[kj] OT: "Punk" band Yellowcard to tour Mid-East as part ofUSO"support the troops" campaign

[Brendan Quinn]

Are you over in Brazil rolling with the Gracies or Machados iPat? Or perhaps
a bit of cheap work on the nose, some Botox perhaps? ;) 

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From: gathering-bounces at misera.net [mailto:gathering-bounces at misera.net] On
Behalf Of iPat
Sent: Thursday, 10 January 2008 5:54 a.m.
To: A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)
Subject: Re: [kj] OT: "Punk" band Yellowcard to tour Mid-East as part
ofUSO"support the troops" campaign

it was more a dig at the popular propaganda of Brits defending our
shores than having a go at the troops. I knew many people who went to
that encounter. But they chose to sign up and Nuremburg told us that
its not acceptable to simply accept orders! didnt it?

To say people chose to sign up is naiive as well as poverty doesnt
necessarily let you see the choices.

On Jan 9, 2008 4:20 PM, B. Oliver Sheppard <bigblackhair at sbcglobal.net>
wrote:

> Maybe I shouldn't have got the pot stirring so early this morning (in

> the US).

>

> I just read George Berger's excellent (but sorrily out of print) Story

> of Crass, an Xmas gift from my gf, and reading it has definitely

> re-emboldened my thinking on this kind of stuff. Their "Sheep Farming in

> the Falklands" single was essentially a dig at Brit troops that

> participated in the Falklands invasion -- and about 1,100 of them died

> "defending" that lump of rock. For the US, Afghanistan is one thing,

> Iraq is another.

>

> The idea in the US that people "have to go into the Army to go to

> college," etc,

-- 
iPat
in Brazil
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