Michael Prysner : ‘The Real Terrorist Was Me…’

navedz.com republishes the fragment of one of the most powerful anti-war speeches done by the former Corporal of the US Army in Iraq Michael Prysner at the 2008 Winter Soldier in Maryland. It is still relevant and sounding as ever.

By Michael PRYSNER (USA)

“I tried hard to be proud of my service, but all I could feel was shame. Racism could no longer mask the reality of the occupation. These were people, these were human beings. I’ve since been plagued by guilt, any time I see an elderly man, like the one who couldn’t walk, who we rolled onto a stretcher, and told the Iraqi police to take him away. I feel guilt any time I see a mother with her children, like the one who cried hysterically, and screamed that we’re worse than Saddam, as we forced her from her home. I feel guilt any time I see a young girl, like the one I grabbed by the arm, and dragged into the street.

We were told we were fighting terrorists.. the real terrorist was me, and the real terrorism was this occupation. Racism within the military has long been an important tool to justify the destruction and occupation of another country, it has long been used to justify the killing, subjugation and torture of another people. Racism is a vital weapon employed by this government; it is a more important weapon than a rifle, a tank, a bomber, or a battleship; it is more destructive than an artillery shell, or a bunker buster, or tomahawk missile.

the real terrorists

While all those weapons are created and owned by this government, they are harmless without people willing to use them. Those who send us to war, do not have to pull the trigger, or lob a mortar round; they do not have to fight the war, they merely have to sell the war. They need a public who’s willing to send their soldiers into harm’s way. They need soldiers who are willing to kill and be killed, without question.

They can spend millions on a single bomb, but that bomb only becomes a weapon, when the ranks of the military are willing to follow orders to use it. They can send every last soldier anywhere on Earth, but there will only be a war, if soldiers are willing to fight.. And the ruling class, the billionaires who profit from human suffering, care only about expanding their wealth, controlling the world economy.

Understand that their power lies only in their ability to convince us that war, oppression, and exploitation is in our interest. They understand that their wealth is dependent on their ability to convince the working class to die, to control the market of another country, and convincing us to kill and die, is based on their ability to make us think that we are somehow superior.

Soldiers, sailors, marines, airmen, have nothing to gain from this occupation. The vast majority of people living in the U.S. have nothing to gain from this occupation. In fact, not only do we have nothing to gain, but we suffer more because of it. We lose limbs, endure trauma, and give our lives. Our families have to watch flag-draped coffins lowered into the earth.

Millions in this country without health care, jobs, or access to education, have watched this government squander over FOUR-HUNDRED AND FIFTY MILLION DOLLARS A DAY ON THIS OCCUPATION. [IRAQ]

Poor and working people in this country, are send to kill poor and working people in another country, to make the rich richer; and without racism, soldiers would realize that they have more in common with the Iraqi people, than they do with the billionaires who send us to war.

I threw families onto the street in Iraq, only to come home and find families thrown onto the street in this country, and it’s a tragic, and unnecessary foreclosure crisis.

We need to wake up and realize that our real enemies are not in some distant land, they’re not people whose names we don’t know, and cultures we don’t understand. The enemy is people we know very well, and people we can identify. The enemy is a system that wages war when it’s profitable. The enemy is the CEO’s who lay us off from our jobs when it’s profitable; it’s the insurance companies who deny us health care when it’s profitable; it’s the banks who take away our homes when it’s profitable.

Our enemy is not five thousand miles away, they are right here at home. When we organize, and fight with our sisters and brothers, we can stop this war, we can stop this government, and we can create a better world.

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  1. The enemy are the Zionists, fake jews, khazarians = the Rothschild family. They have infiltrated America with their AIPAC and ADL Zionist “jew” lobbies and Zionist jewish organizations that do nothing but look out for Israel and try and paint anti Israel people in a bad light.

    What is Zionism? Jewish nationalism. Zionism is the modern day Nazism and it comes from Israel. It always came from Israel because Rothschild helped created Zionism and Israel.

    The biggest problem the world faces right now is Zionism. It is killing the USA, it is killing Palestine, it is killing Ukraine, it is killing most of the middle east.

    Americans are the absolute dumbest people on the planet, the way they are so afraid of this imaginary Arab boogeyman five thousand miles away that supposedly want to take their freedom away. Well, I suppose the Arab muslim boogeyman is not imaginary, but it was before the CIA and mossad created it.

    Guess who is really taking Americans freedom from them…… US congress, Obama, Bush family, Rothschilds with his interest based fiat currency which has helped to rack up a 17 trillion dollar national debt, and also enslaves future generations.

    Who created Israel state? Rothschild family – fake jews, khazars, who converted to Judaism in 700AD. How their rule has managed to last thousands of years I do not know but in the 1700’s their accounting firms really accelerated the issue once they learned they could scam people out of their gold and silver and offer paper IOU’s in return.

    If America is to survive then Americans need to wake up and stop praising troops, and “supporting the troops”, because all they are doing is supporting murderers and imperialism.

    The best way to fight back is by simply boycotting the IRS – do not file a income tax return. Try and use trade of service for cash or gold or silver coins or jewelry, etc but do not pay federal income tax. This also keeps what you earn out of the pockets of the commie Zionists that support Israel, many idiots in US government sector who depend on private sector taxes for their paycheck. The private sector needs to starve the government sector, let the Zionist trash die off.

    We must starve the system, we must starve current enlisted from a paycheck because that’s all todays armed forces are loyal to – Rothschild’s fiat currency. US troops don’t really care about America and “fighting for freedom”, if they did they would have removed Obama, McCain, Kerry, and numerous other israel PUPPETS a log time ago. If troops actually gave two poops about America they would have dismantled the AIPAC lobby a long time ago. But US troops have been brainwashed to believe that killing Arabs is freedom, and that israHELL is always the victim. It’s pathetic.

    US troops are some of the dumbest most unethical people of this realm, nothing but brainwashed murderers and US foreign policy being dictated by Rothschild, the Vatican, the queen, the bush family, and other powerful wackos is why if an actual organized foreign army ever attacked American soil, I would not do a single thing to help Americans. They deserve to be attacked just like all the war they bring to everyone else.

    F**k Amerika, f**k the US feds, and f**k Israel, but most of all, f**k Zionism and the Rothschild family.