Whose army is it?
The 99 percent has become dangerously removed from the military-industrial complex that controls our remote wars
http://www.salon.com/2011/12/08/whose_army_is_it/singleton/
I guess there are some small upsides to a draftee army, at least the 1% have to make a spectacle of themselves to avoid service thus drawing additional attention. In our all-volunteer army we now have an all poor, backwoods and ghetto army that serves at the beck and call of the 1%. Really it should be called a mercenary army because it certainly isn’t representing the people of the country it purportedly comes from, polls consistently show that the 99% are ready to end the expensive wars and shrink the military. Just like the police force no longer represents the ordinary citizen, our military no longer represents our country and is instead a taxpayer funded arm of the 1% to preserve their privileged, power and money.
Pretty soon when the military completes its takeover of our police forces (well on its way down along the Mexican border with the National Guard acting as police officers and police officers armed and armored like the army) and with our Great President willy nilly declaring people to be terrorists (and thus unpersons (I really need to read 1984!) we who dare to complain about the good old days will be rounded up and disappeared just like in the third world countries we all like to make fun of.
