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Sir! No Sir! - A Film About The GI Movement Against The War In Vietnam

Anonyme, Lunes, Marzo 27, 2006 - 20:25
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“The Vietnam War has been the subject of hundreds of films, both fiction and non-fiction, but this story—the story of the rebellion of thousands of American soldiers against the war—has never been told in film. This is certainly not for lack of evidence...

Sir! No Sir!
A Film About The GI Movement Against The War In Vietnam,
by David Zeiger
Revolution #041, April 2, 2006, posted at revcom.us

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Sir! No Sir!
A Film About The GI Movement Against The War In Vietnam.
by David Zeiger

“The Vietnam War has been the subject of hundreds of films, both fiction and non-fiction, but this story—the story of the rebellion of thousands of American soldiers against the war—has never been told in film. This is certainly not for lack of evidence...

“ Sir! No Sir! will change all that. The film does four things: 1) Brings to life the history of the GI movement through the stories of those who were part of it; 2) Reveals the explosion of defiance that the movement gave birth to with never-before-seen archival material; 3) Explores the profound impact that movement had on the military and the war itself; and 4) The feature, 90 minute version, also tells the story of how and why the GI Movement has been erased from the public memory.

http://www.sirnosir.com/the_film/synopsis.html

Asunto: 
 Hopefully, troops of today will get to know about this film and
Autor: 
 mikec
Fecha: 
 Mié, 2006-04-05 20:59

story, particularly all those serving in the G.W. Bush et al war(s) of (not on but of) terrorism.

Anthony Arnove has come out with an excellent book that lays out apprently all the necessary logic for understanding that what's presently called for in Iraq, and which I apply to also Afghanistan, as well as Haiti, Colombia, etc., what's called for is withdrawal and quite immediately, ASAP.

The only thing I'll add, assuming it's not stated in his book, is that at least US troops have military law that rather makes it very clear that their present duty is to cease obeying orders and to instead defend the US Constitution, and international laws and conventions which the US government promised to abide by and which the US Constitution specifically states are supreme, that the US Constitution itself can't then be used against these international laws and conventions, with the sole potential exception being when war is launched on the US by another state, but which has not happened.

I don't know about troops from the US' coalition allies, but US troops have the above duty to disobey the president, el-sicko Bush, and to dissent firmly right there in these various countries. If officers object, then the troops nevertheless have the legal authority to pull rank and place these officers under arrest, and in jail, until they're brought to courts for trials, the officers.

They want people back home in the US to get their government to stop this war, and to withdraw the troops, but they don't have to rely on this. The troops have legal authority the people back home don't have, and can't have without forcing regime change at home. Given the latter's been clearly not going to happen, not going to be even attempted, the troops have to rely on their own legal authority to firmly dissent, and should be very glad to have this as an explicit legal authority, and duty, the two aspects combining to provide what should be only more motivational or inspiring.

They should not allow fear of applying their legal authority and duty to prevent them from doing so. Their lives and the lives of tens of thousands of innocent others, Iraqis, Afghans, Haitians, and so on, are all at stake, and this is major stake or cause.

Back home, returned troops who've undertaken great opposition, this has indeed been great, but the troops still in any of these various countries have the above authority, and duty, and should welcome applying them. Their own lives and sanity should be enough to motivate them, and then carefully thinking of the many tens of thousands of innocents in these countries would only benefit, greatly so, just provides more excellent motivation.

If they want more motivation, then they can refer to articles I've posted links for in another cmaq.net page, the main post and at least one comment post.

http://www.cmaq.net/en/node/24047

The troops have courage, they just need to apply it correctly. DISSENT and firmly so!

Mike Corbeil
Hatley Township, Qc

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