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Saturday, February 11, 2006
Fascicle Two / Winter 05-06
chris at
10:16 PM
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US Military Hazing: Another All-Too-Common Incident * :
"You're a f...ing faggot conscientious objector" was what young Trent Helpkamps company 1st Sgt told him - publicly, again. This took place at the Separation Barracks at the Marine Corps base Camp Geiger next to Camp Lejeune, S.C. where Trent has been living for the past 10 months awaiting discharge... a discharge that still has not materialized! Less than a week after this confrontation with his 1st Sgt, Trent swallowed a handful of pills. After which Trent stated, "I just didn't care if I ever woke up..." If this does not point to something seriously wrong in today's military, I don't know what does.
Trent's story points out the absolute need to get military recruiters out of this nation's high schools! And get them out we must! At least as they exist and currently operate on the grounds of high schools today.
How many more "suicides" by young people in the military is it going to take before this nation wakes up to what is happening to young people; to us a nation? We truly have become the monster we have always professed to be fighting.
"Is this what we have allowed this nation to become? Lives that are not our own, but the states to do with as it will when it will? That's not an all volunteer military, that's called forced indenture - once it was called slavery."
* Jack Dalton, "Suicides in the Ranks," qtd. from Uncommon Thoughts .com/blog,
June 20, 2005
chris at
4:04 PM
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Friday, February 10, 2006
Just Thinking Aloud on the Phenomenon of Writing the Writer's Bio:
Rhetorically, the convention of the writers' bio, like that of the book blurb, masks an absurd event of layered estrangements. It evokes a result that is a cross between advertising genres and modes, superficial sentimentality in ethos, and a splintering action in the subjective-objective action of authority, the notion of western authority known as personhood or voice-as-real-self. But surreally, one splinters oneself to read oneself (if done in the cult of sincerity) sentimentally endorsing the advertising of self via ones writing, plying audience in the most baldfaced way:
Hi, here I am commodifying myself in telling you what I've been doing with myself in writing without saying I am doing so, and pretending someone else is telling you, so that you will be convinced of my forthright ethos in my wish to draw you to my writing. Sell yourself, as they counsel job seekers, sell you as a self to get them to buy you, to get what you need/want. Got it?
But, hey, what if you don't want to sell your self or yourself?
Well, that's just one aspect/effect of the bio, anyway. It's also about ones accomplishments, just letting people know, getting the word out, as it were--but how to do it in a way that resists the pitfalls of absurdity? As they say, we are all, always already 'commodified' at this point in materialist history, anyway, but still there must be ways to tinker around with such variables--ironizing and drawing out the numbness of bougeois sentiment. So, just thinking aloud here...
chris at
3:39 PM
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Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. --Voltaire
I, like many Marines, wanted to join the Marine Corps from a young age. About 14. My best friend's older brother was enlisting and told me that the Marines are the first to fight. And that's all it took. I wanted to join. I was young and dumb back then, and actually thought that to die in combat under a hail of bullets was a glorious thing. Almost romantic. But I've learned that that is complete bullshit. That to die in combat is a painful, horrible, gory/graphic, god aweful shitty and tragic thing. There's nothing glorious or romantic about it. A man(or woman) dying in combat is a symbol of a nation's failure to compromise and negotiate peacefully. And that's what happened, and is happening, in Iraq. ... -- "My 23 Days in Iraq--Civilian to Marine--Part I," written by Retreat Hell, quoted from
Daily Kos, Dec. 23, 2005
chris at
1:27 PM
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Thursday, February 09, 2006
from Chris Ashby, Letter to the Editor, US Army Soldiers Magazine * :
Young people joining the military are coming from ... a broken, amoral society. We are throwing them into a basic training where "mind games" are played, a "knee jerk" reaction to the Korean war-enemy [form of] "brain-washing" that thousands of soldiers fell victim to. The "mind game" basic training is a relatively new invention and it has failed us miserably. ... Now they have Drill Sergeants that are supposed to treat them as their moral charges yet abuse them with hazing rituals and make sarcastic remarks about them while they are locked up in a position of attention. In my USMC basic training, I had Drill Instructors lie to me on numerous occasions to where I knew that at any point the organization could on a whim sacrifice me and my peers to the "wolves". I saw a fellow recuit with brain damage who couldn't even remember his lock combination get roughed up by MPs to teach us all a "lesson". I've seen dozens fall to heat stroke during runs... . We ... need to stop making 'jerks' who fall into the harassment mindset into drill sergeants. ...
* Dated August, 1997.
chris at
10:50 AM
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Wednesday, February 08, 2006
Military Disciplined for Abusing Recruits:
... In the February incident at Fort Knox, drill sergeants could be seen poking, grabbing, cursing and singling out trainees in a 25-minute video shown this week at the court martial of Capt. William C. Fulton, the company commander at the time.
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Once inside the barracks, Pvt. Jason Steenberger said he was struck in the chest by Price and was later kicked "like a football."
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Andrew Soper, who has left the Army, said he was slapped and punched in the chest by another instructor. Pvt. Adam Roster said he was hit in the back and slammed into a wall locker.
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Since then, three drill sergeants and Echo's company commander have been punished, and six of the trainees have left the Army - including two who went AWOL.
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--"Abuse During Training Led to Army Discipline," Dylan T. Lovan, The Kentucky Post--Thursday, June 23, 2005
chris at
10:54 PM
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Tuesday, February 07, 2006
--image via AWOL! Revolutionary Artists Workshop
here's to thinking through a whole new take on
the phenomenon of
*domestic* *violence* :
i don't have much to say right now, not in/of poetry or otherwise, except to note for those of you who regularly read here and know something of me that these links are informative about many issues regarding vulnerable young people and the travesty of recruitment into the US military.
once in the military they can encounter situations of physical and mental abuse that in any other situation would be legally covered by laws regarding child abuse, neglect, and domestic violence. once in the military they have no alternatives if authorities refuse legal and medical counsel--chapter 138 laws only cover cases where refusals can be documented. all an authority, such as a marine sergeant, need do is alter the paperwork to cover his own ass and the soldier is given no hearing on the matter.
if you know of a young person in such a situation, then you know it is abominable and that, if in trying to protect themselves, they leave without authorization, then they risk jail as a felon, losing their rights as a US citizen, and being cut off from family (who are also at risk if they aid such a person).
at 17, 18, 19, to have been duped by their own government and communities (their schools and sometimes their churches), into a situation of either killing others or of abuse and disgrace for refusing to kill others--that all before they've even had a chance to develop the critical acumen to resist and see the risks and situation with clarity--what a betrayal, what a brutal fucking lesson in betrayal.
please pass these links on (and see the other links i've posted below), especially to young people who may be facing any of these circumstances :
Contact : Youth & Militarism : AFSC
Counter-Recruitment Organizations : Counter Recruitment : Youth & Militarism : Issues : AFSC
Nonmilitary Options for Youth | An Austin response to military marketing with a quest for life-affirming opportunities for young adults
Center on Conscience & War
What Do I Believe About War?
chris at
2:59 PM
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Monday, February 06, 2006
intermittent posts here for the next few days...
or not... or longer... or whatever: depending on
the flow of some sad and urgent family concerns.
love to all...
o~o/
-cm
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