“…[THEY] WILL BE PUNISHED”
May 22, 2014
Yesterday, President Obama
declared that individuals “accountable” for keeping double books in Veterans Administration
hospitals across the country “will be punished.” Sadly, I find in this president to be
retributive, from killing civilians with drones and assassinating US nationals
for their speech and associations, to caging deportees, to prosecuting
whistleblowers, to ramping up US forces in Poland, at Russia’s European door, and
now to discipline individual VA workers for how they have coped with tight
budgets and massive demand from wounded veterans.
For all the good things the
president has stood for and gotten done, his attitude leads itself to fighting
perpetual war against enemies both foreign and domestic. Much as I respect his integrity, I believe he
has let himself be captured by the military-corporate complex. And the US media scarcely notice the pattern,
for all the partisan, abstract debates they carry from politicians and pundits. In Ukraine, they focus on Putin.
As a nation, we lack awareness
of how others see us, especially those whose families have been killed by a
heartless presence overhead that fires a missile in your direction. We are so determined to set others straight,
that we cannot see how we are seen, we cannot empathize with those we are
determined to correct, through retribution pure and not so simple. Love and peace, hal
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