When ever someone makes that statement I always seem to hear someone try to put it off as some normal thing that happens in the civilian world, except that its not illegal in the civilian world and it IS in the military.

Males in the military like to wax poetic about the honor they serve with but it fly’s out the door when they have question their own actions and beliefs when it has to do with women.

I have heard this story so many times that it is getting old. I just want to know when men are going to realize they need to start questioning each other and calling each other out on their shit.

The military deals with these issues in a way that seems to scream “this is what you wanted ladies, now deal with it”.

Thanks for bringing this up Stan.

HR3256 Psychological Kevlar Act of 2007

Pentagon’s new lethal weapon
Sun, 20 Jan 2008 22:55:17

The US Department of Defense’s wide-ranging ‘warfighter enhancement
program’ is preparing grounds for the most lethal weapon ever.

Pentagon’s ‘the Psychological Kevlar Act of 2007′ puts forward the
idea of using different drugs to insulate combat soldiers from the
stressful psychological element of killing.

The move not only desensitizes them to the horrendous aspect of war,
but also maximizes soldiers’ lethality by bypassing their moral
autonomy.

Analyst Penny Coleman criticizes Pentagon’s attempt to peddle magic
pills to chase away the horrors of war, saying: “The neurological and
genetic re-engineering of soldiers’ minds and bodies is aimed at
creating what the Pentagon calls ‘iron bodied and iron willed
personnel… tireless, relentless, remorseless, and unstoppable.”

Barry Romo a national coordinator for Vietnam Veterans Against the
War, also denounces the plan: “That’s the devil pill, that’s the
monster pill, the anti-morality pill. That’s the pill that can make
men and women do anything and think they can get away with it. Even if
it doesn’t work, what’s scary is that a young soldier could believe it
will.”

SBB/RA

Press-TV (Iran)

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The military justice system, as defined by the Uniform Code of Military Justice, is quite different from what you are used to in civilian life. It clearly dictates how investgations are to be conducted and provides rights for the accused. Laurean was accused by Lauterbach for raping her. She offered no physical evidence, but only an accusation and well after the supposed rape occured. Her military service record was not stellar. She was known to exaggerate and blow things out of proportion. Her own mother called her a “compusive liar.” The Corps were considering discharging her for being unfit before she made this accusation.

Laurean, on the other hand, seems to have been a good Marine and had an exemplary service record. Moreover, Lauterbach first accuses Laurean of rape and then forms a personal relationship with him. What woman in her right mind would become friends with her rapist, while he is still under investigation for that crime? Was the Marine Corps to jail this man until they could determine if the charges against him had any merit? Where’s the fairness in that? If they had had a motive, the accused had opportunity to have committed the crime, and they had physical evidence that he probably committed the crime, things would be different. If the police were to throw a man in jail without evidence simply because a woman claims that he raped her, our jails would be full. Rape is, after all, the most often used false claims.

Laurean is on the lamb, so obviously, he at least knows something. Whether or not he killed this girl is a matter of speculation. Perhaps the police have good evidence against him. We don’t know. What I’m seeing so far is that the USMC followed their proceedures and a Sheriff who is grandstanding. Eventually we’ll know the truth, but until then, let’s not blame the military for something it, as an institution, did not do.

STAN: Veteran, I am a veteran, too. And yourt claim that sexual assault is infrequent in the military is spectacularly wrong. Your attack on the victim’s character is typically malicious as well… demonstrating again what we are saying about masculinity. We have a series on sexual aggression in the military at this site. The FBI, by the way, says that false rape claims constitute less than one in twenty… so you are wrong on that count, too. Good luck with that “I only burned the body” defense. Semper Fi, yada yada yada.

“Corpses have now become a familiar phenomenon for a new generation of US soldiers. Many will return now with their heads filled with corpses and their bodies filled with depleted uranium. They will have their moment of intoxicating adulation in public and the corpses will sneak up on them in private. Then the DU will sneak up on them.

Some people learn to live with corpses. Some learn to relish the freedom of killing and develop a taste for it. Perfect masculinity is sociopathic. A young Marine who had just killed a woman at a checkpoint said, matter of factly, “The chick was in the way.” Gangster. Badass.

Others, as the transitory adulation fades, will sense the barrenness of their wounded psyches backlit by the barrenness of a decaying consumer culture, and their alienation will flower into addiction, psychosis, and suicide. And then will we see THEM as pathological.”

It’s all come true…

STAN: No prescience there. This is not new to those of us over 55.