General / Off-Topic Taking a stand.

[Surfinjo]

[video=youtube;_rZgtMGD_o8]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rZgtMGD_o8[/video]

On Friday 10 July 2015, three members of Veterans For Peace UK met in Trafalgar Square, London and walked down Whitehall towards the residence of the Prime Minister. Once at Downing Street the veterans lined up, faced the police barricades and made the following statements.

“We are members of Veterans For Peace UK, an ex-services organisation of men and women who have served this country in every conflict since the second world war. We exist in the hope of convincing you that war is not the solution to the problems of the 21st century. We have come here today to hand back things, given to us as soldiers, that we no longer require or want.” Said Ben Griffin.

https://www.facebook.com/veteransforpeace.org.uk

 

[Surly_Badger]

Wars seem to always benefit politicians; very seldom the people on the recieving end of the conflict, and never those who are killed or do the killing. Humanity's problem in the future is to rein in the warlike tendencies of our entitled political class; they're great at starting the killing but somehow they're never around when it's actually happening.

 

[metatheurgist]

It's a nice idea but I don't know how they plan to respond to groups like ISIL. Just kneel and present their necks? Live as slaves? War is unpleasant but sometimes necessary. You can't reason with the unreasonable.

 

[AluminumAlloy]

My great grandfather is a veteran of war and up there in paradise he is proud of you for posting this thread. Thank you for posting this.

 

[Iskariot]

One can only hope there will always be new generations of young people who are willing to get massacred for the sake of politician's testosterone levels.
The killing must go on and on and on, because of our true killer ape natures.