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Isthmus

Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense. I know for a fact there is no evidence to connect what the school teaches with any kind of atrocities.

Kids will enlist, but they’ll probably be black-and brown-skinned kids, or Hmong, and blue-collar kids who aren’t laser-focused. You escape by slaying people in dark alleys and grungy buildings. If the sons and daughters of the elite and professional classes were clad in olive drab and routinely being blown up in IED booby traps, the killing can feel a bit like a one-trick pony; hide in a shadow, sneak, kill, repeat. Gangster life is our cultural paradigm, played out as big business by the powerful, as crime by the powerless. In an era of gated communities, privatized public services, Blackwater mercenaries and revived left wing suspicion of the military: savages…eager to glut their savage thirst with the blood of the vanquished.

Murders, torture and other atrocities carried out by soldiers trained at the School of the Americas; I feel this is my right under the law of man and the law of God. Its graduates have committed human rights abuses throughout Latin America, including the murder of nuns and priests. It hands out scary literature to little kids at fast-food restaurants. It seeks total animal liberation: no meat or dairy in people’s diets, no hunting or fishing, no use of animals in medical research. Even seeing-eye dogs don’t make the cut. The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.

Isthmus II (colors indicate different articles)

Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense. I know for a fact there is no evidence to connect what the school teaches with any kind of atrocities.

Kids will enlist, but they’ll probably be black-and brown-skinned kids, or Hmong, and blue-collar kids who aren’t laser-focused. You escape by slaying people in dark alleys and grungy buildings. If the sons and daughters of the elite and professional classes were clad in olive drab and routinely being blown up in IED booby traps, the killing can feel a bit like a one-trick pony; hide in a shadow, sneak, kill, repeat. Gangster life is our cultural paradigm, played out as big business by the powerful, as crime by the powerless. In an era of gated communities, privatized public services, Blackwater mercenaries and revived left wing suspicion of the military: savages…eager to glut their savage thirst with the blood of the vanquished.

Murders, torture and other atrocities carried out by soldiers trained at the School of the Americas; I feel this is my right under the law of man and the law of God. Its graduates have committed human rights abuses throughout Latin America, including the murder of nuns and priests. It hands out scary literature to little kids at fast-food restaurants. It seeks total animal liberation: no meat or dairy in people’s diets, no hunting or fishing, no use of animals in medical research. Even seeing-eye dogs don’t make the cut. The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.