Posted on 03/25/2021 6:11:51 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
A representative from Arizona has requested that the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) strip benefits from any service member and veteran who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, according to a Monday report from Business Insider.
Democratic Rep. Ruben Gallego, of Arizona, a Marine Corps veteran, wrote in a letter last Thursday that those veterans and service members “simply don’t deserve” the VA benefits.
Gallego cited reporting that suggests “nearly 20% of the insurrectionists were either veterans or military retirees.” According to an NPR analysis in January, nearly 1 in 5 people charged in the riot appear to have served in the military.
“The behavior of these individuals is not representative of the large population of American veterans, the vast majority of whom served honorably and are appalled by the thought of insurrection in the country they served,” Gallego wrote. “Yet, many of the veterans and servicemembers who attacked their own Government actively and enthusiastically enjoy special benefits given to them by their fellow citizens.”
Federal prosecutors have charged more than 300 people in the attack.
Gallego requested in his letter that VA Secretary Denis McDonough work with Attorney General Merrick Garland to identify the riot participants, citing U.S. Code regarding benefits for veterans and their dependents.
He wrote that based on the code, he is “confident that you will find ‘satisfactory’ evidence” to justify the withdrawal of benefits.
Such benefits include, but are not limited to, access to health care and disability compensation. Five people died during the Jan. 6 riot, including a Capitol Police officer and a woman who was shot as she tried to climb through a smashed window into the House chamber with lawmakers still inside.
Good move.
This is sure to put more vets on the streets.
Face it. Our government hates us.
All of us.
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Five people died....Only one death during the riot...the women who was “assassinated” by a Capitol Cop.
Any former military member who is now a democrat has broken their oath to the Constitution and should be stripped of VA benefits.
Sorry...just not that many rioters. People were trapped by a few bad eggs.
Sorry, have no idea what that means.
This is not good.
Next, they will strip any military retirees of their pension and health care if they disagree with elected Democrat Government leaders or support Trump.
I was reading the other day the military are labeling Christians as extremism.
Will this Congressman demand Christian Military retirees have their earn pension taken away?
Will Christians be force out of the military?
We just might be near the end times.
Notice the word “accused” in the title. That says it all.
1) Seems like a Bill of Attainder
2) Pre-supposes that presence at the Capitol that day is equal to Guilty of Trying To Overthrow the Government. How about a little due process?
Democratic Rep. Ruben Gallego needs to have his benefits stripped for attacking citizens of the United States.
It’s a contract, so that is illegal.
I been aware of that for a while. People in general, desire to be liked. It is very difficult that others hate and wish to kill you , not because you have harmed them, but only because of who you are. Should you happen to be born White in the United States of America you are hated and despised for that fact alone. Ditto to professing Christians, but Jesus warned them in the Bible. And what makes the pillso hard to swallow is that the charge to exterminate Whites is being led by other Whites.
“It’s a contract, so that is illegal.”
Democrats do not care what is legal or illegal.
“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
Yes, Christians are now labeled EXTREMISTS by the Government. All military Undergoing special “weeding out hate” which is only target being white Christians.
EX-marine ruben gallego, POS
This EX-marine POS is probably bought by the Chi-Coms.
This EX-marine POS stole an election.
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