Did the Army kidnap man of borderline low IQ?
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...Neighbors of Ever Jandres of Encino, Calif., recently wrote a letter to U.S. Rep. Howard Berman charging recruitment malfeasance and asking him to look into the 24-year-old learning-disabled epileptic's mysterious disappearance, Mark Crispin Miller reported online at News from Underground. A spokesman for Berman confirmed that the congressman is "very concerned" about the matter.
Jandres, who is Salvadoran and has a borderline low IQ, was apparently "befriended" by a local Army recruiter, who invited him to come with him to Arizona for three days to observe basic training. Five days later, his distraught mother (who speaks no English) got a phone call from her son, who told her, hysterically, that he was on a military base in South Carolina. He was now in the Army, he said, and wasn't allowed to stay on the phone longer than a minute. Family members' and friends' attempts to get any information from the Army have been fruitless...
It seems to me that pressure ought to be brought to bear on Congress and the Army to immediately account for this man's whereabouts - if they have him.
I can only imagine the non-English speaking mother's despair and sense of helplessness. If the Senate can call an emergency session and bring back Senators from a recess for the mother of Terri Schiavo, they ought to be able to respond to this mother's plea to know whether the Army has her son illegitimately.