mountain stream, national guard unprepared for emergencies, o’reilly continues attacks on vets
February 3, 2008 at 8:33 am | In culture, media, news, photography, photoshop | Leave a Comment
‘Appalling Gap’ Found in Homeland Defense Readiness - National Guard, Reserve Forces Lack Sufficient Personnel, Training to Respond to Crisis in U.S., Report Says
The U.S. military is not prepared to meet catastrophic threats at home, and it is suffering from an “appalling gap” in forces able to respond to chemical, biological and nuclear strikes on U.S. soil, according to a congressional commission report released yesterday.
The situation is rooted in severe readiness problems in National Guard and reserve forces, which would otherwise be well-suited to respond to domestic crises but lack sufficient personnel and training, as well as $48 billion in equipment because of deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan, according to a report by the Commission on the National Guard and Reserves.
We’re running up a pretty colossal national debt having tax cuts directed mostly at the wealthiest Americans who really didn’t need them and we’ve spent almost 700 billion dollars on Iraq and Afghanistan. Yet the NG lacks funds to respond to emergencies – like another Katrina. We live in an age where the concept of competence is a grandiose dream.
Bill O’Reilly Attacks Homeless Vets for Not Watching Fox News
Bill never served in the military, and he makes more than $9 million a year. It is unsurprising that he’s out of touch with the plight of the 200,000 homeless veterans living in America.
See last post – Bill might be the kind of hate filled authority figure that some kids are rebelling against.
resist authority and suddenly you’re mentally ill, cornet stairway
February 3, 2008 at 8:08 am | In culture, photography, photoshop, sociology | Leave a CommentHow Teenage Rebellion Has Become a Mental Illness
There are other passive rebellions against authority that have been medicalized by mental health authorities. I have talked to many people who earlier in their lives had been diagnosed with substance abuse, depression and even schizophrenia but believe that their “symptoms” had in fact been a kind of resistance to the demands of an oppressive environment. Some of these people now call themselves psychiatric survivors.
While there are several reasons for behavioral disruptiveness and emotional difficulties, rebellion against an oppressive environment is one common reason that is routinely not even considered by many mental health professionals. Why? It is my experience that many mental health professionals are unaware of how extremely obedient they are to authorities.
I’ve seen this myself. Older authority figures are given the benefit of the doubt in any conflict and the teen labeled a troublemaker when the only trouble neing made was by a parent that lacked good parenting skills or had their own behavioral problems, or school officials that didn’t want to be bothered with a kid that resisted being another brick in the wall.
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