Since joining the PF platform ......... unfortunately I hath, finally, come to realize...

Are you joking? Fed LE is not even a legal entity under our system. NO LE is legitimate unless it has direct accountability to the people. Fed LE has no accountability to the people direct, or otherwise. Like every other un-elected government bureaucrats, they do pretty much what ever they please, and cannot be prosecuted or fired without practically an act of Congress. The vast majority of so called criminal Federal law is unconstitutional as these agencies usurp powers not given to the Federal government by the Constitution. Today we have nearly a quarter of a million people in Federal prisons in this country mostly for violating a prohibition on controlled substances that the Constitution does not give the Federal government jurisdiction over.

 

Yes, we should be grateful for predatory LE and wars for profit in which millions of innocents are murdered.

 

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You can misconstrue my scholarship, all day, but you can never turn this topic away from an issue of Security against foreign enemies. Even your own most-trusted entity is still, imperfect, so I did not create this thread to focus on domestic ills.

This thread focuses on 2)domestic, protection, from our foreign enemy's potential violence and 1)especially those ingrates who scoff at that security.

So just get on topic, or, just get on.

 

Old Bone Spurs is a DISGRACE as "Commander-in-Chief".

Donald Trump:

A TREASONOUS DRAFT DODGER WHO HATES AMERICA AND CRAPS ON VETERANS.:smh:

 

Once again ... You make statements which simply are not based in, logic, if readers go by real life events:

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing...p-takes-care-veterans-battlefront-home-front/

"...We must ensure that our veterans are given the care and support they so richly deserve. That is our unwavering commitment to those who served under the flag of the United States..."

--President Donald J. Trump

...

CARING FOR VETERANS IN TRANSITION: President Donald J. Trump has signed a new Executive Order to ensure veterans have the resources they need as they transition back to civilian life.

• President Trump has signed an Executive Order on “Supporting Our Veterans During Their Transition from Uniformed Service to Civilian Life.”

• The Executive Order directs the Secretaries of Defense, Homeland Security, and Veterans Affairs to:
  • Within 60 days, develop and submit a Joint Action Plan to provide “seamless access to mental health treatment and suicide prevention resources for transitioning uniformed service members in the year” following military service; and
  • Within 180 days, update the President on the implementation of the Joint Action Plan and outline further reforms to increase veterans’ access to mental health services.
• The status report will include the progress of reforms implemented through the Joint Action Plan and any additional reforms that could help further address problems that obstruct veterans’ access to mental health treatment resources.

RETURNING VETERANS ARE AT RISK: Veterans in their first year after service are particularly vulnerable to mental health risks but often do not receive adequate care.

• Most veterans’ experience in uniform increases their resilience and broadens the skills they bring to the civilian workforce...
• The suicide rate among veterans in the first year after their service is twice the average among veterans.
  • Veterans 3 to 12 months out of military service are 3 times more likely to commit suicide than their active duty compatriots, while those up to 3 months out of service were 2.5 times as likely, according to a study from the Naval Postgraduate School...

• MODERNIZING AND EXPANDING CHOICE: President Trump believes that our veterans deserve the best healthcare in the world, and is working with the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to expand and modernize their care.

• President Trump and Secretary Shulkin have announced four important initiatives to expand healthcare access for our veterans through technological innovation.
  • An expansion of the VA’s “Anywhere to Anywhere” healthcare, which allows VA providers to use tele-health technology to remotely treat veterans regardless of geographic location.
  • A greater adoption of VA Video Connect, an application for mobile phones and computers...
  • A launch of the VA’s “Access and Quality Tool,” ...

• President Trump has ensured continued access to care in the Veterans Choice Program by signing the VA Choice and Quality Employment Act, authorizing $2.1 billion in additional funds for the Veterans Choice Program (VCP).
  • The VCP gives eligible veterans their choice of private care if they live more than 40 miles from the closest eligible VA facility...
• President Trump announced that the Department of Veterans Affairs will adopt the same Electronic Health Record (EHR) as the Department of Defense (DOD).
  • VA’s adoption of the same EHR as DOD will ultimately result in all patient data residing in one common system...
• Secretary Shulkin has expanded access to urgent mental healthcare to former service members with other-than-honorable (OTH) discharges...

 

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I totally agree, but the US could do a better job of avoiding wars, and work on more creative diplomacy.

Just because an evil shithole country deserves to be bombed and invaded, doesn't mean the US should do it. There's a terrible price, and by that I'm talking about the financial cost, something that the public rarely seems to give enough weight to.
For the amount a war costs, we probably could have bought half these countries off and made them agree to become countries of freedom.

 

I wouldn't have gone either.

 

Get off your soapbox you are the one who deviated from the topic. So far as security from foreign enemies, so long as you have a foreign policy that exploits and murders people to steal their resources, people will hate you for that. People need a reason to hate, and allowing the foreign policy of the US to be dictated by corporate greed and exploitation of others is always going to create hate. Perhaps you should become a true scholar, and do the research that would allow you to see this topic in a realistic light. You could start by researching the United Fruit Company, and how its exploitation of the countries of South America has effected politics up to today.

 

You make a good point poorly. PF will help you learn how to write what you mean and mean what you write. Keep a thick skin, and be persistent. I'll read you around newbie.

 

I agree. If today's military is anything like it was when I was on active duty, most are non-political, apolitical and certainly don't wear their political ideology or party on their sleeve. For 21 years while on active duty, I can only think of a couple of others in the military that let their political preferences be known. That may have change since I retired in 1986 from active duty.

However, I doubt it. I spent the next 26 years working for the army as a DA civilian and rarely did any of the active duty I was in contact daily express a desire of political candidates or parties. Now the DA civilians were a bit more outspoken. Even so, conversations about politics was pretty well limited to some bumper stickers and a casual conversation here and there. Nothing even close to what I would call a very partisan conversation or a desire to express hard core political beliefs.

Race and religion was something else that never came into play, certainly not like in the civilian world. For us military types, we were comrades in arms, brothers and sisters in uniform. We were a team, family to each other. I think this mentality is impossible for civilians, especially those hard core partisan political junkies to understand.

 

uhhhh, no, PF hath taught me only one thing, and that is, how there are still many evil racists in the world here in 2019. So thank you, yourself, for being a part of those evidences and proofs.

 

Oh my. The soy is strong with this one.

 

Go away. Or I will report your Ad Hominem, expertise, to the mods here.

Gain some self-control here; quit focusing on, me, and focus on the topic.

 

Save it for Captain Bone spurs.

 

Or Joe Biden ... 5 deferments for creepy Joe too. ::