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pasto76

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5. everybody seems pretty eager to equate this maniac with the Army. There's a shocker
Thu Aug 9, 2012, 05:18 PM
Aug 2012

thank you all for doing your part to perpetuate the stigma. To the public, crazy equals army (military since most of you dont know any differently).

there is nothing "relevant" about his experience in psy ops. did he use psy ops to kill these people?


Think carefully before you add to this stigma. you are talking about ME. you are talking about the guys to whom I literally owe my life. You are talking about many thousands of soldiers who have bourne the brunt of a culture that places astronomical demands on them, and that same society stands by and does almost nothing to address our issues.

a soldier embodies VALUES. the army values. There is nothing ARMY about being a skinhead. You are not part of the TEAM - black soldiers saved my ass more than once, and I couldnt care less what color they are.

This guy and others like him are dead weight wearing the same uniform. The problem isnt his time in the army. The problem is he was a shithead fuckbag.

The important part -- Nuclear Unicorn Aug 2012 #1
correct pasto76 Aug 2012 #8
I've heard stories of urban gang-bangers enlisting Nuclear Unicorn Aug 2012 #11
Well ... 1StrongBlackMan Aug 2012 #2
If I remember correctly the military came down fairly hard on those idiots. (nt) Posteritatis Aug 2012 #4
As I recall it ... 1StrongBlackMan Aug 2012 #16
The "SS," I'm told stands for "Scout Sniper;" not the infamous Nazi group Nuclear Unicorn Aug 2012 #6
And the SS ... 1StrongBlackMan Aug 2012 #17
I would be reluctant to leap to conclusions based on a single photo Nuclear Unicorn Aug 2012 #20
Okay. But ... 1StrongBlackMan Aug 2012 #21
I wouldn't. JoeyT Aug 2012 #31
This from the article - DURHAM D Aug 2012 #3
He did mention that it was not rampant ... 1StrongBlackMan Aug 2012 #18
everybody seems pretty eager to equate this maniac with the Army. There's a shocker pasto76 Aug 2012 #5
My husband is a vet and I'm proud of who he is and those he served beside. n/t Nuclear Unicorn Aug 2012 #9
Did he use psy ops to kill those people? I don't know. Do you? yardwork Aug 2012 #10
thank you for altering the headline pasto76 Aug 2012 #29
Both headlines were posted directly from the source. The source changed the headline. yardwork Aug 2012 #34
I've seen some of the regulations you have to comply with. AtheistCrusader Aug 2012 #13
exactly my point. What regulations are you speaking of? shaving? saluting officers? be specific pasto76 Aug 2012 #23
It's called a joke. AtheistCrusader Aug 2012 #25
The problem is there were other shithead fuckbags there to indoctrinate him KamaAina Aug 2012 #15
true/ the army is a slice of america. If a type of person is out there, they are in the army too pasto76 Aug 2012 #22
Point taken. KamaAina Aug 2012 #24
he was a shitbag, and not representative of the WHOLE Army fascisthunter Aug 2012 #27
+1 LiberalLoner Aug 2012 #28
Thank you. PavePusher Aug 2012 #35
some more links: Hate groups have uneasy history with military base maddezmom Aug 2012 #7
Thank you for that research and the links. yardwork Aug 2012 #12
To Help: jimspice Aug 2012 #14
The military has everything from neo-Nazis to Crips and Bloods hack89 Aug 2012 #19
There are of course still cells of white supremacists in the military, kestrel91316 Aug 2012 #26
I keep reading about extremist right-wing Christians taking over the military. yardwork Aug 2012 #38
My dad was a career USAF officer from the early 50s to the late 70s. kestrel91316 Aug 2012 #40
This is exactly what I've been reading. yardwork Aug 2012 #42
The military has a huge problem with dominionists too. There's a pretty big overlap between the LeftyMom Aug 2012 #30
No big surprise Blue_Tires Aug 2012 #32
There was an ongoing problem with lax enforcement of recruiting rules during the Bush administration Vurz Aug 2012 #33
I remember that story about the military also lunatica Aug 2012 #39
The army turned my cousin from an Obama supporter into a Bither nutcase... Odin2005 Aug 2012 #36
Can you give us more details on this? yardwork Aug 2012 #37
For one thing, the fundies turned the AF Academy into a fundie indoctrination center for kestrel91316 Aug 2012 #41
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