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I have never been impressed by the messenger and always inspect the message, which I now understand is not the norm. People prefer to filter out discordant information. As such, I am frequently confronted with, "Where did you hear that...." Well, here you go. If you want an email version, send me an email.

February 21, 2014

Industrial-Military-Statist Oligarchy Kills

The news, these days, seems to be helping out with the purpose of this blog.  The major propaganda media will not report on scandal until after a Republican is elected president; however, there are many sources reporting, now, and the Internet is one of only a few weapons of defending liberty, so until big sister figures out how the IRS can shut down free speech, the pressure to end the archaic notion of big government will grow.

The sort of lying demonstrated below should anger every citizen. People are being killed and we are paying billions to assist.



Cover-up? Army historian says report on deadly Afghan battle was altered to absolve faulty gun

Survivors of bloody battle report M4 jams

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    • By Rowan Scarborough
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    The Washington Times
    Thursday, February 20, 2014
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    Second of two parts. Read first part here.
    A former Army historian who chronicled the infamous Battle of Wanat inAfghanistan, where nine U.S. soldiers died after their M4 carbines jammed, tells The Washington Times that his official account was altered by higher-ups to absolve the weapons and senior officers.
    M4 critics have long pointed to the Afghanistan battle on July 13, 2008, as evidence that the rifle’s design was flawed. They cite reports from soldiers on the ground that their guns overheated and jammed that day.
    But the gun’s supporters have pointed to a single sentence in the officialWanat history issued in 2010 by the Army’s Combat Studies Institute at Fort Leavenworth, Kan. It blamed the gun’s sustained rapid fire that day, not its design, for the malfunctions.
    “This, not weapons maintenance deficiencies or inherent weaknesses in weapons design, was the reason a number of weapons jammed during the battle,” the sentence read.
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    Higher-ups inside Army command edited that sentence into the history, the report’s author says.
    “That was not my conclusion,” said Douglas R. Cubbison, a former Army artillery officer and principal Wanat history author. “That was the Combat Studies Institute management that was driven from the chief of staff’s office to modify findings of that report to basically CYA [cover your ass] for the Army. You know how that works...

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    So, the soldiers died because they shot at the enemy who was trying to kill them. Certainly, soldiers should be charged with crimes relating to the abuse of their sensitive equipment. You can be sure Mexican drug soldiers do not abuse the weapon Holder gave them.

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