Message to the Troops: Resist! (Leftie West Pointer calls for mutiny)

AlterNet ^ | 10/11/2002 | David Wiggins

[Hoplite]

You are correct as to my lower rank - but I have seen some rather unfortunate incidents in my time. My interpretation is that a strong NCO corps, supporting each other up and down the chain of command, can take care of any but the most delinquent soldier using conventional methods. Weaken that backbone, and the privates runneth amok.

As to that 10%, or the terminally delinquent soldier, ultimately, if they don't want to be in the Army, I don't want them there.

[IronJack]

I have to admit that I wouldn't mind seeing articles like this banned from Free Republic. I'm not sure what good they are, since most of us here have already heard the Left's tired arguments 1,000 times already. You'd think they could find something NEW, even if they had to make it up (that's never stopped them in the past). But no, it's the same stale rhetoric, the same shopworn mantra, the same steady drumbeat ....

[seamus]

This idiot explains where he's coming from in a 1992 "first person narrative" for "The Anti-Warrior," described by the publisher thuss: "Published by the GI Refusnix to the Persian Gulf Massacre in Support of All War Resisters."

Nice. Here's an exerpt from Dr. Wiggins:

In February 1990, I was a model officer of the U.S. Army. In 1984, I had graduated from West Point as a Distinguished Cadet, 23rd in my class of about 1,000. In 1988, I graduated from New York Medical College as a member of the national medical honor society, AOA. In 1989, I had completed my internship at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, the most prestigious Army Medical facility. I then became an Army Flight Surgeon.

Yet, I was very unhappy. The thought of further voluntary Army service disgusted me. I did not believe in what I was doing. I knew I had to change.

At 27 years of age, after years of learning about militarism and imperialism from the inside, I had realized the truth behind the lies and propaganda.

War is never imperative, it is always a matter of choice. War is never more than an option taken by military and political commanders. In this sense, war is a cost-benefit analysis. Our authority figures use religion, propaganda, bigotry, racism, and appeals to our sense of nationalism and patriotism in attempts to con us into assisting them in these schemes, or at least voluntarily taking part in them.

Beware! Doing what we are told and doing what is right are not the same thing. If they were, there would never be wars. The German people did as they were told. They did not question their authority figures. They were conned into believing that the war and everything involved in it was necessary and good, albeit sometimes unpleasant. Similar logic can be (was) applied to Saddam Hussein, George Bush, and the Persian Gulf war.... Read the rest by clicking here, if you can stomach it.

Awwwww. The poor soldier said he was "very unhappy." Didn't anyone tell him that his happiness isn't the most important thing in the world?

[RightOnline]

As an AF Academy grad, I can tell you that such slime does NOT reflect the typical product of either the AF Academy, West Point, or Annapolis. This prick is a total loser that sucked a very, VERY expensive education from the American taxpayer..........and then shoves it up our collective behinds.

He's worse than despicable.

[Hoplite]

One fine day my squad leader, unbeknownst to myself or the other team leader, decided to wall to wall a corporal and got his butt whupped.

The consequences were not fun, and I have an aversion to that type of 'leadership' to this day.

Just a sore subject with me, I guess.

[lodwick]

bttt

[USMA '71]

As a member of the 'Long Gray Line' I am truly embarassed FOR Mr. Wiggins for surely he is too ignorant to be embarassed for himself. (This especially pains me since Mr. Wiggins is from PA.)

Even with all of its rigorous screening processes, West Point gets fooled every once in a while in its admissions process. While still one of the best institutions of higher learning in the world, things have gone down-hill since the mission of the academy was changed to permit female cadets. Sad but true. It makes my heart heavy to think that my alma mater has turned out a product so flawed as this.

On the positive side, he is representative of a very, very, very small percentage of graduates that I would not follow to the latrine if they were equipped with a compass, flash-light and a map. Beat Navy!!

[John Lenin]

> > From the British Newspaper "Daily Mirror"
> > The following article was written by Tony Parsons of
> > the Daily Mirror
> > (British) on September 11, 2002:
> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > SHAME
ON YOU AMERICAN-HATING LIBERALS
> > Tony Parsons

> > ONE year ago, the world witnessed a unique kind of
> > broadcasting -- the
> > mass murder of thousands, live on television.
> > As a lesson in the pitiless cruelty of the human
> > race, September 11 was up
> > there with Pol Pot's mountain of skulls in Cambodia,
> > or the skeletal
> > bodies stacked like garbage in the Nazi
> > concentration camps.
> >
> > An unspeakable act so cruel, so calculated and so
> > utterly merciless that
> > surely the world could agree on one thing -- nobody
> > deserves this fate.
> > Surely there could be consensus: the victims were
> > truly innocent, the
> > perpetrators truly evil. But to the world's eternal
> > shame, 9/11 is
> > increasingly seen as America's comeuppance.
> > Incredibly, anti-Americanism
> > has increased over the last year.
> >
> > There has always been a simmering resentment to the
> > USA in this country --
> > too loud, too rich, too full of themselves and so
> > much happier than
> > Europeans - but it has become an epidemic. And it
> > seems incredible to me.
> > More than that, it turns my stomach.
> >
> > America is this country's greatest friend and our
> > staunchest ally. We are
> > bonded to the US by culture, language and blood. A
> > little over half a
> > century ago, around half a million Americans died
> > for our freedoms, as
> > well as their own. Have we forgotten so soon?
> >
> > And exactly a year ago, thousands of ordinary men,
> > women and children -
> > not just Americans, but from dozens of countries --
> > were butchered by a
> > small group of religious fanatics. Are we so quick
> > to betray them?
> >
> > What touched the heart about those who died in the
> > twin towers and on the
> > planes was that we recognised them. Young fathers
> > and mothers, somebody's
> > son and somebody's daughter, husbands and wives. And
> > children. Some
> > unborn.
> >
> > And these people brought it on themselves? And
> > their nation is to blame
> > for their meticulously planned slaughter?
> >
> > These days you don't have to be some dust-encrusted
> > nut job in Kabul or
> > Karachi or Finsbury Park to see America as the Great
> > Satan. The
> > anti-American alliance is made up of self-loathing
> > liberals who blame the
> > Americans for every ill in the Third World, and
> > conservatives suffering
> > from power-envy, bitter that the world's only
> > superpower can do what it
> > likes without having to ask permission.
> >
> > The truth is that America has behaved with enormous
> > restraint since
> > September 11.
> >
> > Remember, remember.
> >
> > Remember the gut-wrenching tapes of weeping men
> > phoning their wives to
> > say, "I love you," before they were burned alive.
> > Remember those people
> > leaping to their deaths from the top of burning
> > skyscrapers. Remember the
> > hundreds
> > of firemen buried alive. Remember the smiling face
> > of that beautiful
> > little girl who was on one of the planes with her
> > mum.
> >
> > Remember, remember -- and realise that America has
> > never retaliated for
> > 9/11 in anything like the way it could have.
> >
> > So a few al-Qaeda tourists got locked without a
> > trial in Camp X-ray? Pass
> > the Kleenex. So some Afghan wedding receptions were
> > shot up after they
> > merrily fired their semi-automatics in a sky full of
> > American planes? A
> > shame, but maybe next time they should stick to
> > confetti.
> >
> > AMERICA could have turned a large chunk of the
> > world into a parking lot.
> > That it didn't is a sign of strength.
> >
> > American voices are already being raised against
> > attacking Iraq - that's
> > what a democracy is for. How many in the Islamic
> > world will have a
> > minute's silence for the slaughtered innocents of
> > 9/11? How many Islamic
> > leaders will have the guts to say that the mass
> > murder of 9/11 was an
> > abomination?
> >
> > When the news of 9/11 broke on the West Bank, those
> > freedom-loving
> > Palestinians were dancing in the street. America
> > watched all of that - and
> > didn't push the button. We should thank the stars
> > that America is the most
> > powerful nation in the world. I still find it
> > incredible that 9/11 did not
> > provoke all-out war. Not a "war on terrorism." A
> > real war.
> >
> > The fundamentalist dudes are talking about "opening
> > the gates of hell," if
> > America attacks Iraq. Well, America could have
> > opened the gates of hell
> > like you wouldn't believe. The US is the most
> > militarily powerful nation
> > that ever strode the face of the earth.
> >
> > The campaign in Afghanistan may have been less than
> > perfect and the
> > planned war on Iraq may be misconceived. But don't
> > blame America for not
> > bringing peace and light to these wretched
> > countries. How many democracies
> > are there in the Middle East, or in the Muslim
> > world? You can count them
> > on the fingers of one hand -- assuming you haven't
> > had any chopped off for
> > minor shoplifting.
> >
> > I love America, yet America is hated. I guess that
> > makes me Bush's poodle.
> > But I would rather be a dog in New York City than a
> > Prince in Riyadh.
> > Above all, America is hated because it is what every
> > country wants to be --
> > rich, free, strong, open, optimistic. Not ground
> > down by the past, or
> > religion, or some caste system.
> >
> > America is the best friend this country ever had and
> > we should start
> > remembering that. Or do you really think the USA is
> > the root of all evil?
> > Tell it to the loved ones of the men and women who
> > leaped to their death
> > from the
> > burning towers. Tell it to the nursing mothers whose
> > husbands died on one of
> > the
> > hijacked planes, or were ripped apart in a
> > collapsing skyscraper. And tell
> > it to the hundreds of young widows whose husbands
> > worked for the New York
> > Fire Department.
> >
> > To our shame, George Bush gets a worse press than
> > Saddam Hussein. Once we
> > were told that Saddam gassed the Kurds, tortured his
> > own people and set up
> > rape-camps in Kuwait. Now we are told he likes
> > Quality Street. Save me the
> > orange centre, oh mighty one!
> >
> > Remember, remember, September 11. One of the
> > greatest atrocities in human
> > history was committed against America.
> >
> > No, do more than remember. Never forget.
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[LibKill]

As my First Sergeant used to say, "I'll have a word of prayer with him."

The malefactor involved did not sin again.

[CARepubGal]

Nicely put and thank YOU for your Honorable service!

[John Lenin]

bump

[ladyinred]

Egads this stuff makes me so darned angry! I am censoring myself right and left.

[ladyinred]

Way ahead of you, emailing that scum is the first thing I did after reading his freaking article!

[John Lenin]

5..4..3..2..1

[Jim Robinson]

Well, I have no idea what you are asking about. But if someone is suggesting vigilantism, I'm opposed to it. Self-defense is fine, but mobs of citizens blasting away at suspects is another.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

Went to your link. Don't even know where to begin, suffice to say that doctors don't fight in wars and this guy is full of it. His story is as one sided as a Don King fight.

Nowhere did I suggest violence toward Wiggins same as most people on this thread as accused by another poster. IMHO, we're better off without him.