http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-03-15/us-troops-overwhelmingly-support-trump-reject-neocon-foreign-policy
Starbucks Chairman Howard Schultz has said of the upcoming Concert for Valor:
“The post-9/11 years have brought us the longest period
of sustained warfare in our nation’s history. The less than one percent
of Americans who volunteered to serve during this time have afforded the
rest of us remarkable freedoms — but that freedom comes with a
responsibility to understand their sacrifice, to honor them, and to
appreciate the skills and experience they offer when they return home.”
It was crafty of Schultz to redirect that famed 1% label
from the ultra rich, represented by CEOs like him, onto our “heroes.” At
the concert, I hope Schultz has a chance to get more specific about
those “remarkable freedoms.” Will he mention that the U.S. has
the highest per capita prison population on the planet? Does he include
among those remarkable freedoms the guarantee that dogs, Tasers, tear
gas, and riot police will be sent after you if you stay out past
dark protesting the killing of an unarmed Black teenager by a
representative of this country’s increasingly militarized police? Will
the freedom to be too big to fail and so to have the right to melt down
the economy and walk away without going to prison — as Jamie Dimon, the
CEO of Chase, did – be mentioned? Do these remarkable freedoms include
having every American phone call and email recorded and stored away by
the NSA?
– From the post: “Stop Thanking Me for My Service” – Former U.S. Army Ranger Blasts American Foreign Policy and The Corporate State
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