Bradley Manning Sentenced to 35 Years!!

[petrus4]

thats that other side wisdom.muslims are the fastest growing religion in the world and it is theorized that half the country may be in fifty years.i think i read.

As a percentage of the total population in the UK, Islam is still in single digits.  (About 8%) 

In other words, they're smaller than the gay community.  To the extent that Islamic growth is occurring at all, it is primarily through birth.  You do occasionally hear about white converts, but it really doesn't happen as often as people on either side of the argument would like you to believe.

Islam doesn't really have anything to offer anyone.  It doesn't have solutions to contemporary society's problems, despite the degree to which its' adherents like to claim otherwise.  It is a barbaric, tyrannical, violent death cult, which only really continues to exist at all, because of the fact that apostasy is a capital crime.

So I'm not afraid of it at all.

[ArMaP]

I'll remember that as they, the beautiful humanity chops off your head after they've raped and stoned you.

Are you talking about US soldiers?

[Sgt.Rocknroll]

Are you talking about US soldiers?

I'm glad you think murder, rape and violence is funny ArMap. And I know that barb was aimed at me...

Thank you

[sky otter]

well regardless of what you think of what he has done
in my opinion we are looking at a very delusional personality here

i say that not because bradley now wants to be chelsea
but because he thinks the gov should pay for the transformation
after the pres gives him a pardon

really?

[ArMaP]

I'm glad you think murder, rape and violence is funny ArMap.

They are not funny,  why do you think that I think they are?

And I know that barb was aimed at me...

The post was aimed at you, I was not saying or implying that you did any of those things.

You spoke about some people in general and so did I. It sounds different when we are part of a generic group, doesn't it?

[Elvis Hendrix]

[ArMaP]

I believe you want to make this personal, if that's the case FINE!

No, I have no reason for making this personal, I don't even know you, just what you write on this forum, and I never judge a person for what they write but by what they do and how they do it.

I am not like that.

[petrus4]

4.  Supremacy of the Military
Even when there are widespread domestic problems, the military is given a disproportionate amount of government funding, and the domestic agenda is neglected. Soldiers and military service are glamorized.
-- Lawrence Britt, The 14 Characteristics of Fascism.  (Emphasis mine)

We're seeing an example, in this thread, of something that I have been noticing on the Internet for probably the last 3-4 years, now.

We now live in a society where the military have grown to expect a greater degree of reverence and deference than anyone else; and when they do not get said deference, a loss of temper and control usually follows fairly quickly.

I would encourage anyone here to read the full list of Britt's characteristics of a fascist society at the above link, and observe for themselves, how many of said characteristics are now present within our own.

More than any other single element, I consider worship of the troops, to be the true bedrock of fascism.  This is because such worship psychologically conditions even the civilian population, to become rigidly hierarchical and anti-egalitarian in its' own thinking, and democracy as an ideal, becomes replaced with the usual military expectation of an unelected, unquestionable Dear Leader, who has the ability to simply murder anyone who resists his will.

Sun Tzu wrote that an army must have a general; that a civilian king has no place leading it.  In the same manner, however, and to an even greater degree, military structure and leadership is radically inappropriate for the civilian majority of any sane society.

I do not worship the military, personally; and I wish that some of the individuals who were former military themselves here, did not at times display such a transparent expectation of, and desire for, such worship.  It is a shame that you are unable to recognise the fact that, if we in the civilian population do defer to you in such a manner, that the very act of our doing so, will paradoxically lead directly to the establishment of the type of society which, in WW2 at least, so many of you died trying to prevent.

[ArMaP]

I would encourage anyone here to read the full list of Britt's characteristics of a fascist society at the above link, and observe for themselves, how many of said characteristics are now present within our own.

Funny that the point you posted, Supremacy of the Military, was the only one that was not present in the Portuguese fascist regime that lasted for 48 years.