Recruiting Criminals
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Isn\’t this lovely? Of course, it\’s been talked about before.
Oh, and since we seem to be on the subject of gays today.
It seems that Mr. Bush and the powers that be in the Army would rather recruit
criminals and felons instead of upstanding, patriotic, law abiding gays and
lesbians.
I know nobody wants to talk about a draft and I can understand that, but recruiting
criminals is where I draw the line. Wake up and smell the international incident
brewing, people. This is only going to go from bad to worse as the criminal
military expands. I have some words for everyone. Abu Ghraib. Haditha. Got it?
Mind you, right now we\’re talking about a very small portion of our military
being recruited criminals. But numbers have increased, according to some reports,
to 65%. That\’s bad for us all, particularly the career military people who give
their lives and respect the law to be in the best military on the planet.
The US military is allowing convicted housebreakers, muggers and drunk drivers
who have killed pedestrians to join up to fill the growing gap between necessary
frontline fighting strength and recruitment.Thousands of volunteers for the Army and Marines have been granted \”moral
waivers\” in the past three years to allow them to become soldiers despite
having criminal felony records for offences from robbery to drug-taking.The only candidates still barred from a military career are convicted drug
dealers, sexual offenders and murderers.The number of felony waivers granted by the Army for serious crimes
jumped from 411 in 2003 to 901 last year while waivers for misdemeanours such
as petty theft and minor drug possession rose from 2700 to more than 6000.Pentagon officials insisted yesterday that the waiver programme was \”a
way to admit young people who had made a mistake, but had overcome past bad
behaviour\”. … ..
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