Peter Pace, with the title of "General" in the military has made the outrageous and misguided statement that allowing same sex attracted people to serve in the military would be akin to allowing "immoral activity."

In the meantime, the upper echelon of the military continually condones and in many, many cases encourages authentically immoral conduct that maims and kills innocents daily.

Save yourself by not falling for such trappings - and focus on keeping Black enlistment - and all enlistment as low as possible. There can be no war if there are no soldiers.

Before you or your loved ones make a decision to enlist in the armed services, use this page to take in more information in making a wise decision..

A few tips include, don't assume life in the armed services would be easy with the potential for an end to the war in sight, and don't assume, and don't take anybody's word on where you'll be located. If you're told is not documented, it never happened, and of course the Indigenous peoples of the world can account for the value of a treaty.

Beware of what they whisper in your ear at recruitment meetings while military "leadership" is busy muddying the waters with public pronouncements against military personnel who have already signed on the dotted line.

This is should be a big waving flag for young Black folk no matter your attractional orientation.

They are essentially saying even after you think you have a deal, you don't have a deal - which is the manner in which the Immoral Hierarchy of the U.S. Military has engaged and tricked various peoples of color for centuries.

If claims they propose do not address the historic and contemporary immoral substance of the hierarchy of the armed services - then wade through their public gook until you get to the other side of the swamp.

Check below for some hard cold reality on the Immoral Hierarchy of the US Military.

All conduct by infantry people merely reflects the inadequate conduct of their "superiors."

THE LATE LAVENA JOHNSON

"There once was a young woman from a St. Louis suburb. She was an honor roll student, she played the violin, she donated blood and volunteered for American Heart Association walks. She elected to put off college for a while and joined the Army once out of school. At Fort Campbell, KY, she was assigned as a weapons supply manager to the 129th Corps Support Battalion.

She was LaVena Johnson, private first class, and she died near Balad, Iraq, on July 19, 2005, just eight days shy of her twentieth birthday. She was the first woman soldier from Missouri to die while serving in Iraq or Afghanistan.

The tragedy of her story begins there.

An Army representative initially told LaVena's father, Dr. John Johnson, that his daughter "died of self-inflicted, noncombat injuries" and initially added it was not a suicide" - but rather as Truthout.org reports was an accidental death caused by LaVena herself . . .

Also, Mirror in America does a fine job covering this Ms. Johnson's questionable death at "Who Murdered Army Pvt. Lavena Johnson? M.O.M. goes on to rightly point out, 'This has to be one of the biggest stories in the country that is not getting national coverage.'"



(Above writing from truthout.com)




Update remarks:

I never forget Lavena Johnson, and the horror of what must have been going through her mind during her ordeal. She was taught to trust these people - which makes her case that much more heartbreaking.

I doubt very seriously, the army would embarass themselves so greatly with such a glaring fabrication to protect Black soldiers. That same belief system - White supremacy - that categorized us as less than human - expendable - worthy of brutality during slavery still prevails today.

I argue that until these people make restitution with Africans around the world, common, every day racists will continue to believe brutality was made just for African descendants. Until White Power Structure confesses and pays for middle passage, enslavement and post slavery atrocities, they will keep on lynching us.

Lynching - was the widespread hanging of Black people typically from trees. But, the essence of lynching is continually perpetrated down here on the ground in contemporary U.S. policies and procedures.





LaVena Johnson's Parents








The LaVena Johnson Story: Rape and Murder in the U.S. Military

"LaVena Johnson may be only one of over a dozen women to die under extremely suspicious circumstances while in Iraq and Afghanistan ."

Rape and Murder in the U.S. Military



Who killed Private First Class LaVena L. Johnson

"Clay put them on the spot during the Jessica Lynch hearings, so they sent (the images) to me," Johnson said, calling the photos 'horrible.'"

"He said the pictures and documents from the incident proved that his daughter had been brutalized, raped, beaten, shot and set on fire."

"Someone poured lye in her vagina to destroy evidence," her father said. "Her body was dumped in a dirty, filthy contractor's tent."

U.S. Army says suicide; Parents seek investigation



Lavena Johnson Was Raped and Murdered: Then the Army Covered It Up

"The parents of the young Missouri woman were told that she died of self-inflicted gunshot wounds, and her death was ruled a suicide.

But her physician father became suspicious after looking at injuries to the body:"

Lavena Johnson Was Raped and Murdered








Brutally Raped and Killed

Democracy Now!

(Interview with the parents of Lavena Johnson)










Part 2










Part 3









Profile of an Unforgettable Young Black Women

by Lavena's Father, Dr. John H. Johnson

Profile of an Unforgettable Young Black Women'



SBS Dateline on LaVena Johnson

"[Sexual assault] is a pervasive problem, with Veterans Affairs statistics showing nearly one in three female soldiers are sexually harassed while serving their country, and for some the consequences are devastating."

SBS Dateline on LaVena Johnson






Lavena Johnson, Non Combat Deaths









The Silent Truth

(This video includes flash photos of Sister Johnson's body)









Lavena Johnson Body Exhumed








lavenajohnson.com

lavenajohnson.com






THOUSANDS COME HOME FROM WAR MENTALLY ILL

Not only do thousands of soldiers leave well, and come home mentally ill, but they must return to a health crisis that (while there are many, many very comptetent people at the Veterans Hospitals), the system has been widely known to have been a failure for many years. That, while the administration and the media feigns new knowledge.

P-lease.

Leave In Shape, Come Home in Deep Trouble



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lavenajohnson.com





Army Lies About Pfc. LaVena Johnson's Death are Unraveling

"A copy of a sketch in an official investigative document her father received from the Army, titled “Rough Sketch Depicting Crime Scene,” raises questions about how Johnson could have shot herself with her own rifle, when, as outlined in the sketch, a cot is located neatly between the body and her weapon."

Army Lies About Pfc. LaVena Johnson's Death are Unraveling






"DON'T ASK DON'T TELL"


There still could be a few misinformed people left out there who think the U.S. military is better off if Black Same Gender Loving folk do not divulge their relational status.

But, even with "Don't Ask Don't Tell in place", HRC reports that a 2000 Defense Department inspector general survey - which must have included a sizable number of Black folk - found that "80 percent of service members had heard offensive speech, derogatory names, jokes or remarks," and that 85 percent "believed such comments were tolerated by the institution."

Further, "thirty-seven percent reported they had witnessed or experienced direct, targeted forms of harassment, including verbal and physical assaults and property damage. Overwhelmingly, service members did not report the harassment, and when asked why they didn't, many cited fear of retaliation."

They also report the story of Barry Winchell who was brutally beaten to death with a baseball bat in his barracks at Fort Campbell, Ky. His fellow soldiers testified that Barry's death came after "months of vile name calling harassment, rumor mongering and inquires" into his "Don't Ask Don't Tell" life.

The Major General, Robert Clark - who the report found did not provide required training on the "Don't Ask Don't Tell" policy, was twice nominated by you all's President for a promotion to the Army's second highest rank.

This would seem to signify that a person whose inaction is found to facilitate a person's murder in the military is considered a special role model.

If that is the sick standard in military role modeling to which all others who follow should subscribe and strive, then one should question the sanity of enlisting.

If it is true as HRC reports that service members continue to be interrogated, harassed and threatened about their attractional orientation, you can bet there is a mix of racism and homophobia involved meaning a striking majority of those people are likely to be Black and Brown, and also heteroattractional and mistakenly presumed to be Same Gender Loving.

Also, HRC reports young women between the ages of 18 to 25 are given "poor performance reviews" or are "targeted with this policy if they deny the advances of military men" - which forces young women to acquiesce to sexual advances of men in the military in order to prove their heteroattractionality.

If the military were sincerely concerned about unity and cohesion in the armed forces and protecting against a perceived, and dreamed up chaos with respect to the revealing Same Gender Love, they certainly would not condone intra military harassment, victimization and even murder as a garnish to "Don't Ask Don't Tell." That of course would be immoral.

Our dilemma is that Black people of all attractional orientations are woven throughout the military. This writing and page is to impress upon all those considering enlistment that if this treatment is indicative of the kind of people you would be dealing with - then you should at least fully consider your good, upright options, particularly given how the video below lays out some truths about claims of academic benefits via military service.


That said, what a great favor the military offers in their erroneous insistence that certain ones of us "are immoral" and therefore shouldn't be allowed to go off and murder a few hundred thousand people of color we don't know, and who are not our enemy.

Muhammad Ali prophetically told us in the 60's:

"Keep asking me, no matter how long
On the war in Vietnam, I sing this song
I ain't got no quarrel with them Viet Cong."



With all of this, and the presentation below, make what you think is a good case for joining a system that fails to promise basic, fair and just treatment of its members, and I'll make the case for your running for the civilian hills.




"BEFORE YOU ENLIST"





Video Inspired by Kim Pearson at Professor Kim's Blogspot






ACCUSATIONS OF PROVIDING CONTAMINATED WATER TO U.S. SOLDIERS




Video Inspiration From Angry Indian Blogspot, "Intelligenta Indigena"





"Bring The Troops Home Right Now" at "Ravaged
Cultures Spark a Cultural Revival" at terryhowcott.com







"NEVER COMING HOME"











SPEAKING TRUTH TO THE DISRESPECTFUL

May 27, 2007

You all's President's ex Chief of Staff, "Andy Card" was to receive an honor yesterday at a graduation at University of Mass. and this is what happened . . .

Speaking Truth to the Disrespectful












Update: June, 2007

Military Recruitment of Black People Plunges

Military Recruitment of Black People Plunges








HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF: "LOST ABC FOOTAGE OF BLACK UNEMPLOYED VIETNAM VETS"

This interesting footage comes complete with the media reportes suggeting these Black veterans are the dangerous ones. I would say they must have been sipping on journalist juice. Statistics on Vietnam Veterans overwhelmingly shows the resolve was to drug and incarcerate Vietnam Vets into oblivion.



by Ira H. Gallen Video Resources
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EYE TO EYE: VETERANS AND SUICIDE










VA LAWSUIT AND HIGH SUICIDE RATES FOR SOLDIERS

VA lawsuit: High suicide rates for soldiers




BLACK MILITARY EXPERIENCE IN VIETNAM

Black Military Experience



LEGACIES OF LYNCHING

"After the wars in 1918 and in the 1940's, Black veterans who would not take of their uniforms were lynched."

Legacies of Lynching








AT THE TOP OF THE IMMORAL HIERARCHY



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BLACK SOLDIERS OF VIETNAM











WHO DO THE TERRORISTS BE











IMMORAL COVER UP OF MENTAL HEALTH OF U.S. SOLDIERS










LEADING TO WAR

"The first casualty of the Iraq War was the truth"

Leading To War

(Click black strip on the far right for full screen viewing)

From the website leadingtowar.com








US SOLDIER GUILTY OF RAPE AND MURDER OF 14 YEAR OLD GIRL AND HER FAMILY

Rape and Murder Cover-up

This trailer is from Brian De Palma's "controversial" 2007 film, "Redacted," which is based on this horrific crime."

This soldier escapes the death penalty while an innocent Mumia Abu Jamal fights execution for a crime he did not, and could not have committed.

How is it that military officials, knowing the history would allow soldiers continuous access to school children.

The answer is that they don't care about Iraqi school children.










IRAQI CHILDREN RUN BEHIND MILITARY TRUCK FOR WATER

Humanity Shot



Young People of Color Rising Up Against Military Recruitment

Young People of Color Rising Up







SOUL SOLDIERS

"Visual montage taken in from the Soul Soldiers exhibit and the film directed by Chris Evey at the Heinz History Center."










JIM CROW: VIETNAM - DREAM SHOT DOWN

"Soulville"










BLACK SOLDIER REQUESTS POLITICAL ASYLUM IN GERMANY

- SPC. Andre Shepherd

"When I heard about people being ripped to shreds by the machine guns . . . I began to feel ashamed . . . of killing a proud people."










Black GIs, Rebellion and the Fall of the Flag

"This is the story of the heroic Black GIs who played a key important part in forging correct verdicts."

Black GIs, Rebellion and the Fall of the Flag


Black Vietnam Vets Still Looking For Respect

Respect



Fort Hood 1968: A center of Black GI rebellion

"When Black troops heard of these orders, they spent the night of Aug. 23, 1968, in an all-night assembly of protest that the division’s commander allowed.

When morning came, however, military police arrested 43 of the troops for failure to report for reveille.

Twenty-five of the 43 were combat veterans."

Fort Hood 1968



"Dehumanization" Part of US Training

"As far back as basic training, we were singing songs as we were marching around, joking about killing women and children . . . "

"Dehumanization" Part of US Training








THOMAS P. STONEY INTERVIEW









SANDS OF OMAN

"An ode to war from the point of view of a war reporter. "

Poem written and read by Naseem Rakha










"WAR"

Edwin Starr

(Original video, 1969)









TOWER OF POWER

ONLY SO MUCH OIL IN THE GROUND










SOLDIER WE LOVE YOU

by Rita Martinson










NO MORE WEAPONS



















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