• “I Am Sorry That It Has Come to This”: A Soldier's Last Words
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[quote=Daniel Somers]You must not blame yourself. The simple truth is this: During my first deployment, I was made to participate in things, the enormity of which is hard to describe. War crimes, crimes against humanity. Though I did not participate willingly, and made what I thought was my best effort to stop these events, there are some things that a person simply can not come back from. I take some pride in that, actually, as to move on in life after being part of such a thing would be the mark of a sociopath in my mind. These things go far beyond what most are even aware of. To force me to do these things and then participate in the ensuing coverup is more than any government has the right to demand. Then, the same government has turned around and abandoned me. They offer no help, and actively block the pursuit of gaining outside help via their corrupt agents at the DEA. Any blame rests with them.[/quote] full note: [URL="http://gawker.com/i-am-sorry-that-it-has-come-to-this-a-soldiers-last-534538357"]http://gawker.com/i-am-sorry-that-it...last-534538357[/URL]
[QUOTE=TheHydra;41316619]full note: [url]http://facepunch.com/newthread.php?do=newthread&f=396[/url][/QUOTE] Yes, I think I will make a new thread. But really, I am infuriated every time I read these news about corruption. I really want all of this stop, one way or another.
[QUOTE=TheHydra;41316619]full note: [url]http://facepunch.com/newthread.php?do=newthread&f=396[/url][/QUOTE] Working link [url]http://gawker.com/i-am-sorry-that-it-has-come-to-this-a-soldiers-last-534538357[/url]
Why is it with all our advanced technology and fancy hats, we still cannot rub the two brain cells together that will tell us this should stop immediately.
[QUOTE=Zenreon117;41316710]Why is it with all our advanced technology and fancy hats, we still cannot rub the two brain cells together that will tell us this should stop immediately.[/QUOTE] It's a lot deeper than that. Probably have to re do some wiring so everybody can stop being such dicks. (But is that what makes us human?)
[QUOTE=Zenreon117;41316710]Why is it with all our advanced technology and fancy hats, we still cannot rub the two brain cells together that will tell us this should stop immediately.[/QUOTE] [quote]Lastly, the DEA enters the picture again as they have now managed to create such a culture of fear in the medical community that doctors are too scared to even take the necessary steps to control the symptoms. All under the guise of a completely manufactured “overprescribing epidemic,” which stands in stark relief to all of the legitimate research, which shows the opposite to be true. Perhaps, with the right medication at the right doses, I could have bought a couple of decent years, but even that is too much to ask from a regime built upon the idea that suffering is noble and relief is just for the weak.[/quote] Sometimes, for a few seconds I begin to think that Anarchy is a better solution than what we already have.
And the world continues to spin and we still continue to do nothing to stop these bastards in government
Wow. [quote]Is it any wonder then that the latest figures show 22 veterans killing themselves each day? That is more veterans than children killed at Sandy Hook, every single day. Where are the huge policy initiatives? Why isn’t the president standing with those families at the state of the union? Perhaps because we were not killed by a single lunatic, but rather by his own system of dehumanization, neglect, and indifference.[/quote]
I read through the letter, and while it is touching, it's not the brilliant final tear-stained, heart tugging letter of a shell-of-a-man that deserves too much though. It's a person, a single person, pinning pain and torment on shadowy conspiracies and perceived evils lurking outside of himself. He blames what he calls inadequate treatment on doctors who are being pressured by the 'corrupt' DEA to perpetuate a conspiratorial fraud of fighting 'over-prescription'. He rails against "bush's religious lunacy" and other things that I'm fairly certain may not be real. He may deserve our pity, he may have been broken by a machine too much larger than himself, he may have suffered at the hands of a country he swore to protect. However. He believed in shadowy conspiracies that don't seem to exist, he clung to ideas that reaffirmed his painful worldview and he ascribed to a gospel of mad men in pinstripe suits playing checkers with the world. Give me a box for my trouble, but the man who wrote this letter was no better, no more important, no more deserving of sympathy or empathy, than the soldiers who return as broken men and live out their lives quietly. He simply died screaming, rather than whimpering.
[QUOTE=Cushie;41316655]Working link [url]http://gawker.com/i-am-sorry-that-it-has-come-to-this-a-soldiers-last-534538357[/url][/QUOTE] whoops
[QUOTE=Crazy Ivan;41316919]I read through the letter, and while it is touching, it's not the brilliant final tear-stained, heart tugging letter of a shell-of-a-man that deserves too much though. It's a person, a single person, pinning pain and torment on shadowy conspiracies and perceived evils lurking outside of himself. He blames what he calls inadequate treatment on doctors who are being pressured by the 'corrupt' DEA to perpetuate a conspiratorial fraud of fighting 'over-prescription'. He rails against "bush's religious lunacy" and other things that I'm fairly certain may not be real. He may deserve our pity, he may have been broken by a machine too much larger than himself, he may have suffered at the hands of a country he swore to protect. However. He believed in shadowy conspiracies that don't seem to exist, he clung to ideas that reaffirmed his painful worldview and he ascribed to a gospel of mad men in pinstripe suits playing checkers with the world. Give me a box for my trouble, but the man who wrote this letter was no better, no more important, no more deserving of sympathy or empathy, than the soldiers who return as broken men and live out their lives quietly. He simply died screaming, rather than whimpering.[/QUOTE] At least he tried to say something about it. What's going to change if every victim of a broken system just sits quietly and takes it? Whether or not this conspiracy actually exists is irrelevant. Somebody is fucking up and it needs to change, that much is clear.
[QUOTE=Crazy Ivan;41316919]I read through the letter, and while it is touching, it's not the brilliant final tear-stained, heart tugging letter of a shell-of-a-man that deserves too much though. It's a person, a single person, pinning pain and torment on shadowy conspiracies and perceived evils lurking outside of himself. He blames what he calls inadequate treatment on doctors who are being pressured by the 'corrupt' DEA to perpetuate a conspiratorial fraud of fighting 'over-prescription'. He rails against "bush's religious lunacy" and other things that I'm fairly certain may not be real. He may deserve our pity, he may have been broken by a machine too much larger than himself, he may have suffered at the hands of a country he swore to protect. However. He believed in shadowy conspiracies that don't seem to exist, he clung to ideas that reaffirmed his painful worldview and he ascribed to a gospel of mad men in pinstripe suits playing checkers with the world.[/quote] Did you factor in the whole... [quote]I was made to participate in things, the enormity of which is hard to describe. War crimes, crimes against humanity. Though I did not participate willingly, and made what I thought was my best effort to stop these events, there are some things that a person simply can not come back from.[/quote] ..Part of it? Orders like that don't just happen accidentally.
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