Yes, very passionate stuff. I bet a lot of people will call him "Anti-American" for pulling this sort of thing though.
On another forum where I got this from, the older crowd jumped all over this and basically said he was wrong. People in this country are blind.
THAT YOUNG MAN NEEDS TO PACK HIS BAG AND LEAVE THE USA! IF WE DID NOT DEFEND OURSELFS WE WOULD BE SITTING DUCKS, LOOK AT 9/11, I WAS NOT BORN IN THE USA BUT I AM A PROUD CITIZEN, AMERICA SAVED MY COUNTRY MANY YEARS AGO, I BACK OUR MILITARY UNTIL DEATH! One of the comments on the video on YouTube. No comments.
I've had far too many friends go into the military, and almost all of them that have been in long enough completely regret it. They had no idea what they were getting themselves into. It's all deception and false justification, interlaced with over-dramatized action scenes and Godsmack or 3 Doors Down, promises of future opportunities and higher education that often fail to be delivered. You can't go to a movie theater these days without being shown the propaganda. Especially movies obviously geared to a teenage audience. 99% of the times I've done so I've been faced with almost full-fledged music videos set to Three Doors Down and dedicated to the Army. The Marines take the cake as far as brainwashing and trying to suck the kids in. I'll never forget my first day of my freshmen year of high school, biology class, being given a periodic table with a Marines logo and recruitment office info at the bottom. Or the recruiters visiting on campus during lunch with Hummers sporting loud stereo systems, with visible arrays of subwoofers and large LCD screens. They always had a bar and mat for pull-up/push-up contests, for free Marines shit. Or the time I found a recruiter had sent me a friend request on Facebook, and already had several of my friends added. I denied, blocked, and flagged him for unwanted contact/spam. That's all it was. Or the way all the computer labs had mouse pads with clear spaces where recruiters' business cards were slipped in. By senior year I made a point to remove and destroy them from every seat I sat in. Modern military is a shameless fraud. Anybody who thinks we're doing anything for anyone's freedom, including our own, is delusional and stuck in the past when war actually needed to be justified. I'll praise the era of military that did good such as helping to liberate France and bring down the Nazis, but don't call me disrespectful or un-American because I don't support attacking essentially a random country after the events of 9/11 under the baseless claim of "Weapons of Mass Destruction" and then changing to the guise of "liberation" while soldiers rape and murder the country's innocent civilians.
Every time I go downtown, someone is always trying to recruit me for something. Every Single Time. Cops have asked if I ever considered going to law enforcement plenty of times. Military people have asked me if I ever thought about joining and handing me their business cards which I then proceed to throw away at the nearest trashcan. It's annoying, you'd think they'd understand to leave me alone with it after I keep saying "I've thought about it but no I'm not going to"
Yes, every country needs a military. You don't know what the military is like so calm down. We can't say anything until we've been there like the man in the video has. Again, calm down.