Rantatouille Caveat Lector
Thread 5 - The FArt of War
War is a foul art. And the fArt of War offends the sane mind and senses.
It is morally imperative that wartime atrocities be reported and punished;
So it is with peacetime military abuses.
Thread 1 - Salvation and Damnation
Thread 2 - Apologetic Refutations
Thread 3 - Predestination, Free Will, Procreation [last update 31.05.08]
Thread 4 - Non-specific Bible Commentary
Thread 5 - The fArt of War [last update --.05.08]
Thread 6 - Society and Politics [last update 31.05.08]
Thread 7 - Unclassified Miscellany
~ Abominable Atrocities ~
17.12.07 2 pm
The military memorials honour men of war by name. But the civilian memorials are anonymous. It is the latter who suffer and die unseen, unheard and unknown. They are conveniently forgotten with circumstance, indifferently discarded in history.
The colonial masters built a monument here to "Our Glorious Dead".
The imperial aggressors built a monument there to "Our Glorious Murderers".
Yasukuni shrine is that damnable hellgate which glorifies those savage, lustful beasts of war; it stands as an arrogant, grievous mockery of their victims.
2 Peter2:12 But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption;
2 Peter2:13 And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, [as] they that count it pleasure to riot in the day time. Spots [they are] and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you;
2 Peter2:14 Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children:
2 Peter2:9 The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:
Exhume their corpses, desecrate their graves. Let none continue in delusional homage to those demonic offspring, lest their perverse example be emulated, and gruesome history repeated.
12th January 2008 Saturday 12:05 am
I beheld in helpless rage as soldiers consumed the land, intoxicated with the wine of war, drunken and bloated with the blood and flesh of women and children.
But then I stood in awe as these satanic offspring were dragged away, kicking and screaming, to be castrated, impaled and immolated in hell for their abominable atrocities.
14th December 2007, 9pm
Woe betide the bloodthirsty, gluttonous warmongers that defile the land with their abominable atrocities. Let the saints watch, wait and pray, till Messiah subdue the nations and grind their putrid armies to a smouldering dungheap.
Exodus 15:9 The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil; my lust shall be satisfied upon them; I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.
Exodus 15:10 Thou didst blow with thy wind, the sea covered them: they sank as lead in the mighty waters.
Exodus 15:11 Who [is] like unto thee, O LORD, among the gods? who [is] like thee, glorious in holiness, fearful [in] praises, doing wonders?
Isaiah 14:4 That thou shalt take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased!
Isaiah 14:5 The LORD hath broken the staff of the wicked, [and] the sceptre of the rulers.
Isaiah 14:6 He who smote the people in wrath with a continual stroke, he that ruled the nations in anger, is persecuted, [and] none hindereth.
Isaiah 14:7 The whole earth is at rest, [and] is quiet: they break forth into singing.
Psalm 2:1 Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?
Psalm 2:2 The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, [saying],
Psalm 2:3 Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.
Psalm 2:4 He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision.
Psalm 2:5 Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his sore displeasure.
Psalm 2:6 Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion.
Psalm 2:7 I will declare the decree: the LORD hath said unto me, Thou [art] my Son; this day have I begotten thee.
Psalm 2:8 Ask of me, and I shall give [thee] the heathen [for] thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth [for] thy possession.
Psalm 2:9 Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel.
Revelation 20:8 And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom [is] as the sand of the sea.
Revelation 20:9 And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city: and fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them.
20 Feb 2007 Wed 2pm
To slaughter recalcitrant oppressors and spare their victims, or spare the former and abet their violence upon the latter? It is clear which is the lesser of two evils (if it is evil at all).
24th January 2008 Thursday 2:10 pm
It is morally self-contradictory to argue against revocation of sexual predators’ procreative rights.
These lustful, debased parasitic worms have violated their victims’ sacred right to sexual abstinence, and thereby forfeited their own procreative rights. Moreover they have imposed the risk and/or reality of agonizing pregnancy, labour and disease on their victims, and hence no longer deserve ownership over their lives, let alone genitals.
Concision without anesthesia is not disproportionate judgment upon such criminals, since they have derived pleasure from their victims’ pain. Such draconian measures are further justified by their powerful deterrence against other potential offenders.
7th January 2007
Such grizzly scenes of violence neither tingle spines nor palpitate hearts, but instead stir up an impulse of indignation, a vortex of vengeful bloodlust to punish the perpetrators.
It is true that many wrongs make not one right. Yet revenge serves not to right a wrong by tit-for-tat, but to demonstrate the weight of wrong, and thereby deter repeat and copycat offences. Since violent sadists enjoy their victims' anguish, they should have no qualms experiencing it themselves. And we do no injustice by savaging these demons eye for an eye, if not 77-fold.
Romans 13:4 For he is the minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, a revenger to [execute] wrath upon him that doeth evil.
Often violence only begets violence. But sometimes only violence subdues violence.
5th December 2007
These soldiers are no better than wild beasts, eagerly embracing that cannibalistic and militaristic herd instinct. Command responsibility is no excuse to absolve the lower ranks of guilt, and exempt them from punishment for wartime atrocities. Eye for eye, down to the lowest dirt in the hierarchy, for it is every man's moral responsibility to rebel against corrupt authority.
11th January 2007 Friday 12:05 pm
History is repeatedly stained with abominable sins against women and children, by men who would be incestuous whores of Satan himself. Consider the blasphemous military ambition and exploits of Qin Shihuang, Genghis Khan, Alexander, Hitler and their ilk. Remember the perverse papal inquisition and crusades, the debased Japanese defilement of Nanjing and the Asia during the Second World War, the foul felonies of Milošević and his underlings in Kosovo, Pol Pot’s ruthless rampage in Cambodia, the ravenous Russian repression of Chechnya…
~ Propaganda, Lies, Futility ~
21.11.06 Tue 8 pm
“Fighting spirit” is what adds monstrosity to military, the evil element which drives bestial men in uniform to commit war-time atrocities.
November 2006
The propaganda publications and posters paint a lofty, noble portrait of military service – glorified enslavement. They make us lose sight of the bigger picture, that war and conscription embody abuse and suffering by man upon himself.
--.07.06 | 05.04.08
Many rulers have held sway over their gullible populace by appealing to the petty, tribal ideals of (political) sovereignty and patriotism; the former was intended to enforce territorial boundaries, the latter to maintain servile populations. Such ideals are utterly devoid of moral basis, although countless generations have been fooled into believing otherwise.
That does not annul the personal rights to material possession and self-preservation, but it does revile the collective, representative claim and imposition thereof. It is unreasonable and unjust to twist simple principles of individual ownership and self-defense out of proportion, into ideals of corporate political allegiance.
4th March 2006
Nationalistic pride and state sovereignty are trivial compared to the well-being of civilian populations. But the silent, peaceful majority is often conveniently drowned out by pompous "patriotism" and fiery war cries.
The jap invaders of the second world war may have been national patriots, but they are traitors to God and humanity. Those who defied conscription may well have betrayed their government, but for a higher, nobler cause - worthier and more honourable ideals than petty (political) sovereignty and patriotism.
--.12.07
A republican pro-military site (The FReeper Foxhole http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-vetscor/1924006/posts) has this to say:
It is the soldier, not poet who gives us the freedom of speech.
It is the soldier, not lawyer who gives us the right to a fair trial.
It is the soldier, not campus organiser, who gives us the freedom to demonstrate.
It is the soldier who salutes the flag, serves under the flag, whose coffin is draped in the flag, but allows a protester to burn the flag.
We have this to say:
The only reason why that one soldier is said to give those freedoms is because another soldier tries to take those freedoms. Does your soldier give you your freedoms at someone else’s expense?
‘Tis a tragic-comic irony
so unique to humanity.
That its glorious democracy
is but fragility and futility,
if unshielded by the autocracy
known as military.
All is but a poor compromise.
--.07.06
In the hands of reasonable governments, nukes are the ultimate peace-enforcers and force-equalisers. No other weapons quite eliminate the economic incentive of war as efficiently as they do. Such is the essence of Mutually Assured Destruction, otherwise known by its apt initials M.A.D. The problem is, some idiots want war not for the spoils, but for its own sake. Osama and company simply want to watch the world burn its way into another dark age.
28.04.08 Mon 7pm
National militaries are just state-sanctioned gangs of tax-extorting thugs. And guerilla militias are just the non-legitimised variant. If only the civilian majority could be harnessed and rallied to vanquish that parasitic military minority...
--.12. 07
Militaries -“legal” or otherwise - claim to deter war. But their presence maintains the very threat of war which they must deter. They are an excuse for their own existence.
It is unfortunate that most cannot see through such fallacious circular logic. But even if they could, there is no simple way to orchestrate an internationally synchronised, simultaneous de-militarisation.
--.07.06
Militaries exist only to compete with, and deter other militaries. Their collective effect is to maintain peacefulness -not peace- by equilibrium of force. They are, at best, a necessary evil. The world would obviously be happier if all militaries -government or guerilla- were dismantled, their forts, weapons, and banners pounded to a pulp.
--.06.05
War only appears glorious and entertaining in computer games and movies, both of which deceptively portray combatants magnificently arrayed in polished, sophisticated gear. But the truth couldn’t be more distorted.
Soldiers still travel on foot to distant objectives; bearing loads more than half their own weight consisting of redundant or even counter-productive equipment. They are still dehydrated in the desert. They are still thoroughly soaked in sweat and mud in the jungles. They have no proper taps, showers or latrines in the field. They are still eaten alive by mosquitoes, worms, their own commanders and other loathsome parasites. They are ordered to assault enemy positions with pathetic small arms when laser-guided bombs suffice. Countless soldiers - especially conscripts - have, even in peacetime, lost life, limb or mind to the whim of crazed, capricious superiors.
The misconception of neat and tidy battles prevails in computer games because they conveniently do away with the chain of command, leaving control to a central processing unit – the human gamer.
~ Dimiwitted Doctrine ~
15.01.08
They flaunt the fancy gadgets that supposedly boost the soldier’s field survivability and extend his combat capability. They brag about making tastier combat rations. But they forget these “improvements” constitute a heaver, tighter and hotter inventory on the hapless grunt.
They boast about inventing anti-fatigue drugs to enhance stamina and minimize error. But they refuse to issue antihistamines for field treatment of parasitic itch.
29.04.07
Field equipment inspections are occasions when helpless grunts must conform to excessively elaborate, entirely impractical and altogether sadistic specifications for the packing and arrangement of combat gear. These are opportunities for dogmatic and dim-witted commanders to gleefully impose their twisted caprice upon languishing subordinates, and satisfy their inflated egos with hollow displays of pristine but redundant military accessories.
It is an open secret that the most inspection-ready army is least operationally ready. As the vets say, No combat-ready unit has ever passed inspection.
--.05.06
Cadence runs and marches are intellectually demeaning; they enforce excessive conformity, and reduce men to kindergarten kids.
12th January 2007 Saturday 12:35 am
Some military parody from The FReeper’s Foxhole http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-vetscor/1924006/posts:
Now for the Service Rules....
Marine Corps Rules:
1. Be courteous to everyone, friendly to no one.
2. Decide to be aggressive enough, quickly enough.
3. Have a plan.
4. Have a back-up plan, because the first one probably won’t work.
5. Be polite. Be professional. But, have a plan to kill everyone you meet, even your friends.
6. Do not attend a gunfight with a handgun whose caliber does not start with a “4.”
7. Anything worth shooting is worth shooting twice.Ammo is cheap. Life is expensive.
8. Move away from your attacker. Distance is your friend. (Lateral and diagonal preferred.)
9. Use cover or concealment as much as possible.
10. Flank your adversary when possible. Protect yours.
11. Always cheat; always win. The only unfair fight is the one you lose.
12. In ten years nobody will remember the details of caliber, stance, or tactics. They will only remember who lived.
13. If you are not shooting, you should be communicating your intention to shoot.
Navy SEAL Rules:
1. Look very cool in sunglasses.
2. Kill every living thing within view.
3. Adjust speedo.
4. Check hair in mirror.
US Army Ranger Rules:
1. Walk in 50 miles wearing 75 pound rucksack while starving.
2. Locate individuals requiring killing.
3. Request permission via radio from “Higher” to perform killing.
4. Curse bitterly when mission is aborted.
5. Walk out 50 miles wearing a 75 pound rucksack while starving.
US Army Rules:
1. Curse bitterly when receiving operational order.
2. Make sure there is extra ammo and extra coffee.
3. Curse bitterly.
4. Curse bitterly.
5. Do not listen to 2nd LTs; it can get you killed.
6. Curse bitterly.
US Air Force Rules:
1. Have a cocktail.
2. Adjust temperature on air-conditioner.
3. See what’s on HBO.
4. Ask “what is a gunfight?”
5. Request more funding from Congress with a “killer” Power Point presentation.
6. Wine and dine key Congressmen, invite DoD and defense industry executives.
7. Receive funding, set up new command and assemble assets.
8. Declare the assets “strategic” and never deploy them operationally.
9. Hurry to make 13:45 tee-time.
10. Make sure the base is as far as possible from the conflict but close enough to have tax exemption.
US Navy Rules:
1. Go to Sea.
2. Drink Coffee.
3. Deploy Marines
11th January 2007 Friday 11:15 pm
The following is borrowed from The FReeper Foxhole http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-vetscor/1924006/posts :
You might be veteran if you’ve ever heard the following:
Try to look unimportant; they may be low on ammo.
The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.
Of every one hundred men, ten shouldn’t even be there, eighty are nothing but targets, nine are real fighters...We are lucky to have them...They make the battle. Ah, but the one, one of them is a Warrior...and He will bring the others back.
If the Army and the Navy ever look on Heaven’s scenes, they will find the gates are guarded by United States Marines.
Peace through superior fire power.
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
Never get into a firefight with someone who has more ammo than you.
Aim towards the enemy.
Tracers work both ways. (and so do laser aiming devices)
The only time you have too much fuel is when you’re on fire.
Cluster bombing from B-52s are very, very accurate. The bombs are guaranteed to always hit the ground.
Artillerymen believe the world consist of two types of people; other Artillerymen and targets.
Who cares if a laser guided 500 lb bomb is accurate to within 9 feet?
The difficult we do immediately. The impossible takes a little while longer.
Those who beat their swords into plowshares will plow for those who don’t.
If the enemy is in range, so are you.
If it’s stupid but works, it isn’t stupid.
Don’t ever be the first, don’t ever be the last, and don’t ever volunteer to do anything.
Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons.
The easy way is always mined.
Never trust a private with a loaded weapon, or an officer with a map.
Teamwork is essential; it gives the enemy someone else to shoot at.
We are not retreating, we are advancing in another direction.
A slipping gear could let your M203 grenade launcher fire when you least expect it. That would make you quite unpopular in what’s left of your unit.
Don’t eat any plants you are not familiar with. Many are very poisonous. In these cases, trial and error is not an acceptable way to find dinner.
It is generally inadvisable to eject directly over the area you just bombed.
Artillery lends dignity to what might otherwise be a vulgar brawl.
Five second fuses only last three seconds.
When in doubt, empty the magazine.
You, you, and you .. Panic. The rest of you, come with me.
If your attack is going too well, your walking into an ambush.
When the pin is pulled, Mr. Grenade is not our friend.
Don’t draw fire; it irritates the people around you.
Bravery is being the only one who knows you’re afraid.
The cry of the bayonet fighter... “More ammo!”.
No combat-ready unit has ever passed inspection.
Any ship can be a minesweeper once.
The quartermaster has only two sizes, too large and too small.
Never tell the Platoon Sergeant you have nothing to do.
If you see an EOD man running, follow him.
Only two kind of people understand Marines, Marines and the enemy. Anything else is a second opinion.
It don’t mean nuthin.
The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten. - Calvin Coolidge 1872-1933, Thirtieth President of the USA
~ Lusty Leadership ~
June 2005
Wars are instigated by individuals, but fought by whole nations. Yet it is the former who conveniently vanish in the military melee.
Such individuals – the likes of Genghis Khan, Alexander, Qin Shihuang, Hitler, Yamhashita etc..-conceive of, and thoroughly exploit the concept of military law to impose their insatiable, devastiating appetite on docile, reluctant civilians. They only require some overpaid and overfed goons in uniform to enforce this so-called law, and the rest are forced into compliance with conscription, lest they be labelled unpatriotic or treasonous.
Genghis Khan and his underlings possessed an unbridled lust for conquest, matched only by their unparalleled stupidity. They were essentially a swarming horde of dumb, parasitic barbarians, which probably explains the rapid rise and fall of their low-life empire.
Hitler was good for nothing except charismatic but shallow speeches. It is ridiculous how one pathetic idiot such as he could have usurped the seat of power and brainwashed an entire nation into a military frenzy.
Kim Jong Il is a single communist bigot ruining the lives of millions. He sits in his pretty palaces and builds overpriced nukes using money siphoned from the North Korean people. He holds them hostage while they languish in disease and starvation. Because of the threat he poses, many South Korean men suffer conscription at the prime of their lives.
Osama falls in the same category of individuals, though he modifies the tactic, and exploits religious law instead. Quite similarly, he rallies a swarm of zealots under the banner of Jihad and then conceals himself in the mountains.
Perhaps human civilisation would be helped, rather than harmed by more individualistic scepticism of central rule and collective representation.
The man in the street seeks only to make a living and retire peacefully. He has no time for military ambitions of the man at the top. But the latter often imposes on the former, minority upon majority.
~ Immoral Law, Decadent Disciipline ~
29.04.07
The military devises and imposes circumstances in which fatal error is probable, if not inevitable, then pounces upon conscripts who slip up with the full weight of their loathsome law and perverse penal code.
Soldiers are overloaded with excessive battle gear for filthy field exercises, only to be "disciplined" when they lose equipment in the mess. Hapless green grunts are punished for misfiring when they panic in the prevalent chaos at the range.
The military doesn’t just find fault. It creates fault to find.
21.11.06 Tue 8 pm
The capricious fools in command conveniently impose collective and indiscriminate punishment, under the pathetic excuse that "team discipline" fosters bonding and corporate responsibility. In fact, it only breeds distrust, disdain and contempt amongst the lower ranks, for each other and for their superiors.
--.11.06
Militaries are legalized, state-sanctioned terrorist organizations - law-exploiting criminals who disguise oppression in the cloak of discipline.
Their so-called laws are a method of subversion, selectively enforced to exact servile compliance. By employing collective punishment, they instigate distrust within and between sad groups of individuals upon whom excessive communalism has been forcefully imposed. Those who dare to rebel are isolated – in detention barracks – while those who dare not are pummelled into greater submission with fear. This is rule by division. This is how a few pathetic lions subdue an entire herd of horned wildebeests.
Their laws work because they threaten to deprive – of freedom, education, careers, etc. The more educated a conscript is, the better his civilian prospects, and the greater the potential cost of defiance; hence the more severe his legal blackmail. These laws are powerless against those with nothing to lose, and when such are cornered by the system, desperation leads them to either malinger or mutiny.
21.11.06 Tue 8 pm
Military law is a comprehensive means of coercion, designed for the heavy-handed by the heavy-handed.
The loathsome military practice of imposing “disciplinary” push-ups was derived from the sadistic, perverted urge in superiors for prostration of subordinates.
09.01.08 4:25 pm
The military has no moral authority, only legal authority - which it viciously imposes with guns, bombs, fines and jails.
15.01.08 Tue
It is no exaggeration to equate military conscription with slavery. Conscripts, like slaves, have no legal recourse against corrupt and incompetent superiors.
Senior officers may loosely interpret vague military legal clauses against insignificant, unfavoured grunts, and freely impose disproportionate penalties over trivial non-issues. Superiors routinely and conveniently exploit military law to “discipline” subordinates for all manner of imagined infractions, without moral basis.
But which corporal ever took a capricious colonel to court and won his case?
24.05.08 Sat 10:50 pm
It is an unspoken truth that military law, by its vague and arbitrary nature, favours superiors’ accusation over subordinates’ defence. Autocratic hierarchy intrinsically inclines militaries toward injustice and oppression, both within and without.
~ Conscription ~
--.11.06
According to the Cynic Dictionary for Conscripts:
Capricious means to behave like a commander whose accelerated rise to power has corrupted him.
Pedantic means to march along a detour with kindergarten cadence even when a walking a faster route is preferable.
Incarceration means Detention Barracks.
Exoneration means retirement.
26.01.07 Fri
“It only takes a spark” - A conscript’s parody
It only takes a spark
To get the blame-game going
And soon it shall confound (And soon all those around)
The fools who play buck-passing (Will crack up in its burning)
That’s how it is with the army
Once you’ve experienced them
It’s not so fun
You want to run (You have to run)
You want to fly away….. (You have to fly away)
Oh what a dreadful thing
Conscription day is looming
A pair of boots to bring
For dimwit cadence-marching
That's how it is with the army
Once you’ve experienced them
It’s not so fun
You want to run
You want to fly away…..
The sergeant glares and grins
He's full of scorn and mocking
You tell he comes from hell
The moment he starts to yell
Explosives and expletives
Curses and insults
It's not so fun
You want to run
You want to fly away…..
He makes you clean your gun
With tools that come from the Stone Age
And when you're finally done
Some fault to find he'll manage
That's how it is with the army
Once you've experienced them
It's not so fun
You want to run
You want to fly away
[Repeat first stanza, with bracketed lines]
July 2006
Arrogant, holier-than-thou, public criticism of enlistment defaulters is rooted in petty jealousy rather than patriotism. The fact is that many conscripts – past and present- are unhappy that defaulters have successfully beaten them to evading conscription and punitive detention.
The more intelligent a creature, the more it despises captivity. Expect conscripts to be disgruntled.
May 2007
“Almost 2 decades on the planet. 3 months in the army. Some losers still don’t know where rubbish belongs. Either that or they’ve been so traumatised by the military experience that the floor and table look no different from the bin.”
