TVNL Editor's Comments: The Farce of Veteran's Day; A Holiday For Everyone Except Veterans

How's your day going? Are you off from work or school? Do you get to spend a three day weekend enjoying yourself? Perhaps you are traveling or you took the kids to Disney? Well, on this Veterans Day 25% of the homeless in American are veterans who don't give a damn about having a holiday of their own, they just want the country that they served to simply treat them like human beings.

You know it is very hard to be proud of being American these days unless you have an extraordinary ability to live in a pretend world. Or unless you really believe that you live in the pretend world that is depicted on out TVs, news networks included. Today America claims to celebrate those who have served our nation by applauding them at baseball games and by watching draft dodgers and AWOL brats who conducted an electoral coup of our nation (Bush & Cheney), give speeches in their honor. What a tragic place America has become.

America is a land where a baseball player can earn $1/4 billion yet we have people, human beings, families, children and veterans alike living on the streets with no home, no food and no hope. Tell me great our nation is. This is not my America.

We live in a nation where for some reason the soldier is the supposed be our greatest hero. The soldier, we are told, is protecting us from our enemies and we are told to “support” them. Well I have news for you, todays soldier does not protect us from our enemies and we do not support them. The enemies of Americans and American soldiers today are the very people who send our soldiers to unnecessary wars while they stay home and work hard to destroy our nation from within. While they aim our soldiers are foreign enemies, real or promulgated, they destroy our Constitution, our freedom, our protections, our ability to provide for ourselves and all the while they do to nothing to support our soldiers. “Supporting the troops” has become nothing more than code speak for funding the war profiteers and the patriots who point this out are demonized.

Well demonize away because I am saying what needs to be said. This nation does not need a holiday, it needs a revolution. It needs representative leadership. It needs to live up to its own rhetoric. It needs a military that protects the people from enemies, foreign AND DOMESTIC. It needs leaders that do more to actually support our troops than give a once per year speech to canned pre-screened audiences of troops who do nothing to protect our freedoms while they participate in presentations where the freedom of speech they supposedly are fighting to protect is suspended and restricted to little “free speech zones”. How they hell is that protecting me or you?

Anyway for me, until the phrase “homeless veteran” no longer accurately describes any American I won't be celebrating the great American farce that we call Veteran's Day. Think about it! Jesse Richard – Editor, TvNewsLIES.org

PERSONAL NOTE UPDATE: For the many people who have written me asking what has been going on...I will be writing a personal blog piece on what I have been going through. I think you will find it interesting and quite informative taking into account all I have learned from the experience.

Thank you for understanding,
Jesse

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TVNL Comment: Cheney has been bypassing the legal process for 7 years. From his attacks of 9/11 to his illegal wars, this man is the most dangerous criminal in the history of our nation.

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TVNL Comment: Still think America is such a great country?

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TVNL Comment: The lies just pile up.

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TVNL Comment: No comment.

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