"Pick
Up The Gun"
(Fishing for evildoers)
By Mickey Z.
26 September, 2007
Mickeyz.net
Every day, we learn more about
how "the good guys" wage war against evil. The latest tactic-disclosed
during a military trial-is a little something called the "baiting
program" and it was cooked by a group of humans collectively known
the "the Asymmetrical Warfare Group." As reported in the New
York Times, US snipers in Iraq are "using fake weapons and bomb-making
material as bait and then killing anyone who picks them up."
"Snipers are special people who are trained to shoot in a detached
fashion, not to see their targets as human beings," said James
D. Culp, one of the defendant's lawyers. "Snipers have split seconds
to take shots, and he had a split second to decide whether to shoot."
We interrupt this article for a short Aldous Huxley break: "The
propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain
other sets of people are human."
We now return to our regularly scheduled War on Terror:
Capt. Matthew P. Didier, a sniper platoon leader said: "If someone
found the item, picked it up and attempted to leave with the item,"
he said, "we would engage the individual, as I saw this as a sign
that they would use the item against U.S. forces."
Engage , huh?
"It seems to me that there are all sorts of reasons that civilians
would want to pick up ammunition that is sitting on the ground,"
said James Ross, the legal and policy director for Human Rights Watch.
This last quote reminded me of a bit made famous by the late comedian,
Bill Hicks:
"We arm the world, we arm these little countries, and then we send
troops over to blow the shit out of 'em. We're like the bullies of the
world; we're like Jack Palance in the movie Shane, throwing the pistol
at the sheepherder's feet.
Palance: "Pick it up."
Sheepherder: "I don't wanna pick it up, mister, you'll shoot me."
Palance: "Pick up the gun."
Sheepherder: "Look mister, I don't want no trouble, I just came
to town to get some hard rock candy for my kids, and some gingham for
my wife. I don't even know what gingham is, but she goes through about
4 or 5 rolls a week of that stuff. I don't want no trouble, mister."
Palance: "Pick up the gun."
[Sheepherder reluctantly picks up the gun. Palance promptly shoots him
dead.]
Palance: "You all saw him. He had a gun."
Mickey Z. can be found on the Web at http://www.mickeyz.net.
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