Rumfoord

i am a pacifist, or to say it better an anti-militarist, because i am a libertarian/anarcho-capitalist  and not a Christian or anyhow otherwise religious. i share opinions with pacifists.

i wrote about Armistice Day.  a good day for civilians too, war is over. war is horror for all of them, for all people, not only for soldiers.

I said respect to the people who wear the White Poppies. my entries got deleted, my posting rights suspended.
OMG, i offended militarist.

i feel offended when people want worship only dead soldiers and call it  Lest we Forget but actually do it: to forget and ignore.
during WWII died around 13.000 allied soldiers. POW. in the hand of japanese army. i can see them not as heroes but as victims of war.
next to the 13.000 soldiers (including 6318 British, 2815 Australians,  356 US_Americans) died also somewhat between 100.000 -150.000  forced labourers, Asians, ethnic selected Chinese-Thai, Burmese, Malayans, Malay, Indians, Indonesian hold in camps, enslaved, they died due maltreatment, death by workload starvation, diseases, lack of food, medicine,  shelter. the death rate in these labour camps over 50%.
displaced, relocated civilians, thoses people with destroyed homes, in destroyed cities, contaminate fields, mined areas will suffer for a very long time and still dying on the consequences, even when the 'War is over' and all soldiers have gone home or got a 'hero monument' the death of innocent civilians due atrocities of wartime outnumbers dead soldiers mile high.
When is the day to remember them if not on Armistice Day? a day not to forget the Horror of War.

Nobody owns that day alone. and no surprise that the same personal that rants in other threads against Poles come up with 'lest we forget' .  not coincidental november 11 is also Independence Day in Poland, the outcome of WW I. , but it is offending to mention that.
is thai visa an international expat community or is it only reserved for militarists, former colonists, ex-soldiers, army dudes and anglo-american supremacist that easily be offended when their bias is questioned?
as the definition given by a forum entry: "Special services are held at war memorials and churches all over Britain."  
of course i will not walk into a British church and disturb the prayer meeting there. that would be offending and disrespectful. but Thai visa forum isn't an Anglican Church.
how they can dare to call it Remembrance Day if they want focus only on a narrow aspect of it.

i choose the words of ex-soldiers. allied soldiers of the WW II. Kurt Vonnegut, who saw as POW the destroying of Dresden and wrote the famous book 'Slaughterhouse Five' .  and an us-american bombardier who came to the conclusion "The Enemy is War". Howard Zinn, historian and professor of political science, Boston University.

There is no �sacrificing their lives�, soldiers don't have the intention to die for their country. they go on war to kill other people, to kill strangers.
i have respect for those who wear a White Poppy and say that there are better ways to resolve conflicts. the red poppy is so yesterday, backwards and used to excuse and justify the wars and killing of civilians, wars which still going on today.
to remember the horrors of war isn't useless criticism, it is the way to turn the world into a better place.

Brave Christian soldiers should lookup the handbook of their mission:
"And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more."  Isaiah 2:4

may be my point of view is totally wrong, i could be enlighten with words, truth is born of arguments. with penalties and banning of posting rights i am not convinced. punishment is the act of an aggressor.

"I will come to a time in my backwards trip when November eleventh, accidentally my birthday, was a sacred day called Armistice Day. When
I was a boy, and when Dwayne Hoover was a boy, all the people of all the nations which had fought in the First World War were silent during
the eleventh minute of the eleventh hour of Armistice Day, which was the eleventh day of the eleventh month.
It was during that minute in nineteen hundred and eighteen, that millions upon millions of human beings stopped butchering one another. I
have talked to old men who were on battlefields during that minute. They have told me in one way or another that the sudden silence was
the Voice of God. So we still have among us some men who can remember when God spoke clearly to mankind.
Armistice Day has become Veterans' Day. Armistice Day was sacred. Veterans' Day is not.
So I will throw Veterans' Day over my shoulder. Armistice Day I will keep. I don't want to throw away any sacred things.
What else is sacred? Oh, Romeo and Juliet, for instance.
And all music is."

Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions (1973)

It is Armistice Day. Forget? Time to become a civilian and think like a civilian. The Enemy is War. There is nothing good about it, it is horror. There are no heroes, only victims.


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