The Poverty Draft, Politics, Symbols, and the inconvenience of being human.
Even in times of war, the Soldier as an individual is of no consequence. The Soldier is a symbol, a simple pawn in a culture war. The Soldier is either a villain, or a Hero. The Soldier always serves for the honor of his country, not his paycheck. The Soldier is faithful, as there are 'no atheists in the trenches'. The Soldier is Combat Arms. The Soldier is male, he married a young white girl, and he has a baby on the way, whom he has never met.
The Soldier is a romantic ideal.







Devious Comments
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l'audace, l'audace, toujours l'audace!
Buzz -
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Good character is doing the right thing when no ones looking.
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"If you need a hero you have diminished yourself in some way"
(People interested in this should look at the Children and Young Persons (Care and Protection) Act 1998 and the 'Victoria Park Racing v. Taylor (1937) 58 CLR 479' High court ruling)
I do think its a sad state of affairs we're in, that a photographer might automatically be a pervert or a terrorist, it's making the public feel 'safer' as in most cases, its just scare-mongering (eek spelling)
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You wanna see stock, I'll give you stock [link]
Do you Respect-Us? [link]
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Clarior e tenebris
Especially as you aren't allowed to run paparazzi down in your truck
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There are two kinds of people, those who finish what they start and so on.
I agree that being treated as a terrorist for taking snaps would really wind me up and Im grateful to the article for explaining some of my rights !
But the flip side is that you can ofter go places that a person with a mobile phone camera would fear to tread !
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