Support this courageous GI. Will make statement today opposing war.

[Tom Joad]

Resisters are the Real Heroes.

Fort Benning, GA – Army National Guard Specialist Katherine Jashinski, on active duty with the 111th ASG since January of this year, will make a public statement against war as a conscientious objector in the face of orders to participate in weapons training and deploy to the Middle East. She will be joined by several members of Iraq Veterans Against the War and Veterans for Peace. Jashinski applied for a discharge as a Conscientious Objector in 2004. The Army recently denied her claim and ordered her to weapons training and deployment this week.
Speakers at the press conference include Aidan Delgado, an Army Conscientious Objector and member of Iraq Veterans Against the War. “Iraq Veterans Against the War supports the right of every soldier to follow their conscience. Today’s revelation that chemical weapons were used against citizens in Fallujah is evidence that the war is illegal and immoral.”
Jashinski’s counselor, Persian Gulf War Army Conscientious Objector Aimee Allison, will speak at tomorrow’s press conference. Speaking today, Allison stated, “As the first woman GI to publicly take a stand against this war and to declare herself a Conscientious Objector, Katherine’s actions are very significant. She is showing remarkable courage.”
Jashinski’s lawyer, J.E. McNeil with the Center for Conscience and War, will also discuss her legal status and the case. She comments, “Denying Katherine CO status is yet another in a long line of actions by the military to defy its own rules in order to get the numbers of soldiers they need to continue this war.”
Katherine is actively supported by Code Pink, a women-initiated grassroots peace group. Medea Benjamin, co-founder of Code Pink adds, “I applaud Katherine’s courageous stand against the continued U.S. role in bringing violence to the Middle East.”
Father Roy Bourgeois, a Vietnam War veteran and founder of School of the Americas Watch will also speak. Jashinski’s statement comes on the eve of a national demonstration at the gates of Fort Benning calling for the closure the U.S. Army School of the Americas. “U.S. foreign policy as it exists today is fundamentally out of alignment with Americans’ values of peace and justice.”

Please see a full list of public military resisters here:
http://www.tomjoad.org/WarHeroes.htm

[Heidi]

1. Recommended and kicked. (nt)

[Scooter24]

2. Recommended...

:)

[ClayZ]

3. Now there is a PATRIOT!

Good on her!


:patriot:

[libodem]

4. She is very brave to stand up against this war

last night i was playing dominos with some friends and their neighbor came over. He mentioned someone he knew that was being deployed for the 8th time. My God! How unfair is that? I think if a person survives one time that should be enough! I asked the 'neighbor' what the particular soldier thought and some joke was made about him being married, as if marriage compared to a war zone. This whole war is george bushes reason to claim his infallibility because he is a 'war president'. I hate that motherfucker.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

5. K&R #5

[lostnfound]

6. What an incredible moral burden on young people has been imposed

by sending them off to fight in such an immoral war after they've signed up to defend their country.

It's bad enough when it's regular Army/Navy/Air Force, but these National Guard cases really get me. After 9-11 I bet ALOT of IDEALISTIC young men and women joined to DEFEND America, and instead their IDEALS are being trashed and perverted by a cynical old thug in the White House and his chimp too.

[PuraVidaDreamin]

7. What amazing courage!

Peace and good wishes Katherine!

[ohio_liberal]

8. Why doesn't the Army just let them go?

I don't understand it. If they know this woman objects to this war and doesn't want to fight or WON'T fight, then why keep her against her will?

[FreedomAngel82]

9. What a brave girl!

And all of those guys who reist. :hug:

[Just Me]

10. Katherine, I salute your courage and inspiration!!!

:patriot:

Never give up!!! :hug:

[newyawker99]

11. kick

:kick:

[rateyes]

12. k and r....

Spc Jashinski,

:patriot:

[wookie294]

13. kick again !! n/t

[Cults4Bush]

14. K&R'd. n/t

[Cults4Bush]

15. one more kick for this brave soul.... n/t

[Blue_Tires]

16. ttt n/t

[Lone_Star_Dem]

17. Katherine Jashinski, I salute you!

:patriot:

[texpatriot2004]

18. Resisters are the REAL HEROES with REAL COURAGE - the

conscientious objectors have the highest moral fiber IMHO They speak out against this immoral and illegal war. Not easy to do. Yet, they examine their conscience and remain true to it...a VERY HIGH HONOR INDEED. I am grateful for them all and I ask that they all be Blessed for having moral fortitude, wisdom, and courage in the face of such blatant evil.

[Hissyspit]

19. time for another kick - good for her; takes real courage nt

[upi402]

20. Chickenhawk hypocrites will yowl

like scalded cats and cry like the brats they are.

[Blue_Tires]

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