[kj] FW: Please sign the petition - it's too late

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Footsoldiers & SS men are two entirely different beasts.

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From: gathering-bounces at misera.net
[mailto:gathering-bounces at misera.net]On Behalf Of B. Oliver Sheppard
Sent: 17 December 2007 20:21
To: A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)
Subject: Re: [kj] FW: Please sign the petition - it's too late


Well, if Nazis were "real criminals," they generally made excellent 
soldiers, even if Germany ultimately lost WW2. In other words, as far as 
soldiers go, the German WW2 army was a pretty disciplined and generally 
well-oiled fighting machine. Now, whether they were spread too thin, or, 
being soldiers, suffered from the bad decisions of generals --that 
doesn't make them poor soldiers. Just good soldiers directed towards 
unprofitable/unattainable goals. And almost by definition the Nazis were 
criminals, some moreso than others.

Lockheed Martin has at least 28 criminal convictions against it, but 
it's still one of the globe's most profitable companies. If I had seven 
criminal convictions on my person I wonder how wealthy I could get. It's 
all in how you define "criminal." there's the legal definition, or it 
could be a catch-all phrase to mean a shifty, duplicitous, amoral, 
traitorous person.

-Oliver


Brendan wrote:

"The myth of the dirty dozen is just that IMO, real criminals usually 
make shitty soldiers...they desert, attack and kill their own, 
collaborate with the enemy, whatever if it serves their own cause."

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