Posted on 04/16/2014 3:30:36 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
This article by Balan has a strange smell about it. Rieckhoff (I’ve seen it spelled with a “Y”) has been very anti-Iraq/Afghanistan re US policy from the Left.
Need to google some articles about him, but I don’t think he’s on our side.
Re the statement and the govt report about returning veterans becoming terrorists, and that Miller did just that, bull shit.
If he was a Vietnam veteran, that was anywhere from 40-47 years ago. So now he explodes in an anti-semitic burst of violence and it is blamed on “returning veterans”.
By that twisted way of thinking, any criminal who was a veteran of WW2 or Korea was made into one by the war, even if they committed a crime 50 years later.
This is not only “guilty by chronological association”, it is just plain psychological BS. People become criminals, hatemongers, etc. usually earlier on in their lives, before they even enter the service. They get it from bad apples in their family, their neighborhood, gangs, or in the Old South, from racial hatemongering groups such as the KKK and similar white superiority groups.
Some might have even become racists while in prison for just plain old criminal activity.
To blame it on Vietnam or Iraq or Afghanistan is the real smear of the Govt report which has been promulgated by the far Left.
If anyone has documented information on Rieckhoff’s ideology, please add it here on FR.
The New York Times doesn't ‘generalize’ when the perp is black, gay, liberal elite or radical Muslim - even if the radical Muslim is screaming Allahu Akbar while he's killing Americans at Ft Hood.
Nope, the New York Times NEVER generalizes when it's a group they favor... but they hate vets... especially white Christian vets from flyover country... Do they know the monster ran for office as a democrat? And was a pet of the FBI in the witness protection program?
How many of our millions of veterans commit hate crimes and/or join extremist groups? One out of 100,000? 300,000? 500,000? Back in the 60s and 70s, how many middle-class/upper-class college students joined extremist groups (SDS, Weathermen, etc.)? Probably something like one out of 500, if not more.
” how many middle-class/upper-class college students joined extremist groups (SDS, Weathermen, etc.)? Probably something like one out of 500, if not more.”
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Yep,like like the adorable Brandeis students who robbed a bank and were responsible for the murder of a Boston cop.
Good old Brandeis.
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Long time subscriber to T-Rex...... Magnus and Coriolis effects well in hand here on the high plains my friend..... Stay safe.
And women in combat.
I can’t believe there’s a woman alive who would actually liked to have been with us in the field in Vietnam. It was perhaps one of the raunchiest experiences of my life, overall. And I’m a guy.
Plus, it would have been a hindrance to the whole unit.
Glad I don’t have to go with it.
Active Duty/Retiree ping.
Yet no work on the conversion of those incarcerated into Islam - a potentially more serious problem.
How about gangs in the military?
work = word
Doubling down...
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