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Author Topic: War Provocations and Peace Actions  (Read 20202 times)

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Re: War Provocations and Peace Actions
« Reply #195 on: February 08, 2018, 06:26:30 pm »
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February 8, 2018

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Days ago, Brandon sent along some thoughts that he’d like to share with you. “I know a lot of us look at the world today and we despair,” he wrote. “We see corporations consuming our resources at an exponential rate to sell us meaningless trinkets and distract us while our planet is dying. The leaders that we have voted into office are slaves to money and are not servants of the people that they represent. And we live our lives in relative safety built off the bloodshed and misery of those that the mainstream media would say are different than us and whom we need to fear.”

Brandon went on: “I'm sorry to say that nothing will save us from this mess but ourselves. The world scenario notwithstanding, I'm not here to smash your hearts, minds, and spirits against the face of the reality that we have set before us. I'm here to remind us to carry with us a little bit of hope.

“I served in the military for eight years, six of those for the USAF Intelligence apparatus that mutated into the drone program that we see today. And even though through Trump's 🦀 administration we see more killings of civilians from the air in Iraq and Syria in the first year of his administration than the entire Obama administration combined, we can also see that this comes from the elites’ desperation to hold on to whatever scraps of power that they can through fear and intimidation.”[1]

Brandon recalled: “My mother once told me something I’ll always remember. I asked her, ‘Why doesn't somebody do anything about the problems in the world today?’ She said, ‘Brandon, you're somebody.’”

As someone in the military’s drone program, Brandon was always under orders. As a whistleblower, he says, “I think that I have done a good job in setting the example of somebody who has made grievous mistakes out of foolishness and naivety, has taken responsibility for my own faults in my own actions, 🕊 and has decided to do something about it.And with the legitimacy that I have gained, through the madness and the grief, I offer my voice and actions once again to step into the arena and face the monsters of humanity as myself.  I have nothing to offer but myself.  I think that's enough.”

--- The RootsAction Education Fund team

Background:
>>  Democracy Now: An interview with Brandon Bryant
>>  Rolling Stone: Individuals, Worlds Apart, United By the Trauma of Drone Strikes
>>  Democracy Now: Numbing & Horrible”: Former Drone Operator Brandon Bryant on His Haunting First Kill
>>  Los Angeles Times: U.S. veterans support legal fight by Yemini man whose relatives were killed in drone strike

Footnote:
1. Newsweek: New Data About Airstrikes During Trump's 🦀First 10 Months In Office Should Sound Alarm Bells

Trump 🦀 is Mussolini on murderous steroids.

He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. Matt 10:37

 

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