13-03-2009, 08:38 PM
Peter Lemkin Wrote:Backgrounds.
23% are veterans (compared to 13% of general population).
25% were physically or sexually abused as children.
27% were in foster care or similar institutions as children.
21% were homeless at some point during their childhood.
These proportions are quite similar, perhaps even larger, in the UK.
I've worked with grassroots (ie not Ministry of Defence) veteran's groups, and the spiral from young men experiencing wartime trauma, leaving the highly structured military to a largely unstructured civvy street, to a violent and self-destructive life on the streets, is a familiar story to them.
A familiar but still shameful story for TPTB.
As are the all-too-frequent cases of childhood abuse - whether within families or orphanages - and its consquences.
Meanwhile, the "bailed-out" bankers, kept temporarily afloat by our taxpayer money, carry on screwing ordinary folk.
:mad:
"It means this War was never political at all, the politics was all theatre, all just to keep the people distracted...."
"Proverbs for Paranoids 4: You hide, They seek."
"They are in Love. Fuck the War."
Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
"Ccollanan Pachacamac ricuy auccacunac yahuarniy hichascancuta."
The last words of the last Inka, Tupac Amaru, led to the gallows by men of god & dogs of war
"Proverbs for Paranoids 4: You hide, They seek."
"They are in Love. Fuck the War."
Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
"Ccollanan Pachacamac ricuy auccacunac yahuarniy hichascancuta."
The last words of the last Inka, Tupac Amaru, led to the gallows by men of god & dogs of war