 by June Scorza Murtha Terpstra
Sunday, February 11 A room full of students listened as a US Marine told of the invasion of Baghdad and Falluja and how he killed innocent Iraqis at a check point. He called them collateral damage and said he had followed the rules.
A Muslim-American student in front of him said I could slap you but then you would kill me. A young female Muslim student gasped I am a freshman; I never thought to hear of this in a class. I feel sick, like I will pass out.
I knew in that moment that this was what the future of teaching about justice would include: teaching war criminals who sit glaring at me with hatred for daring to speak the truth of their atrocities and who, if paid to, would disappear, torture and kill me. I wondered that night how long I really have in this so called free country to teach my students and to be with my children and grandchildren.
What really happened, most likely: Prof. Terpstra went on a spittle-flecked rant about "war crimes" and those Marines decided not to just sit there and take it--and they out-debated her without breaking a sweat.
| Nor did the Marines curse, nor were they rude, nor did they use anything other than quiet, simple logic to break her down. That's what so infuriating, ya know ... |
The American military and mercenary soldiers who sacrificed their lives did not do so for the teachers freedom to teach the truth about the so-called war on terror, or any of US history for that matter. They sacrificed their lives, limbs and sanity for money, some education and the thrills of the violence for which they are socially bred. Sacrificing for the bling and booty in Iraq or Afghanistan, Philippines, Grenada, Central America, Mexico, Somalia, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, or any of the other numerous wars and invasions spanning US history as an entity and beginning with their foundational practice of killing the Indians and stealing their land.
Many of the classes that I teach now include students who served in the US military and security corporations. There are also many students who intend to join the US military upon completion of a degree because with the degree they get a bigger sign on bonus of ten to fifty thousand dollars. Their position is supported by many of the student body, who, vegetating according to the American Plan, believe they should support their troops.
The excuses that they give for joining or intending to join the US military terrorist training camps are first and foremost motivated by a desire for money.
. . . And now, here they sit in my course on social justice, terrorist war criminals, wanting high paying criminal justice jobs in a university Justice Studies program. They want approval, appreciation and honors for terrorism, torture, and murder. They want a university degree so they can get an even higher salary terrorizing more people around the world with security companies such as Blackwater or Halliburton. They want that appropriately named sheepskin so they can join the CIA, FBI, and other police and track down and terrorize US residents here.
"But I'll get my revenge, I will. Remember, I control what grade you get in my class! You'll never graduate as long as I have anything to say about it! Bwahahahahahaha!"
These military and mercenary terrorist-students are trained in terrorist training camps all under the USA, funded by American taxpayers. In fact, people under the USA are sacrificing their health care and their childrens educations while donating their tax dollars to these terrorist training camps. These terrorist camps train money hungry working class stiffs to murder, steal and plunder for the power hungry US corporate war lords.
There is a saying that if you do the crime, you do the time.
"Only if you don't have a good defense lawyer."
My response is that If you do the war crimes, you will do time in hell, whether the hell of war trauma and shock, of diseases such as those caused by depleted uranium, the old-fashioned traditional hell, fire and brimstone assigned to malefactors
or the hell of sitting in a social justice class and discovering what the hell you are in hell for, or are about to be.
| She's got a point: an hour in her class certainly would pass for the sixth circle of Hell per Dante ... |
There's only one comment to the article, but it's a good one.
Our esteemed author has also penned a piece entitled "War and Ideology" with Husayn Al-Kurdi--ostensibly a Kurd--from 7/15/05. The conclusion is predictable, but says all we need to know of the good doctor:
"This is war. It is a war based on the ideology of might makes right to plunder planet and people. The bad guys are the greedy, powerful men who have and have used the weapons of mass destruction and operate the means of mass distraction to divert the potentially dangerous thoughts and passions of oppressed and exploited vast majorities everywhere. The good guys are those who fight back by all the means available to them. They are fighting the eternal good fight against tyranny and oppression. "
One could presume she made up her mind about how much she hated U.S. soldiers long before she posted her vapid blog piece.
These "good guys" kill fellow Iraqis now more than they kill U.S. soldiers. These "good guys" kill journalists by beheading or disembowlment.
What a fool.
When the Angry Left claims to support the troops, this is what they really mean. They support the bad guys. 
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