Food for thought – Old soldiers and civil rights veterans Today has been interesting as I debated on a face book post about one of the strongest of civil rights warriors. I thought back to when I taught leadership for the army reserve school and General Patton wanted to court-martial the soldier who started Stars and Stripes Magazine. General Eisenhower held higher rank and said the soldier kept him abreast of what soldiers who fought in the trenches were thinking. Many talk loud failing to understand that we who were in the trenches, during the civil rights movement easily recognize those who were not; we hear it in their conversation. I am quick to say one does not have to break a leg to know it hurts, but one who explains the pain after having broken his leg speaks from a different perspective. The debate today was about martial law and of course many spoke from fear it could be used against protesters, while past experience is that it can be used in many ways. I understand their fear, but they are not open to knowing how martial law hindered racist during the 50s and 60s. No law, rule, fence, building, technology or individual can stop all predators and we who emerge from the military, security and law enforcement thoroughly understand that. Martial law and the counter intelligence program (Cointelpro) were not synonymous and we studied both from many angles. The effort of the professional warrior is to hinder and we know that martial law put federal troops in the faces of southern racists who tried to maintain status quo. It did not stop racism; it hindered efforts of Southern Christians who believed their god agreed they could treat former African Slaves as less that human, but it also did something we did not foresee. I have stated many times that an educated man without quality reasoning is like an unarmed soldier going into battle. Professional soldiers know the difference between a skirmish and a battle and that sometimes the skirmish is a hindrance designed to give one a false sense of security as was integration in the United States. During segregation smart African Educators uplifted our young and offered insights that were detrimental to white supremacist ideals. The natural response was the civil rights movement. Europeans in the Americas realized they made a mistake, flipped the script using expendable whites to assure that we bought the scheme hook, line and sinker! Thinkers of my generation said: “Integration is the greatest counter revolutionary move in United States History!” Blacks who sat on the fence, argued against us and believed in Massa’s God said: “We got what we wanted and we still weren’t satisfied. Plutocrats who rule this oligarchy saw their error and decided that dumbing down of the entire population would halt all future efforts to thwart this great ponzi scheme. Zionists and the Vatican allowed us to believe we won a skirmish, but they won the war.
Posted on: Fri, 15 Aug 2014 23:36:58 +0000
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