Then said Jesus unto him, Put up again thy sword into his place: for all they that take the sword shall perish with the sword.— Matthew 26:52
CHECKPOINT CHARLIE: Sarge, I jes’ KILLED a vehicle full o’ women and chillun.[sobs wretchedly]
SARGE:[chomps on cigar] Naw, son, you jes’ LIBERATED ‘EM!!!! Haw, haw, haw, haw, haw!
CHECKPOINT CHARLIE:[weeping] But… but… but, Sarge… I jes’ KILLED a whole VEHICLE full o’ women an’ chillun. LOOOOOOK!
SARGE: Don’t worry son – you wuz jes’ followin’ orders. An’ besides — they didn’t stop at the fuckin’ checkpoint, so FUCK ‘EM!
CHECKPOINT CHARLIE:[slowly] “I … lib-er-ated … ’em.” Say, I kinda LIKE the sound o’ that, Sarge.
SARGE: You just remember to tell that to our pet—sorry, “embedded”—reporter from TIME, in case he sniffs round askin’ any awkward questions. Which he probably won’t! Haw, haw, haw, haw, haw!
CHECKPOINT CHARLIE: Haw, haw, haw, haw, haw!
SARGE: Now clean up that fuckin’ mess, boy, an’ we’ll sweep this one under the rug.
CHECKPOINT CHARLIE: Like all the other ones, Sarge!
SARGE: You’re darn tootin’, boy! An’ remember – that tame reporter of ours from TIME magazine comes pokin’ his nose in our business, what do we tell ‘im?
CHECKPOINT CHARLIE:[thinks hard for several seconds] We tell ‘im: “We’re here to bring DEMOCRACY to the people of Africa —”
You know perfectly well. You don’t like having your cozy, lazy prejudices challenged, do you.
MickMac
Morrissey I don’t read you as I’ve found you to be a twat. I just downtick you. You and those like you are the reason I don’t come here as often as you make it shite and DPF allows it.
Now we have a credibility problem. You claim that you “just downtick” this writer, i.e., moi, but you have taken the time to deliver this dressing down.
Can you see why some people might struggle to believe you?
You and those like you are the reason I don’t come here as often as you make it shite and DPF allows it.
“Those like you”. Hmmmm…. you seem to have a problem with a bit of robust debate. What a sensitive soul you are. Sadly for you, Mr Farrar doesn’t share your urge to silence and censor.
Might I suggest you’d be happier in a more positive milieu? Something like this?….
I for one would like to thank morris minor, gump, steffy girl, slimey mike, marquess and the occasional other left wing looney.
I have been quite active discussing politics with all who will listen and when I describe the lefties and bauble hunters as rabid fools, some swing voters protest that I am being too hard on ardern the liar etc, so I show them the comments the turds listed above make and they instantly see my point.
They may not agree but the comments of some these guys are enough to cause them to start to rethink.
So again, thanks dimwits as you further the centrist cause every time you start to type.
Lot of abuse from you there, Ball Man—but nothing of substance. Can you see why very few people take you seriously?
marquess
So again, thanks dimwits as you further the centrist cause every time you start to type.
Ahahahaha
The image of you accosting some poor soul with your nut job ramblings is hilarious. Imagine digging up blog comments to back up your arguments, and having people agree with you just to get you to leave them alone
Tall Man
Awesome, didn’t take much to get the dimwits out, well two of them anyway.
Good work guys, keep the idiocy coming. As previously observed, comprehension is poor on the left. Never said they agreed with me, just stated that your fetid ramblings and justifications of ardern the liar were making them rethink their position.
We of the centre right thank you for your contributions to our efforts.
Fancy having so little self esteem that you are in “awe”of a dishonest little twit like ardern the liar.
The people who downvoted this will be aware, of course, that New Zealand troops have behaved much worse than the hapless Checkpoint Charlie does in this scenario. And the cynical, dishonest “Sarge” is of course a metaphor for the New Zealand Army hierarchy and the government.
It takes more courage to resist the compulsion of a criminal regime than to go along with it. You’d know that if you did any reading or had any knowledge.
I suggest you start your education on this subject by hunting down a copy of Archibald Baxter’s We Will Not Cease.
And there are more recent conscientious objectors for you to follow, if you’re serious….
Conscientious objectors to me are treasonous gutless bastards unfit for oxygen . . . they are detestable scum, as are their supporters.
Morrissey
Fair comment, igm. Deranged, but we see what you mean.
Good on you, mate.
JibberJabber
Yeah nah, I call bullshit Turdcutter, it`s fuckin` easy to be a gutless conchie when you know there are others prepared fight and die to protect yours and their families way of life. Only a few of you actually have the courage to put their life where their mouth is like Pfc Desmond Doss.
Morrissey
….to protect yours and their families way of life.
??????
As you would know if you had read Paula Penfold’s and Nicky Hager’s and Jon Stephenson’s work, New Zealand soldiers killed a man, strapped his dead body to the front of a vehicle and drove that vehicle into a village in Afghanistan to terrorize the locals. How exactly does that “protect” our “way of life”?
JibberJabber
LoL, oh my Penfold, Hager and Stephenson, I don`t read fantasy novellas.
Jack5
Allegations, Morrissey … the Taliban would say that. It’s called propaganda.
The story’s an extension of the way lawyer vultures of the liberal-left are persecuting former British servicemen. This link is worth repeating from yesterday:
British veterans who served in Northern Ireland are also under investigation for incidents that occurred as long as 40 years ago.
If only. When ARE we going to withdraw our troops? They’ve done more than enough harm.
harvey wilson
That was cool Morrisey, now do one from the perspective of a couple of Taliban thugs about to remove a girls nose or storm a bus to kill a teenage girl because she wants to go to school .
I agree we should leave Afghanistan but I don’t want to be associated with one eyed lunacy like your post .
Btw the Taliban are actual thugs not like the imaginary Federated Farmers thugs your were ranting about yesterday. Interestingly enough you have downplayed the Taliban in the past on your view into the mouth of madness aka your blog by calling them mere shepherds so maybe all thugs are farmers and all farmers are thugs in your fevered mind?
…now do one from the perspective of a couple of Taliban thugs about to remove a girls nose or storm a bus to kill a teenage girl because she wants to go to school.
You realize, of course, that these terrifying groups—Reagan called them “freedom fighters” and compared them to the Founding Fathers—were armed and diplomatically backed by the United States and its vassal Great Britain? Just like al Qaeda and ISIS and al Nusra. You do realize that don’t you?
I agree we should leave Afghanistan but I don’t want to be associated with one eyed lunacy like your post.
“One eyed lunacy”? What did I get wrong, Harv? I wrote that little playscript in December, 2003, after several reports of U.S. occupation troops killing civilians—not the Taliban you fantasize about—at illegally erected checkpoints. They did the same thing, you’ll remember—actually YOU probably won’t—in Iraq.
Btw the Taliban are actual thugs
Good, we agree on something, Harv.
… not like the imaginary Federated Farmers thugs your [sic] were ranting about yesterday.
You obviously have not heard the current head of Fed. Farmers, one Andrew Hogwit, talking on the radio. He’s a thug, and an extremely ignorant and militant one at that.
Interestingly enough you have downplayed the Taliban in the past on your view into the mouth of madness aka your blog by calling them mere shepherds
No, Harv. You’re wrong, yet again. I correctly pointed out that the people murdered by “The Big H” (that’s HRH Prince Harry— geddit?) while he squatted in his helicopter gunship were shepherds. I never claimed that all Taliban are shepherds, although many of them no doubt are. That’s why the bastards are so hard to identify, which is why our brave Kiwi troops have to terrorize a whole village in order to capture what they call a Taliban fighter, put him in a bag, manacled, and kick him repeatedly. Bloody civilians with their sympathies for the locals rather than the bloody invaders, huh! The poor Russians had the same problem in Chechnya in the 1990s, as did the poor old Americans in Indochine in the 1960s and ’70s, as did the Germans in Poland in the 1940s.
so maybe all thugs are farmers and all farmers are thugs in your fevered mind?
No, I did not say that.
By the way, Harv, the only madness and fever on display here is in your own crazed prosaic efforts. Even poor old “igm” looks sane compared to you.
harvey wilson
Morrisey the Taliban and Mujahideen are not the same thing , I know the lunatic left like to pretend they are because it suits their narrative but it’s not true.
Yesterday you were claiming there were thugs from federated farmers roaming the countryside and now you’ve backtracked to one thug who may or may not be roaming the countryside . It’s not clear from your post if he is or what evidence you have that he is a thug .
The rest of your post was the usual nonsense we’ve come to expect from you trying to extrapolate people’s positions to suit your rant even if there’s no evidence to suggest they believe such a thing .
For the record I never supported the invasion in Iraq I think we should have pulled out of Afghanistan back in about 2003 .
Of course that will mean nothing to you, you’re a living example of what Jonathan Haidt was talking about when he said the left have abandoned nuance and free speech because it’s inconvenient to them and their politics.
Morrissey
You’re a waste of time.
Anyone who wants to educate him or herself could do no better than to watch the inspiring Malalai Joya, speaking here at Harvard with Noam Chomsky.
Easy on Morris, that’s what camp gays say to one another..?
harvey wilson
Morrisey I’ll take that as an admission I proved you hopelessly wrong and fapping over that old fraud Chomsky does you no favours.
Here’s the old charlaton doing everything he can to avoid admitting he’s a Rwandan genocide denier . Some hero you’ve got there Morrisey, are you one of the many on the far left who consider that the Rwandan genocide is an example of “ punching up” so it gets a pass? I bet you are you old scamp .
Obviously Morrisey won’t read that because he’s incredibly intellectually dishonest but for anyone interested it’s worth a look at how twisted the odious Chomsky really is.
harvey wilson
Stigie , probably not the best time to mention “ camp” . It is after all that time of year when a labourites thoughts turn to groping .
Maggy Wassilieff
Now I am happy to identify as a conscientious objector and have done so for over 50 years. But to put Noam Chomsky up as some champion of Pacifist principles is extraordinary.
For all his career Chomsky has been associated with MIT, the brains of the US Military Might.
Chomsky’s linguistic work was financed by the American military who were seeking clues to automatic language translation.
harvey wilson
I bet this appears on the mouth of madness in a day or so . I was asking someone in another forum about Breen and his batshittery online dates back to the turn of the century. It was more about rugby and the media and apparently he was obsessed with Andrew Savaille back then for some reason .
Maggy Wassilieff
@Jack5
And because Chomsky never got his head around computers he lead Linguists down his black hole of Universal Grammar for decades.
chiz
Not sure what the connection is between his alleged computing ignorance and his former belief in Universal Grammar is – this doesn’t fit with the official accounts of the theory’s origins – or why you think this somehow influenced other linguists. I’ll bite
Sofia
The Saudi teenager fleeing her family has been thrown a lifeline by the Australian Government, which indicated it was likely to grant her a humanitarian visa. Rahaf Mohammed Alqunun, 18, was planning to fly to the country on a tourist visa and apply for asylum but was detained by Thai authorities at Bangkok airport on Sunday.
Meanwhile – I for one will never celebrate the gains we have made for women domestically, while internationally other women and girls experience a lack of the most basic of opportunity and dignity – Jacinda Ardern, statement to the United Nations General Assembly
Why is there no backup statement from Ardern that New Zealand will take Rahaf Mohammed Alqunun if Australia doesn’t?
DigNap15
I’d take her!
secondcumming
Don’t like your chances Digs….from what I read shes into flash cars
Morrissey
She is? The Breenmobile would be right up her alley, methinks.
Four Trump-haters reflexively downvoted this. Come on, fellas, lighten up!
harvey wilson
Morrisey “lighten up” , perhaps you should take your own advice . Judging by your blog and posts here you live in a state or perpetual outrage, stub your toe and you blame neoliberal rocks ffs.
Morrissey
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kowtow
Morrissey
MickMac
I don’t read you as I’ve found you to be a twat.
I just downtick you.
You and those like you are the reason I don’t come here as often as you make it shite and DPF allows it.
Morrissey
Tall Man
Morrissey
marquess
Tall Man
Chuck Bird
Morrissey
igm
Morrissey
igm
Morrissey
JibberJabber
Only a few of you actually have the courage to put their life where their mouth is like Pfc Desmond Doss.
Morrissey
JibberJabber
Jack5
stigie
Morrissey
harvey wilson
Morrissey
harvey wilson
I think we should have pulled out of Afghanistan back in about 2003 .
Morrissey
stigie
harvey wilson
harvey wilson
Maggy Wassilieff
But to put Noam Chomsky up as some champion of Pacifist principles is extraordinary.
Jack5
harvey wilson
Maggy Wassilieff
chiz
Sofia
Rahaf Mohammed Alqunun, 18, was planning to fly to the country on a tourist visa and apply for asylum but was detained by Thai authorities at Bangkok airport on Sunday.
I for one will never celebrate the gains we have made for women domestically, while internationally other women and girls experience a lack of the most basic of opportunity and dignity
– Jacinda Ardern, statement to the United Nations General Assembly
DigNap15
secondcumming
Morrissey
secondcumming
Morrissey
Muttonbird
Morrissey
Morrissey
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