{"id":28196,"date":"2012-01-05T09:48:19","date_gmt":"2012-01-05T13:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=28196"},"modified":"2016-09-29T11:51:10","modified_gmt":"2016-09-29T15:51:10","slug":"the-post-in-which-i-agree-with-beeker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=28196","title":{"rendered":"The post in which I agree with Beeker"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been thinking about writing about that nutjob, Pfc. Benjamin Colton Barnes who shot several people over the weekend, including a Park ranger. I remember the news reporting that he was an Iraq veteran with extensive survival skills and then they find his body a day later in a creek, apparently dead from hypothermia. I guess those survival skills were fairly limited since he didn’t know that laying in a creek would bring on some hypothermia. So you have wonder about the PTSD thing that the media likes to wave as a bloody shirt. According to an MSNBC piece<\/a>, Barnes’ problems go back to before his Army career;<\/p>\n

Growing up in Riverside County, Calif., he was sent to a community day school for expelled and troubled students as a teenager, the Press-Enterprise newspaper reported.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And the Army didn’t think much of his PTSD claims, either;<\/p>\n

He was discharged from the Army in 2009 for drunken driving and illegal transportation of a private weapon.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In fact, the claims of PTSD seem to come from his ex-girlfriend’s order of protection, not from any doctor. It’s just something the media likes to grab onto to exonerate criminals from their own poor choices.<\/p>\n

Anyway, Brandon Friedman, dicksmith’s predecessor at VetVoice, known to TAH old timers as Beeker<\/a>, currently employed at the Department of Veterans’ Affairs, contributed to the MSNBC piece and spoke the first true words I’ve seen from his mouth; <\/p>\n

Even if Barnes did have PTSD, as his ex-girlfriend says, “having PTSD doesn’t signify a propensity to murder Americans,” Friedman said, adding that he was concerned that depictions of Barnes as a sufferer of PTSD could fuel public perceptions that all Lewis-McChord veterans are “dangerous psychos.”<\/p>\n

“The stereotype of the crazy vet is something vets have had to deal with for years, and it’s simply not backed up with hard data,” he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, the media likes to point out the tens of thousands of veterans who suffer from PTSD are coming home – you’d think they’d want to point out that those thousands also don’t randomly shoot people. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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