Posted on 12/13/2005 4:48:03 PM PST by Thunder90
Katherine Jashinski Statement read near Fort Benning gate November 17, 2005
My name is Katherine Jashinski. I am a SPC in the Texas Army National Guard. I was born in Milwaukee, WI and I am 22 years old. When I graduated high school I moved to Austin, TX to attend college. At age 19 I enlisted in the Guard as a cook because I wanted to experience military life. When I enlisted I believed that killing was immoral, but also that war was an inevitable part of life and therefore, an exception to the rule.
After enlisting I began the slow transformation into adulthood. Like many teenagers who leave their home for the first time, I went through a period of growth and soul searching. I encountered many new people and ideas that broadly expanded my narrow experiences. After reading essays by Bertrand Russel and traveling to the South Pacific and talking to people from all over the world, my beliefs about humanity and its relation to war changed. I began to see a bigger picture of the world and I started to reevaluate everything that I had been taught about war as a child. I developed the belief that taking human life was wrong and war was no exception. I was then able to clarify who I am and what it is that I stand for.
The thing that I revere most in this world is life, and I will never take another person's life.
Just as others have faith in God, I have faith in humanity
I have a deeply held belief that people must solve all conflicts through peaceful diplomacy and without the use of violence. Violence only begets more violence.
Because I believe so strongly in non-violence, I cannot perform any role in the military. Any person doing any job in the Army, contributes in some way to the planning, preparation or implementation of war.
For eighteen months, while my CO status was pending, I have honored my commitment to the Army and done everything that they asked of me. However, I was ordered to Ft. Benning last Sunday to complete weapons training in preparation to deploy for war.
Now I have come to the point where I am forced to choose between my legal obligation to the Army and my deepest moral values. I want to make it clear that I will not compromise my beliefs for any reason. I have a moral obligation not only to myself but to the world as a whole, and this is more important than any contract.
I have come to my beliefs through personal, intense, reflection and study. They are everything that I am and all that I stand for. After much thought and contemplation about the effect my decision will have on my future, my family, the possibility of prison, and the inevitable scorn and ridicule that I will face, I am completely resolute.
I will exercise my every legal right not pick up a weapon, and to participate in war effort. I am determined to be discharged as a CO, and while undergoing the appeals process; I will continue to follow orders that do not conflict with my conscience until my status has been resolved. I am prepared to accept the consequences of adhering to my beliefs.
What characterizes a conscientious objector is their willingness to face adversity and uphold their values at any cost. We do this not because it is easy or popular, but because we are unable to do otherwise. thank you.
If she hates the military so much, and she supports commies, then why did she enlist?
Hate America filth in the military PING!
She obviously didn't find anything.
Ping!
Has anyone told her that Crest makes teeth whiteners now...if she's gonna be in the public eye, try to look presentable! Oh, that's impossible for dirty, vile America haters.
I don't belive you can even get CO status based on a "belief in humanity" only for religious reasons. So now you have secular humanists seeking Concientious objection?
Get her out. Love America or leave it. I don't buy this about her saying she was growing up. I don't want this woman anywhere neat our people that are in country and in danger. They have more to do than look after her.
Perhaps she is one of those leftists who was propped up to join the Military, so she could be used as an example by the other leftists.
Deepest moral values which took her a very short time to develop. She joined in the middle of a war and now she is upset because she might have to kill somebody. Anybody want to guess if her unit is due to rotate to Iraq?
If they let her out I hope the Guard gets their money back. I'm sure the real reason she joined was for tuition assistance for college.
Someone needs to tell this idiot beotch that MURDER is immoral.. if killing was immoral then God wouldn't do it, or advocate it in certain circumstances. She needs some serious re-edumakashion.
Yeah, like a test case. To put the military and war on trial. That makes sense.
I don't know WHERE in the South Pacific, but it wasn't MY island..
BUmparoo
"I think killing is wrong. So, I guess my only choice is to join the Army!"
Send her to Iraq without the wespons training. She can be a "human shield."
I look forward to seeing her lead protest marches against the violent insurgents who main and kill small children.
She doesn't even have to go to Iraq and put her life at risk. She can protest the vile terrorists safely from America. At LEAST one "antiwar" protester has to show some opposition to the terrorists' war.
She apparently doesn't believe in God. She worships humanity. Fool.
"Just as others have faith in God, I have faith in humanity."
Isn't this kind of stuff screened before enlisting a person?
And if you change your mind afterwards well then tough chit.
Sounds like she only believes in the power of humanity from the safety under her bed.
Someone should ask her at a press conference what her stance is on abortion.
She disproved that assertion with her own position. She believes violence should be met by passive surrender.
"A bully is beating me up, Mom -- what should I do?" "Just let him keep beating you up, dear -- fighting back would be violence, and violence only begets more violence!"
Ship her out on the next plane.
Then she should have faith in her fellow human soldiers and hang tough with them. To leave them at a time like this would be to lose faith in them.
Where was she talking out the muSlimes when they piloted the aircrafts into the Twin Towers? Ain't world nice without the wars and with peaceful diplomacy Eh?
Another useful dumb rat coming out of RAT drawer after Shhhhehan, Muuuuurtha....
Hmmm. She's obviously not much of a history buff.
Dishonorable discharge for her. Period.
You can stop reading right there. It's no different than reading Marx, Lenin, Mao, Giap etc. (Just another Leftist useful idiot.)
Good point. She should be allowed out only if she reimburses the Army for the cost of her training, uniforms and every penny she's collected.
THE $$$$.
She obviously didn't find anything.
It's called college at UT-Austin. It is more to the left than UW-Madison, full of leftwing professors. If she was a moonbat before going to college, then she really was one afterword.
And why did she go to Texas. She could have fit in right here in Madison.
If she "believe[s] so-stromgly in non-violence", why did she join the ARMY national Guard???
What an idiot.
Right then.
Off to jail she goes, so she can fulfill her legal obligations, just as she claims a willingness to do.
Actually, I can respect a self-admitted delusional coward who makes his/her position known well prior to deployment, more than I would a regular run of the mill coward who claims CO status after he/she gets deployment orders.
She should have been weeded out in BMT, but some coast under the radar.
Off to jail and/or a dishonorable discharge.
I smell a Court Martial in the making.
"I have a deeply held belief that people must solve all conflicts through peaceful diplomacy and without the use of violence. Violence only begets more violence."
I would thank her to STFU.
One possibility that was used in earlier wars would be to put her in a medical unit. Since she lacks the training, she could work as a gopher or clerk or something.
In any base, are they using women as combat troops these days? Is anyone asking her to kill anybody?
This chick is SO stupid to work with them doing this...
The "Peace Movement" has so many liars in it.
Because I believe so strongly in non-violence, I cannot perform any role in the military. Any person doing any job in the Army, contributes in some way to the planning, preparation or implementation of war.
She already contributes to the war effort by paying taxes.
International ANSWER and United for Peace have came to her side as well.
So has Codepink
Don't boot her out. Put her in jail for a few years.
The official response should be:
"You don't want to fight? Fine. But you're going to put your time in. If you won't serve military time, you will serve jail time. And, by the way, return every last dime of money you took from the American taxpayers."
Does that mean that she gets to write childrens books and get out sooner? /sarc
My first thought, too. I got 5 bucks says she's pro-"choice."
And Anti-Gun. She probably hated every moment of range time, and probably does not know how to use a M-16 properly.
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