The Tulsa Peace Fellowship's Counter-Recruitment Update/Digest, for Feb 2010

[Tony Nuspl]

Truth in Recruiting - "Don't Believe the Hype!"
The Tulsa Peace Fellowship's Counter-Recruitment Update/Digest, for Feb
2010

Lead Story from the past month's news:
$650K in damages for sexual assault committed by military recruiter
--the federal government to pay damages to an Oglala Sioux woman who was sexually assaulted by an Army recruiter

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file under: imprisoned for dissent against the wars
Army Imprisons Soldier for Singing Against Stop-Loss
Policy
--Army Specialist and Iraq war veteran Marc Hall is otherwise known as hip hop artist Marc Watercus

quote:
"From a military that has us, while we're jogging, chant in cadence about killing babies, to then come down on someone for writing an angry song, is ludicrous.
Marc is just expressing the anger that 13,000 soldiers are feeling
right now, because there are currently that many who are stop-lossed.
All he did was make his opinion heard."
~Jason Hurd, an Iraq war veteran, and a member of Iraq Veteran's Against the War (IVAW)

antiwar radio:
Don't Let Your Kid Join the Military
--Elaine Brower says killing for empire is immoral

related antiwar TV:
"Generation Kill." This is a war fought by the first playstation generation. As Rolling Stones journalist Evan
Wright explains: "One thing about them is they kill very well in
Iraq."
Produced by ABC Australia
Distributed by Journeyman Pictures

related group:
We Are Not Your Soldiers: Stop Military Recruiters in Our Schools!
--Bring the World Can't Wait anti-military counter-recruitment tour to your
high school or college and hear U.S. veterans who oppose the Iraq &
Afghanistan wars.
http://notyoursoldiers.ning.com/

book review:  the war in pictures
The Pictures of War You Aren’t Supposed to See
--Chris Hedges, a Pulitzer Prize-winning correspondent, reviews two haunting books of war
photographs

related story:
Afghan War Kills 3 Children a Day: Report
--Children are the biggest victims of the war in Afghanistan, with more than 1,050 people under 18 years old killed
last year alone, according to an Afghan human rights watchdog.

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follow up:  discrimination against women in the U.S. military
Single mother charged for refusing Army deployment to take care of her infant son

file under: military families breaking up
Wife of military leader says military spouses at risk for suicide, need help

quote:
"I was stunned when I was told there are too many to track,"
~Deborah Mullen, wife of the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

sidebar:
US Army Suicides in 2009 a New Record
--Total of 160 Deaths Topped Previous Record in 2008

sidebar:
Soldier accidentally kills self with gun

sidebar:
Bombing mistake: A joint U.S.-Afghan force bombed an allied Afghan army post

file under: S.N.A.F.U.

file under: bringing the war home
Lawsuit could help thousands of veterans with PTSD
--more than 4,000 veterans could be eligible for benefits available from a
class-action lawsuit if they left the military because of
PTSD
--follow up on lamentable condition of treatment services for PTSD

Iraqis authorize government to sue Blackwater
--Iraqi civilian victims of mercenary violence sign up for government-led
class-action civil lawsuit against U.-S. based corporation
Blackwater


backpage

U.S. Troops Increasingly Unwelcome in Japan
--increased tensions between American service personnel and the surrounding communities in Okinawa.

from the archives:  Where did the Afghan Mujaheddin come from?
Unholy Alliance between War-funding and Drug Profits:  CIA underwrote
Afghan opium trade
--This 1996 documentary examines the CIA's connection to the global drug trade, with a focus on opium and
heroin.
--A 1-hour  video available for streaming on demand http://www.thegeniusfiles.com/an-unholy-alliance

facts & figures:
In the Vietnam War, up to 34% of American G.I.'s were addicted to heroin, from the Golden Triangle in southeast Asia.
Some 20 years later, 7,000 Vietnam veterans were still addicted or receiving treatment.

Civilians Slain as Latest US Drone Strike on North Waziristan Kills Five
--A Teacher, A Nine Year Old Among the Slain in Pakistan

facts & figures:
Recent reports suggested that in 2009, the vast majority of those slain in the US drone strikes, over 700 people, were innocent civilians.

sidebar:
IDF on brink of abyss over draft dodging
--up to 40% of Jewish teenagers successfully evade military service, citing religious beliefs

epitaph for this edition of "Truth in Recruiting"
Words of Warning to Anyone Watching Recruitment Advertising
--from Steve Annabell, a British veteran of the Falklands War

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The Tulsa Peace Fellowship's Counter-Recruitment Update/Digest, for Jan 2010
lead story

$650K in damages for recruiter sex assault

By Chet Brokaw - The Associated Press
Friday Jan 8, 2010

PIERRE, S.D. — A settlement in a lawsuit will require the federal government to pay
$650,000 in damages to an Oglala Sioux woman who was sexually
assaulted by an Army recruiter, the woman’s lawyer said
Thursday.

The settlement leaves intact a federal judge’s ruling that an 1868 treaty with the Sioux required the government to
pay damages for pain and suffering to Lavetta Elk, said attorney Adam
Horowitz of Miami.

Judge Francis M. Allegra of the U.S. Court of Federal Claims in Washington ruled in April that Elk was entitled
to more than $590,000 in damages under treaty language that requires
the government to reimburse Sioux tribe members who are injured by
“any wrong” done by “bad men among the whites, or among other
people subject to the authority of the United States.”

Elk, a member of the Oglala Sioux tribe, chose to have her name released
when she filed the lawsuit.

Elk was one of many young women who told officials a few years ago that they had been assaulted by
recruiters after expressing interest in joining the military. More
than 80 recruiters were disciplined in 2005 for sexual misconduct
with potential enlistees, according to records obtained by the AP in
2006.

When Staff Sgt. Joseph Kopf, an Army recruiter, was supposedly taking Elk, then 19, to a military entrance processing
center in 2003, he instead stopped in a remote area of the Pine Ridge
Indian Reservation and kissed her and touched her breasts against her
will, according to court records.

A military proceeding determined Kopf had committed indecent assault against Elk, and he
was reduced in rank and removed from recruiting duties, according to
court documents.

In responding to the lawsuit, the government acknowledged that Kopf had assaulted Elk.

Elk eventually married and now lives in South Dakota with her husband and two
children.

http://www.armytimes.com/news/2010/01/ap_army_sexassault_ruling_010...

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imprisoned for dissent against the wars:
Army Imprisons Soldier for Singing Against Stop-Loss
Policy

Friday 08 January 2010

by: Dahr Jamail, t r u t h o u t | Report

Army Specialist and Iraq war veteran Marc Hall was incarcerated by the US Army on December 11,
2009, in Liberty County Jail, Georgia, for recording a song that
expresses his anger over the Army's stop-loss policy.

Stop-loss is a policy that allows the Army to keep soldiers active beyond the
end of their signed contracts. According to the Pentagon, more than
120,000 soldiers have been affected by stop-loss since 2001, and
currently 13,000 soldiers are serving under stop-loss orders.

Hall, (aka hip hop artist Marc Watercus), who is in the Army's 3rd Infantry
Division, was placed in Liberty County Jail for the song (click here
to listen to "Stop-Loss," by Marc Watercus), in which he
angrily denounces the continuing policy that has barred him from
exiting the military.

Military service members do not completely give up their rights to free speech, particularly not when
they are doing so artistically while off duty, as was the case with
Hall.

Hall planned to leave the military at the end of his contract on February 27, before his commander, Captain Cross at Fort
Stewart, moved to have him incarcerated for the song. The military
currently intends to keep Hall in pre-trial confinement until he is
court-martialed, which is expected to be several months from
now.

Hall is opposed to the occupation of Iraq, and had told his commander he would not deploy if ordered. His unit deployed to
Iraq without him in mid-December, but this is not why Hall is in
jail, as he was jailed before his unit was sent to Iraq.

"The military never ordered him to go [to Iraq], they put him in jail
before that," Klimanski continued, "They can't charge him
with missing movement, because he couldn't go because they put him in
jail. He told them he wanted out, he wouldn't go, but they didn't put
him in jail for not going."

Jeff Paterson, the founder and director of the soldier advocacy group Courage to Resist, which
is assisting Hall, told Truthout, "Marc's case is unique in that
the military hasn't shown a propensity to go after these political
speech cases for several years. Here, since he's an angry man who
recorded a song, they are making him a target for having expressed
his anger in an artistic way. We think this is an important case
because it could set precedent for free speech rights for those in
the military."

Klimanski, along with underscoring the importance of the case for the First Amendment, thinks the case
highlights the military's ongoing use of stop-loss.

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antiwar radio:
Don't Let Your Kid Join the Military
--Elaine Brower says killing for empire is immoral

Scott Horton Interviews Elaine Brower
January 14, 2010
Elaine Brower discusses sanitized recruitment ads that target the unemployed, the uneducated and the urban inner city as part of
the poverty draft. "They need more bodies to fill the war
machine."

MP3 here. (26:25)

byline: Elaine Brower is a military mom, activist with Military Families Speak Out
and Drive Out the Bush Regime and a member of the National Steering
Committee of World Can’t Wait.

related antiwar TV:
Generation Kill:  You're going to go kill people, not build latrines.
Aug 2004
What happens when those who've grown up on Hollywood war movies and
graphic video games are sent to the frontline? This is a war fought
by the first playstation generation. As Rolling Stones journalist
Evan Wright explains: "One thing about them is they kill very
well in Iraq."

Produced by ABC Australia
Distributed by Journeyman Pictures
YouTube here. (6:49)
over 7 million people have seen this video

book review:  the war in pictures
The Pictures of War You Aren’t Supposed to See
Jan 4, 2010

By Chris Hedges

Filmic and most photographic images of war are shorn of the heart-pounding fear, awful stench,
deafening noise and exhaustion of the battlefield. Such images turn
confusion and chaos, the chief element of combat, into an artful war
narrative. They turn war into porn. Soldiers and Marines, especially
those who have never seen war, buy cases of beer and watch movies
like “Platoon,” movies meant to denounce war, and as they do so
revel in the despicable power of the weapons shown. The reality of
violence is different. Everything formed by violence is senseless and
useless. It exists without a future. It leaves behind nothing but
death, grief and destruction.

In Peter van Agtmael’s “2nd Tour Hope I don’t Die” and Lori Grinker’s “Afterwar:
Veterans From a World in Conflict,” two haunting books of war
photographs, we see pictures of war which are almost always hidden
from public view.

For the full review, including sample photos, go online
to:
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_pictures_of_war_you_arent_s...


Afghan War Kills 3 Children a Day: Report
Thursday, January 7, 2010
Agence France Presse

by Lynne O'Donnell

KABUL - Children are the biggest victims of the war in Afghanistan, with
more than 1,050 people under 18 years old killed last year alone,
according to an Afghan human rights watchdog.

Children were also press-ganged, sexually exploited, deprived of health and
education, and illegally detained by all sides in a war that is
dragging into its ninth year since the U.S.-led invasion toppled the
Taliban regime.

"At least three children were killed in war-related incidents every day in 2009 and many others suffered in
diverse but mostly unreported ways," ARM director Ajmal Samadi
said.

The Western-backed government has failed to introduce or implement laws to protect children against the abuses of war or
"bring alleged criminals and abusers to justice," Samadi
said.

ARM called on the Afghan authorities to set up an official child protection body and liaise with the warring parties on
child rights.

The report by ARM, an independent rights monitoring group set up in Kabul in 2008, comes after the United
Nations said civilian deaths in Afghanistan rose 10.8 per cent in the
first 10 months of 2009.

Reports that foreign forces killed eight students in Kunar province on December 26 caused widespread
outrage, including U.S. flag-burning demonstrations in two cities,
though reports of what happened varied widely.

Civilian deaths at the hands of foreign forces fuel distrust between the Afghan
population, the government and U.S. and NATO troops.

U.S. General Stanley McChrystal, commander of foreign forces in
Afghanistan, has ordered civilian casualties be kept to a minimum,
yet as more troops pour in, a higher death rate is inevitable,
experts say.
 
© 2010 AFP

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/01/07

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Single mother charged for refusing Army deployment to take care of her infant
son

Russ Bynum, AP News

Jan 13, 2010

The Army said Wednesday it has filed criminal charges against a
single-mom soldier who refused to deploy to Afghanistan last year,
because she had no family able to care for her infant son.

Spc. Alexis Hutchinson, a 21-year-old Army cook, could face a prison
sentence and a dishonorable discharge if she is convicted by a
court-martial. But first, an officer will be appointed to decide if
there's enough evidence to try a case against her.

Hutchinson's attorney, Rai Sue Sussman, said she still hopes the case can be
settled without a military trial. She said the Army should consider
Hutchinson's reason for not deploying overseas — that she was
afraid of what would happen to her baby.

"There are other routes if they really want to punish her," Hutchinson's
attorney, Rai Sue Sussman, said Wednesday. "I don't think the
situation was serious enough to warrant a criminal
matter."

Hutchinson of Oakland, Calif., was scheduled to deploy from Hunter Army Airfield in Savannah on Nov. 5. She skipped
her unit's flight, saying the only relative she had to take care of
her 10-month-old son — her mother — was overwhelmed by the task
and backed out a few days before Hutchinson's departure
date.

Sussman said the soldier was afraid to show up for her overseas flight because one of her superiors had told her she would
have to deploy and turn her child over to the state foster care
system.

According to the Defense Department's latest demographic report, there are more than 70,500 single parents on
active duty in the U.S. military — about 5 percent of all service
members.

http://wire.antiwar.com/2010/01/13/army-charges-single-mom-who-refu...

Wife of military leader says military spouses at risk for suicide, need
help

Kimberly Hefling, AP News

Jan 13, 2010

The wife of the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff had a message Wednesday for those trying to prevent military suicides:
Don't forget the spouses.

Deborah Mullen said Army leaders told her that they lack the ability to track suicide attempts by
family members of Army personnel.

"I was stunned when I was told there are too many to track," Mullen said, speaking on
stage at a military suicide prevention conference next to her
husband, Adm. Mike Mullen.

She urged the military to get a better handle on the problem and implement prevention measures with
spouses in mind.

"There's another side to this and that's family members who commit suicide," Mrs. Mullen said. "It's
our responsibility. These are our family
members."

http://wire.antiwar.com/2010/01/13/wife-says-military-spouses-also-...

National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: (800) 273-TALK (8255)

US Army Suicides in 2009 a New Record
160 Deaths Topped Previous Record in 2008
by Jason Ditz, January 15, 2010

Calling 2009 a “painful year,” the US Army announced today that it faced a record number of suicides among Army personnel,
with 160 active-duty soldiers taking their own lives.
Deployment away from family is just one issue facing soldiers

This surpassed the previous record of 140 in 2008, and the previous record
before that was 115 in 2007. The Army has been keeping track of
suicides since 1980, with the level suddenly rising to epidemic
levels in recent years.

But despite the expectation that endless combat deployments would be playing a role in the deaths,
officials say that about 1/3 of the soldiers who took their lives
this year hadn’t yet been sent on any combat
missions

http://news.antiwar.com/2010/01/15/us-army-suicides-in-2009-a-new-r...

sidebar:
Soldier accidentally kills self with gun
January 08, 2010 AP

CRESTVIEW, FLORIDA -- A Panhandle Army paratrooper on leave from Iraq accidentally shot and killed himself while showing his
family his new handgun, investigators say.

Army Specialist Andrew Steven Faulkner, 21, died New Year's Day in
Crestview.

Sheriff's investigators say he was showing relatives a Glock .40 caliber handgun when he accidentally fired it
into his chest while trying to remove the magazine from the
weapon.

Faulkner had been on leave since November following a yearlong deployment with the Army's 82nd Airborne Division to
Iraq.

http://www.news-journalonline.com/NewsJournalOnline/news/florida/fl...

sidebar:
Bombing mistake: 4 Afghan Army Soldiers
Killed by U.S. Occupation

A joint U.S.-Afghan force called in an airstrike on what turned out to be an Afghan army post
after taking fire from there Saturday, killing four Afghan soldiers
and prompting a demand for punishment from the country's defense
ministry. NATO and Afghan authorities described the clash around an
outpost in Wardak province southwest of Kabul as a case of mistaken
identity. NATO called the attack "unfortunate" and promised
an
investigation.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2010940043_afghan...

Lawsuit could help thousands of veterans with PTSD
By Paul Courson, CNN
January 25, 2010

Washington (CNN) -- The Defense Department has agreed to expedite the claims of possibly
thousands of Iraq and Afghanistan military veterans who suffer from
post-traumatic stress disorder but have been denied benefits, a
veterans group announced Monday.

More than 4,000 veterans could be eligible for benefits available from a class-action lawsuit
if they left the military because of PTSD, the veterans' advocacy
group National Veterans Legal Services said at a press conference in
Washington.

The original class-action suit was filed in December 2008 by seven veterans who suffer from PTSD but who were
denied a required rating to make them eligible for a variety of
long-term benefits.

A federal judge in Washington last month accepted a list of some 4,300 veterans who may also have been
improperly denied the benefits. A court-authorized mailing is now
going out to veterans on the list, telling them they can join the
suit if they qualify.

"The legal notice gives thousands of veterans the right to join this class action under terms that are
likely to result in millions of dollars in monetary and health care
benefits," said Bart Stichman, a spokesman for National Veterans
Legal Services.

Eligible veterans who respond to the notices will receive an expedited review of their disability rating and, if
applicable, a correction of their military records to comply with the
law. Benefits then would begin for six months until a further review
and resolution of each medical case to establish permanent, long-term
payouts.

"I fought one war for my country abroad, but I now am fighting a different battle here at home," said former
U.S. Marine Cpl. Tyler Einarson, 28, "the battle to get health
care benefits to which I and thousands of other servicemen are
entitled."

http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/01/25/veterans.ptsd/


Iraqis authorize government to sue Blackwater

Iraqis sign up for government-led class-action civil lawsuit against
Blackwater

AP News
Jan 18, 2010

Iraq's government has started collecting signatures for a class-action lawsuit from
victims who were wounded or lost family in incidents involving the
U.S. private security firm formerly known as Blackwater.

The head of the prime minister's legal consultation office said Monday
the government will seek compensation for a string of incidents,
including the 2007 killing of 17 civilians in Nisoor Square.

The official, Fadhil Mohammed Jawad, says there is no deadline to receive
the authorizations. He refused to give a date for the
lawsuit.

http://wire.antiwar.com/2010/01/18/iraqis-authorize-government-to-s...

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U.S. Troops Increasingly Unwelcome in Japan
Written by James Heiser  
30 December 2009

Okinawa - As reported by TheNewAmerican.com several months ago, the United States is
presently shifting tens of thousands of military personal and family
members from bases in Japan to expanded facilities in the U.S.
territory of Guam, with the Japanese government paying over a third
of the cost of the relocation. A major reason for the redeployment of
these troops is the increased tensions between American service
personnel and the surrounding communities in Okinawa.

As the United States approaches the 65th anniversary of Victory over Japan
Day, perhaps a more reasonable question would be: Should our troops
come home now?

With approximately 47,000 troops in Japan six and a half decades after the conclusion of the Second World War, the
cost of such a deployment, and the implications for souring relations
with that nation, are considerations which cannot be
ignored.

http://www.thenewamerican.com/index.php/usnews/foreign-policy/2661-...

Civilians Slain as Latest US Drone Strike on North Waziristan Kills Five

Teacher, Nine Year Old Among 'Militants' Pakistan Declares Slain

by Jason Ditz, January 03, 2010

Another US drone flattened a house near Miramshah in the North Waziristan Agency today, killing the five people inside. The attack was the third strike in the immediate area in the past few days.

Pakistani intelligence officials, as usual, declared the site a “militant hideout” and touted the strike as having killed “five militants.”
Such claims are usually the end of any investigation into the
identities of the victims of a US strike.

But unofficially, the government is acknowledging that two of the victims are a schoolteacher and his nine year old son, whose home was the target of the attack. The other three have not been identified.

Recent reports suggested that in 2009, the vast majority of those slain in the US drone strikes, over 700 people, were innocent civilians.


http://news.antiwar.com/2010/01/03/civilians-slain-as-latest-us-dro...

more coverage:
US Killed 700 Civilians in Pakistan Drone Strikes in 2009
'Year of the Drone Strike' Netted Only Five Actual Militant Leaders
by Jason Ditz, January 02, 2010

On January 1, 2009, a US drone strike killed two senior al-Qaeda leaders, the first in what then President-elect
Barack Obama had said would be a dramatic escalation of the aerial
bombardment of Pakistan’s tribal area.

And escalate it did. The US launched 44 distinct drone strikes in Pakistan in 2009, far
more than in previous years.

On June 22, 2009, the US struck at a house officials called a “suspected militant hideout,”
burying a few locals inside. When others rushed to the scene to
rescue them, they launched another missile, killing 13 apparently
innocent Pakistanis. When they held a funeral procession on June 23,
the US hit that too, ostensibly on the belief that Baitullah Mehsud
might be among the mourners. He wasn’t, but the attack killed at
least 80 more people.

The vast majority of the deaths, around 700 according to one estimate, have been innocent civilians. With
such a massive civilian toll and so little to show for it, it is no
wonder that Pakistani people have been up in arms over the continued
strikes.

http://news.antiwar.com/2010/01/02/us-killed-700-civilians-in-pakis...


sidebar:
IDF on brink of abyss over draft
dodging
Army's Personnel Directorate chief says number of Jewish youths evading military service may reach 40% over
next decade
Shmulik Hadad, 01.13.2010 / Israel News
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3834123,00.html

related news:
Israeli Knesset reaffirms religious grounds for refusing to serve in military
Coalition quashes bill meant to curb religious draft dodging 
12.30.09, 15:34 / Israel News
House votes 63 to 29 against a motion to toughen terms under which girls can get religious
exemption from IDF service

epitaph for this edition of "Truth in Recruiting"

“To get you to join up they do all these advertisements—they show people skiing down mountains and doing great things—but they don’t show you getting shot at and people
with their legs blown off or burning to death. They don’t show you
what really happens. It’s just bullshit. And they never prepare you
for it. They can give you all the training in the world, but it’s
never the same as the real thing. They program you to have no
emotion—like if somebody sitting next to you gets killed you just
have to carry on doing your job and shut up. When you leave the
service, when you come back from a situation like that, there’s no
button they can press to switch your emotions back on. So you walk
around like a zombie. They don’t deprogram you. If you become a
problem they just sweep you under the carpet.”

~Steve Annabell, a British veteran of the Falklands War

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