I laughed until I realized that the Heritage Foundation was dead serious when they put up a blog post entitled “This Memorial Day, Don’t Forget the Defense Industrial Base”. I was always aware that Heritage is a Military Industrial Complex ideology shop, but I never thought even they would have the gall to post something so outrageously lacking in subtlety and decency. On a day intended to honor the military men and women who have died over the course of our country’s history, Heritage decided to exploit their deeply personal sacrifices to hawk overpriced weapons systems that a Republic would have no use for (but an empire might). Their disrespectful shilling is deeply disturbing, and one more reason to not trust anything that comes out of that snake pit.
Historical note: The Heritage Foundation was a cheerleader for Reagan’s interventionism in Latin America and Africa in the 1980s, it lead the PR campaign for the Iraq War, and has been recently been irresponsibly beating the war drums about Iran. With such a record, it’s not surpising to see such swill come out of their hired “intellectuals”.
Memorial Day, when we pretend that we live in a free country because of all the people who were killed in the government’s senseless wars.
Wow. I never knew they were such a bald-face front for the military-industrial complex. I’m going to look at their ‘free’ Constitutions in a different light from now on…
Shameful!
As to the Constitutions, that’s why I wanted stickers to put on them that said we don’t endorse Heritage for our convention. Now I get crap from them in the mail all the time. But just like the crap I get from Planned Parenthood, they can waste their money on me. And I’ll take as many of those Constitutions as they want to give. After I put an antiwar.com or even a Hello Kitty sticker on the back they’re still free Constitutions.