The Vietnam War Movie Memorial

"I got to thinking about how much of our understanding of war in this country is filtered through the for-profit lens of Hollywood. And frankly, I think it’s gross. Multi-million dollar star vehicles showing us all how awful war is, but still with a slight sense of humor and a moral at the end, and the star never comes home with a permanent brain injury or a lost limb.

It’s these celluloid fantasies that help shape and sell the narrative of how we in America “understand” what’s going on in all those other countries we can’t spell properly. Many of us here don’t even personally know the name of a soldier serving now, much less one that has died in a past conflict."

— Artist Tim Doyle on his VHS tribute, The Vietnam War Movie Memorial. (Link via The Stuff)

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DO THE SPOOKS MANIPULATE THE MILITARY INTO KILLING CIVILIANS?

UK Kids and adults murdered by the UK military. (irishfreedomcommittee.bloody.)

Do the armies of the UK and USA kill their own citizens?

1. In Northern Ireland, which is part of the UK, British soldiers murdered civilians, including women and kids.

"Over 36 hours between 9 and 11 August 1971 - six months before British paratroopers were deployed to Derry with tragic consequences - the Parachute Regiment shot dead 11 civilians in the west Belfast housing estate of Ballymurphy.

"Those who were fatally wounded included the local priest and a 45-year-old mother." - Were Bloody Sunday soldiers involved in 'Ballymurphy massacre'?

2. There are similarities between what has happened in the USA and what has happened in the UK.

"In 1970, in the USA, US soldiers shot dead four students at Kent State University. (Kent State shootings - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia )

"In 1972, in the United Kingdom, British troops shot dead 13 British civilians.

"Seven of the dead were kids.

"At least five people were shot in the back.

"This was Bloody Sunday." (LED ZEPPELIN and Clockwork Orange; VIETNAM WAR and Bloody Sunday)

3. In the UK, certain 'terrorists' such as Martin McGuinness, have been blamed for the violence.

And who are these 'terrorists'?

"On 28 May 2006, The Sunday World, a Dublin newspaper, quoted Martin Ingram, the pseudonym of a former member of the British Army’s Force Research Unit as saying: “McGuinness was working for MI6.” - aangirfan: GERRY ADAMS OF MI6?

4. So, how does the system work?

The UK's General Frank Kitson refers to the 'pseudo gang'. (General Frank Kitson: Trail Blazing Fake Terrorism)

The pseudo gang works for the military but pretends to be a bunch of terrorists.

The idea of the 'pseudo gang' is to carry out acts of violence which can then be blamed on the people that the military wants to discredit.

Pseudo gangs have been used in Vietnam, Italy, Turkey, Belgium, the Philippines, Kenya, Malaya, Northern Ireland, Iraq, New York and many other places.

Reportedly, the white Rhodesians used pseudo gangs to bomb churches (and murder missionaries) and blame the violence on black guerrillas.

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