Soldier arrested for being AWOL.... At VA Hospital

Here we go supporting those troops again...

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hzffNXeKffQLZTK0en3lEtJGDZXAD8T149600

LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — A soldier facing his second tour of duty in Iraq said in a jailhouse interview Monday that he was at a hospital seeking mental help when he was arrested in the middle of the night for allegedly being absent without leave.

Spc. Justin Faulkner insists his superior officers at Fort Campbell knew about his mental problems but refused to provide adequate treatment.

On Thursday, Faulkner checked into a Lexington VA hospital, where doctors told him they wanted to keep him until Monday for observation. Police showed up at the hospital shortly after 2 a.m. Saturday to take him to jail.

"It's humiliating, degrading," Faulkner, 22, of Stanton, said in an interview with The Associated Press minutes before his release from the Fayette County Detention Center. "It's made me lose respect for the military. To come and arrest me at the VA, it wasn't like I was trying to hide, trying to run. I was getting help. I am being punished for getting help."

The guy has PTSD. The cops let him go provided he reports for duty to be shipped back to Iraq.

This is how we treat our soldiers. No wonder desertions are at an all time high.

This is the kind of thing that happens in a fascist state. This is the beginning of the shift to totalitarianism.

America is no longer the home of the free.

totalitarian state: you know, like give me liberty or give me....

We're all being used, but none so badly as our military.

Motherf@ckers.

Why send a local cop to deal with a federal issue on federal grounds.. This whole thing stinks.

The line between our "peace keepers" and the military is being blurred over and over and over.

has their own Federal Police Officers, I am surprised that the Local Cops were allowed into the facility.

The police aren't even given the list of AWOLS (less than 30 days gone). Just the deserters (a month or more).

Someone at the VA had to CALL those cops, to let them know the guy was there and what his status was.

That's what I suspect.

I wonder if the police blotter would confirm that suspicion?

But you knew that already.

that they knew where the kid was, why didn't they take care of it internally? It would have kept the media out of it.. Just seemed a little strange, but I was never in the military so I don't know what the protocol is for this sort of thing. Maybe TahitiNut can enlighten here...

Look at these pics of some US Citizens being "Protected and Served"
by the "Police" their tax dollars paid for:





Cops are soldiers, soldiers are cops...and everyone
not wearing a uniform is "the enemy".

Welcome to Amerika. Ya might as well get comfy, cuz
yer gonna be here for awhile.

where a doctor was decked for interfering with police brutality? And, the doctor is being prosecuted, too.

We're there, I think. :(

There was that interim period where they felt the need
to keep paying lip service to the "rule of law" as they
violated it regularly....

But we're at the END of that period, and starting to see
the first HONEST examples of naked, "because I say so" FASCISM
filtering down to STREET LEVEL.

It's a BAD thing.

Because he knew the military hospitals
were on the lookout for DESERTERS, he
didn't dare check into Bethesda Naval
like every REAL President has always done?

I will ask my brother in law about him this Thanksgivings.

"up against the wall, up against the wall, up against the wall motherfuck...er!"
--david peel and the lower east side
"Police showed up at the hospital shortly after 2 a.m. Saturday to take him to jail."

on his way back to a combat zone.

That'll work. I mean, aside from being inhumane, that'll work in country.

Maybe those cops should have checked themselves in instead.

they should have arrested themselves, and begged for forgiveness from their god!

this vet should go to his reps house for thanksgiving, take a local news crew with him, bring attention to this, and find out what the fuck he is suppose to do.

jeez! how disgraceful. george the fuckhead must be so proud.

and the military tried to give him an dishonorable discharge for being AWOL! Fortunately, his family was able to hire forensic help. The soldier's time of death could not be determined, but that allowed his family make the argument that since it was possible that the murder took place BEFORE the weekend pass ran out, they HAD to presume he was innocent. The soldier got an honorable discharge with all the posthumous trimmings!

:mad:
rocknation

...came for him. Nazis -- the real ones. And the docs in Liege said, Sorry, this man is sick. And then they helped him escape.

But hey, this is the USA, leader of the free world, and we support our troops. We just love them to death.

:sarcasm: and :cry:

Hekate

No wonder desertions are at an all time high.

I haven't seen numbers since last year, but the 2006 desertion rate was the lowest in decades.

U.S. Army Upset Over Increasing Desertions.

Since the start of the war in Afghanistan and Iraq the US Army is facing increasing desertions every year. Although the numbers, about nine in every 1,000 soldiers are far below the peak of about 5% reached during the Vietnam war, they are sufficiently large to engage the attention of the Army top brass. In 2007 desertions have jumped 42% over the previous year. Military leaders including Army Chief of Staff Gen. George Casey have acknowledged that the Army has been stretched almost to the breaking point by the combat.The disturbing feature is that while during the Vietnam war when most deserters were ill paid draftees, the soldiers today are volunteers who are better paid and looked after than at any time in the past.

http://www.propeller.com/viewstory/2007/11/17/us-army-upset-over-increasing-desertions/?url=http%3A%2F%2Feducation-and-careers.blogspot.com%2F2007%2F11%2Fus-army-upset-over-increasing.html&frame=true

Because that rep needs some phone calls.