As a 12-year-old, Richard, or "Richie" as he was known to his family, was strongly influenced by his older cousin, Miguel "Mike" Ramirez,[12] a decorated Green Beret combat veteran who himself had already become a serial killer and a rapist during his time in the United States Army in the Vietnam War.
I was just thinking about how the Vietnam War propaganda dehumanized people and how just soldiers became serial killers, but that propaganda was going on in US soil too.
Would it be a stretch to correlate the Vietnam War with the uptick of serial killers in the US at the time?
Many lesser known serial killers have been vets of the war. I don’t know if they have been proven to actually fight in it. But it doesn’t matter because when all your buddies brag about raping some woman or burning down a village because he felt insulted, you normalize that forever.
We don’t really see a serial killer phenomenon with the war on terror. But we do see a mass shooter phenomenon. Again, it’s the propaganda, dehumanization, and sanitization of violence.
This is completely speculation on my part, but I think there is a serial killer phenomenon in the war on terror. It’s just not as visible in the imperial core because for the last 20 years you could sign up to a voluntary military and then go on a spree of whatever depravity you desired and it would be covered up or ignored
It’s very possible he was part of the Phoenix Program. It was basically a brutalization program led by the CIA. Operatives from both South Vietnam and the west were authorized to kill, torture, rape, or anything in between on anyone who was SUSPECTED of being a communist. These were not soldiers. Their plan was neutralize any civilian or non-combatant who had a helping hand in supporting the north. These are the heroes. These are the people who you’re supposed to feel bad for when they’re “spat on” and called baby killers.
If someone made a show or book about a US government sanctioned serial killer military squad, you’d think it’s some dog shit issue from The Suicide Squad or Vertigo.
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I was just thinking about how the Vietnam War propaganda dehumanized people and how just soldiers became serial killers, but that propaganda was going on in US soil too.
Would it be a stretch to correlate the Vietnam War with the uptick of serial killers in the US at the time?
I don't think it would be
That and the lead levels.
Many lesser known serial killers have been vets of the war. I don’t know if they have been proven to actually fight in it. But it doesn’t matter because when all your buddies brag about raping some woman or burning down a village because he felt insulted, you normalize that forever.
We don’t really see a serial killer phenomenon with the war on terror. But we do see a mass shooter phenomenon. Again, it’s the propaganda, dehumanization, and sanitization of violence.
This is completely speculation on my part, but I think there is a serial killer phenomenon in the war on terror. It’s just not as visible in the imperial core because for the last 20 years you could sign up to a voluntary military and then go on a spree of whatever depravity you desired and it would be covered up or ignored
It’s very possible he was part of the Phoenix Program. It was basically a brutalization program led by the CIA. Operatives from both South Vietnam and the west were authorized to kill, torture, rape, or anything in between on anyone who was SUSPECTED of being a communist. These were not soldiers. Their plan was neutralize any civilian or non-combatant who had a helping hand in supporting the north. These are the heroes. These are the people who you’re supposed to feel bad for when they’re “spat on” and called baby killers.
If someone made a show or book about a US government sanctioned serial killer military squad, you’d think it’s some dog shit issue from The Suicide Squad or Vertigo.