{"id":14689,"date":"2009-09-27T17:22:51","date_gmt":"2009-09-27T22:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=14689"},"modified":"2009-09-27T18:58:38","modified_gmt":"2009-09-27T23:58:38","slug":"a-whole-new-set-of-liars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=14689","title":{"rendered":"A whole new set of liars"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last year, a new set of liars formed up their own organization, named March Forward<\/a>, of people they call veterans. They are the veterans organization of the ANSWER coalition – as opposed to IVAW which affiliates itself with United For Peace and Justice. I guess ANSWER needed their own stalking horse instead of depending on IVAW. I see some old names in their group, but most interesting are the new names.<\/p>\n

All of their profiles begin the same way “I was a poor child with no job skills and I wanted to go to college and the military lied to me….”<\/p>\n

Reading through the member profiles, I found this one most interesting. About a guy who calls himself Eddie Pages<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Here’s what he writes in his profile;<\/p>\n

[H]e served as an Intelligence Analyst for the 1st Marine Air Wing in support of U.S. Pacific Command. Two weeks after he arrived in Okinawa, he was sent to the Philippines. Three Typhoons had just devastated that country.<\/p>\n

Of that experience, Eddie writes: \u201cI went there with the idea that I was there to help. I quickly learned that I was not there to help anyone. My job was to analyze intelligence collected against the people of the Philippines. The humanitarian aid was nothing but a front operation for intelligence collection. While there I witnessed high-ranking U.S. military members participating in human trafficking. I witnessed U.S. Marines buying french fries at McDonald\u2019s and having the hungry children outside fight each other for them. I knew then that I was on the wrong side of the equation. I spent any free moment I had sneaking off to speak to these children about their conditions. I spoke to farmers about their government. It quickly became crystal clear to me that the suffering of these people was directly linked to the U.S. government. I was ashamed of wearing the uniform of the oppressor. I began to research the histories of oppressed nationalities and teaching these lessons to the analysts that worked directly under me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Eddie refused to go to Iraq two times, telling the military that he would not go to Iraq and fight against innocent people for U.S. corporations. His supervisor at the time did not want to pursue any legal actions, so he found a volunteer to go in Eddie\u2019s place both times. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, he saw officers engaged inhuman trafficking – he saw some buck sergeants pay hookers. And can you imagine a Marine officer allowing a Marine to refuse deployment twice with no repercussions? Seriously?<\/p>\n

And spying on the Filipinos? Really? <\/p>\n

I can’t find a record on him at Military.com (which doesn’t mean much), but he sure does set off bells. He claims he got out last year. The Army has AKO, anyone know if the Navy or Marines have anything similar?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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