US Army Kidnapping To Meet Recruitment Goals?

[RedSock]

I missed this when it came out out.

If this doesn't deserve a WTF, then nothing does.

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Neighbors of Ever Jandres of Encino, Calif., recently wrote a letter to U.S. Rep. Howard Berman charging recruitment malfeasance and asking him to look into the 24-year-old learning-disabled epileptic's mysterious disappearance, Mark Crispin Miller reported online at News from Underground. A spokesman for Berman confirmed that the congressman is "very concerned" about the matter.

Jandres, who is Salvadoran and has a borderline low IQ, was apparently "befriended" by a local Army recruiter, who invited him to come with him to Arizona for three days to observe basic training. Five days later, his distraught mother (who speaks no English) got a phone call from her son, who told her, hysterically, that he was on a military base in South Carolina. He was now in the Army, he said, and wasn't allowed to stay on the phone longer than a minute. Family members' and friends' attempts to get any information from the Army have been fruitless.
http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0519-20.htm
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Veterans for Common Sense.org has a little more.
http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/index.cfm?page=Article&ID=3249

[RedSock]

1. self bump

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[Auntie Bush]

2. kick...More people should read this.

[dogday]

3. Sneaky Sneaky Bastards

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[shawn703]

5. They're kidnapping learning-disabled epileptics?

I tried to join the Marines back in 1997. I only missed one question on that exam they give you in the recruiting office, and I was in pretty good shape. They didn't take me because I was honest and admitted on the medical history for I had been treated for depression a while back (even though the recruiter told me to lie about it, that they'd never find out.)

Turns out it was a good thing I wasn't let into the Marines for the direction my life has taken now, but it's just shocking to me that they are forcing people with medical problems to join who probably would have been rejected a few years ago.

[MountainLaurel]

6. They're getting desperate

Check out some of the news articles about recruiters telling kids how to fake a drug test, or hiding mental illness (the guy that killed the Wal-Mart employee about a year ago had been diagnosed as schizophrenic BEFORE he went to Iraq(.

[SpiralHawk]

7. Shanghai !

Bush and the Republicans are desperate. Only a few, deluded souls actually suck up and believe their unending campaign of propaganda.