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I'm with you there, LeRoy. The one thing we don't want or need in this
world is to allow a psychopath or sociopath to acquire training to make them more efficient at killing...
posted by
saul_relative
on July 13, 2006 at 11:08 PM
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bad guys in military
I'm all for keeping out all the bad guys. Thanks for the explanation.
posted by
LeRoyCoyote
on July 13, 2006 at 10:45 PM
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It depends, LeRoyCoyote, I believe, on the psychological evaluations moreso
than anything else. It isn't discriminatory to disallow a man to enter the armed services who may be a danger to himself or his fellow men (and women). The trick is catching the guy who is sociopathic or psychopathic enough to slip through the evaluations (and I beleive that is what is being done here. It is also being taught on some of the websites).
posted by
saul_relative
on July 13, 2006 at 2:14 PM
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Who's excluded
Are communists and Nation of Islam American citizens kept out of the U.S. military too? I remember an American black Muslim soldier murdered many of his comrades with a grenade in Kuwait right before the Iraq war. Does the first Amendment allow screening like this?
posted by
LeRoyCoyote
on July 13, 2006 at 12:35 PM
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Thanks, YPunday. It is never a good thing when a government allows
the lunatic fringe to become an acceptable part of the mainstream. Assimilation and tolerance are one thing (actually, two things), acceptance is another.
posted by
saul_relative
on July 12, 2006 at 1:29 PM
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Many thanks, Saul..., for this educational blog. I heard differently, lower
scores were being taken for new recruits to make their quotas. But i do rspect Southern Law Poverty Center. In my work and volunteering, our invited speakers are sometimes axed if the SLPC says they have not disavowed racist, ethnic and discriminatory statements/positions/groups.
In a democracy, we need to take your comments eriously and do diligent research, then CONCLUDE if and how YOUR points are valid or invalid. It takes courage to be a whistleblower, or Blogitblower
posted by
ILLUMINATI8
on July 12, 2006 at 11:31 AM
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There is no doubt, MG, that the radical right swagger politics of the past
decade have given rise to an extreme way of thinking, militarily as well as diplomatically. Still, there is no excuse for allowing brownshirts, supremacists, fascists, and racists into the military if it can be prevented, which it can (to a degree, of course). Allowing them in to fill a quota is unconscionable and, in the long run, potentially counterproductive and domestically dangerous.
posted by
saul_relative
on July 9, 2006 at 9:01 PM
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Extremists fighting extremists, led by extemist ideologues, on both sides,
DamonLeigh. Sickening...
posted by
saul_relative
on July 9, 2006 at 8:56 PM
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...look at the leaders!
posted by
MasonGarrett
on July 9, 2006 at 8:28 AM
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I've Heard...
...about this lossening-up recently from another source. I'll try to track it down.
With all the chaos in Abu Ghraib, and the attrocities being investigated throughout Iraq, it does offer some sort of an explanation - though not a particularly comforting one.
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posted by
DamonLeigh
on July 8, 2006 at 7:57 AM
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