The treatment of our Military Veterans
Why does the administration treat our military veterans like
human garbage? Every year on Memorial Day and Veterans Day, Barack Obama and
our other politicians make very nice speeches, but the truth about how they
feel about our veterans can be seen in how they are treated every single day.
In the United States today, there are well over half a
million veterans that have been waiting for at least 125 days to have their
benefit claims processed. Many of them will ultimately have their claims sent
back or denied just so a government employee somewhere can get a bigger bonus.
Meanwhile, conditions at VA facilities all over the country
are absolutely abysmal, and many veterans have to wait more than half a year
just to get an appointment at one of those facilities. Once you start looking
into how this country really treats military veterans, it becomes easier to
understand why 22 military veterans commit suicide in America every single day.
Our vets have a higher rate of unemployment, a higher rate
of poverty, a higher rate of homelessness, a higher rate of depression and a
higher rate of divorce then the general population. It is a crying shame. One
of the ways that any society is judged is by how it treats military veterans,
and the truth is that America has failed miserably. This has been particularly
true since Barack Obama has been in the White House
At one VA hospital in Wisconsin, one military veteran with a
broken jaw that was seeking treatment still had not had his jaw fixed after a
month and a half.
The number of active members of the U.S. military that are
killing themselves now exceeds the number that is dying on the battlefield.
On any given night, approximately 200,000 military veterans
are homeless in the United States
In some areas of the country the U.S. Department of Veterans
Affairs has been caught banning the words “God” and “Jesus” during funeral
services for veterans.
The federal government is increasingly labeling military
veterans as “potential domestic terrorists” if they express viewpoints that are
critical of the government. The following is from a recent article by John
Whitehead…
Making matters worse, thanks to Operation Vigilant Eagle, a
program launched by the Department of Homeland Security in 2009, military
veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan are also being characterized as
extremists and potential domestic terrorist threats because they may be
“disgruntled, disillusioned or suffering from the psychological effects of
war.” As a result, these servicemen and women–many of whom are decorated–are
finding themselves under surveillance, threatened with incarceration or involuntary
commitment, or arrested, all for daring to voice their concerns about the
alarming state of our union and the erosion of our freedoms.
An important point to consider, however, is that the
government is not merely targeting individuals who are voicing their discontent
so much as it is locking up individuals trained in military warfare who are
voicing feelings of discontent. Under the guise of mental-health treatment and
with the complicity of government psychiatrists and law-enforcement officials,
these veterans are increasingly being portrayed as ticking time bombs in need
of intervention.
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