Strike The Root Blog

If you’re looking for something to raise your blood pressure take some time to peruse the website for the US Marine’s Toys for Tots program. You should have no trouble identifying the rank hypocrisy and chilling propaganda that exists in a program carried out by those who willingly kill children- at least in other countries (for now).

The Marines can prattle all they want about sending “a message of hope to needy youngsters” and working toward “uniting the community” but the reality is the that the purpose of this phony charity is two-fold:

1) Exculpate the Marine’s guilt of killing children and other innocents during their dutiful maintenance and expansion of the American Empire, while creating the deception that an organization of highly trained, state-sponsored killers is a positive force in the world.

2) Condition the very young into the entitlement mentality that if life becomes unfair (in this case, not getting a toy for Christmas) the state will be there to make amends- primarily by way of handsome, strapping young men wearing clean, bright uniforms. How cool is that? I want to be one of those guys, someday!

How can I take seriously a child‘s charity, not only run by hired killers, but that claims that “children are one of our nation’s most valuable resources?” So where exactly do children rank on this list of resources- somewhere between a lump of coal and a pool of oil, perhaps? Or is the answer more obvious- as fodder to throw at the state’s enemy de jour?

I honestly don’t know whether the Marines have a Toys for Tots program in occupied countries, such a Iraq or Afghanistan. Calling the program “Bombs for Brats” or “Bomblets for Babies” or “Mines for Moppets” or “Kluster Bombs for Kids” may be a bit harsh, though appropriate. How about “Limbs for Lambs”?

Footnote: As we witness the increased militarization of civilian police forces, let’s hope we don’t see the creation of an auxiliary organization of T for T- “Tasers for Tots.”

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