WORDS THAT MAKE WAR ACCEPTABLE

THEFT BY LANGUAGE

LAMBS TO THE SLAUGHTER
The Words that Make War Acceptable


It appears that all governments in the past have learned how to prepare the young men – and young women nowadays – to go to war willingly. THEY PREPARE THEM VERBALLY. The preparation contains elements of intimidation, bullying, persuasion, and loyalty to country. Old, white men have a Real Estate disagreement, or a natural mineral inequity (yes, Oil) so they organize the young to settle the argument with force. The youngsters, who have not sufficiently matured to recognize subterfuge when they hear it, thus believe what they are told, and are swept up in the atmosphere of being part of the (military) team. The nonsense that is drilled into the heads of youngsters in war is that they are there “to protect their buddy.” And the buddy is there to protect me.”

Rubbish!

Power of the EUPHEMISM
The main artifice that is used to verbally prepare youngsters is we’re “Defending our Country.” “It’s everyone’s DUTY to defend America.” But even a childish examination of the facts shows this to be more subterfuge, more pretense, more lies. WHEN YOU TRAVEL 6000 MILES AND BOMB THE HELL OUT OF ANOTHER COUNTRY, AND THEN SEND YOUR TROOPS 6000 MILES TO FINISH THE JOB, KILLING ANYONE STILL STANDING, YOU CANNOT CALL THAT DEFENSE. IF THAT ISN’T OFFENSE, WHAT IS?

Let’s add Euphemism IV: “Collateral Damage.”

In modern warfare, the use of high explosives is 99% of the effort. These military guys can make big explosions, but they can’t control them. So when they create their huge explosions to kill as many people on the ground as they can, the explosions inevitably kill some bystanders, even if by “bystanding” is meant cowering in a closet inside their house. Inevitably, 3 year-olds, 89 year-old grandmothers, pregnant women, young girls and boys, every conceivable age and social group is sought out relentlessly by the phenomenon of Dr Nobel’s invention: dynamite. When this occurs – and it does, with EVERY explosion the warriors create – the euphemism the Press uses for that maiming and death activity is “Collateral Damage.” True, the Press learned that phrase from the military, but they didn’t show the spine of a cockroach. They simply accepted the obscene phrase and have used it ever since.

“Collateral Damage?” WE have allowed our Press and military spokesmen to inflict that verbal outrage on us, and have never whimpered a word in protest. Talk about LAMBS ! – God, I think even lambs show more courage than that!

Per my usual, please – (please?) learn to resist coercion by language. If you’re not sure of the meaning of a word, or if you do know, but the word doesn’t appear to be used in its highest sense, it should arouse your suspicion