PRISONER EXPRESS

Have you ever seen a chicken rancher try to get his dog to un-taste blood? You know, to a chicken rancher, once his dogs taste blood, they are not just worthless to him, they are harmful. The dogs like the taste of blood so much that they start killing just for the fun of it. They get vicious. Then they have to be taught to un-taste blood.

More bad news is that no ranchers have ever developed a successful way to make his hounds un-taste blood. So far, the best way to keep dogs from turning vicious is to prevent that first taste of blood.

This same trouble occurs every time our politicians teach youth to kill and sends them to attack in "wars" against "enemies." The people who feed us our TV, radio and print "news" wring their hands over our poor, highly-trained killers at every "war" since before post-traumatic stress disorder was invented to excuse their grisly deeds. They publicly whine, "pity our soldiers! they suffer stress and nightmares from protecting our freedom, plus they have high rates of suicide!"

Yes, high rates of murder-suicide!

What our fine members of the gov/media alliance do not reveal is the familiar, repeating cycle goes like this. Gov't creates vicious killers and sends them to mass-murder. The survivors return from their mass-murder missions and tend to kill their wives, friends, associates or strangers. They learn that they are no longer "the best" or "special" or privileged to get away with murder. When they learn that punishment is inevitable,, they go on a rampage and/or commit suicide.

Our gov/media alliance cries real tears for these confused soldiers. Lawyers make up a courtroom "defense" for them. The public catches this over concern for their special welfare so they, too, can bask in the patriotism. Everyone loves the soliderboys, but somehow not their jurors who have to evaluate from close-up their grisly deeds. These soldiers were given special license to mass-murder by politicians for a specific purpose, place and time. Somehow they got mixed up about the limits of their gov't-given privilege to torture and kill others. Now they must be punished. Boo-hoo!

Let's face facts, for once in our civic lives: killing is wrong. It says killing is wrong in virtually every book in print, especially the ones on ethics and religion. What part of "thou shalt not kill" do they find unclear? Being young and gullible is no excuse. It is an all volunteer army. This time, everyone had a choice. Every citizen had 18 solid years to figure out the correct answer to this question. Some of them chose wrong anyway. Vietnam proved that we could just say "no." I told them 'no,' and they decided to put me at the far end of the line. Others went to Canada. Others made their emphatic point by rolling grenades into their commanding officer's tents. The vice curs who wanted us to kill for them eventually go the message, and their attack upon the citizens of Vietnam was finally called off. Despite the politicians and media hacks urging me to "be patriotic," I will not overlook the murders or find sympathy for the killers even when they justifiably kill themselves. They made their choice and deserve their end.

My only regret is that the ones who gave them their taste of blood get to continue to manufacture more hoards of vicious, mindless killers. These are the varlets who need to be stopped. They didn't increase anyone's freedom, they diminished it, then left a mighty swath of destruction and death in return for their misbegotten antics. It would do us all good to let the gods eat these chickens!