Military abuse, fraud, waste, etc.

I am both a product of and constant critic of the United States Military. My father was a career military man, and as such, I learned many valuable life lessons from him, sometimes lessons of Virtue, other times just pragmatic lessons of how to work hard. Sadly, I also learned "from the inside" how the U.S. Military could be quite fallen.

Sadly, such a realist appraisal of the U.S. Military is often difficult to uphold.

Many are so overly uncritical about the U.S. Military that they fail to see the many abuses and cover-up that such an institution has always done and still does. I have known an Officer forced to undergo intense psychiatric testing just because this branch of the service needed to "down-size" their personnel. I have known Officers forced out of the military. I have known Officers who were almost forced out and now left with a bitter taste in their mouth. Rank without honor nor justice is a recipe for tyranny!

I have also known how thousands and thousands of dollars have been utterly wasted in Iraq. Finally, with the passage of the Military Commissions Act of 2006, it is now legal for someone to be forcibly detained solely on hearsay evidence and immune from any external court even knowing about it!!! (i.e. the normal legal procedure known as habeas corpus in which an external judge can demand that a particular court turn over its evidence to another authority for review and possible repeal of verdict in case the other court had been mistaken or potentially skewed). Truly, with the passage of the Military Commissions Act of 2006, like Senators John McCain and Patrick Leahy, I am also extremely concerned about this descent into fascism. By the way, Senator McCain actually lived in a P.O.W. camp for five and a half years in Vietnam and Patrick Leahy is the Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Blessings in Jesus Christ,
Rob J. King, Protector of Constitutional DUE PROCESS