Defining "HERO"
Headline: 1,300 Iraqi troops, police dismissed link: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080413/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq
You learn a lot about the way our current elected officials would prefer to run our government when you see the choices they force upon other countries.
1300 police officers and troops were dismissed simply because they refused to kill fellow citizens that the US doesn't "like". Makes you wonder. If an ATF officer or FBI agent had refused to participate in WACO, were they "dismissed"? Probably. So, I guess it's noting new. What is new is the sheer numbers of people who are willing to stand up for the evil that the US is exporting in the name of "freedom". Is it true freedom when all police officers are forced to kill people simply because one person decides to commit genocide against a specific tribe or group?
The true heroes are not those who follow orders. The true heroes are those who not only take the time to think for themselves, but act upon their own moral understanding of honesty and morality. Thou Shalt Not Commit Murder is the same in all languages, and applies in all circumstances. May we have more and more heroes, and less and less "troops" whose whole entire career rests upon blindly following orders.
In that light we must also do away with the NCLB act, which has the distinct and immoral purpose to not allow American students to learn how to think, but to act en-masse to answer every single question the exact same way that some government official has declared is the only correct answer. The kids and parents that are standing up and refusing to participate in "high-stakes testing" (the politically correct way to say brainwashing) are also true heroes and should be more loudly applauded by the press. In theory the press wants individuals to work for them that are self-starters and thinking individuals. Of course, with "the press" being owned by fewer and fewer people, that era might be over also.
You learn a lot about the way our current elected officials would prefer to run our government when you see the choices they force upon other countries.
1300 police officers and troops were dismissed simply because they refused to kill fellow citizens that the US doesn't "like". Makes you wonder. If an ATF officer or FBI agent had refused to participate in WACO, were they "dismissed"? Probably. So, I guess it's noting new. What is new is the sheer numbers of people who are willing to stand up for the evil that the US is exporting in the name of "freedom". Is it true freedom when all police officers are forced to kill people simply because one person decides to commit genocide against a specific tribe or group?
The true heroes are not those who follow orders. The true heroes are those who not only take the time to think for themselves, but act upon their own moral understanding of honesty and morality. Thou Shalt Not Commit Murder is the same in all languages, and applies in all circumstances. May we have more and more heroes, and less and less "troops" whose whole entire career rests upon blindly following orders.
In that light we must also do away with the NCLB act, which has the distinct and immoral purpose to not allow American students to learn how to think, but to act en-masse to answer every single question the exact same way that some government official has declared is the only correct answer. The kids and parents that are standing up and refusing to participate in "high-stakes testing" (the politically correct way to say brainwashing) are also true heroes and should be more loudly applauded by the press. In theory the press wants individuals to work for them that are self-starters and thinking individuals. Of course, with "the press" being owned by fewer and fewer people, that era might be over also.
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