{"id":26470,"date":"2011-09-10T08:53:42","date_gmt":"2011-09-10T12:53:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=26470"},"modified":"2011-09-10T08:53:42","modified_gmt":"2011-09-10T12:53:42","slug":"salon-falls-for-bs-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=26470","title":{"rendered":"Salon falls for BS again"},"content":{"rendered":"

Someone sent us a link to a letter to Salon which doesn’t make any sense whatsoever. The letter is entitled “I’m an Iraq veteran and I want to die<\/a>“;<\/p>\n

I want to die because I can not seem to shake my addiction to violent pornography, child pornography, and stories and artwork of the same nature. <\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

From 2003 to 2008 I served in the Army. When I was in training I sexually assaulted a classmate (and a friend). I was shamed publicly, but for whatever reason this classmate did not press charges. That was the first time I ever touched a naked woman.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

When I deployed to Iraq I coped with stress in two ways: Masturbating to graphic violent pornography, Vipassana meditation (breathing meditation) and meditating on the possibility of my imminent death.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

My work in Iraq sometimes involved watching videos made by Iraqi militias and insurgents. In 2006 when I deployed there were many instances of sectarian torture and violence. I remember a video of a man whose eyes had been gouged out.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

A month into this terminal leave I received a call from my commander telling me to return for deployment. I had been stop-lossed. I disobeyed that order and was AWOL for two and a half years. I turned myself in about a year ago and received a general discharge under honorable conditions.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

I don’t seem to have any control over myself. I don’t understand many things. But I know pain. It is constantly with me. For my participation in these insane wars. For my weakness.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Let’s recap, shall we? First he claims to have raped a woman while he was in training and he claims to have been forced by the Army to watch violent videos…not that he actually participated in violence (or surely he would have mentioned it) and somehow it’s all the Army’s fault. Then he mentions that he went AWOL and refused deployment to get the sympathy from the hippies at Salon and endear himself to them, and somehow that makes him a man of conscience even though he supposedly raped someone early in his military career.<\/p>\n

As TSO said, it sounds a lot like Matthis, but Matthis caught PTSD from listening to war stories, this guy, on the other hand, watched videos that the Army forced him to watch. Matthis was forced by peer pressure to rape a Filipino girl, while this guy raped a classmate by choice. They both refused deployment, but this guy didn’t make a big damn deal about it, didn’t testify to the administrative review board and got the same discharge as Matthis.<\/p>\n

Either way, they’re both full of shit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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