Rapist and Murderer
What a fitting event to mark our annual holiday celebrating freedom and patriotism. This is exactly why I loathe the military. I'm willing to accept that we need a military, given the state of global relations, but please don't tell me to respect the military or hold them up on some sort of moral pedastal. My father, now 72, was an officer in the military for 30 years (most of those years as a reservist), and as a product of the 1940s and 1950s believes that the military (well, at least the Navy) is a bastion of high moral standards. It makes me sad that he clings to this notion of what the military should be or aspires to be, but can never attain. I don't know how he would explain this utter debasement of human life and dignity without acknowledging that it is a direct effect of the misogynistic culture of the military. Premeditated rape and murder is not "collateral damage."
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I think it's telling that he was discharged from the military because he has anti-social personality disorder (aka sociopath). Exactly how do we screen our incoming soldiers or has the standard been lowered so drastically because of the desperate need for bodies in Iraq? I do not think that this dude is indicative of the military on the whole, (meaning that all the young people are natural born killers of this variety). That is too disheartening for me to think.
Nevertheless, I do despise the military as an institution and regard it as a necessary evil. Just a week or so ago they decided that homosexuality is not a mental disorder. Phew! Now we can all rest at ease that the Pentagon is five decades behind modern science.
But back to this fucktard--It's most definitely the military's fault because they knew this ass was disturbed and he should never have been allowed to enter the service. Not to be totally conspiratorial, but it doesn't surprise me he was discharged at a conveinent time. If this trial would have been a court-martial, then it would have looked really bad and brought more shame on the many recent disgraces of the US military. But putting it in a federal court-- giving the military some distance and also adding some gravity to the sense of justice was a wise public relations decision for the military.
All and all I feel like if I ever travel abroad I will apologize for my country's actions, say I am Canadian, or just hide.
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