"Our enemy is not 5000 miles away they are right here at home"

[bricolage]

Sorry if this has been posted before but I thought it was pretty damn impressive so if anyone hasn't seen it before I suggest they do.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akm3nYN8aG8

“Poor and working people in this country are sent to kill poor and working people in another country to make the rich richer and without racism soldiers would realise they have more in common with the Iraqi people than they do with the billionaires that send us to war.”

[manic expression]

That's a great video and great speech by Michael Prysner. Here's some more stuff from him:

In October 1917, the revolution triumphed. In the course of a few years, the vast majority of soldiers had gone from employees of the tsarist army to supporters or active participants in a revolution that swept away the government, and the capitalist system altogether.

All progressive people need to support soldiers and veterans who protest and resist. They are potentially the most dynamic force in the anti-war movement. They show that unlawful orders do not have to be obeyed, that the real power of the military belongs to the people and that the war can be stopped from within.

Enlisted soldiers are workers in uniform. Their interests aren’t served by imperialist wars.

http://www.pslweb.org/site/News2/599499589?JServSessionIdr007=b89e29o6n2.app1b&page=NewsArticle&id=7329&news_iv_ctrl=1261

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Prysner, 24, joined the U.S. Army at age 17. Immediately after graduating high school in 2001, he shipped off to basic training in Fort Sill, Okla. He then attended a military academy at Fort Huachuca, Ariz. Prysner was assigned to the 10th Mountain Division, based in New York.

In March 2003, Prysner was deployed to northern Iraq. He remained there for 12 months. Over time, Prysner developed anti-war views, and in 2005 he began organizing against the war. He was a volunteer for the March 17, 2007, National March on the Pentagon that drew tens of thousand of protesters. At the Sept. 15 March on Washington, Prysner was arrested as part of the contingent of veterans that participated in the mass die-in at the head of the march. Prysner has become a powerful anti-war commentator, drawing on his experiences in Iraq to prove the criminality of the war.

http://www.pslweb.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=7953

[Catillina]

Mike Prysner (the soldier who is talking) is right.

Wars (in the majority of the cases) are only to the profit of the elite, who enriches & enpowers themself trough it.

[XxKrebsxX]

=(

I almost teared up watching this video.