Platoon analysis

My analysis of the quote at the end of Platoon is they both have different sides and are pulling Chris to think and do things their way. I think that Elias would be considered an angel like figure. He is not an angle, but Elias was a lot more humane than the other people in the platoon. He seemed to care about the people more than the other high-ranking personnel. I also think that Barnes is a devil like figure. He seemed to be trying to get Chris to harden his heart and do anything to win the war. I think that because Barnes seemed to have no sympathy when he killed Elias. Barnes seems to think that if anyone wants to get out of this war they have to do it his way, and never to question him. I think that the part about him being “born of those two fathers” like the made him a new person and both of their influences are inside of him. He is more compassionate like when he helps the guy in the foxhole or when he saves the woman from getting raped. He is also harsher like when he screams at the people to get at of the hole, making the one legged guy “dance” by shooting at his foot, and killing Barns. He isn’t who he was before he entered the war, and I think that he was changed partly because of both Elias and Barnes. I know that going to war, especially one in a jungle like that, would change anyone, and I sure that him being in the war changed him a lot to. Another thing to change him was they were fighting themselves as much as they were fighting the enemy. They would kill, mistreat, and fight with their fellow soldiers. I think they all knew that neither side was going to win this war. How the U.S. could be expected to win a war that was in an unfamiliar and hostile territory. The Vietnamese people knew that jungle a lot better that any of our soldiers ever would, the Vietnamese lived in this habitat so they had a big advantage. Along with this all of the disagreements in the camps also lead to fighting and even killing of our soldiers by our own people.  This war that caused death and unhealable pain to many soldiers and their families, and now the war are stuck with them, to live on forever. I think that the “possession of my soul” part shows that he will always be thinking about Barnes and Elias, and that they will always be a part of him. Whenever Chris will have a tough question his heart will get pulled in two directions: a direction of morality, the side of Elias, and the side of harshness, Barnes. This movie was pretty good. A bit too much blood and violence for me, but it was still bearable. The movie showed how harsh the Vietnam war was, and how much it changed the people that were a part of it. 

Kennedy Assassintion

I don’t think that the nation truly lost its innocence on that day. I feel that there was no innocence in the government, but many of the people still had theirs. I don’t think that the people should have blamed themselves, only the people involved should. If the witnesses spoke up they were killed, they were killed for trying to get the truth out of the government. I think that JFK’s assassination scared many people and after learning of the conspiracy it made the people doubt their government. I feel that this made people lose their trust in many officials on public and state and federal levels. On a world basis I think it had less of an effect but that it showed other countries that our government is not to be trusted. If the government doesn’t mind killing its own leader, why would it question killing anyone else? They may have also got other countries to question their own government; to think about what their leaders are letting them know and see. I feel that the trust in our government is very low, and that unless something happens it will get even lower. With all of the government conspiracy’s going on how can the people in future generation trust them; how can people now trust our government. This assassination just added another peg on reasons to not trust our government. Some people may have blamed themselves, but the government would have fought back, it was out of our hands.

Article on loss of innocence can be found here

I believe that 9/11 had a similar effect on our people. It made the people question what our government would do to get what it wants. How much are they willing to do? Will there ever be a stopping point? Can our government be free of the people in it that are doing this, or would we have to build an entirely new government to free ourselves of the injustice. How long would a new government even last if we made one? Can we even make a government that will work for the people and not for itself? These are questions that I now wonder after thinking about what our government did. If I can think this up, who many other can. I believe that this is what some of the American population does or would think after thinking about the things that our government did, and covered up. How many other things have our government did and covered up. Did the government kill RFK? Did they kill MLK? How long has the government been doing these conspiracies? Could it date back to Abraham Lincoln? We will never know, because the government is hiding what they did to save their skins, they are waiting until we forget all of the things they have done so that they can strike again. Never forget. Let this live on; do not let the conspirators win. Do not let the Illuminati win. Yes, I say Illuminati, because I believe that our government and all other governments are part of the Illuminati.

In my opinion it was the government that killed John F Kennedy. I don’t feel that any one person had the power to plan this, and most of the other organizations couldn’t either. To be able to change the parade route needs special authority, along with the lack of agents in the crowd, and other stuff that could only be done by the government. I think that they killed JFK because he wanted to end the war and make a time of peace. War makes money, boosts manufacturing, and helps most economies, so they wanted to stop him before he could stop the war. I feel that it was not a coincident that JFK and MLK were shot soon after JFK. I feel that they were all conspiracy’s to make this a time of war instead of peace. I believe that this was our government, but the government is only a small part of this, it all boils down to the Illuminati.

Going off of the Illuminati idea Lee Harvey Oswald, Kennedy’s alleged killer, Lee has 3 letters, James Earl Ray, MLK’s alleged killer, and Ray has 3 letters. There is 3 points on a triangle, triangular pyramid, the pyramids in Egypt are triangular pyramids. The pyramids have the All Seeing Eye, and when you mix a pyramid with the All Seeing Eye you get the Illuminati. Some may think that all of these are coincidences, but how has all this power to kill all of the people looking for peace. The governments all around the world, that’s who. All of the world governments are controlled by the super power that is the Illuminati. All of the war, conspiracy killings, mafia, trade, and leaders are all planed by the Illuminati. This stuff was never our choice, it was all planed by the all seeing eye. 

Trump and Nixon Comparison and contraction.

Donald trump and Richard Nixon had the same stance to deal with the same problem. Both Trump and Nixon had the trouble of minority protesters at their rallies. The protesters said that the candidate was racist and that they were against them. In both cases the presidential candidate allied with the police. This makes a lot sense because the majority of the U.S. trusts the police. With putting support in the police it leaves the candidate out of some of the blame. People cannot say that the candidate did anything wrong because they let the proper authorities deal with it. And many U.S citizens believe that the police are trust worthy. Trump even told people that he believes that the police are some of the most mistreated people in this country. Also in both cases the Democrats against the candidate took the other side of the argument. They said that the acts were racist and that the democratic candidate could fix it. Both Nixon and Trump had very similar stances on the presence of some differences with Trump and Nixon is that Nixon blamed the problems in crime on the minorities. Trump did not say anything against their race at the rally, he did insult the protesters, but he did not blame the entire African American people for the nation’s crime.

Article- Anti-Trump Protests grow

Asian Auschwitz

This article(http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-439776/Doctors-Depravity.html) was extremely disturbing. Not just for what the Japanese did, but also for the fact that all of them got pardoned if they shared their results. That makes it seem like it was all okay. They never apologized or atoned for the wrongs that they did.What Ishii and all of Unit 731 did is horrible. The things they did deprived people of their humanity. They were treated worse than animals. It is disturbing to think of cutting and dissecting people when they could feel it, and even that they were still alive. It is also horrible that the doctors and assistants got used to cutting humans open alive, and the screams that the emitted. Science is horrible excuse for these crimes; especially with the fact that some did not even have a scientific purpose. They did all of this to find biological weapons that were outlawed in the Geneva Protocol. The Japanese signed this and they still went about with this project. Even if Emperor Hirohito did not know what was going on many government officials knew all too well about this. The Emperors younger brother and the prime minister of Japan knew about these experiments. They even supported the acts that went on in Unit 731. The Japanese may have had less prisoners, but I fear that these people should have been treated the same as the Nazi higher-ups. I think that there were many better ways to find out a lot of the information that was uncovered at Unit 731. They did not need to cut people open alive to remove their organs, or inject them with strange things. Some of the things did not have a medical purpose at all like injecting someone with horse urine. I don’t see a purpose in cutting off limbs and sewing them back on the wrong way.These things were all crimes against humanity, and should have been treated as such. They should not have peen pardoned for their crimes. That puts the US down to the level of those who committed the experiments. I think the Japanese should have had to send out apologies. They started plagues and did such horrible thing to so many people, yet they don’t have to apologies for anything, all because they gave out the results of the results of their twisted acts? I think the Japanese committed a horrible wrong but the US should not have pardoned. This whole situation is just messed up. 

Say Yes to the Preparedness Movement (WW1)

The United States must prepare to join World War 1. If we do not step in the war could drag on much longer than needed thus killing many more innocent lives. The United States has the power to stop this war. With our military and naval power we can drastically cut the time needed to end the war. We need to be prepared to help out our allies if the need comes. The United States is a great and proud nation, and we need to provide help for all of those who need it. If we do not help out who else will? Many of our United States citizens have ancestral ties to the countries of Great Britain, France, and Italy, and some still have family and friends in those countries. We need to be ready to defend the land of our people’s ancestors, and the family, and friends of our people that are in Europe. France and Great Britainare fighting hard to protect all of their people and the people in their many colonies, should we not help them keep their people safe? The Central Powers are being attacking the magnificent culture of these lands. This war began because Gavrilo Princep, a Serbian man in the terrorist group the Black Hand, assassinated the Arch Duke of Austria-Hungary, Franz Ferdinand. If they are willing to kill the Arch-Duke of Austria-Hungary, why would they stop there? They could take the lives of our allies, or our own people. The only way to stop this is to join the war,  we can put an end to the war and bring peace.

Prisoner rights violated

Many phone calls from prisoners are being recorded. Many of these phone calls are confidential calls between an attorney and the prisoner. These recordings should not have been recorded because of the legally protected client attorney confidentiality. This is known through the Securus leak/hack. Prisoners rarely get any sort of privacy; they at least deserve to have private conversations with their legal team and their families. This violates both the prisoners few privacy rights and the rights of anyone who happened to call a prisoner.  What makes this worse is the way they store the records. They had the recordings scattered across many tables. There is no security in the storing of this information. If they must record the phone calls they should at least have a safe and secure the information. The main problem with this is that it goes against the 6^th amendment a right to competent and effective legal counsel. Anyone citizen should have the rights to keep their amendments. 

Article link-Not So Securs

Frank Norris Muckraker.

Frank Norris

Frank Norris was an author who wrote many books including The Octopus. This book, although fictional, exposed that the railroads in California were monopolies. In the next few years the U.S. broke up the railroads in the Northwest.  The railroads needed to be broken because they could set or raise a price at any time without competition. Farmers near the railroads bought land for $2.50 an acre. The farmers fixed up the land not knowing that the railroad later retained the title for the land. The railroad company tried to sell the land for $25 to $35 dollars an acre. For those who resisted there was a forced eviction that 7 died in. Many of the farmers got their land back eventually. Frank Norris wrote the Octopus on this. William Jennings Bryans also wrote his speech “Cross of Gold” over the railroad monopoly crisis. The Octopus is often associated with Upton Sinclair’s famous muckraking book The Jungle.

Basic information on a few muckrakers. Muckrakers

Basic information about the railroads.California Railroads

A summary for The Octopus can be found at the fallowing link. The Octopus