BETRAYING OUR OWN
MichaelConnelly.Jigsy.com
They
are extraordinary Americans. It is said that they
sign a blank check to their country and their
countrymen pledging that they will give their all,
up to and including their lives, to defend the
American way of life and their fellow Americans.
They are the men and women who are currently serving
or have previously served in the armed forces of the
United States. They take an oath to “protect and
defend the Constitution of the United States against
all enemies, both foreign and domestic” and they
always live by that oath.
This
blank check is readily accepted by our government
and by other Americans who send these selfless
individuals off to fight and die for our nation and
its freedoms. Many of them have made the ultimate
sacrifice and died in battle while many others have
returned home with shattered bodies and emotional
scars. Unfortunately, they have often returned home
to betrayal by some of their fellow Americans and
particularly by their own government.
The
Americans who fought in World War II returned home
as heroes and rightfully so, yet just a few years
later when members of the military fought in Korea
and over 50,000 died, the survivors were virtually
ignored when they came home to the point that Korea
is often referred to as the forgotten war.
As
for the Americans who served in Vietnam, they often
were insulted, spat on and physical attacked by
people in their own country that supposedly believed
in peace. To make it worse, many in the mainstream
media actively supported the enemy and lied about
what was really happening in Vietnam. To this day,
children are taught in school that the U.S. military
lost the war in Vietnam.
That
is a blatant lie; American soldiers never lost a
battle during that war. The victory was given to the
enemy by a vote of the U.S. Congress that cut off
military support to the South Vietnamese army and
allowed the communist to launch a new and successful
invasion.
Fortunately, the American people as a whole are much
more grateful to the men and women who are fighting
the war on terrorism, but the same cannot be said
about the mainstream news media and the government.
The media ignores the sacrifices and victories of
our soldiers and often seems to support our enemies
with insane reporting in the name of political
correctness.
As
for our government, we have a President of the
United States, an administration, and a Congress
that seems intent on breaking the morale of our
soldiers and destroying their capability of
protecting our nation. Their actions support the
fact that there is an all-out assault on both our
active duty military and our veterans. The elements
of this assault consist of:
1.
The
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued a
bulletin to all police agencies in 2009 naming all
military veterans returning from Iraq and
Afghanistan as potential domestic terrorists.
2.
Senator
Diane Feinstein declares that all veterans have PTSD
and are therefore mentally ill and should not be
allowed to own firearms.
3.
The
Veterans Administration in 2009 begins declaring
veterans with physical disabilities, minor PTSD,
past depression, or who even allow their spouses to
pay the family bills as mental defectives
incompetent to handle their own financial affairs
and forbidding them from owning, purchasing, or
possessing firearms. This process is accelerating.
4.
Obama
unilaterally cuts billions of dollars from our
military budget without approval of Congress.
5.
Congress
passes legislation authorizing sequestration leading
to massive cuts in the military readiness of the
United States, and putting us in a position of being
incapable of defending our national interests around
the world.
6.
Our
military capabilities are being cut in half and we
have lost respect around the world. The ridiculous
politically correct rules of engagement imposed on
our fighting men and women in combat have cost
countless American lives.
7.
High
ranking officers in the military who disagree with
these policies of the Administration are being
purged, and enlisted personnel who utilize their
right to free speech to express their concerns are
being court martialed and dishonorably discharged.
8.
The
Obama administration has also launched an attack on
the very foundation of the success of our military,
the profound religious beliefs of most of our
troops.
Members of the military are being prohibited from
practicing their religion even to the point of being
denied the right to have bibles in their workplace,
mentioning Christmas, or expressing their opposition
to radical Islam. Chaplains are having their sermons
and even prayers censored to make sure they are
politically correct.
9.
The
Veterans Administration that is supposed to
represent the interests of our military heroes has
slowed down the process of filing claims for
benefits to the point where veterans are waiting for
months and even years to have their claims
processed. In addition, when veterans go to the VA
they are being asked if they own firearms, if they
have ever been depressed, and if their spouses
handle the family finances. Then this information is
being used to declare them incompetent and deny them
their Constitutional rights under the 5th
and 2nd Amendments.
10.
During both the 2010 and 2012 election cycles the
Obama administration through the Attorney General of
the United States, Eric Holder, actively encouraged
Secretaries of State around the country to violate
Federal law by failing to timely mail out absentee
ballots to active duty military personnel. As a
result, hundreds of thousands of military votes were
never counted, denying our heroes a basic American
right.
11.
While civilian employees of the Obama administration
get pay raises, members of the military and veterans
are seeing their pay and benefits cut with the
Secretary of Defense promising more cuts to come.
12.
Military families are also being affected in other
ways. Chuck Hagel wants to close commissaries at U.
S. bases forcing military families to purchase their
groceries from civilian stores where they will pay
up to 30% more. In addition, thousands of military
spouses work at these commissaries to supplement the
family income. They will be losing their jobs.
I
could go on with this list because it just scratches
the surface. Our military members and our veterans
are being hammered by the government they have
fought for. They are being denied the medical care
they were promised, the respect they are due, and
ultimately the constitutional rights they have been
defending. Enough is enough, if we allow our
military and veterans to be treated this way, how
can we expect the government not to turn on all of
us.