sorry im upset and i need people to understand
when you support the US military this is what you support
The following contains graphic imagery, but ive intentionally excluded anything directly depicting dead bodies. tumblr limits me to 10 images on this post or it could be flooded with far, far more.
prisoner comforting their child, Iraq, 2003
Iraqi prisoner held by the US, ~2003
destruction of Vietnam, 1968
A vietnamese soldier shortly before being executed. 1968
children with hydrocephalus from agent orange, which the USA sprayed 12 million gallons indiscriminately on to Vietnam
Korea, near pyongyang, completely flattened by US bombs, 1953
Libya after bombings by the US, ~2012
Do these not get to you? Can you see these and continue to defend the people doing their paperwork just because they didnt personally kill anyone?
If they seem bad but you cant bring yourself to condemn them, What if i show you pictures from the US? Does this change anything for you?
U.S. (philidelphia), soon after the 1985 MOVE bombing which killed several Black radicals and 5 children
aftermath of the assassination of Fred Hampton, who was shot in his sleep by the FBI, 1969
If the first images flow by as anonymized destruction, but the last two hit you more directly, ask yourself why that is? Why do you view these differently just because of where on the globe they happened?
What difference does it make when the people killed are inside the US or outside? When the bombs are dropped domestically or elsewhere? do people not bleed to same everywhere in the world? Do their buildings not explode just the same? are the poisoned children not important to you?
its not just a nightmare when it happens within the US at the hands of the police. The U.S. is a global force of terror and even working with them as a janitor for college money makes you a collaborator.
The U.S. kills on a drastic scale, millions and millions of people globally, the vast majority of which being civilians. can you look me dead in the eyes and tell me that cops are bastards but military members shouldn't be shamed?
Calley led the US Army platoon that carried out the mass murder of hundreds of civilians, including women and children, in the Vietnamese village of Son My in 1968.
He was sentenced to life in prison in 1971 for killing 22 civilians, but only served three days behind bars after then-President Richard Nixon ordered his release under house arrest.
The My Lai massacre, known as the Son My massacre in Vietnam, is considered among the worst war crimes in American military history. The killings shocked the US public at the time and galvanised the anti-Vietnam war movement.
According to the Vietnamese government, 504 people were killed in the massacre. [note the passive voice]
Calley, a junior college dropout from South Florida, enlisted in the army in 1964.
He was quickly promoted to junior officer and then second lieutenant, at a time when the US army was desperate for soldiers.
On the morning of 16 March 1968, Calley’s unit was airlifted to a hamlet in Son My - known to US soldiers at the time as My Lai 4 - on a mission to search and kill Viet Cong members and sympathisers.
When they arrived, the officers were met with no resistance from the residents of the village, who were found cooking breakfast over outdoor fires, according to a 1972 report by journalist Seymour Hersh in the New Yorker.
Mr Hersh reported that Calley and his unit proceeded to kill the civilians in the following hours. Many were rounded up in small groups and shot, he said. Others were pushed into a drainage ditch and shot, or were killed in or near their homes.
Women and girls were raped by American officers and then murdered, Mr Hersh reported.
The massacre was initially covered up but became public a year and a half later, thanks in large part to Mr Hersh’s reporting, which earned him a Pulitzer Prize.
Calley was one of 26 soldiers who were charged with criminal offences and the only one convicted.
