"He who joyfully marches to music rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder."

~ Albert Einstein

If I had my way, the word "patriotism" would be stricken from the language, as it has but one real meaning, and that is that the political state is God, and that individual and individual human right and responsibility have no meaning or worth. Compassion and love are abandoned in every state of war, and without compassion, only hate and indifference remains. The term "war is hell" is exactly correct, for what other evil can compare with the barbarous slaughter of every form of humanity in the name of 'country' or religion. It should be noted that all war is solely for the benefit of the ruling class, and therefore, it is the bane of mankind. It brings nothing but horror, maiming, torture, weeping, and murder, and is satisfying only to those deranged psychopaths and monsters who revel in killing in order to seek power and control.

It is certainly no secret that this country called America has committed untold atrocities against humanity in the name of war since before and after its founding. It has been guilty of total aggression and aggressive war for 93% of its existence, (probably more) and continues to war and threaten war against much of the world on a continuous basis. The current warmongering and threat of all-out-war by the U.S. is ever-present; more now than ever before, and this evil is ignored by most of this weak and apathetic mob of non-thinking, non-caring citizens, who continue to worship the state and wave its bloody flag in support of killing.