People v. State

One of my favorite blogs has apparently died.

I’m proud to be Belgian (i.e., one-quarter Belgian, through my maternal grandfather, who fought in WWII and received the Bronze Star and Purple Heart. He died when I was seven or eight. According to family members he was a very different man after the war than he was before.)

Three genuine war heroes: Smedley Butler, Hugh Thompson, and Bradley Manning.

“We’re All Victims of the System”

“Buy a gun. Get a dog.” And close down all the prisons. The world would be a better and safer place.

Here it is. The smiling face of Corporal Jeremy Morlock, a disgrace to the human race. Why is the corpse whose head he’s holding up naked? What unspoken and unspeakable atrocities did Morlock and his brothers-in-arms commit against this innocent son of a farmer before they finally killed him for shits and giggles? And Jeff Gamso almost had me convinced that the death penalty is never justified. And here I am in my last post implying that God dwells within each and every human being. Morlock and those like him are the best argument there is against the existence of God.

Or maybe it’s really not Morlock’s fault. Maybe war just does that to people. In which case we should never, ever, go to war, unless it’s actually to defend ourselves. We should bring all of “our” troops home this very minute.

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