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The issue of rights has always been a truly spectacle argument in my career as a soldier.  I often firmly believe that the American populace has a real hard time dealing with reality, and do not much like deal with the truth.  My basis for that reached its zenith in 2013 when the federal government shutdown.  That validated a lot of deep rooted hated towards the extremely conservative, and the intense liberal movement.  I thought to add comedy to my argument when I made this video (or at least attempted to)  the traditional argument on the side of rights is that there are indeed rights, rights for the people, the government in terms of how it may conduct its responsibilities and function, but what about the rights of the people?  Well, the argument is such that the bill of rights was created at the time when the British Empire was abusing all forms of their power over our colonies that when the Continental Congress (both of them) were formed as response to find a way to firmly entrench upon the ideas of self governance.  While this was a start, it was not until after the Revolutionary War that our strength and unity was tested with the making of a true government.  The Articles of Confederation was the U.S. first attempt to form a stable government that failed almost immediately and later gave rise to the first bill of rights...the Constitution.

What most people do not know is that there is a clause in the writing of that paper that forfeits the rights of the people, the states, and the executive power given in the 5th amendment. The taking of private property.  Under this clause it in a way keeps the power of the federal government at holds over the people.  In the case of Japanese American's in the year 1942 right after the attack on Pearl Harbor this was the heaviest included and dependent upon when the American populace terrified of further attacks as well as preparing for the war in Europe and the recent declaration of war on Japan, was called to do something toward the Japanese-American population for fear of them attacking other areas of the US, but this was voided because the clause in which this amendment works is that the people who lose the land are fairly compensated.  This was not the case of the Japanese American's who lost everything when the American government relocated  them to the various interment camps that lined the country side of California, Nevada, Arizona, and New Mexico.  When the war was over the Japanese American populace was released...but into poverty with nothing to their names, their houses gone, their business closed.  The thought makes you think that something is really wrong with this picture even in the best of circumstances.  The principle argument is that this was a just and needed course of action, but the results clearly do not justify the means in which it was carried out.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuOwomqN9Lg

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I find the that writing digitally with rhetoric is not that different than reading Socrates and Gorgias argue like a high school debate team that seem to ramble on and on in that syntax. I also cannot help but think of the similarities in which they are connected as a form of writing.  Then if rhetoric is committed to radical indeterminacy and thus becomes an art by making what was indeterminate determinate than such is writing the truth in the way you must think of its idiosyncrasies:  Euphemisms, I hate euphemisms and seem like such a throw back from the truth.  George Carlin once said, “White well-to-do business men have invented a language used to conceal its sins.”

Now I am not saying that rhetoric is bad but the context is what I am referring too.  If rhetoric is used to determine the truth what was indeterminable then what is so bad about telling the truth and forgo the scheme to figure this out?  The answer is nothing. What I find annoying about rhetoric is that it builds and builds like a sick avalanche of arrogance because of the lies and deceit surrounding its use.  Taking the condition “Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder” and breaking through the lies and the deceit surrounding the formation of that particular condition we find America in its brightest moment of hiding the truth.  My father is a Vietnam Veteran and stayed in the Armed Forces to serve an additional thirty-seven years as well as deal with PTSD.  My little brother served in Afghanistan and has been battling PTSD today.  The condition itself is when the mind has been stressed to a breaking point and it has either snapped or is about to snap and the person can no longer deal with anything even the thought of family relations is painful to them.

The condition post-traumatic stress disorder began its founding during the First World War when it was called shell shock.  Two syllables honest and direct.  Then the Second World War happened and the exact same condition then became “Battle Fatigue.”  The syllable count increased to four and the pain from shell shock has begun to now be buried under jargon.  Shortly after the war in Korea happened and the exact same condition was given another name: Operational Exhaustion.  We have gone from two and four syllables to eight and the pain is almost gone it is merely a fraction of what it was.  Then came the war in Vietnam which was buried in lies and deceit and the rhetoric used to justify the wrongness of it was not targeted to the politicians that orchestrated it but was instead used to slam returning veterans as retaliation for Washington sending them over there, it should be no surprise that the very same condition was rebranded as “Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder” Still eight syllabus but guess what? There’s a hyphen now and the pain from Shell Shock is now completely buried under jargon. 

With regard to my thoughts on the class and what we have gone over I did like the Plato piece because of the intent between the two in their arguing especially the one where they talk about Rhetoric being like cooking.  While I do like the idea I am still against the euphemism’s attached to the ideas of rhetoric use.

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