How You Market and Sell is One Thing – WHAT you Market and Sell Is Another
By Tom Callos • Jun 16th, 2008 • Category: The Radical Left
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Tom Callos: is the designer and team coach for The Ultimate Black Belt Test. He is a veteran consultant to the martial arts industry — who is known for thinking way, way, way, way out of the dojo. Tom Callos is a frequent NAPMA Maximum Impact Contributor. He ma be reached about UBBT or his Anger Management Program.
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Tom,
You are not alone in your opposition to the war(s) being carried out by the United States.
I am with you on this.
Sadly, the martial arts in the U.S. seem to be dominated by folks who are easily mastered and led by reactionary opportunists of the worst kind. Let’s be crystal-clear:
America has ALWAYS been an aggressor nation; from the invasion and massacre of Indigenous peoples for the land on this continent, and importation of Africans to work the stolen land for free under penalty of death; to the current conflicts in Afghanistan, Iraq, Columbia, and the Phillipines.
The majority of the world’s martial arts that many NAPMA members teach and train in were created by oppressed, non-white peoples to fight off hostile foreign invaders, like the United States.
Many of these arts only arrived in the United States once those peoples finally surrendered to U.S. aggression, and the masters of these arts immigrated to the U.S. to avoid increased poverty and oppression at the hands their country’s respective U.S.- controlled puppet regimes.
The current conflict in Iraq was created by the United States over many, many years. Former President Reagan (via the CIA) armed the Mujahaddin (seen the movie “Charlie Wilson’s War” yet?), who later evolved into the Taliban. The United States also helped arm Saddam Hussein, knowing full well that Hussein aspired to be an Arab version of Adolf Hitler.
Senator John McCain is an obscenely horrible hypocrite. He calls the controlled chaos of Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) “barbaric”, yet he has stated repeatedly that he is ready to keep U.S. troops in Iraq “…for the next 100 years”.
I can count the number of deaths from MMA world-wide on one hand; I can count the number of deaths in Iraq (both U.S. and Iraqi) on hundreds of hands. In MMA, the referee, the judges, the fight doctor, the cornermen for either fighter, and the fighters themselves can stop the action at anytime.
The same cannot be said for what’s going on in Iraq, or anywhere else US. troops are fighting the so-called “war on terror”. Senator McCain’s “Bomb Iran” song is real cute too: What does that example, coming from a world leader no less, teach our children about courtesy, integrity, discipline, and respect for others?
To those NAPMA members who support the current war(s), would you teach your child students (or your own children) that it’s “ok” and/or “patriotic” for them make up a reason for violence, recruit their classmates, and then mount pre-emptive strikes on school-yard bullies or teachers they don’t like, all the while promising them fame and fortune for their efforts?
Keep doing what you do and saying what you say, Mr. Callos. You are not a lone voice in the wilderness.
Osu!
Gregory Lewis
Chief Instructor; GCL Modern Karate.
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