Question:
Civlians of the world, don't you just feel like pawns on a chess board fueled by arms deals?
I am Natasha's complete lack of surprise
2011-11-07 08:08:14 UTC
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/william-hague/8873387/British-firm-with-links-to-William-Hague-sells-protester-tracking-product-to-Iran.html

http://www.wrmea.com/backissues/1186/8611002.html

Is there a government on earth that currently protects the life of its citizens, or do they ALL protect their own interests and their own investments at the cost of our children's lives?

We continue to join the militaries of those who do not even represent us, fall for their lies, and kill each other in the name of their profit? Do we need global political revolution or global social revolution? Will changing the masters help us, or will changing minds about each other help us?

http://www.gulfweb.org/bigdoc/report/riegle1.html

http://usiraq.procon.org/view.answers.php?questionID=894

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Cyclone
Eighteen answers:
2011-11-07 08:09:55 UTC
yes
who WAS #1?
2011-11-07 10:37:14 UTC
I devoted 4 years to the U.S. military during the Cold War. USAF cop (because I planned to go into police work but wasn't old enough). I never felt like our military was protecting corporate interests or "blood for oil" (although I graduated high school into the Arab Oil Embargo and a major recession... 1974).



Did I feel I was a child whose life was potentially sacrificed on the alter of corrupt government and crony capitalism? No. The mission was very clear: Keep them pesky Rooskies within their own borders so Communism wouldn't spread across the world in a Domino Theory. The Oath was clear: defend The Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic.



I think to really answer your question, I must bring your attention to the fact that since about 1973 the US military has been an all-volunteer force. Nobody is getting drafted. This is not Viet Nam.



Not only did I spend 4 years wearing a pistol and uniform to defend USA and its people, but that oath never ends: to this day I am prepared to do whatever it takes to defend your first amendment right to say stuff with which I disagree. Because that's what it takes to have a Free society.



All for free; no obligation on your part. I should mention that perhaps you are forgetting the value to your Freedom which results from having a couple million now-civilian Veterans around you, working at the hardware store, in the car next to yours on the freeway, making you and America safe by their very existence. Meaning there have been a lot of GOOD unintended consequences from the military/industrial complex.



EDIT

My final answer to your question is Switzerland.
budnick
2016-10-04 04:34:13 UTC
life is extra corresponding to a game of Monopoly between 4 gamers - company, politics, technology, and ethics. technology oftentimes in easy terms focuses on a single section and does not intervene interior the affairs of the different gamers (particularly the alternative, in certainty). Ethics continually loses miserably using fact it does not cheat its way into incomes a lot of money interior an analogous way as politics or company do. And if I had to be a single chess piece, i could be a rook (additionally familiar as a fort). King and Queen are the two unappealing to me, as they carry too lots importance; I savour influencing issues from the sidelines. i could no faster be a pawn, who's taken care of as an expendable and given little or no cost as a chunk. A bishop is out of the question using fact i could somewhat no longer commit my life to preaching a faith as though it have been a basic provider to society. Being a knight might seem heroic, yet relatively i could nevertheless experience as though i'm no longer given sufficient cost as a chunk. And that brings me to rooks. Rooks are surprisingly valued and quite functional. they're oftentimes an essential portion of a chessmaster's winning technique and an indispensible piece whilst in comparison with something different than the Queen (and clearly the King).
Stephen H
2011-11-07 11:18:40 UTC
It's round the outside. Peace is inside and comes out. In some quite unusual ways sometimes.

The master is hidden the peace. Those other "masters" are round the outside too. They can't get in here anyway without learning about peace and then they aren't that kind of master anyway, because peace is for everyone. It's not even remotely possible to compete for peace.



And we don't really need to blame people. A sense of separation has been around a long time, so people kind of get disconnected, so the peace is still there, and even if we do things in a way where we may seem to blame people, as soon as it's clear peace is expanding out then the "masters" can be more connected and have more proper aware peace as well. At root it's only that sense of separation, that gets people thinking they are somehow on the right or wrong side of some drawn line on the outside, and not really getting the peace.



We can always be aware of how we are working and go "within" and get back to the peace there. So one thing that's important. But not with feeling blaming, feeling scope for positive change. Then not sad and just the right amount of stress for it to be fully healthy and sustainable and without losing the peace so the stress is enjoyment. And it's firm (extremely firm if necessary to keep peace expanding) boundaries plus way open to reconnect for benefit all round including "masters".



And I've played a chess game where all the pieces were on the other side, and turned the board around without mincing any words, and still didn't leave without something that was giving peace back. And I've got my way back, and haven't finished because there are others that need their way as well.



It's different for each, because there's a level to find, and people are in different places at a time. So it's you level, what brings you to experience awareness (of self first) and peace and appropriate action when not blaming or angry but can still even go off like a volcano if that's the way. And it'll get there, because it's always ourselves first. Whole navigation system in all that we are. So then we know what to do. And profit and stuff, that's behind, not caught up yet. Know they feel separate and disconnected if that dominates, so it's compensatory and not fulfilled and in the full depth of being.



There are people who think they are above others and in charge, but don't recognise even very ordinary basic senses that are very easy to recognise and think they shouldn't be there. And there are loads of senses that can be all used two ways all at once and at the same time be in complete peace and contentment.



Changing minds about each other would help, same essence of humanity nearer the centre and the diversity round the outside fits if people let it. But from that essence it's one anyway with branches. So it would be like cutting off your own limbs.
Philip H
2011-11-07 10:13:19 UTC
Too many allow themselves to become Pawns of the Mainstream Media Propaganda Machine and then follow their brainwashing schemes. Then they reelect those the Special Interests have bought and paid for those in Congress who are supposed to be Representing the Citizen.

Pawns are Pawns because they allow themselves to be Pawns.

Make yourself heard during the Primary Election Season or you will never see anyone who represents YOU on the ballot in November.
lil' autarch
2011-11-07 11:56:08 UTC
This is purely subjective, but I sense a justice coming. I do not believe the so-called Arab Spring, the USA Tea Party, OWS, and the original Hope and Change movement behind Obama (before he betrayed it) are unrelated.



My fearless prediction for the day: Watch and see how the human spirit deals with those who for too long upon it tread.



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Iron_Plague
2011-11-07 08:11:45 UTC
No, I do not.



But, that may be because technically I'm not "civilian" of the world, and I am the captain of my own ship instead of a sheeple.
Apollo
2011-11-07 10:30:48 UTC
Well yes, those who control the money, control the people, as money has become our life-line as without it a lot would perish, so money is power and power controls our existence.
2011-11-07 08:09:59 UTC
Does that mean the pawns are fueled by arms deals or that the board itself is fueled by arms deals?
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2011-11-07 08:12:02 UTC
Switzerland seems to be the only country that is really ran by the people. All the rest are ran by military industrial complex puppets.
2011-11-07 08:15:28 UTC
Follow the money and you will find the group behind most mankind enslavement.
the watchman
2011-11-07 08:11:25 UTC
Uh oh speaking truth that makes people uncomfortable an angry is strictly forbidden.
Lee
2011-11-07 08:11:25 UTC
Check mate.
saumitra s
2011-11-07 08:10:11 UTC
Yes, we are pawns but not militarily in my country.
2011-11-07 08:12:32 UTC
yes
?
2011-11-07 08:11:36 UTC
America was the first nation in the world to recognize and protect the basic human rights of people, as given to us by God. (or at all)
Alex G
2011-11-07 11:19:38 UTC
We are paying for it so that must be what we want.
Captain
2011-11-07 08:09:01 UTC
You're also apparently Natasha's complete lack of sense.


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