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Originally Posted by plato
I respect what you're saying, and I *almost* agree with the first sentence.
I come from a different universe, through time and space. (OK, time). 
The symbol means what it means to ME.
And, I claim the right to be just as disobedient as the "poor me" groups.
Any person who decides to be offended by past events in my army's history....Anyone (especially reporters) who decides that MY symbols mean I am proud that prisoners starved, and that civilians have been killed...
Can look at the skull and crossbones on my hat until my fist obscures his vision.  |
I understand where you're coming from but there is a norm in society and within that norm there is right and wrong. Would it therefore be okey for me to walk around with a AQ logo on my shirt in the states? Certainly not because of what AQ represents and what it means not only to americans, but society as a whole globally.
Yes, it may be acceptable in a country like Indonesia or some middle eastern countries to be seen wearing such a logo but by in-large, in almost all 1st world nations, espcially those who suffered dramatic destruction and huge losses of life, the SS symbol means what it means and that is a direct link to the nazi party.
I may be wrong in my opinion but that's how I see things in general. I do stand to be corrected if my points are wrong but saying "people can damn well accept me and my way of thinking if they like it or not" has its limits when its applied to certain situations.
What the marine scout snipers did/have been doing, if it is true they have been doing it for the longest time is, morally, wrong.
And if you were looking for more excuses for the media to point the finger at the USA as an example of a country that "hasn't got a clue" or "being totally ignorant of something so blatantly wrong" or "they have done it again"....this would be it.
This and the peeing on the corpse....I mean, what is seriously up with these people?
That's what I ask myself..."what is WRONG with these people's heads? Are they that uneducated or morally screwed up?"
I am not in the military and never have been and am speaking frankly from a civilian point of view.