Posted on 10/17/2013 4:48:38 AM PDT by secret garden
I like that-spread that heat around-I’ve become totally unsympathetic-he works there, he did his masters’ bidding knowing it was wrong, so pay the price.
I remember back in the ‘Nam era, a Lt. Calley insisted he was following orders to justify cold blooded murder-it didn’t work, and he quite rightly went to prison for what he had done...
If he’s been there for 40 years, then he certainly knew this could happen-it can happen to anyone who is in a position like that-if your superior(s) push the envelope too far, you are going down-not them...
“Charging a man with murder in this place, was like handing out speeding tickets at the Indianapolis 500’ ...
You summed up what is precisely wrong with government workers. They are there forever, like public school teachers with tenure, and will do whatever the union tells them to do, right or wrong. When I worked in research we had to spend every dime of our grant money, whether we needed it or not, to justify asking for more money. That is morally wrong. We don’t need that.
I know, I helped keep the books, in my time in the Marine Corps. Instead of fixing electronics, I used to have to inventory and work out what we had, didn’t have and justify a budget increase yearly.
Gave me extra time to run and shower at lunchtime lol....
Talk to me in January. Trying to divine a bunch of meaning from 2 weeks of play is premature.
Premature Divination? Try thinking about Baseball ;-)
The Gettysburg Address.
I remember that, but it does not excuse brutality like what was done there-those murdered people were not enemy soldiers or terrorists. The Viet Nam war was the first I’d ever heard of war atrocities-on either side-in a real world context, rather than history books and dad and uncles telling stories about WWII and Korea-’Nam was all over the 6 o’clock news, too.
Following orders, or the fact that both sides were doing it did/does not excuse the Mei Lai massacre, any more than it excuses a homicide bomber-killing unarmed people is murder...
“we had to spend every dime of our grant money, whether we needed it or not”. When I was a caseworker at MHMR, we had to do that too. The one time that my supervisor and I really, really needed the money for a worthwhile project-a semi-independent living 4plex for mildly retarded adults-the money was summarily snatched away early on, and given to the drug treatment program, even though we spent weeks on properly crafting our formal request, and it was perfect.
We were appalled-more so when we found out it was because our (married) program director was boffing the director of that program. She had “tenure”-15 years, we each had less than 8 years, so her word was law.
We told her to FO, turned in our respective notices, and whistle-blew to the executive director. The bitch got fired, but I learned a very hard lesson. I never have respected or worked for “the man” again...
Nope. Tried that. For me that exacerbates the problem.
I was just joking.I love that movie.
Saigon......I was still in Saigon..l
I wanted a mission....and for my sins...they gave me one....
AAMOF, thats what I use when its been too long, and I just want to het some Sleep. /Kramer.
MrT5 liked it a lot, too-I usually like war movies, whether they are about Caesar’s battles or the most modern ones, but I find “Apocalypse Now” depressing and surreal...
A dissilient reaction to the idiocy on Capitol Hill:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3079979/posts
That was interesting, wasn’t it? A+ for you!
How about Joe Bonamassa?
He won’t be here until April 26.
Watched his performance at The Beacon theatre last night.
Perfect pairing, would be him with Chris Cornell singing.would be out of this world.
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