Boys And Men (excerpt)
War - Men and boys are expected to participate in this function by both sexes.
As Biden, Democrats, and Republicans push for global war, and embrace slaughter & genocide as geopolitical tools, and have already begun building a secret US base in Palestine (in the Negev) preparing to attack Iran; as the US goes further down the fascist rabbit hole; as Biden proclaims of himself to AIPAC, “I’m a proud Zionist”. Be prepared to slaughter millions of lives, shatter boys and men, and traumatize all for generations to come… We offer you this — An excerpt from the chapter in X Rubicon.
“While it is true that “I don’t know what I don’t know”, it is also true that once I do know, if I turn a blind eye or fail to act I am guilty of committing the sin of ignorance upon myself and my fellow men.”
— Juan Idalgo
Boys And Men
Some folks are born made to wave the flag,
Ooh, they're red, white and blue,
And when the band plays "Hail To The Chief"
Ooh, they point the cannon at you, Lord…
Some folks are born silver spoon in hand,
Lord, don't they help themselves, oh
But when the taxman comes to the door,
Lord, the house looks like a rummage sale…
Some folks inherit star spangled eyes,
Ooh, they send you down to war, Lord;
And when you ask them, "How much should we give?"
Ooh, they only answer, "More! More! More! More!"
— Fortunate Son – Creedence Clearwater Revival
Most men and boys are ready, willing, and able to step up and fight to protect their family and their country, and to fight for real reasons of justice. There are just causes for war and conflict, regardless of blind pacifists’ rantings. Most men and boys are unwilling to fight for injustice, lies and deceit, corporate profits, or others’ privilege, political power, and gains. Women don’t really enter this equation, regardless of the hypocritical nonsense NOW or feminists scream from every angle (virgins talking about sex). Although some women may be willing, the vast overwhelming majority of women are unwilling and unable to fight in combat, and… they suck at it. Women make excellent assassins in the social context of war (single kill(s) via poison or knife), but they are not made or meant for the battlefield; and if you think they are, you have no clue what combat is. Women are not expected to participate by either majority sex… Men and boys are expected to participate in this function by both sexes.
Men are expendable. Your government expects you to die to protect them and their corruption and deceit. Women expect you to die protecting them. Feminists expect you to die protecting them, and then to just die; or, submit yourself to castration for docile slavery. Capitalists expect you to die protecting profits. Religious zealots expect you to die protecting the “correct” religion, and to slaughter all those in the “incorrect” religions. War mongers expect you to die protecting war and war profiteering. Humans of both sexes with no honor or experience expect you to die for the vainglory of family and country.
Rudyard Kipling liked to praise the glories of war… until he lost his son to war. Achilles thought there was glory in war, until his best friend Patroclus was lost to battle… then it just became an exercise in madness in which he lost his own life. Socrates, himself a veteran, knew there was no glory in war, only death, but like any man he was willing to fight to save his city. What he also knew was that listening to rulers and oracles pretend that war was predestined or ordained from above was asinine. He paid for his teaching against this foolishness with his life. I’m familiar with parents who believe the propaganda concerning Arabs and that we’re fighting for democracy everywhere; and regardless of the documented facts, they are only too willing to sacrifice their son(s) for false reasons in order to kill all brown and black “towel heads” out of xenophobic fear. I am familiar with “Christians” who believe the entire world depends upon Christianity destroying other religions and socialism, and are willing and able to force the never ending deaths of boys and men, yet fail to realize the fact that Jesus, as portrayed, was a socialist and would not have raised a finger against other religions. In fact, the only persons Jesus raised his fingers against were corrupt money interests – you remember, turning over tables and flinging epitaphs – the self-aggrandized rich, and the false and corrupt theologians of his own religion. I am familiar with Zionists attempting to “cleanse” their Nazi purity of non-white and Goyim blood. I am familiar with rich persons, ready and willing to sacrifice the lives of any amount of boys and men to further their religion, capitalism; yet, just like rich persons from the beginning of time, they won’t be willing to sacrifice themselves or their progeny for their cause – they’ll buy their way out of any draft or violence while continuing to cause and support violence for the sake of money.
I’ve known men and women to praise war and ignore its destruction and pain, simply because they are virgins talking about sex – they don’t know the first thing about it. George Bush Jr made sure to join a National Guard squadron (in a state he didn’t even live in) in order to avoid deployment to Vietnam, yet started a global war on terror based upon his own and US lies and Israeli lies. Ronald Reagan only acted in war movies (like John Wayne, Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and on and on and on – all virgins talking about sex), yet was ready to sacrifice any amount of lives in war. Jimmy Stewart was a decorated bomber pilot, yet starred in a movie afterward praising the southern purity over the terrible Yankee marauders (a Hollywood favorite topic). Barack Obama never served, yet joined right in with the secret proxy wars and assassinations, and dropped more bombs & missiles than any other president, and asserted more powers of secrecy than any other President even as he promised open government. Donald Trump never served (military school doesn’t count) and found a foot problem to avoid Vietnam, yet he too was more than willing to sacrifice life and liberty, and is still willing to sacrifice life and liberty, except his own fat ass. Kid Rock, a major Republican mouth, never served (virgin talking about sex) – even with his “homies in cell-block 6”. Ted Nugent, a large Republican war mouth (virgin talking about sex), avoided Vietnam by shitting his pants on purpose at the enlistment center (he admitted it like he was smart), but he’s more than willing for you to sacrifice. Joe Biden (virgin talking about sex) never served and somehow avoided Vietnam, yet has worked tirelessly since the early ‘70s supporting every war the US has been involved in, willing to even sacrifice his own son(s) for the vainglory of war; Biden doesn’t even have shame over the lies of Central and South America, Afghanistan, and Iraq, insisting he’d do it again. These are not the type of people who should have control over lives or making war. Conflicts were meant to be debated in Congress openly, not secretly started by proxy.
In all of American history, only four conflicts have any basis in reason and justice. The Revolution shed the English throne. The War of 1812 stopped the return of the English throne. The Civil War ended the most egregious hypocrisy and human rights violation of slavery – yet, the English again attempted to interfere supporting the south in its “way of life” for profits. WW2 halted progress of the scourge of fascism, yet we, before and after, continued being addicted to the power of fascism for corporate interests. The first two of these were fought by militias with men volunteering to fight for their country. The Civil War instituted a draft but many men were still volunteers; and again, England supported the South in its slavery. WW2 had a draft, and many volunteered to fight an obvious evil. Korea was mostly a draft affair, and many men had no idea why they were there. When Vietnam rolled around, the draft was heavy and there were serious attempts to avoid it. Why? Because Vietnam was an attempt to force men to fight for a false action – a secret action – an unjust action. And yet, TV showed Gomer Pyle spending four years as a Marine at a base in sunny southern California as though no war existed – being a soldier is all fun and games!
For decades the Israelis have been committing genocide and establishing an apartheid regime aimed at reestablishing the ancient kingdom. This land does not belong to them regardless of the zealotry arguments. The basis of their claim is “God gave us the land”… well, Dixit! End of discussion, eh? – “God” told them to enter a land that didn’t belong to them, in which they didn’t live, and slaughter every last inhabitant (men, women, children) “lest they be a thorn in the side forever”. Israelis are attempting since pre-1947 to pick up where they failed centuries ago. Their Chief Rabbi, who advises the Zionist government, has stated on the record that “Hitler had it right, he just chose the wrong people.” The US supplies them with weapons and money, billions from US taxpayers to commit genocide and apartheid. The US makes love to this opportunistic whore and allows them to destabilize the entire Middle East – and you American boys and men will be called upon to slaughter and be slaughtered for the kingdom. The whore comes to Washington, and for serious cash the Congress and President bend over and take it up the ass in a gleeful rape, and then allow Israeli lobbyists to write legislation federally and in the states.
The US kisses royal Saudi ass allowing them to destabilize even more, and to produce terrorists that move adroitly around the world. We supply them with weapons to commit genocide and violations of human rights, for the sake of British whining and oil, royalty, and money. The US has allowed the British to drag the US into every conflict in the Middle East which affects their profits, after the British so royally screwed the world with their own fallen empire. British and French politicians are as corrupt as any who ever existed, and will stop at nothing to bring home the imperial profits, now more than ever by selling weapons. The US allows major corporations and the financial system to drag the US into conflict around the globe.
When I was a boy, veterans of 4 major wars (WW1 through Vietnam) were everywhere; and many more men were dead. An older boy who lived close by to me (and many others) was drafted for Vietnam, and he was dead within months. At this time, the draft is not being used, but with the US creating major conflicts around the globe on a non-stop basis in order to feed Lockheed and General Dynamics (the largest contributors to legislative and world corruption), at some point the money interests will require your sacrifice. The voluntary force cannot be maintained to support this never-ending war making, and a draft will come again, because a voluntary military requires ignorance and unemployment to maintain. If you are a boy becoming a man, STAY AWAY FROM RECRUITERS. You mean nothing to the military but a body to fill a bag. Once you are in you will lose all rights to challenge deployment and you simply become an enabler. The voluntary force requires poor and ignorant kids to sign up. Donald Trump, an asshole of phenomenal proportions, was correct in his assertion that soldiers are “suckers”, suckers in that they enable assholes like Trump and Biden (virgins talking about sex) to avoid fighting in the wars and conflicts they so love to create. Recruiters will tell you that you will gain experience, education, yada, yada, yada… They don’t tell you that you may become fodder for bombs and missiles, that you will kill for the sake of money. Ask yourself – How much is my sight worth? How much is my arm worth? How much are my legs worth? How much is my life worth? How much is my lifelong sanity worth? How many men, women, and children am I willing to kill or allow to be killed before I’m overwhelmed by the magnitude of what I’ve done?
The military WILL ruin your life. Still, you will hear from some, virgins talking about sex, that the military (name your favorite branch) “took care of me” and “gave me a good life”. These are non-combat pretenders – virgins talking about sex – in love with the provider of free food and a place to live. Others just look kindly upon a system that may provide them with a death akin to suicide (You’ve heard of suicide by cop – this is no different).
My neighbor is younger than I am. He spent time in Germany in the Army and praises it. He pretends to have been in Vietnam (not possible by his age). He’s for slaughtering all over the globe, praises conservative “values”, rants about government spending, and wears his 9mm in his butt-crack as he does his gardening. Yet, never having been in war, he proclaims himself a “disabled veteran” and had the VA install a ramp on his house and got them to give him a scooter, and he’s never used either one – he’s too busy chopping wood behind his fence where he thinks no one sees. I had another 20-something neighbor who believes in the military way of life, yet he too is a virgin talking about sex. He wears his 9mm stuck in the back of his pants as he washes his truck – we don’t live in a violent neighborhood – it has never been violent. They follow the teachings of Clint Eastwood (military swim instructor), another virgin talking about sex who seems to be in love with Antebellum slavery times. These are all NCP, Non-Combat Pretenders.
You must learn at an early age to distrust your government, to be suspicious of government activities and what they say their motivations are, especially in relation to war. Cowards, men and women, virgins talking about sex, will lie and propagandize in order to get you to serve and fight – to save their way of life. Seeing that the US has been involved in war and conflict almost non-stop since its founding, and only four conflicts have any real justification, you must become wise quickly and not let yourself be dragged into unjust actions.
Sex and Love are in preservation of life. Women who give birth naturally receive chemical rewards and incentives from nature. Giving birth and raising children is the hardest positive task a woman will ever take part in. Natural childbirth is excruciating and painful, yet the woman is rewarded by nature twice: 1) with the bonding love of her child which continues on again in nursing; 2) nature provides a chemical softening of the excruciating physical and psychic pain in the fact of remembrance – the bonding and love are elevated and the physical pain, while not forgotten, is chemically softened in the brain memory system, otherwise, no children would be born after the first. This demonstrates the importance of Sex and Love in life, and that children are necessary to sustaining life.
There is no such memory softening for trauma – rape, incest, murder, and killing for your government. This also demonstrates the fact that nature doesn’t allow you to forget those traumas; nature wants correction of deviance, an advancement of the species. Remembering the deviance from continuing life is important to the species, and is supposed to be communicated and passed on as knowledge. The pain remains in full force in order to wake humans up to the need to care and share rather than take and kill. There is no cure for PTSD. There is no softening of pain and effect in PTSD…
Being a witness applies to the individual and the people of [America]. If we individual [Americans] are witnesses to the people, then there will be a people [America]. If we individual [Americans] fail to be witnesses, there will be no people. To be a witness means to be involved, to accept responsibility. Upon the involvement in the responsibility of the individual [Americans] the very existence of the people depends. To witness man’s cruelty to man and remain indifferent is an act of betrayal of the legacy of [America]; it would be a grave sin for the [Americans] of our day to go on enjoying the prosperity and comforts of this age and to remain deaf to the sufferings of our brethren, not to care when they are oppressed, not to feel hurt when they are molested.
The Insecurity Of Freedom – A Declaration Of Conscience
– Abraham Joshua Heschel
The Pretty Reckless w/ X Rubicon — 25 (Crank it up!)
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Rubicon spent just under three years as a military Scout. During that time he was awarded the “AF Cross, 2 Silver Stars, 4 Bronze Stars, Defense Superior Service Medal, AF Good Conduct Medal, and the CIA Distinguished Service Medal” (ODNI). When he refused to kill further, he was stripped of these awards and was abandoned with his PTSD by the military and thrown away.
Sean Griobhtha (gree-O-tah) is a combat veteran. His latest book is X Rubicon: Crossing Life, Sex, Love, & Killing in CIA Proxy Wars: An indictment of US Citizens: ignorantia non excusat, which details the life of Rubicon, another combat veteran. You can find him mostly on SubStack. He can be reached at O.Griobhtha+XRubicon@gmail.com. It’s important that you read the Foreward (Vanguard); written by a highly intelligent woman with a heart of empathetic gold; she’ll bring you in gently, which neither Rubicon nor I would ever do.
The art for the book cover, Life Begets Life, was painted by Sophia Rose in 2020 and gifted to Rubicon.
I would think that as a veteran of our volunteer-based army you would try not to shit on anyone willing to pitch in when they absolutely don't have to and can't seem to catch a break when they try. But apparently not.