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CT
In one word: Kafkaesque
Mark
Reprehensible!
L.
This si silly. What we really need is a comic drawn by a 9-year old which explains what happens a gay soldier can’t resist coming *on* to senior officers.
Kev C
Wanda Sykes would be good as Cpt. Smith.
jack
if every soldier was gay there would be no war
Alexander A.
This was just awful! One of the worst pornos I’ve ever read! Great, now I’m angry AND horny!
jon
YAY AMERICA YOU ROCK!!! F America.
Sceth
Oh, so they’ll “be able to discern by… education level…” That’ll be a deal breaker. Anyway, I’d like to get my hands on a military CAC.
Michael @ LeonardMatlovich.com
It’s a LIE from the its very cover. Despite persistent Pentagon propaganda to the contrary, including claims found in their heinous current push poll, DADT isn’t just about “conduct”…if they think/if you admit you simply are gay you get discharge unless you can “prove” you never have nor never will engage in “homosexual conduct.”
Yet it’s a bittersweet irony that the guide assigns the name of “Gates” to the soldier presumed to be gay given Robert Gates [tho he wasn’t SECDEF when this came out] has been, empowered by Obama, the biggest obstacle to discharges ending and the creator of the $4.4 million Frankenstein poll meant to find excuses to perpetuate the ban.
randy
I don’t know who this insults more — gays, enlisted personnel, or officers. Certainly I am, and I’m just a civilian gay!
I did learn one thing, though. Many people claim that the numbers of discharged under DADT is inflated because there are a lot of straight people who just claim to be gay to get out of the military. Now I know that if you claim you are gay, the military must conduct an inquiry to determine whether it is legitimate. So if it’s true that people can get out of the military just by claiming they are gay, it’s in an indictment on the fact that someone higher up isn’t doing his job.
But I wonder what the questions are? How do you determine if a self-proclaimed gay or lesbian really is? Now THAT would be funny!
Brian Miller
You have to love the absolutely Orwellian title of the comic: “Dignity and Respect.”
Charles
@jack: We’re that true, the world would likely wind up in a giant cat fight.
Michael @ LeonardMatlovich.com
This “guide” probably also led to some being discharged because they believed its other BIG LIE: that anything one told his/her chaplain was confidential.
In 2001, conversations with chaplains were NOT officially “confidential” as several who got discharged because their chaplain outed them learned the proverbial hard way. As of March 25th, chaplains are officially SUPPOSED to not do that but anyone who’s ever met or read about the obsessive behavior of a minister who believes Jebus wants him to fight the Sodomites knows that’s no guarantee. While they did not specify which of the new regs were involved, SLDN has reported that gay servicemembers are STILL being discharged as the result of circumstances related to the “old” rules.
Steve
@Randy
The number of discharges is actually underreported:
http://servicemembersunited.org/?p=2557
It also doesn’t account for untold thousands who leave voluntarily after their contracts are up.
B
No. 1 · CT wrote, “In one word: Kafkaesque” … rather, it shows why they need some time to implement a repeal to DODT. They have to come up with a new set of comic books for entry-level personnel. You can’t explain abstract principles and expect them to get it – they need examples and it takes time to figure out the best ones to show. That’s probably what the survey is for.
B
No. 1 · CT wrote, “In one word: Kafkaesque” … rather, it shows why they need some time to implement a repeal to DADT. They have to come up with a new set of comic books for entry-level personnel. You can’t explain abstract principles and expect them to get it – they need examples and it takes time to figure out the best ones to show. That’s probably what the survey is for.
joedee1969
The Army & The Navy need do to do something about this oil spill. Our bear has found the shocking truth!
http://americaspeaksink.com/2010/07/alert-giant-hole-in-floor-of-gulf-revealed-on-msnbc/
boredwell
Hey, let’s just kick out the homophobic soldiers.
AxelDC
This is why the Pentagon needs $700 billion a year?
Woody
I dont get the logic behind DADT. it just seems stupid. like really really stupid.
Bill Perdue
@B: This comic book is a sick joke.
The only kind of example that would put a damper on bigotry in the military would be the example of prosecuting and jailing everyone involved in harassment or violence against LGBT folks and women including the general officers commanding the units. There are no examples like that and none can be expected.
Instead of waiting a few more months (or years) for more fake ‘studies’ and ‘surveys’ asking who does or does not approve of bigotry and violence against LGBT folks and women in the military we need to fight for the total and immediate repeal of DADT which is simply military bigotry codified into law.
What is the reasoning behind ‘B’ defense of waiting until the military brass is prepared to end DADT?
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End the harassment and violence now. Repeal DADT now.