MY Vast Right Wing Conspiracy

This REALLY sucks

• Posted by Beth on January 10th, 2005 filed in General    

UPDATE: [see "Read More]

I got this from a friend via e-mail today:

I got the company newsletter about five days after I started working
at my new job. The front page of it dealt with one of the guys who
works here, his reserve unit was called up,and he’s been serving in
Iraq for the last few months. Just last week he got his first leave
and came home.

The article then continued, listing employees who had a family member
serving in Iraq and Afganistan. From what I remember, we’ve got about
a dozen of those. There’s a pretty good spread too. From the lowest
manual labor job, up through managers and Department heads, there are
folks who’ve got a son, or brother, or husband serving in a war zone.
That’s what made what I saw later the same day all the more amazing.

I’m working on a system, and then I notice the corkboard behind this
chick’s desk. She’d just put up a large poster, using the same color
scheme and logo that the Army uses for their recruiting. The poster
was of a cemetery. Rows and rows of headstones. The caption?

“You can’t be all that you can be if you’re DEAD.”

I walked over, and took a closer look. The message underneath
basically said, “You can serve your country, and get money for college
in ways besides serving in the military.”

Nice. Just nice.

Now notice, this isn’t a poster saying the war in Iraq is wrong.
People can disagree about that. I personally stay up some nights
wondering if those people over there are worth one drop of American
blood. Like I said, people can disagree about policy, that’s America,
Jack.

This was a poster encouraging people not to enlist in the military.
This is also a poster, the subtext of which states, ‘If you serve in
the armed forces, you’re a moron. You’re also probably going to die.”

There are people not three desks from where this…individual…sits
that have loved ones serving over there. She posts a poster of a
giant cemetary which implies this is where a soldier or marine will
most likely end up.

That’s so classy!

Tell me that part about how the left supports our troops but not the war again?

Let me break this down for you, honey. If it wasn’t for that ‘moron’
slinging a rifle and guarding your freedom, if it wasn’t for that hick
planted in that cemetary that your friends photographed, you wouldn’t
have the freedom to ‘be all that you can be’.

Then again, I’ve met you. You didn’t turn out to be much.

Obviously, the “let me break this down for you, honey” part was for the bitch with the poster.

More obviously, this bitch isn’t alone in her opinion, unless she made one poster up by herself. Someone is making and buying this bullshi’ite!

I’d like to find out who is making this stuff propaganda and see about copyright infringement, just to start. And also start passing out names, addresses, email, phone numbers…you get my drift. I’d love to have the poster bitch’s information, but I’m not sure my friend will be willing to divulge it, since he has to work with the effing c**t. Talk about someone in desperate need of a beating with a Clue Bat.

UPDATE:

More from my friend via email:

Some notes:

The poster had the following url, as well as a phone number and some
other contact info.

http://www.syrculturalworkers.com

Don’t go there after eating. Don’t go before eating unless you want
to lose weight. For some reason, I didn’t see the poster in their
extensive catalog o’bile and hate. It must be a passe model.

Note for the blog post. I’m using “subtext” in the
literary manner, ie “implied or lower level of meaning”. They don’t
say moron or hick on the poster itself, in case anyone writes in
quoting that steaming pile in entirety. If you don’t need to go join
the military to get the benefits offered, but do anyhow, exactly what
is that saying about you? That’s the implied message.

And no, this isn’t some Communist front type message. This is
old-school, 1918 defeatist Bolshevism. It hasn’t even tidied itself
up enough to get to the “Communist” plateau.

When I wrote, “That’s so classy!” I totally was thinking of when
Athena said that line in “My Big Fat Greek Wedding”

I DID find the poster, HERE.