Navy Names Ship After Civil Rights Activist
Vessel will then be used to carry things around for other vessels
"Designated T-AKE 13, Medgar Evers will be the 13th ship of the class, and is being built by General Dynamics NASSCO in San Diego. As a combat logistics force ship, Medgar Evers will help the Navy maintain a worldwide forward presence by delivering ammunition, food, fuel, and other dry cargo to U.S. and allied ships at sea."
"Designated T-AKE 13, Medgar Evers will be the 13th ship of the class, and is being built by General Dynamics NASSCO in San Diego. As a combat logistics force ship, Medgar Evers will help the Navy maintain a worldwide forward presence by delivering ammunition, food, fuel, and other dry cargo to U.S. and allied ships at sea."
posted by patootie at 10:34 PM
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An insult to civil rights activists everywhere. This is obviously just another blatant attempt to give the US military a benevolent face-lift and makeover.
Civil rights activists fight for civil rights, not for imperial wars and dictatorships (which is what the military is, a dictatorship, not a democracy).
Seriously, though, the US Navy does nothing to further civil rights whatsoever. In fact, it is simply a huge part of the Corporate Empire's fascist control over the world. I mean, enforcing trade sanctions on nations that refuse to follow US authoritarianism? Raiding cargo ships everywhere and busting traders of hashish, simply because the US-DEA is fighting an absurd war on some drugs and thinks it has the right to force everyone, everywhere to use only alcohol, tobacco, and certain FDA-approved pharmaceuticals?
Fuck the US Navy! Fuck it straight to hell for doing the US Corporate Fascists dirty-work! Naming one of their ships after a civil rights activist will not redeem them!
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