Veterans slam New York Times

Dumb gets dumber. None of what is happening in the press is new. Absolutely none of it. They report what people tell them especially military brass and never know enough basic information to begin to know who is full of BS and who is telling the truth.

It happened last week, last month, last year, last decade and throughout the history of this country. Up until Vietnam veterans came home, the reports were more respectful of service folks. Even if it was a terrible story they at least tried to respect the fact the person was a veteran. After that, respect went out and headline grabbing was in.

This is nothing new. You read it all the time right here. The really deplorable-disgusting-disgraceful-reporting going on is what they are not reporting on. Who has been held accountable for the rise in suicides? Who has been held accountable for the money spent while producing more suicides all these years later? Who had been held accountable for being in leadership and blaming the soldiers for suicides along with their families? For calling soldiers committing suicides as being "selfish" then ended up being rewarded for reducing suicides after discharges? Any clue? Nope because they don't want to do their jobs. It is just too easy to attack veterans than to put veteran status in proper perspective to the story matter.

Veterans slam New York Times piece linking vets to hate groups
Military Times
By Jeff Schogol
Staff Writer
Apr. 16, 2014

Veterans advocates are denouncing an opinion piece in the New York Times that draws links between veterans and white supremacist groups in attempting to explain the actions of the suspected gunman in a recent and deadly shooting outside a Kansas Jewish center.

Frazier Glenn Cross, also known as Frazier Glenn Miller, is accused of killing three people outside a Jewish community center and Jewish retirement community on April 13, according to media reports. The Fayetteville Observer reported that Miller is a former Ku Klux Klan leader as well as a retired master sergeant who served in Army Special Forces. He was forced to retire in 1979 for distributing racist materials.

In the opinion piece published in the New York Times, Kathleen Belew wrote that while the majority of veterans are neither violent nor mentally ill, veterans have a history of joining right-wing extremist groups. She cites a 2009 Department of Homeland Security Report linking the return of combat veterans to Ku Klux Klan membership.

“During Mr. Miller’s long membership in the white power movement, its leaders have robbed armored cars, engaged in counterfeiting and the large-scale theft of military weapons, and carried out or planned killings,” wrote Belew, a postdoctoral fellow in history at Northwestern University.
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