Communications from Facebook

This was posted by Kris Lehman on the Facebook group called Support Canadian Soldiers
at 9:06AM on April 2
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I read this from a friend of mine in the Cadets, but i dont exactly remember the whole thing.
One day a soldier, having just completed his tour of duty, decided to attend a local college. he entered a classroom where the prof was speaking about the futilities of war. As he was condemning the war somebody said "well maybe war has something to do with religion."
At this the prof said "God, I am going to stand here until you give me a sign that you had influence in this war". He stood there for ten minutes and nobody said anything. Suddenly the soldier got up, punched the prof in the face and said
"God couldn't give you a sign, he was too busy protecting our soldiers so assholes like you could speak freely"


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This is a bizarre story that negates itself for the following reasons: First it reinforces the stereotype that soldiers are violent morons. Also the professor did not speak freely, he was brutally punished for what he said by the soldier (who is a violent moron) which then negates the idea that the soldiers are fighting for people to be able to speak freely since the soldier in the story denies that particular right to the professor – therefore soldiers are NOT fighting for freedom. This fake pro-war anecdote in fact extends a darker view of soldiers than most anti-war activists would likely be willing to construct. The soldier not only participates in brutality in foreign countries but also acts as a violent one-man vigilante army against critics at home, and he acts in that idiotic capacity while repeating mindless rhetoric which is obviously diametrically opposed to his actions. Way to make a point!