Holmeswork, We Don't Need a Domestic Vietnamby William T. Holmes
The demand for more power and the exercise of more force I hear from Washington D.C. sounds very much like the escalation madness that prevailed during the Vietnam era. At a time when we should be prosecuting McNamara and Kissinger, et al. as war criminals for the death of 50,000 Americans and 3 million Vietnamese, and the emotional and physical maiming of millions more, the federal government has yet to learn that force doesn't work if the intent is peace. Better for the federal government to provide believable answers to the questions that concern those who have joined militias than leave "patriots" to fill the void with answers of their own. The following attempt to invent answers to alleged observations should give you a mind's eye view of a patriot: The black unmarked helicopters flying around are in fact very dark green and marked "Marine" in black such that it can only be distinguished in bright sunlight [personal experience]. The millions of dollars spent on barbed wire as part of the base closings act were to protect closed military bases from vandalism rather than convert them to concentration camps. The Soviet and other tanks and armored personnel carriers seen on flatbed trains are here not just to be painted as U.N. vehicles, which would of course be cheaper to do in Europe, but rather to keep them out of the hands of Russia, Iran and Iraq. We're not storing them in the southwestern deserts like we do most of our non-Naval mothballed military equipment, because we want the Soviet/U.N. equipment to corrode and become inoperative. Thousands of U.N. troops are here to keep our military trainers busy, and keep the U.N. troops fed and out of trouble elsewhere. Hungry Russian troops are a threat to peace. Never mind that the Chinese had to import troops and tanks from a distant province in order to find some who would kill civilians in Tienanmen Square; this is America. The New-World-Order, One-World-Government talk of Bush, Gorbachev, et al. is just political bluster like that of Hitler declaring a new Reich. It and the U.N. plans to disarm everyone except an international police force are just fantasies. After all, where would the refugees from a one-world government go? The books that foretell economic collapse and civil unrest in 1995 or soon thereafter are just Chicken Little stories. So what if we have what is in reality a $12 trillion debt? So what if the dollar is collapsing relative to other currencies, and that foreigners may no longer buy government securities? Hyper-inflation can't happen here, we've got the Federal Reserve. It can print and loan fiat money to us as fast as we want it. There is no reason for fear and loathing in the United States. So what if IRS, BATF, DEA and FBI agents have killed a hundred and fifty or so innocent Americans? Everyone makes mistakes. So what if the IRS and DEA have seized millions of dollars worth of private property without due process or even charging the owners with a crime. The agents of executive agencies deserve extra compensation. After all, what's more important? Tax collection, gun regulation and prohibition, or our unalienable right to life, liberty and property? Never mind that many Germans refused to believe the rumors, and calmly led their children to shower in Dachau and Auschwitz; this is America. Get the picture? Paranoia is the natural consequence of disturbing observations or rumors left unexplained. Better to explain the observations and eliminate the rumors than to reinforce them with more government force and secrecy. We need an American version of Glasnost, not a domestic Vietnam. Bill can be reached via email at: 72010.3003@CompuServe.com Bill Holmes has been a draftsman, aerodynamicist, CAD/CAM and data management specialist and process architect for the U.S. Air Force, NASA and various aerospace companies. After consistently finding government regulations to be the fundamental cause of company inefficiency, he became politically educated and involved. He ran twice for California State Assembly and twice for Representative as a Libertarian. He currently hosts the Freethought Forum on America Online and manages Synergy Enterprises, a desktop video business.
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