Showing posts with label abuse. Show all posts
Showing posts with label abuse. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 22, 2011

FALLOUT FROM THE COLUMBIA OUTRAGE

BLACKFIVE: Columbia Families and Alums are Speaking Out



President Bollinger,

Sir,

I am writing regarding Colombia's treatment of our military's wounded on your campus. Specifically, Anthony Maschek, an American hero. This is absolutely disgraceful. You need to denounce such behavior for it is because of wounded veterans your students have free speech but this is certainly lost on the Columbia student body and administration.

My uncle a WWII veteran (now deceased) received his masters from Columbia. Your students and administration dishonor him.

G.I.W.




Blackfive points out General Dwight D. Eisenhower served as Columbia University's President from 1948 to 1953 . . . Read more HERE - the entire episode is astonishing, but the veteran's families' response is incredible - S.L.


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Sunday, March 7, 2010

"THE FEMALE OF THE SPECIES . . .

. . . is deadlier than the male."


SOMEBODY POINTED OUT that March is Women's History Month. I swear I was not thinking that when I posted about WARRIOR WOMEN - that post grew out of an email exchange with a reader - a mother whose daughter is a West Point grad & a combat veteran.

With that in mind; STORMBRINGER proudly presents a couple of vignettes (is that a female word or what?) that explore the Female Warrior theme:


A FEMALE CAPTAIN BLIGH



US Navy Captain Holly Graf was relieved of command last week and demoted because she berated and assaulted her crew. A Navy inspector general report said that Graf "assaulted subordinates by pushing one, grabbing another and once throwing wadded up paper at another sailor . . . "


STORMBRINGER COMMENT: " . . . throwing wadded up paper . . . " - I guess this is the modern, politically correct version of keelhauling. What an outrage.


"She regularly verbally abused subordinates by publicly berating them, belittling them and using profane language. Graf once ordered a subordinate to stand in a "timeout" in a corner in front of the full watch team, which he complained to investigators was demeaning to him."


STORMBRINGER COMMENT: What? A sailor using profane language? Since when is THAT a crime? As for that "Time Out" scenario; if THAT's abuse, then I belong in Leavenworth for what I've done to quell mutiny and insubordination.


The report also found she used her office for personal gain; asked junior officers to play piano at her private Christmas party and to walk her dogs."


STORMBRINGER COMMENT: Oh, beat me with a wet noodle; this is cruelty on a level I've never seen before.


BOAT RACES


In a cavalier display of panache, Graf once led her guided missile cruiser, the USS Cowpens, on a drag-race with another U.S. warship in the Pacific, the USS John McCain (Cowpens is the one in front).


STORMBRINGER COMMENT: OK here's what she's REALLY being punished for: symbolically calling out John McCain for the limp-wristed RINO he really is. I predict a GREAT future for this Sea-Bitch, as a private security contractor leading maritime operations off the coast of Somalia.




MASS MURDER, OR SELF DEFENSE?




Aileen Wuornos was arrested on January 9, 1991, on an outstanding warrant at The Last Resort, a biker bar in Volusia County. Three days later, Wuornos confessed to multiple murders.


The Last Resort


YOU GO, GIRL!

Turns out Wuornos was a serial killer who killed seven men in Florida between 1989 and 1990, while she was working as a prostitute. She claimed the men tried to rape her and she killed them in self-defense. Wuornos was convicted and sentenced to death for six of the murders, and executed via lethal injection on October 9, 2002. Her final words on camera were "Thanks a lot, society, for railroading my ass."

Wuornos was executed by lethal injection on October 9, 2002, the tenth woman in the United States to be executed since the Supreme Court lifted the ban on capital punishment in 1976, and the second woman ever executed in Florida. She declined a last meal and instead was given a cup of coffee. Her final statement before the execution was "Yes, I would just like to say I'm sailing with the Rock, and I'll be back, like Independence Day with Jesus. June 6, like the movie. Big Mother Ship and all, I'll be back, I'll be back."






STORMBRINGER COMMENT: Give me a platoon of women like this Aileen harpy and the Taliban are toast.


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Thursday, January 28, 2010

The U.N: Corrupt. Incompetent. Unnecessary.




Aid Piling Up at UN's 'Cold Beer' Compound as Red Tape Keeps Aid From Desperate Haitians - While UN Staff Have Wi-Fi and a Bar

- from the U.K. Mail:


It is a tale of two cities. One has ice-cold beers, internet access, thousands of men and billions of dollars’ worth of gleaming machinery, together with piles of food, blankets, generators and other aid relief from around the globe.
This is the heavily fortified US-controlled Port-au-Prince airport and neighbouring United Nations compound.




The other is the devastated city of Port-au-Prince, where the stench of death fills the air and starving people are in utter despair, still in need of the basic necessities of food, water, shelter and medical care...'








MORE



STORMBRINGER has a new friend . . . Crusader Rabbit - from whom I got the above story . . . I will position Rabbit's 'license plate' in the rack to the right, as soon as I figure out how without bothering Theo . . .

Sunday, January 17, 2010

FEDERAL TERRORIST CATCH-AND-RELEASE PROGRAM

All:

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?


This guy is in Yemen stirring up a stink:

Report: Radical Imam Detained at JFK Airport in 2002






We're hearing stories of detainees going back to their old habits:

More former Guantanamo detainees returning to militant activity, Pentagon says
A new Pentagon report puts the recidivism rate at 1 in 5 detainees freed from the U.S. prison, up from 14% in the last accounting.



What may be the most unusual manifestation of Stockholm Syndrome ever seen, this cat meets with and apologizes to former detainees :





Guantanamo Guard Reunited with Ex-Inmates








Now juxtapose all of the above, with the following clip:








Yes, I realize not all detainees are terrorist nor will all of them revert to it - but WHISKEY TANGO FOXTROT ? ? ?








Special thanks, and respect, to US Navy SeaBee Brent for putting this together for STORMBRINGER




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