Comments on: Pentagon to continue DADT discharges

By: Keith

Keith — Thu, 28 May 2009 02:35:33 +0000

Yet another disappointment from our new President, who gained the oval office but lost his spine. It’s so bad, you have wonder whether the cabal of multinational criminal corporations that privatized us to pauperism in the last 8 years decided they’d never leave. Economic aspects aside, how, HOW can Obama sit back and watch as HIS military continues to fester with blatant, institutionalized bigotry? He should be taking a page from those same genocidal monsters who are apparently now pulling his strings. The shock of war can facilitate progressive agendas and opportuniutes too. But only if one is bold enough to sieze them. War is the PERFECT time to institute major change, as Friedman, Kissenger, Pinocet’ Rumsfeld, Netanyahu, Thatcher, and Cheney have shown us.

What happened to the leader we catapulted to office shouting ‘take our country back! It’s like he has a proverbial (?) gun to his head.

By the way and just for the record, as this issue makes clear, some of those “pea-brained felons” under fire in mesopotamia are gay folks, friends of gay folks, poorly educated victims of the ongoing looting of the public trust, or just plain folks who don’t deserve that fate any more than the civilians who have died, as we knew they would, by the thousands upon thousands. I had felt similarly, have to admit, until I learned the real story of Pat Tillman. I

By: equalnotspecial

equalnotspecial — Wed, 27 May 2009 17:12:38 +0000

We will never get marriage equality and other equal rights as long as we keep teaching discrimination. DADT teaches discrimination using our tax dollars. I hope everyone here has contacted their representatives, urging them to repeal it ASAP. And be sure to contact the white house and let Obama know, it must go now.

By: TJNV

TJNV — Wed, 27 May 2009 16:18:35 +0000

This is so simple. Just quit firing people!! I have heard during WWII when they needed every soldier they just ignored “rumors” about what people did off base or on leave.

Tom in Long Beach

By: Brittany

Brittany — Wed, 27 May 2009 15:34:32 +0000

Oh okay… once again…. lets kick out thousands of troops just b/c they love someone of the same sex… it is not like we are fighting TWO WARS or anything… and I voted for this guy???

By: J

Wed, 27 May 2009 14:54:45 +0000

They have a lot on their plate? I fucking lay my life on line every single day to defend the rights of other people when I don’t have equal rights of my own to claim back home. I recite a creed that states that I am committed to the “fair treatment of all”, knowing that it is untrue, and these people have the nerve to give that response to my desire for equal treatment.
I serve with great and admirable men and women but I have also served next to men/women who judges provided a choice of jail or military, who clearly expressed how much they “don’t give a shit” about what we do, others who only join to take money for school then discharge, criminals, and many other characters who have no respect for what we do. Yet a person who keeps a clean record, willingly sacrifices his/her life, and cares about the safety of his country gets treated this way.
I enlisted many years ago believing military leadership would eventually fix such obvious discrimination, but appears they have failed me in that area. (I joined long before 9/11 and President Bush so please spare me the negative comments about your discontent with the wars we currently fight. Military is not a democracy and we soldiers/sailors do not pick & choose our battles.)

By: charley

charley — Wed, 27 May 2009 12:39:34 +0000

Never forget that Democrats love us when they want our vote and then turn on us. Never forget that it was Clinton who signed DADT and DOMA.

By: JERRY

JERRY — Wed, 27 May 2009 01:15:31 +0000

Obama is jerking our chain…..we need to move to Europe or Canada….our country is becoming a Theocracy like Iran. If the Gays all were to move than the “EVIL KOOKS”,will find someone else to hate…it is their nature.We are better off without them….I am sick of their evil agenda.

By: ALAN

ALAN — Wed, 27 May 2009 01:03:17 +0000

I say let the hetero right wing pea brain felons continue to die for us (the LGBT community). Since that is what it seems they want to do. We can enjoy what freedoms (excluding prop H8) that we have here in the USA.

By: KaninZ

KaninZ — Tue, 26 May 2009 23:48:36 +0000

“We have a lot on our plate right now” has become the battle cry of the opressor.

Yes, Mr President, that includes YOU.

By: vanndean

vanndean — Tue, 26 May 2009 21:55:43 +0000

It is not acceptable for this nation to let its lesbian and gay military people serve openly but it is acceptable to re-deploy military people with PTSD and on psychotic drugs with prescriptions written by Army doctors. It is not acceptable for this nation to let its lesbian and gay military people to serve openly but it is acceptable to overlook “minor drug use” and “criminal records” of straight recruits so the military can meet its quotas. It is not acceptable for this nation to let its lesbian and gay citizens serve openly, but it is acceptable for the military and its officers to “cover up the rape of female personnel” and to play the “blame the victim” game when it is straight soldiers doing the raping. This administration needs to wake up and do some house cleaning in the military before they become so desperate for recruits that they are “forced” into re-instituting the draft or before the military is made up only of right wing pseudo-christians and felons.