longer recognize the antisocial immorality they have been swept up into.