America, we have a problem

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Thursday May 03, 2012 · 2:25 PM PDT

2012/05/03 · 14:25

Words fail me. I really don't know what to say other than we have a huge problem on this side of the border, on these shores and some of it can be blamed on many many fronts.

Redeployment over and over is turning soldiers minds into mush. Add that ingredient with meth like substances when soldiers are taken from the mental hospitals and put on the battlefield and add that with hate talk from Hannity, Fox, Rush and people like
Coulter, West, and we have the makings of the following story all over America.

The VA's are underfunded and backed up. We have too many veterans and had too many wars as if one is not enough. Never ending war and greed and people in commanding positions putting not just soldiers in danger but We the People as a whole in danger.
First of all this diary is still very supportive of our men and women who wear and have worn the uniform but something is wrong. NOW don't come into my diary with bad words for our veterans or I will so report you, but we need to make ending these wars and more funding for mental health treatment a top priority.
The older vets can barely get seen now and that is before we have more and more veterans in dire need of mental health treatment and precisley what Homeland Security warned of with Miitia type and hate groups recruiting veterans on their return home.

Here is the lates news about Neo nazis and Hate and the stamp that this is just a few
bad apples. Veteran advocates are concerned and very rightly so. We are looking at
unchartered waters like non before.

http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/...Neo Nazis killings
A leading neo-Nazi reportedly blamed by authorities in Arizona for killing two women, an Army veteran and a 16-month-old child in a suspected domestic incident was “cruel and controlling,” according to a former co-worker of one victim.

J.T. Ready, a former Marine, was running for Pinal County sheriff and was a member of the U.S. Border Guard and the Minuteman Project, according to The Arizona Republic, which described the groups as anti-illegal immigration organizations. The paper said he also belonged to the National Socialist Movement, a group with white-supremacist views.

The shootings took place at a house in Gilbert, Ariz., shortly after midday Wednesday. The Republic reported that authorities believe Ready killed himself after shooting the others.
Gilbert Police Sergeant Bill Balafas said officers were interviewing a witness to the shooting, which investigators believe stemmed from a "domestic situation," Reuters reported.

Hugo Mederos, of Florida, told the Republic that the victims were his former wife, Lisa Mederos, 47, their daughter Amber Mederos, 23, her boyfriend Jim "Jambob" Hiott, 24, an Army veteran who served in Afghanistan, and Amber’s 16-month-old daughter Lily

My request is to start calling into C-Span, radio shows, writing your congressman, and senators. We need to let our legislators know the VA needs more funding, and America needs less war. We have a very serious problem here. We need to be able to salvage these veterans and not live in a climate of fear nor have veterans as a whole be treated with suspicion and fear as many Viet Nam veterans were and still are to a degree. We need solutions. We need peacemakers and we need to get rid of war hawks like we have had sitting in the body of congress screaming for more war. Trust me the economy won't mean anything if people are facing a new danger and dillema.
Terrorism does not have to be foreign, sometimes it is homegrown. We also need to shut down the hate machines.

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