[Milsurplus] Ignoramus Americanus

[J. Forster]

Many people believe that "From each according to his ability, to each
according to his need" is a great idea... And they simply do not believe
the quote is from Karl Marx! (Who is Karl Marx? A brother of Groucho?)

It's a sympton, not a proximal cause.

-John

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>
> Today I took my father up to Naval Support Activity - Smokey Point, at
> Arlington,
>
> Washington. I left him at the barber shop and walked over to the BX. Altho
> as a
>
> civilian I'm not qualified to shop there, and rightly so, there was no
> entrance check
>
> and I wanted to see how the prices were. There were a lot of people in
> there today, of
>
> course. I saw a kid about 14 with a large long black pullover shirt with
> the face of
>
> Che Guevara on it, and I was stunned. A U.S. military base and some dude
> in a Che
>
> Guevara shirt. No one lifting an eyebrow. I wandered around and then
> thought to
>
> myself, I got to check this out some more. I found the boy, a sibling, and
> his apparent
>
> mama over in the video section. Yes, it really was Che, superimposed on a
> map of the
>
> Caribbean area. When the shirt wearer was relatively by himself for
> moment, I sidled
>
> up and asked, "Do you know who Che Guevara was?"  He shook his head, no.
>
> "He hated the U.S.", I said. "He wanted to destroy this country. Look into
> it".
>
> Well, maybe he will and maybe he won't. Maybe he'll ask his mama why that
> weird
>
> man asked him that. Maybe I should have asked his mother, who presumably
> paid
>
> for the shirt, but I frankly didn't have the guts. That time. Exercise
> makes stronger.
>
> Of course my statement maybe oversimplified things a bit - but Comrade Che
> was
>
> one with the evil empire's philosophy and goals, and his commands caused
> the
>
> violent deaths of numerous people.
>
> I was thinking if Junior wore this shirt to school, no one would say
> anything either.
>
> The young schoolteacher wouldn't want to hinder Diversity, and besides,
> she'd
>
> never heard that name anywhere in her education either. Probably in
> another 40
>
> years, it will be perfectly comfortable to wear an Osama Bin Laden shirt.
> He was
>
>  B--A--D--D--D, man, what a dude!
>
> Does Che appeal to a certain segment of our population, mostly lagging in
>
> education? Maybe so. "Indoctrination" is out. But is education lacking?
> Okay,
>
> out on the street, I can deal with it. Like a backward baseball hat, or
> flame tattoos,
>
> it says, "I'm immature and ignorant". Fine, I can deal with the Diversity.
> But at
>
> a U.S. military base, it seems like sacrilege.
>
> -Hue Miller
>
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