the modern guide...better lies
Monday, May 19, 2008
...to the army on the street
Worrying times here in the U.K. . A modern guide worries about the increasing calls by politicians and the media to raise the profile of the armed forces in the streets and the schools and the minds of the people. An armed forces day with ticker tape parades is one government backed suggestion. 'Why aren't we more like the USA?' they ask. No offence to our American cousins - whom I love dearly - but this is not America and we're not Americans.
More frightening still is the call for servicemen to wear their uniforms in civy street and a push for cadets in every school. Is it to instill respect for the forces or for us is to get used to a daily uniformed presence ?
Just unnerves me this kind of talk, I can't quite put my finger on it...call it a gut feeling - the kind you have just before something really scary happens.
More frightening still is the call for servicemen to wear their uniforms in civy street and a push for cadets in every school. Is it to instill respect for the forces or for us is to get used to a daily uniformed presence ?
Just unnerves me this kind of talk, I can't quite put my finger on it...call it a gut feeling - the kind you have just before something really scary happens.
posted by the modern guide # Monday, May 19, 2008 
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