Posted by boBB on May 25, 2000, at 22:33:32
In reply to Re: Serious interjection, posted by Adam on May 25, 2000, at 21:12:17
Close, but no cigar, Adam. I'm not a 'nam vet. I am the right age, but I am a drug war vet. I am a veteran of some other civil wars. For some reason, I tend to gravitate to the scene of the crimes, and the tendency seems to have started before I was old enough to do anything about - when I was still in my mamma's arms.
It is being close to these battles but being exempt because of my race and social privilage that now compels me to consider myself a party to a war most people would rather ignore. In that context, there are no and will be no apologies offered for my very accurate analysis. I said the same thing in a "secret identity" post below - I don't mean to call Robert Hsiung a bad person when I call him a drug pusher. Some of my best friends are drug pushers and some of them are in jail. It is knowing that two or three million americans will fall asleep tonight in prison, and many of them are there because of the way congress politicizes the pharmacuetical market; that is what motivates my swift mightier-than-a-sword writing.
This I have said before - many people here would rather the fight not break out on thier street, but it is here. I want to end the fight, but not by surrender. The medic post was specific to the role I played in the fred exchange, but reflects a larger situation. People are getting hurt in this war, and I want to help them by bringing the war to the end. The fact that I am fighting over this one stupid foxhole does not make me solipsist, it just means I am a typical foot soldier responsible for a patheticaly measly little part of a bigger struggle. I know my place on the battlefield, I know my mission and I know the risks entailed.
I am certain ECHELON, the international electronic intelligence gathering contractor, can identify me. I am not famous, I just have a certain edge that shows wherever I flash it. If I told you places, you might shudder with recognition. I don't identify myself here mostly so I won't have to shut up. Otherwise I would be confronted in my daily life by my stances here and elsewhere. Somebody likely knows. This isn't paranoia, it is low-intensity warfare. If it comes down to it, the daily normal job goes and this fight over the franchise to medicine and over the human right to have food and safe shelter will always be my main mission in life. I will give my life in a heartbeat to prosecute that war. I hope I am making myself clear. I am not suffering from post traumatic trauma. I am suffering, by choice or by necessity, in the trauma that afflicts millions of people in America every day. I hope those on this site, from Dr. Bob down to the most troubled individual, and including those of who readily admit to social consciousness can recognize this for what it is.
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